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Essentials & Rarities Compilation album by Jean Michel Jarre Released May 30, 2011 Recorded 1968–2002; compiled, edited and mastered in early 2011 Genre Electronic Length 122:44 Label Disques Dreyfus Producer Jean Michel Jarre Jean Michel Jarre chronology Oxygène: New Master Recording
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2011Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1] Essentials & Rarities (previously announced as Memories & Rarities) is a compilation album by Jean Michel Jarre, released in 2011. The double CD set consists of two distinctive CDs: Essentials, which is a compilation of Jean Michel Jarre's most famous work, and Rarities, which has tracks made before his ground-breaking album Oxygène.[2]
Most of the tracks on Rarities were never officially released on CD before (apart from tracks from Les Granges Brûlées). The Rarities CD includes a selection of tracks from Deserted Palace, his first single "La Cage" and its B-side "Erosmachine", and the track "Happiness Is a Sad Song", which he composed in 1968 for "Les Fêtes de la Jeunesse" in Reims and is Jean Michel Jarre's first musical release. Both "Happiness Is a Sad Song" and "La Cage / Erosmachine" were composed during Jarre's time at the Groupe Recherche Musicale.
The album was released in memory of Francis Dreyfus, who was the founder of Jarre's first record label Disques Dreyfus and who died in the previous year.[3]
Track listing
CD 1 – ESSENTIALS
- "Souvenir of China" – 3:59
- "Oxygene 2" – 3:12
- "Arpegiateur" – 6:16
- "Oxygene 4" – 4:14
- "Equinoxe 4" – 6:42
- "Calypso 2" – 2:28
- "Zoolook" – 3:52
- "Magnetic Fields 1" – 5:20
- "Magnetic Fields 2" – 4:02
- "Equinoxe 5" – 3:55
- "Industrial Revolution 2" – 2:22
- "Rendez-Vous 4" – 3:59
- "Gloria, Lonely Boy" – 5:30
- "Oxygene 6" – 6:21
- "Space of Freedom" (a.k.a. "March 23") – 8:02
CD 2 – RARITIES
- "Happiness Is a Sad Song" – 5:53 (1968, not previously released on an album)
- "Hypnose" – 3:29 (1970, Dominique Webb single)
- "Erosmachine" – 2:58
- "La Cage" – 3:23
- "Chanson des Granges Brûlées / Song of the Burnt Barns" – 2:45
- "Windswept Canyon" – 7:39
- "The Abominable Snowman" – 0:52
- "Deserted Palace" – 2:22
- "Le Pays de Rose / Roseland" – 2:01
- "Rain Forest Rap Session" – 1:40
- "Black Bird" – 3:06 (1972, not previously released on an album)
- "Music Box Concerto" – 2:41
- "Iraqi Hitch-Hiker" – 2:25
- "Les Granges Brûlées / The Burnt Barns" – 3:13
- "La Cage Vitalic RMX" – 4:16 (2010, not previously released on an album)
- "Erosmachine Vitalic RMX" – 3:45 (2010, not previously released on an album)
References
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r2218890
- ^ Jarre, Jean-Michel (in French), Essentials & Rarities, http://www.disquesdreyfus.com/catalogue/362872-essentials-rarities.html, retrieved 2011-06-07
- ^ Jarre, Jean-Michel, Essentials & Rarities, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjNX36buJiQ, retrieved 2011-06-07
External link
Jean Michel Jarre Studio albums Deserted Palace (1972) · Les Granges Brûlées (1973) · Oxygene (1976) · Equinoxe (1978) · Magnetic Fields (a.k.a. Les Chants Magnétiques) (1981) · Music for Supermarkets (a.k.a. Musique pour Supermarché) (1983) · Zoolook (1984) · Rendez-Vous (1986) · Revolutions (1988) · Waiting for Cousteau (a.k.a. En Attendant Cousteau) (1990) · Chronologie (1993) · Oxygene 7–13 (1997) · Métamorphoses (2000) · Interior Music (2001) · Sessions 2000 (2002) · Geometry of Love (2003) · Téo & Téa (2007) · Oxygene: New Master Recording (2007)Live albums The Concerts in China (a.k.a. Les Concerts en Chine) (1982) · In Concert / Cities In Concert, Houston-Lyon (1986) · Jarre Live / Destination Docklands, the London Concert (1989) · Hong Kong (1994) · Jarre in China (2005) · Live from Gdańsk (Koncert w Stoczni) (2005) · Live Printemps de Bourges 2002 (2006)LP - 7'' single only La Cage / ErosMachine (1971)Compilation albums The Essential Jean Michel Jarre (1985) · Images – The Best of Jean Michel Jarre (1991) · AERO (2004) · Sublime Mix (2006) · Essentials & Rarities (2011)Remixes by other artists Related articles Categories:- 2011 greatest hits albums
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