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August 17th 2001

ALBUMS - CHRONOLOGIE



Release Date: 1993
Labels: Disques Dreyfus / Polydor / Epic
Cover Design: Michel Granger

Instruments Used:

- Akai S-1000
- Akai MPC-60
- ARP 2600
- Boss DR-660
- Digisequencer
- Digitech Vocalist
- Elka Synthex
- Eminent 310
- EMS AKS
- Fairlight
- Korg 01
- Kurzweil K2000
- Mini Moog
- Roland JD-800
- Roland TR-909
- Roland JP-8
- Roland DJ-70

Jean Michel Jarre - Keyboards
Francis Rimbert - additional Keyboards
Michel Geiss - additional Keyboards
Dominique Perrier - additional Keyboards
Patrick Rondat - Guitars

Known Catalogue Code Numbers:

Compact Disc:

United Kingdom:
Polydor ---------- 519 373-2 - no information about this item
Epic / Dreyfus - 487 379-2 - 24bit digital remaster

France:
Disques Dreyfus - FDM 36152-2 - no information about this item

European:
Polydor - 519 373-2 - made in Germany

LP Vinyl:

United Kingdom:
Polydor - 519 373-1 - no information about this item

France:
Disques Dreyfus - can someone please contact Jarre UK with this number?

European / Spain:
Polydor - 519 373-1 - European "made in Germany"

Cassette:

United Kingdom:
Polydor - 519 373-4 - no information about this item

France:
Disques Dreyfus - FDM 36152-4 - no information about this item

European:
Polydor - 519 373-4 - made in Germany

Mini Disc:
Epic / Dreyfus - 487 379-8 - 24bit digital remaster

REVIEWS

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Highlights


'FUNKSTÖRUNG'
Interview


FRANCIS RIMBERT Interview


'AKROPOLIS'
Concerts Report

Discography

Welcome to the Discography pages of JARRE UK.

Inspired loosely by Stephen Hawkins' book 'A Brief History of Time', Chronologie represents the chronological look at time and space withing our existance - with Jean Michel seeing the album as the 'Rythem of Life' and that Chronologie deliberately forms a cycle of music, in which Jean Michel quoted; 'The album in itself is a kind of cycle - the last sound is bringing us back to the beginning of the album.

If you were lucky enough to have visited Zermatt in 1992, you would have heard the a bit of the album in it's 'work in progress' stage as the track 'Une Alarme Que Swinge' was re-cycled to form Chronologie part 4 and 5.

Also another truly inspirational aspect of this album comes from Jarre's use of old and new within the overall feel of the album - old coming from the use of a sample taken from the track 'ErosMachine' (from the La Cage single) and new coming from the use of the electric guitar - excellently played by French Hard Rock Guitarist Patrick Rondat.

On a final note, Jean Pierre Janiaud - the person who mixed the original Oxygene album - had also worked on a different mix of the Chronologie album at the same time as Michel Geiss, but ultimately Jean Michel Jarre chose the Geiss version that you hear today, and apparently, the version by Jean Pierre Janiaud allegedly sounds totally different to the current version of this album!

Tracklisting

1: Chronologie part 1
2: Chronologie part 2
3: Chronologie part 3
4: Chronologie part 4
5: Chronologie part 5
6: Chronologie part 6
7: Chronologie part 7
8: Chronologie part 8