Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields (1981) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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Les Chants Magnétiques (English title: Magnetic Fields) is the fifth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus on 20 May 1981.

The title of the album is a play on words in the French language. The literal English translation of the French title, "Les Chants Magnétiques", is "Magnetic Songs". 

However, the French word for 'fields' (champs) is a homophone of the French word for 'songs' (chants), so in French, if the title is spoken out loud, it can be interpreted as either magnetic fields or as magnetic songs. 

(Les Champs magnétiques was a surrealist book published in 1920.)

The album is one of the first to use sounds from the Fairlight CMI. Its digital technology allowed Jarre to continue his earlier sonic experimentation in new ways. 

He also used instruments from the EMS company, among them the Synthi AKS, the VCS 3 and the Vocoder 1000.

Les Chants Magnétiques was the third of Jean Michel Jarre's albums in a row to update Tangerine Dream's atmospheric sequencer trance for a synth pop and mainstream crossover audience. 

The side-long "Les Chants Magnetiques, Pt. 1" is the capstone of the album, while "Pt. 2" through "Pt. 5" move through driving electronic pop and several passages more indebted to Jarre's past in the musique concrète scene. 

It's often just as melodic and inventive as Oxygène, though not as consistently creative.

In minimalist piece "Les Chants Magnétiques (Part 3)" employs sounds from a toy box, and Jarre's collaborator Michel Geiss recorded the sounds produced by trains that would be used in the album. 

Les Chants Magnétiques was recorded and mixed by Jean-Pierre Janiaud assisted by Patrick Foulon at Croissy studio, the cover was designed by Remy Magron.

Side one

1.  Magnetic Fields Part 1  (18:07)  

Side two

1.  Magnetic Fields Part 2  (3:50)  

2.  Magnetic Fields Part 3  (4:41)  

3.  Magnetic Fields Part 4  (6:07)  

4.  Magnetic Fields Part 5 (The Last Rumba) (3:28)

Equipment

• MDB Polysequencer
• RSF Kobol
• Oberheim OB-X
• ARP 2600
• Fairlight CMI
• EMS Synthi AKS
• EMS Synthi VCS3
• Korg KR 55
• Elka 707
• Eminent 310U
• Moog Taurus Pedal Synthesizer
• Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Vocoder 1000
• Korg VC-10
• Electro-Harmonix Echoflanger

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Disques Dreyfus
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Disques Dreyfus
• Copyright © – Disques Dreyfus
• Published By – Intersong Music Ltd.
• Published By – Francis Dreyfus Music
• Recorded At – Croissy Studio
• Mixed At – Croissy Studio
• Mastered At – Dyam
• Printed By – James Upton & Sons Ltd.
• Made By – James Upton & Sons Ltd.
• Manufactured By – Polydor Ltd.
• Distributed By – Polydor Ltd.
• Lacquer Cut At – Decca Studios
• Pressed By – PRS Ltd.

Credits

• Composed By, Producer [Produced by] – J. M. Jarre
• Cover – Remy Magron
• Lacquer Cut By – Y.D.
• Recorded By [Assisted By], Mixed By [Assisted By] – P. Foulon, P. Mourey
• Recorded By, Mixed By – J. M. Jarre, J. P. Janniaud

Notes

Release:  1981

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Electronic

Label:  Polydor

Catalog#  2311075

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00