Jean Michel Jarre Concerts In China
01 the ouverture 02 arpegiator 03 equinoxe 4 04 fishing junks at sunset 05 band in the rain 06 equinoxe 7 07 orient express 08 magnetic fields 1 09.
Jean michel jarre concerts in china. This was the first time a western pop artist performed in china. It was originally released the following year as a double lp but this remastered cd conveniently puts all the music unedited onto one disc. Many of the tracks were rearranged for the occasion and were featured alongside seven new compositions. Epic epc 488139 2 disques dreyfus epc 488139 2 format.
Polydor 811 551 2 2 cd 78 53 french school and easy e rock in october 1981 jean michel jarre became the first western artist to play in china since the death of mao zedong. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1997 cd release of the concerts in china on discogs. Les concerts en chine pronounced le kɔ sɛʁ ɑ ʃin english title. The first shorter concert of 50 minutes was broadcast on radio in china.
The concerts in china was a concert tour by jean michel jarre in 1981. 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 beijing and shanghai concerts in china. It marked the opening of post mao zedong china to live western music five concerts were held in the two biggest cities for an estimated audience of 120 000 spectators on october 21 and 22 in beijing and on october 26 27 and 29 in shanghai. It documents jarre s five concerts in china where he played in 1981 the first modern western composer to do so.
The five indoor stadium concerts took place respectively in beijing two concerts and shanghai three concerts and the french musician had composed no fewer than seven new pieces especially for them which stylistically moved from electro over ambient to. Concerts in china in 1981 jarre was invited by the chinese government to perform five concerts in what was then a very closed country. The concerts in china vol. Cd album reissue remastered country.
Jean michel jarre was the first western contemporary musician to perform in communist china and this live album is a chronicle of those historic concerts that took place in peking and shanghai in 1981. Jean michel jarre performed a handful of concerts in peking and shanghai in 1981 marking the first time that a modern western musical artist had played in communist china. 2 9 souvenir of china 3 54.