Product Overview
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene 7-13 / Sony Music Audio CD 2018 / 19075833852
UPC 190758338521
Product Details:
Oxygène 7–13 (or Oxygène 2 on the Oxygène Trilogy box set) is the twelfth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released by Disques Dreyfus on 17 February 1997. It is the sequel to his 1976 album Oxygène, and is dedicated to Jarre's former mentor, experimental musician Pierre Schaeffer. While the album was recorded using many of the same synthesizers as Oxygène, and the titling suggests a continuation from where the first album ends, many tracks have a more uptempo character. Released approximately twenty years after the worldwide release of the first Oxygène, it was Jarre's final album in his traditional style (exclusive of Oxygène: New Master Recording) until Oxygène 3 was announced. It was also the last album by Jarre featuring Michel Geiss as collaborator.
"Oxygène 7", "Oxygène 8" and "Oxygène 10" have been released as singles. A number of remixes of Oxygène 7–13 tracks have been made, including those comprising most of the album Odyssey Through O2. The Orb's single "Toxygene" was originally intended for release as a remix for the single release of "Oxygène 8", but was rejected by Jarre for being too distant from the original.
The album cover art was created by long-time collaborator Michel Granger.
Editorial Review:
Tracklist:
| Oxygene 7 | ||
| 1.1 | Part 1 | 4:19 |
| 1.2 | Part 2 | 3:46 |
| 1.3 | Part 3 | 3:36 |
| 2 | Oxygene 8
Programmed By [Additional Programming], Sounds – Christian Sales |
3:54 |
| Oxygene 9 | ||
| 3.1 | Part 1 | 1:54 |
| 3.2 |
Part 2 | 1:55 |
| 3.3 | Part 3 | 2:24 |
| 4 | Oxygene 10 | 4:16 |
| 5 | Oxygene 11 | 4:58 |
| 6 | Oxygene 12 | 5:36 |
| 7 | Oxygene 13 | 4:23 |
More Details:
- Artwork [Original Front Cover Artwork] – Michael Granger
- Composed By, Producer – Jean-Michel Jarre
- Graphic Design – Eric BDFCK Cornic
- Management [Personal Assistant To Jean-Michel Jarre] – Fiona Commins
- Mastered By – Greg Calbi
- Mixed By – Jean-Michel Jarre, René Ameline
- Musical Assistance [Production Assistance], Keyboards [Additional] – Francis Rimbert
- Photography By – Charlotte Rampling
- Programmed By [Logic Audio], Mellotron, Sampler [Akai MPC3000, DJ70], Sequencer [Digisequencer], Drum Machine [TR808], Synthesizer [2600 ARP, VCS3, AKS, CS80, Quasimidi Raven, Nordlead, JV 90, K2000, RMI, Prophecy], Organ [Eminent], Theremin – Jean-Michel Jarre
- Recorded By – Jean-Michel Jarre
- Recorded By, Technician [Technical Coordination] – Patrick Pelamourgues
- Remastered By [New Mastering] – Dave Dadwater
About the Artist:
Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, vast laser displays, large projections and fireworks.
Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents and trained on the piano. From an early age, he was introduced to a variety of art forms, including street performers, jazz musicians and the artist Pierre Soulages. He played guitar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales.
His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygène. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 12 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979, Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times. More albums were to follow, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events, and he is now perhaps as well known as a performer as he is as a musician.
As of 2004, Jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums. He was the first Western musician officially invited to perform in the People's Republic of China and holds the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event for his Moscow concert on 6 September 1997, which was attended by 3.5 million people.
