One of the most Important Pioneers of Electronic Music
He is a sound poet. His concerts in front of millions of viewers are gigantic spectacles. At this on stage, he is alone with synthesizers. For his latest album "Electronica: The Time Machine" Jean Michel Jarre now gathered collaborators of distinction. We will put you in front of the electronics world star.
Jean Michel Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He was born in Lyon in 1948. His father was a composer of film music for Hollywood. Therefore, the unique artist learned the piano when he was five years old. In the 60s, Jarre founded two bands in which he played electric guitar. The late 60s he joined the "Groupe de Recherches Musicales", which stood under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer. Schaeffer then dealt in detail with the so-called Musique Concrète.
In the mid-70s, Jean Michel Jarre then said goodbye to classical music and transformed his studio into a sound laboratory, in which he wrote compositions for synthesizers. There was "Oxygène" - a poetic sound vision of the future. Back then, most record companies rejected Oxygène, since there was no singer and the album did not correspond to the musical spirit of the time. A mistake! Oxygène brings the breakthrough for Jean Michel Jarre. The album was sold over 12 million times and is the most successful electro album of all times. The advanced space sound then coined a number of musicians, including the French electro group AIR.
Since 2012, Jean Michel Jarre has been working with various artists on the music project "Electronica". Contributors to this album include 3D from Massive Attack, Air, Armin van Buren, Boyz Noize, Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream who deceased in January 2016, Fuck Buttons, Gesaffelstein, John Carpenter, Moby, Little Boots, M83, Vince Clarke and music- and performance artist Laurie Anderson, with who Jarre had already worked together on the albums "Zoolook" and "Metamorphoses".
With the new album, Jarre wants to tell the history of electronic music and its legacies from its own perspective and experience, from its origins to today. Today, two albums with a total of 30 collaborations are about to get published. "Electronica: The Time Machine" was released in October 2015, the second part comes on the market in spring 2016. We are excited about this mammoth project of Jean Michel Jarre.
