JEAN MICHEL JARRE

Tickets will be €90 / €70 / €55 / €50 on sale from all Ticketmaster outlets nationwide, booking line no. 0818 719 300 and online at www.ticketmaster.ie / www.aikenpromotions.com


“I listened to all of Jean Michel Jarre’s albums obsessively, to the point of knowing every note by heart. His music accompanied me as I wrote 2010: Odyssey Two. His concerts are always a celebration of wonderment”…Sir Arthur C. Clarke, futurist, cult science fiction author of 2001 and 2010

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Jean Michel Jarre first came to international fame in 1977 with his number one hit album, « OXYGENE » which went on to sell over 18 million copies worldwide. An extraordinary destiny, that of Jean Michel Jarre’s, following in the path of another, that of his father, Maurice Jarre, composer of some of the most famous and popular soundtracks of legendary Hollywood films (Doctor Zivago, Laurence of Arabia…): two musicians, two celebrities, father and son, renowned worldwide for their individual, singular talent.


Jean Michel Jarre, a pioneer in his field, has largely contributed to the fastest growing musical revolution of the 20th century, electronic Music: conceiving music in terms of sounds rather than only in terms of notes, and thus allowing the composer to become his own craftsman. Having followed formal studies of harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris, he was inspired to reinvent music at its core, with his own singular vision, deploying the technology and tools of his epoch. This pioneering approach gave birth to worldwide hit albums such as “OXYGENE”, “EQUINOXE”, MAGNETIC FIELDS”, “ZOOLOOK”, “RENDEZVOUS”, “WAITING FOR COUSTEAU”….over 80 million albums sold to date.

 

Following through with his revolution in music, he also conceived a brand-new genre and format of concerts; breaking away from the traditional theatre and arena context, Jarre brought his music and vision outdoors to the masses. Often free and open-to-all, these state-of-the-art concert spectaculars showcase the natural or urban environment in which they are performed – a truly singular sonic and visual “land-art” event, conceived and performed on a unique scale for a one-off experience.


Jarre’s legendary concerts have attracted Guinness Record-breaking audiences across the planet. Their settings, their contexts and their

players encompass History, politics, environmental statements, sociocultural coups, mass media coverage…amongst others.

They take place in exceptional settings, marking extra-ordinary contexts: From post-Mao’s Red China to that of today, from Texas in collaboration with NASA and the tragedy of Challenger, to the concert welcoming His Holiness Pope John-Paul II to the city of Lyon in France during, historically, one of the country’s most vicious waves of terrorism and coinciding with fatal predictions delivered by Nostradamus, from the saga of the Docklands with players such as HRH Diana Princess of Wales, colourful tycoon and media mogul Robert Maxwell, not withstanding the atrocious weather conditions…From Poland for Solidarnosc at the initiative of Nobel Peace

Laureate, Lech Walesa, to Paris for the environmental statement voiced by Jarre in the name of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, to the Great Pyramids of Egypt welcoming the New Millennium, to the absolute record live audience of 3.5 million in Moscow, and his ongoing engagement to the United

 

2009-2010 sees Jarre booked for his first ever world tour. Over 100 dates where he offers a rare opportunity to share his talent live – to date, the European arenas played to full-house, have revealed a most cross-over audience : young amateurs of techno-electro, white-collar professionals, the high-tech & audiophile 40-somethings, the original Oxygene generation…and women of all ages who nurture an ongoing crush for the suave Frenchman.

But if Jarre’s music is so universal, it is also because it is in a timeless class of its own, created by a man who has always followed his own vision and expression far from the passing trends, driven by an immense curiosity for the world and universe in which we evolve : the wonders & sounds of nature, the awareness of preserving our planet, the politics and sociology of our times, the rich variety of culture and people across the continents, the fantastic evolution of technology in our living generation, how music is truly a universal language whatever the age,gender, culture or class…These themes that have always driven Jarre, and that are the foundations of his successful and ongoing singular career.

A unique opportunity to live, or relive, an extraordinary moment


Tickets will be €90 / €70 / €55 / €50 on sale from all Ticketmaster outlets nationwide, booking line no. 0818 719 300 and online at www.ticketmaster.ie

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