Jean-Michel Jarre - The Concerts In China (1982)

Artist:  Jean-Michel Jarre
Title:  The Concerts In China
Release:  1982
Format:  2 LP
Label:  Polydor Records
Catalog#  2335261

“The Concerts In China” is a live album by Jean Michel Jarre, recorded in 1981 and released in 1982 on Disques Dreyfus. It was recorded during Jarre’s Concerts in China tour of Autumn 1981, which consisted of five Beijing and Shanghai concerts in China; this was the first time a Western pop artist performed in China after the Cultural Revolution.
The album is a balance of previously released tracks by Jarre, new compositions inspired by Chinese culture, and one rearranged traditional Chinese track (“Fishing Junks at Sunset”). The album consists mainly of live material, plus ambient sound recordings and one new studio track “Souvenir of China”. Other new compositions recorded live include “Night in Shanghai”, “Laser Harp”, “Arpegiator” and “Orient Express”. “Fishing Junks at Sunset” is a new arrangement of a very old traditional Chinese song known as the “Fisherman’s Chant at Dusk” which was performed and recorded with The Peking Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, and is often wrongly attributed as being composed by Jean Michel Jarre, misled by the album inlay.


Side one
1.  The Overture  (4:47)
2.  Arpegiator  (6:54)
3.  Equinoxe IV  (7:49)

Side two
1.  Fishing Junks at Sunset  (9:38)
2.  Band in the Rain  (1:29)
3.  Equinoxe VII  (9:55)

Side three
1.  Orient Express  (4:22)
2.  Magnetic Fields I  (0:21)
3.  Magnetic Fields III  (3:49)
4.  Magnetic Fields IV  (6:49)
5.  Laser Harp  (3:37)

Side four
1.  Night in Shanghai  (7:02)
2.  The Last Rumba  (2:11)
3.  Magnetic Fields II  (6:26)
4.  Souvenir of China  (3:54)

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