Oxygene: New Master Recording

Oxygène: New Master Recording
Studio album by Jean Michel Jarre
Released	November 26, 2007 France December 11, 2007 Worldwide
Recorded	2007
Genre	Electronica, New Age, ambient, pop
Label	EMI
Producer	Jean Michel Jarre
Jean Michel Jarre chronology
Téo & Téa 2007 Oxygène: New Master Recording 2007 Essentials & Rarities 2011

Oxygène: New Master Recording, also known as Oxygène New Master Recording 2007 and Oxygène (New Master Recording), is a new recording of an album by Jean Michel Jarre released in 2007, marking the 30th anniversary of the worldwide release of his album Oxygène, and is Jarre's fourteenth studio album. It is his first release on EMI Records.

The album was released in three different editions: a 5.1 Music Disc edition featuring the new digital master recording of Oxygène, a CD and 2D DVD special edition featuring Oxygène — Live in Your Living Room DVD (an exclusive private live performance of Oxygène, filmed in Lint, Belgium), and a limited edition CD + 3D DVD featuring Oxygène — Live in Your Living Room DVD in stereoscopic 3D High-Definition, which also includes two pairs of 3D glasses.

To promote this major release, Jean Michel Jarre performed a series of ten Oxygène Live concerts in Paris, inside the Theâtre Marigny, from December 12 to December 26, 2007. Jarre performed new 90 minute live performances of Oxygène, complete with new tracks, using only vintage synthesizers and assisted on stage by French musicians Francis Rimbert, Claude Samard and Dominique Perrier.

In 2008, The Mail on Sunday newspaper distributed more than 2 million copies of the Oxygène: New Master Recording CD to its readers in the United Kingdom. In that same year, Francis Dreyfus Music said it intended to bring legal actions against The Mail on Sunday and EMI, based on the claim that the contents of the CD do not come from a new re-recorded master, but are from the original master to which the French label owns the rights.^[1] Since Jarre has replayed the entire album on stage during his concerts in 2008, along with some previously unreleased sections, and does the same in the video on the DVD, many fans consider these allegations without foundation, although it is believed by some that the music on the CD was indeed remixed and remastered rather than fully re-recorded, due to the merely subtle changes with regard to the original Oxygène.

Track listings

New Master Recording CD

1. Oxygène (Part I) – 7:39
2. Oxygène (Part II) – 7:54
3. Oxygène (Part III) – 3:06
4. Oxygène (Part IV) – 4:13
5. Oxygène (Part V) – 10:11
6. Oxygène (Part VI) – 7:05

Live in Your Living Room 2D DVD

Special edition only

1. Prelude (New Track)
2. Oxygène Part I
3. Oxygène Part II
4. Oxygène Part III
5. Variation Part I (New Track)
6. Oxygène Part IV
7. Variation Part II (New Track)
8. Oxygène Part V
9. Variation Part III (New Track)
10. Oxygène Part VI

• + The Making Of
• + Instruments Presentation

Live in Your Living Room stereoscopic 3D DVD

Limited edition only (plus two pairs of 3D glasses)

1. "Prelude" (New Track)
2. "Oxygène Part I"
3. "Oxygène Part II"
4. "Oxygène Part III"
5. "Variation Part I" (New track)
6. "Oxygène Part IV"
7. "Variation Part II" (New track)
8. "Oxygène Part V"
9. "Variation Part III" (New track)
10. "Oxygène Part VI"

• + The Making Of
• + Instruments Presentation
• + 3D gallery

References

1. ^ MusicWeek

External links

• Oxygène: New Master Recording at Discogs
• Oxygène and Oxygène: New Master Recording at JarreUK