Jean Michel Jarre - The China concerts (DOWNLOAD)

The Concerts in China is a live album by Jean Michel Jarre, recorded in 1981 and released in 1982 on Disques Dreyfus. It was recorded during Jarre's Concerts in China tour of Autumn 1981, which consisted of five Peking and Shanghai concerts in China; this was the first time a Western pop artist performed in China after the Cultural Revolution.

The album is a balance of previously released tracks by Jarre, new compositions inspired by Chinese culture, and one rearranged traditional Chinese track ("Fishing Junks at Sunset"). The music is combined live and studio work, plus ambient sound recordings. The most live tracks are the Equinoxe and Magnetic Fields sets. New compositions include "Night in Shanghai", "Laser Harp", "Arpegiator", "Orient Express" and "Souvenir of China". "Fishing Junks at Sunset" is a new arrangement of a very old traditional Chinese song known as the "Fisherman's Chant at Dusk" which was performed and recorded with The Peking Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, and is often wrongly attributed as being composed by Jean Michel Jarre, misled by the album inlay.
The album was originally released as a double-disc LP, then as a double-disc CD. There was also a CD release in two separate volumes, with the cover color changed to blue (Vol. 1) and yellow (Vol. 2). In 1997, a one-disc remastered CD was released, made possible by an extended running time of 80 minutes and by reducing the gaps and audience noise between tracks.

One of the album's original tracks -- "Arpegiator" -- was used in the soundtrack of the cult film 9½ Weeks.
The Concerts in China's opening track "The Overture" is in fact the first movement of "Magnetic Fields Part 1" slowed down.

I leave you with the album "The China concerts" held in 1981 in the cities of Peking and Shanghai.
Now I leave 2 types of files. The first concert from the CD at 320 kbps and the second 6 songs taken in Peking radio transmission at 320 Kbps

PS: If the link does not work, please advise. And sorry for the song No. 6, pass it by mistake "mono / 320 Kbps" (Only for MP3 file)

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The Concerts In China (1981)

** Download Link :

01) File in MP3 (320 Kbps) :http://www.mediafire.com/?ufmkqmww2mq
02) Radio broadcast archive (320 kbps) :http://www.mediafire.com/?zznmrkhajgz

01- The Overture.
02- Arpegiator.
03- Equinoxe IV.
04- Fishing Junks At Sunset.
05- Band In The Rain.
06- Equinoxe VII.
07- Orient Express.
08- Magnetic Fields I.
09- Magnetic Fields III.
10- Magnetic Fields IV.
11- Laser Harpe.
12- Night In Shanghai.
13- The Last Rumba. (Magnetic Fields V)
14- Magnetic Fields II.
15- Sourvenir Of China.
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[22Phantasm]

Best live album ever!!! By far!!!! At the beginning you hear polite, almost uncertain applause from the crowd - at the end of the performance they just erupt with such joy and you hear them cheer, clap, and pay homage to what must have been a wonderful unique experience. Goosebumps. I saw him at Sun City (South Africa) many years ago. I could not remember breathing the whole time he was performing. One of the best nights of my life.

[22Phantasm]

Best live album ever!!! By far!!!!

[sethianil]

Love it

[florian869]

serait-il possible de voir le premier concert en chine , a shangai, en 1981 de jean michel jarre?

[grolum]

what can i say...

just like the music there are no words

just perfect

[Jauly]

this live version rules, the harmonic floatings are unbelievable!! no jarre concert will ever sound so good as the china concerts - they even gave this version of magnetic fields it's own twist without using the vocoder!! thus said, I am very disapointed about the sound quality of the "new" concerts. the drummer sounds generic and all the expensive synths onstage do nothing interesting than a little bleep or crash (f.e. noise of the cs80). sad but true - no soundwork from jarre any more.

[higinovsc]

genio h30 anos já pensava mt á frente

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