Jean Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields 2

1981) Celebrated as the European electronic music community's premier ambassador, composer JeanMichel Jarre elevated the synthesizer to new peaks of popularity during the 1970s, in the process emerging as an international superstar renowned for his dazzling concert spectacles. The son of the famed film composer Maurice Jarre, he was born August 24, 1948, in Lyon, France, and began studying piano at the age of five. Abandoning classical music as a youth, Jarre became enamored of jazz before forming a rock band called Mystere IV; in 1968, he became a pupil of the musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer, joining Groupe de Recherches Musicales. His early experiments in electroacoustic music yielded the 1971 single "La Cage"; the fulllength Deserted Palace followed a year later.
Jarre's early works were largely unsuccessful, and gave little indication of the work to follow. As he struggled to find his own voice, he wrote for a variety of singers, including Françoise Hardy, and also composed for films. Seeking to push electronic music away from its minimalist foundations as well as the formal abstractions of its most experimental practitioners, he slowly developed the orchestrated melodicism of his 1977 breakthrough effort, Oxygène, an enormous commercial hit that reached the number two spot on the U.K. pop charts. The followup, 1978's Equinoxe, was also a smash, and a year later Jarre held the first in a series of massive openair concerts at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, the estimated one million spectators on hand earning him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records.
Only in the wake of 1981's Les Chants Magnétiques (Magnetic Fields) did Jarre mount a proper tour, traveling to China with a staggering amount of stage equipment in tow; the five performances, performed backed by some 35 traditional instrumentalists, later generated the LP Concerts in China. Released in 1983, Music for Supermarkets instantly became one of the most collectible albums in history recorded for an art exhibit, only one copy was ever pressed, selling at a charity auction for close to 10,000. The master was then incinerated, guaranteeing the record's rarity. Jarre's next proper release was 1984's Zoolook, which failed to connect with audiences with the same success as its predecessors.
A twoyear hiatus followed before he resurfaced on April 5, 1986, with an extravagant live performance in Houston celebrating NASA's silver anniversary; in addition to the over one million in attendance, it was also broadcast on global television. RendezVous appeared a few weeks later, and after another highly visual live date in Lyon, France, Jarre assembled the best material from the two events as the 1987 concert LP Cities in Concert: Houston/Lyon. Revolutions, featuring the legendary Shadows guitarist Hank B. Marvin, followed in 1988, and a year later a third concert LP, dubbed simply Jarre Live, hit stores. After 1990's En Attendant Cousteau (Waiting for Cousteau), Jarre mounted his biggest live experience yet, with an attendance of over two and a half million fans converging on Paris to see him perform in honor of Bastille Day.
The decade to follow proved surprisingly quiet, however, and apart from the occasional live appearance Jarre was largely removed from the limelight; finally, in 1997 he issued Oxygène 713, updating his concepts for a new musical era.
- Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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[19cohen]

@Chronoxygene HOW RETARDED ARE YOU?without any checking crapping from your mouth.JMJ recorded this in 1981 ,and your guy made sweet france in 1992.and why do you think its called sweet france?just because its a country in europe?

[alexnordh]

Almost all early 80ies videos has that certain corny charm!

[Hvalborg1]

Anyone who can tell me how to upload a video response? x.x

[Ariiuh]

i didn't know that the composer is Ichnos71

[Hogi47]

boah ist das Super absolut eiener der besten der besten instrumentalisten ich leibe seine Musik passt überall rein

[Gualiname]

Simplemente un gran musico intelectual con musica intelectual y arte intelectual.............fuera de este mundo.......Le Vive le Master JMJ

[tomek74ful]

Fuck I,m not to old I just like good music ,wonderfull music

[spiritofangela]

I wish all your videos had a blurb about the artist, i.e. when and where they were born, albums they've produced and when, concerts they've given, etc., like the blurb from Ichnos X3 above. Also, I wish every video had a release date given after the song name. Thank you.

[Strelok10]

Why cant I click the "Like" button ... oh I clicked it in March 2010 ... nevermind

[dadaqueen55]

Very powerful, fantastic video indeed!

[pluiedavril]

hahahah funny nice video ! i was watching it a lot when i was child ... still watching it today ...

good !

[leonilhuertas]

Jean Michel ha estado conmigo desde mi primera infancia...recuerdo que mi primer LP (acetato fue Oxygene)...luego Zoolook y Campos Magn{eticos. Gracias Maestro por tan maravillosos sonidos.