Téo & Téa

Infobox Album
Name = Téo & Téa
Type = studio
Artist = Jean Michel Jarre


Released = March 26, 2007
Recorded = 2006
Genre =
Genre = Electronic, dance
Length =
Label = Warner Music
Producer = Jean Michel Jarre
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jzfwxzq5ldae link]
*"Indie London" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Music-Review/jean-michel-jarre-teo-tea link]
*"The Times" Rating|1|5 [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1673528.ece link]
*"The Guardian" Rating|1|5 [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2061035,00.html link]
*"Uncut" Rating|1|5
* IM Rating|3|5 [http://www.infomusic.pl/recenzje_wiecej.php?id_rec=901 link]
Last album = "Sublime Mix"
(2006)
This album = "Téo & Téa"
(2007)
Next album = ""
(2007)

"Téo & Téa" is an album by French composer and artist Jean Michel Jarre, published by Warner Music in late March 2007. The album tells the story, in musical form, of one day in the life of fictional cartoon characters Téo and Téa, two lookalike creatures who meet, fall in love and spend one day together. [Warner Music press release]

The album was launched, in physical form, as a CD bundled with a DVD and also as a CD-only edition. The DVD features the same tracks mixed for 5.1 sound, and the videoclip for the title track in high-definition, viewable on personal computers. The album was released in the US three weeks later, on April 16, 2007.

Chart positions

Pre-launch campaign

The launch marketing campaign of "Téo & Téa" started in January 2007, two months prior to the album launch, with two video teasers on YouTube ( [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UmXSp5gejo Téo] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv4qFGN3eL0 Téa] ), a CD-single for clubs and radio stations, pages on MySpace, t-shirts featuring three different motifs on [http://www.teotea.spreadshirt.net/ Spreadshirt] , and a DVD-single released to clubs and TV stations. In all these cases the name of Jean Michel Jarre was not mentioned or associated with the music. A promotional CD-audio of the album was released to the press in February 2007, this time mentioning Jarre's name. On March 20 2007, an [http://www.teo-tea.com official companion website] was launched.

Track listing

#"Fresh News" – 2:44
#"Téo & Téa" – 3:29
#"Beautiful Agony" – 4:40
#"Touch to Remember" – 6:09
#"Ok, Do It Fast" – 3:25
#"Partners in Crime 1" – 3:38
#"Partners in Crime 2" – 3:35
#"Chatterbox" – 2:16
#"In the Mood for You" – 4:20
#"Gossip" – 2:11
#"Vintage" – 3:06
#"Melancholic Rodeo" – 3:51
#"Téo & Téa - 4:00 AM" – 7:06

pecial editions

A promotional CD-single, including the track "Téo & Téa", and a promotional DVD-single including the videoclip for the same track, were released to clubs and radio stations in February 2007, without reference to composer or artist. A promotional CD-audio of the album was released to the press in February 2007.

The iTunes release of the album includes some exclusive bonuses: the videos "Making of (English)" -8:35 and "Making of (French)" - 11:30; pre-orders also included the tracks "Téo & Téa - 6:00 AM Special" and "Jean Michel Jarre's Track-by-Track Commentary" (English and French versions).

French hypermarket chain Carrefour included an exclusive 32-page booklet with the album.

ingles

Two singles have been released, the first, "Téo & Téa", as a promotional for clubs and radio stations in February 2007 and then in a general release. The second, "Vintage", was released in digital download format only, on July 2007, including two remixes by ATB.

Personnel

* Jean Michel Jarre – keyboards, synthesizers and drum programming: Korg Radias, Moog Voyager, Roland MC-808, Roland Fantom-X-8, Roland V-Synth, Access Virus, SH-201, Pro Tools HD3; vocals (Vocoder-filtered) on "In the Mood for You".
* Claude Samard – string arrangements, guitars, programming, Cubase, Digital Performer, [http://www.steinberg.net/155_1.html Halion] strings, Absynth, [http://www.lag.fr Lag guitars] , Pro Tools HD3.
* Francis Rimbert – keyboards and synthesizers: Roland Fantom-X-8, V-Synth, Pro Tools Digi002
* Tim Hüfken – Groove Box special programming and artistic collaboration: Groove Box MC-808 and Sonar Sequencer
* Bertrand Lajaudie – additional programming
* Anne Parillaud-Jarre – additional vocals on "Beautiful Agony" [Téo & Téa CD booklet]

Attribution of preset patches

"Téo & Téa" features patches of drum patterns found on the Roland MC-808, a groovebox. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBA2gYs0Ngs Roland MC-808's drum patterns and sequences found on "Téo & Téa"] ] Starting from June 19th of 2007, there was a debate amongst fans at several internet forums regarding Jarre's participation in creating them, or that he might have copied them in the album with too much ease [ [http://www.jarreforum.com/showthread.php?t=1118 jarreforum.com] ] [ [http://216.70.103.199/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2360 BlaBlahCafe forum of Zoolook.nl] ] .Usage of these patterns is not illegal, as expressed in the user manual [http://www.roland.com/products/en/_support/om.cfm?iCncd=1070&ln=EN&SearchBy=RcId&dst=P&iRcId=0000010943&dsp=1 on page 13] .

Jarre's management Aero Productions responded on the matter on June 28th with a statement to the administrator of the Jarre's "official" web forum, who posted the following message on: [ [http://www.jarreforum.com/showpost.php?p=12445&postcount=153 jarreforum.com Admin message 28-Jun-2007] ]

"Jean Michel Jarre explained that he entered into a partnership with Roland Japan last year, to collaborate with and contribute to demos, patterns and presets for their future products. Jean Michel Jarre explained that the Roland MC808 was one of these products, therefore it is not surprising that certain elements of his new TÉO & TÉA album appear on the Roland MC-808, or any other recent Roland product for that matter."

It should be noted that the original statement from Jarre and Aero Productions has not been made public, nor has it been "explicitly" stated that Jarre is the sole creator of the patterns.

Jarre was credited with a patch on another model of Roland that was released in the same year, the Roland SH-201 [ [http://www.rolandus.com/corporate/press_releases/press_release.aspx?PressId=279 Roland december 2006 pressrelease] ] , but Jarre's name does not appear on Rolands list of patch creators for the MC-808 [ [http://forums.rolandclan.info/?action=show_thread&thread=13771&fid=20&page=1 MC-808 betatest] ] , Tim Hüfken (credited as "artistic collaborator" in "Téo & Téa"'s booklet) appears instead.

References

External links

* [http://www.teo-tea.com/ Official "Téo & Téa" website]