MFSL MOFI GOLD UDCD-613: Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene

Description: ****Welcome to our listing, thanks very much for looking!Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene...on Limited Edition GOLD CD format from Mobile Fidelity - SEALED! Jean Michel Jarre, son of film composer Maurice Jarre, is one of the true pioneers of electronic music. Oxygène is one of the original e-music albums. It has withstood the test of time and the evolution of digital electronica. Jarre's compositional style and his rhythmic instincts were his strong points in 1976. While his popularity has escalated exponentially over the years, he never quite achieved the quality of this amazing recording. The innocence and freshness provide most of its charm. Jarre's techniques and ability provide the rest. This epic work will appeal to fans of Tonto's Expanding HeadBand, Tangerine Dream, Synergy, Kraftwerk, and Klaus Schulze. - Jim Brenholts Celebrated as the European electronic music community's premier ambassador, composer Jean-Michel Jarre elevated the synthesizer to new peaks of popularity during the 1970s, in the process emerging as an international superstar renowned for his dazzling concert spectacles. The son of famed film composer Maurice Jarre, he was born in 1948 in Lyon, France, and began studying piano at the age of five. Abandoning classical music as a youth, Jarre became enamored of jazz before forming a rock band called Mystere IV; in 1968, he became a pupil of the musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer, joining Groupe de Recherches Musicales. His early experiments in electro-acoustic music yielded the 1971 single "La Cage"; the full-length Deserted Palace followed a year later. Jarre's early works were largely unsuccessful, and gave little indication of the work to follow. As he struggled to find his own voice, he wrote for a variety of singers, including Françoise Hardy, and also composed for films. Seeking to push electronic music away from its minimalist foundations as well as the formal abstractions of its most experimental practitioners, he slowly developed the orchestrated melodicism of his 1977 breakthrough effort, Oxygène, an enormous commercial hit that reached the number two spot on the U.K. pop chart. The follow-up, 1978's Equinoxe, was also a smash, and a year later Jarre held the first in a series of massive open-air concerts at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, the estimated one million spectators on hand earning him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records. Only in the wake of 1981's Les Chants Magnétiques (Magnetic Fields) did Jarre mount a proper tour, traveling to China with a staggering amount of stage equipment in tow; the five performances, performed by some 35 traditional instrumentalists, later generated the LP Concerts in China. Released in 1983, Music for Supermarkets instantly became one of the most collectible albums in history -- recorded for an art exhibit, only one copy was ever pressed, selling at a charity auction for close to $10,000. The master was then incinerated, guaranteeing the record's rarity. Jarre's next proper release was 1984's Zoolook, which failed to connect with audiences with the same success as its predecessors. A two-year hiatus followed before he resurfaced on April 5, 1986, with an extravagant live performance in Houston celebrating NASA's silver anniversary; in addition to the over one million in attendance, it was also broadcast on global television. Rendez-Vous appeared a few weeks later, and after another highly visual live date in Lyon, France, Jarre assembled the best material from the two events as the 1987 concert LP Cities in Concert: Houston/Lyon. Revolutions, featuring legendary Shadows guitarist Hank B. Marvin, followed in 1988, and a year later a third concert LP, dubbed simply Jarre Live, hit stores. After 1990's En Attendant Cousteau (Waiting for Cousteau), Jarre mounted his biggest live experience yet, with an attendance of over two-and-a-half million fans converging on Paris to see him perform in honor of Bastille Day. The decade to follow proved surprisingly quiet, however, and apart from the occasional live appearance, Jarre largely removed himself from the limelight; finally, in 1997 he issued Oxygène 7-13, updating his concepts for a new