Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert
Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert was a concert held by musician Jean-Michel Jarre on the district of La Défense in Paris on Bastille Day, 14 July 1990.[1] About 2.5 million people standing in front of the pyramidal stage all the way down to the Arc de Triomphe witnessed this event, setting a new Guinness Book of Records entry for Jarre. The concert was funded by the Mairie de Paris, the Ministry of Culture and a small cluster of high-profile Parisian business concerns. Later, a concert video as well as a photobook of the event were released.
The show featured new tracks from the Waiting for Cousteau album. The concert is the only time that the track Calypso 2 has been performed live to date. Vast grotesque marionettes created by Trinidadian Peter Minshall were used in the concert, along with a live steel drum band.
A 50 minute television edit was produced for broadcast worldwide after the event and a 75 minute edit later released on VHS cassette in 1992. The tracks "Equinoxe Part V" and "Rendez-Vous 4" were not included on the VHS release for unknown reasons, while encore of "Calypso 1" was played over a video montage for the end credits. Only camcorder footage exists of these tracks, available on YouTube. A DVD release of the VHS edit was mooted by Jarre for a number of years but was eventually dropped.
An unofficial, broadcast quality, double CD of the entire concert exists and has been traded amongst fans since the event.
Track listing
- "Waiting For Cousteau" (played on loop before the concert)
- "Paris La Défense"
- "Oxygène (Part 4)"
- "Equinoxe Part IV"
- "Equinoxe Part V"(*)
- "Souvenir de Chine" ("Souvenir of China")
- "Les Chants Magnétiques II" ("Magnetic Fields II")
- "Ethnicolor"
- "Ethnitransition"
- "Zoolookologie"
- "Revolution, Revolutions"
- "Second Rendez-Vous"
- "Calypso 2"
- "Calypso 3" – Fin De Siècle
- "Calypso"
- "Fourth Rendez-Vous"(*)
- "Calypso" (encore)
Songs marked (*) are omitted from the official video release.
Musicians
- Jean-Michel Jarre: synthesizers
- Michel Geiss: synthesizers
- Francis Rimbert: synthesizers
- Dominique Perrier: synthesizers
- Frederick Rousseau: synthesizers
- Sylvain Durand: synthesizers
- Guy Delacroix: bass, synthesizers
- Christophe Deschamps: Drums and percussion
- Dino Lumbroso: drums and percussion
- Christine Durand: soprano
- Larbi Ouechni: Arab vocals
- Amoco Renegades (directed by Jit Samaroo): steel drums
- Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine (conducted by Bruno Rossignol): choir
- Al Mawsili: classical Arab orchestra
Instruments used
- ARP 2500
- ARP 2600
- Elka AMK8
- Elka Synthex
- Elka MK-88
- EMS AKS
- EMS VCS3
- Korg EXM1R
- Korg T3
- Roland D-50
- Roland D-550
- Roland D-70
- Roland MKS-80 (Super Jupiter)
- Akai S1000
- Roland S-550
- Yamaha KX-5
- Clavier Circulaire
- Laser Harp
- LAG Mad Max II
- LAG Insecte
- ARP Sequencer
- Alesis Quadraverb
- Alesis 1622
- MIDI Tap Lone Wolf
- Atari Mega ST 4 (11 units)
- C-Lab Unitor
- Pearl Drums
- Pad Pearl
- Musicman Stingray 5 Bass
References
- ^ Forman, Edward (2010). Historical Dictionary of French Theater. Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. p. 139. ISBN 9780810849396. OCLC 705622337.