Jean-Michel Jarre - The China Concerts

Tracklist

1	Oxygene II
2	Arpegiator
3	The Overture (Magnetic Fields)
4	Equinoxe IV
5	Equinoxe V
6	Equinoxe VII
7	Night In Shanghai
8	Fishing Junks At Sunset
9	Magnetic Fields I
10	Magnetic Fields III
11	Magnetic Fields IV
12	Orient Express
13	Magnetic Fields II
14	Souvenir Of China

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Francis Dreyfus Music
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Jean-Michel Jarre
• Copyright (c) – Francis Dreyfus Music
• Copyright (c) – Jean-Michel Jarre
• Published By – Intersong Music Ltd.
• Manufactured By – PolyGram Video Ltd.
• Distributed By – PolyGram Video Ltd.

Credits

• Composed By, Other [Conceived By] – Jean-Michel Jarre
• Film Director – Andrew Piddington
• Producer – Francis Dreyfus

Notes

This 79-minute video gives an impression of Jarre`s 1981 China tour. It shows the best performances of the five shows that took place in Peking and Shanghai.
The video has a strange mood, sometimes mixing the songs with old black/white movies and images of China, also between the songs are some short interviews with Jarre on the streets with the Chinese.

"After two years of negotiations, the government of the people`s republic of China agreed for the first time officially to invite a western contemporary musician to give a series of concerts in Peking and Shanghai. On October 12th, a team of sixty musicians and technicians left Paris for Peking with 15 tons of stage gear in the plane`s hold. A gigantic stage installation, one of the most sophisticated concert happenings yet seen, and the technical, diplomatic and human accomplishment of five triumphant concerts fired the Chinese public with enthusiasm. The film of the China concerts retraces this unique adventure and with jarre`s music, illustrates post-Mao China: its sufferings, its beauty, its desire for modernity, its aspiration for liberty... images captured in 1981, at a historical moment when it seemed that China was opening itself to the outside world..."
(text taken from the video sleeve)

(P) 1989 (C) 1989 Francis Dreyfus Music/Jean-Michel Jarre.

Same as the other UK edition except an extra 0 in the tape label number (CFM 00874) & slight design difference.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 44008 08743 4

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
080 874-3	Jean-Michel Jarre	Les Concerts En Chine ‎(VHS, SECAM)	PolyGram Music Video, Disques Dreyfus	080 874-3	France	1989
080 874 3, CFM 0874	Jean-Michel Jarre	The China Concerts ‎(VHS, PAL)	PolyGram Music Video, Channel 5	080 874 3, CFM 0874	UK	1989
AL 003	Jean-Michel Jarre	The China Concerts ‎(VHS, Unofficial, PAL)	ADWI-Video	AL 003	Poland	Unknown
KAL1252	Jean-Michel Jarre	The Concerts In China ‎(DVD-V, PAL, Una)	Shock	KAL1252	Australia & New Zealand	2008
080 874-3, 080 874 3	Jean-Michel Jarre	The China Concerts ‎(VHS, PAL)	PolyGram Music Video, PolyGram Music Video	080 874-3, 080 874 3	Spain	1991