musical era. At the turn of the millennium, he recorded Metamorphoses and then took a break from the studio as a flurry of reissues and remixes followed, including Sessions 2000, Les Granges Brulees, and Odyssey Through O2. In 2007, after a seven-year hiatus from recording, Jarre released a new dance single, "Teo and Tea," a surprisingly strong return to electro, and followed it with a trancey, angular album also titled Teo and Tea. The collection Essentials & Rarities appeared in 2011, a year that also saw him perform a three-hour, internationally broadcast concert in Monaco honoring the marriage of Prince Albert and Charlene Wittstock. He released the albums Electronica, Vol. 1: The Time Machine and Electronica, Vol. 2: The Heart of Noise in 2015 and 2016, respectively, both of which featured numerous well-known guest musicians including John Carpenter, Vince Clarke, Cyndi Lauper, Pete Townshend, Armin van Buuren, and Hans Zimmer. Also in 2016, Jarre revisited his signature work yet again, with the release of Oxygène 3. All three Oxygène albums were also issued as Oxygène Trilogy. 2018 saw the release of Planet Jarre, a compilation album commemorating 50 years of material which also featured two new tracks -- "Herbalizer" and "Coachella Opening" -- the latter of which was featured during Jarre's set list at California's Coachella Festival a few months earlier. In November of that year, he released his 20th studio album, Equinoxe Infinity, which acted as a sequel to his 1978 album Equinoxe. - Jason AnkenyOut of Print! Features: • GOLD CD Collector's Edition - SEALED MFSL, also known as MOFI, properly known as MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LAB was the grandfather of all audiophile labels. Their LPs and CDs are highly sought after by audiophiles, because, quite simply, they were the best available at the time (most still are). This listing is for a very rare, out of print audiophile 24kt GOLD CD title - a SEALED 24kt GOLD CD, PRESSED and ISSUED by the MFSL {MOFI} company, of a highly collectible title from their music catalog, featuring - Jean Michel JarreGOLD CD Title - OxygeneTrack Listing -1. Oxygene Part I - 7:40 2. Oxygene Part II - 8:05 3. Oxygene Part III - 2:59 4. Oxygene Part IV - 4:07 5. Oxygene Part V - 10:31 6. Oxygene Part VI - 6:19Other Information / Credits / etc.. -• Distributed By, Manufactured By – MFSL, Inc. • Licensed From – Francis Dreyfus Music • Recorded At – Jean-Michel Jarre Private Studio • Mixed At – Studio Gang • Mastered At – Translab • Pressed By – Zomax Optical • Composed By, Producer, Composed By, Producer, Synthesizer [ARP, AKS, VCS 3, RMI Harmonic], Organ [Farfisa, Eminent], Mellotron, Drum Machine [Rhytmin' Computer] – Jean Michel Jarre • Cover [Original Front] – Michel Granger • Engineer [Assisted By] – Patrick Foulon • Engineer [Mixing] – Jean-Pierre Janiaud • Photography By [Back Cover Photo] – Charlotte Rampling-Jarre • Photography By [Page 10] – David Bailey • Photography By [Page 2] – R. Schroeder • Photography By [Pages 5, 6 & 7] – A.De Wildenberg Back: ©℗ 1976 Booklet: Recorded and mixed from August until November 1976 Editions Marquet [Artwork publisher] Top of the front disc label reads: 24 KT GOLD PLATED • Barcode: 015775161320 • Matrix / Runout (Mirrored): ZOMAX OPTICAL-PLYMOUTH MN-Z11345 0GUF2<1005> • Matrix / Runout (variant): UDCD613 1F • Mastering SID Code: none • Other (On Matrix - variant): MFD BY JVC • Mould SID Code: IFPI 3B43 • SPARS CODE: AADThe 24kt GOLD CD is from the rare MFSL series of audiophile CDs (out of print). GOLD CD catalog # UDCD 613 Original Recording - on POLYDOR / DISQUES DREYFUS Records - re-released by MFSL in 1994LImited Edition GOLD CD - Ultradisc II, GAIN systemGOLD CD made in the USAThe 24kt GOLD CD, JEWEL CASE and INSERTS are all assumed to be in MINT overall condition as this item is SEALED! There are NO cut out marks on the outer case. This item does NOT come with an outer J-Card - this item may have been re-sealed by the distributor or the MFSL / MOFI company - see our pictures with this listing as they are of the ACTUAL ITEM that we are offering. This Gold CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system). Do not let this rarity slip by!

Price: 299.99 CAD

Location: Woodbridge, Ontario

End Time: 2024-08-22T19:39:19.000Z

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