Jean-Michel Jarre: Les concerts en Chine 1981 [2 CD]

℗ 1982 Jean Michel Jarre / Disques Dreyfus - BMG
© 2014 Jean Michel Jarre / Disques Dreyfus - BMG
Made in the E.U.

1981: Jean Michel Jarre was the first western musician to perform in post-Mao China and this live album is a chronicle of those historic concerts in Beijing & Shanghai. For this occasion Jarre especially composed some new material marrying his electronic music with harmonies and traditional instruments to perform with the Beijing Oriental Symphony Orchestra - Night in Shanghai, Fishing Junks At Sunset, Orient Express, Laser Harp, Arpegiator & Souvenir Of China.

Amplification, Lighting Equipment: Regiscene
PA system: Bose
Laser equipment: Coherent
Transport equipment: Etex
Travel organization: C.G.T.T.

We would like to thank the following people and organisations for their assistance in making the organisation of those concerts in the People's Republic of China possible: Chinese Commission for Foreign Cultural Relations, particularly Mrs. Li Paoqiu and Mr. Vao Ling Han, the Beijing Performance Company, particularly Mr Tiao Ye, the Chinese National Radio and CCTV, the City Of Shanghai Cultural Commission & particularly Mr. Zhang Xiao Zhu, the Beijing Music Conservatory, particularly Mr. Wu Zu Quiang, the workers of the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing and the Shanghai Stadium, the Chinese Embassy in Paris, the Chinese interpreters, particularly Mr Zhang, Ms. Gong Huihia & Mr. Vao, and the Fench Embassy in China & particularly Mr Claude Martin Minister Counsellor for his precious help.
Special thanks to Francis Mandin and Music Land, Marie Holtzman, Richard Arzt, Jean-Luc Cronel and Jean-Pierre Vincon.

Recording of the Beijing and Shanghai Concerts in october 1981 on "le Flight Mobil" with a "SAJE" mixing console.
Mixing on MCI.
New mastering from the original analog tapes - 2014