Jean-Michel Jarre In Concert/Houston-Lyon
	Produced by Jean-Michel Jarre
	Released on July 1987
	UK CHART POSITION #18
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J arre does nothing by halves, and the Houston/Lyon concerts were no exception. The Houston show was the largest laser and light show in memory: lights pierced the sky, film projectors painted hundred-foot images on office buildings, fireworks exploded from the tops of skyscrapers like metal volcanoes. The Lyon show was apparently no less illuminating. And then there’s the music itself: swollen to an orchestra and choir, augmented by an eight-piece band, this was Giant-Michel Jarre. Probably a once-in-a-lifetime event and, if you missed it, better luck in your next life. The album tries to capture some of the Houston spectacle with interviews and radio news. Unfortunately, the Houston concertgoers come off in the least flattering light. (The Lyon audience features a benediction from Pope John Paul II, which is a tiny bit more classy.) Despite some electric moments (“Chants Magnetique I,” “Ethnicolor”), much is lost in the single-elpee shrinking of this fairy tale from two cities. Concerts En Chine remains the definitive live set for me: new material and two elpees show the magnitude of Jarre’s visit to China. By contrast, Houston/Lyon is over in a flash, Jarre and his cirque de la soiree all but a memory by morning. If you’re intrigued by the orchestra and choir, don’t be; they were mostly inaudible to me. And you don’t need an eight-piece band to play “Equinoxe V,” let alone an orchestra. The Houston and Lyon concerts were a commercial milestone in Jarre’s career; the live elpee an uneventful quartermilestone by comparison.

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TRACK LISTING

1. OXYGENE V    1:17
2. ETHNICOLOR    9:31
3. MAGNETIC FIELDS I    4:10
4. SOUVENIR (OF CHINA)    3:13
5. EQUINOXE V    3:18
6. RENDEZ-VOUS III (HARPE LASER)    3:29
7. RENDEZ-VOUS II    10:38
8. RON'S PIECE    4:16
9. RENDEZ-VOUS IV    3:54
   
   Composed and conducted by Jean-Michel Jarre

CREDITS

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE -- synthesizers
GUY DELACROIX -- bass
SYLVAIN DURAND -- keyboards and synthesizers
MICHEL GEISS -- synthesizers, engineer, mixing
JOE HAMMER -- drums
PASCAL LEBOURG -- keyboards and synthesizers
DOMINIQUE PERRIER -- keyboards and synthesizers
FRANCIS RIMBERT -- keyboards and synthesizers
Children Choir of La Cigale de Lyon -- choir
Christine Durand -- soprano
Female Voices of Le Cantrel de Lyon -- choir
The High School for the Performing Arts -- choir
Dino Lumbroso -- percussion
Musicians of L'Orchestre National de Lyon -- orchestra
Musicians of L'Opera de Lyon -- orchestra
The Singing Boys of Houston -- choir
Christian Wagner -- choir director
Kirk Whalum -- alto sax
Denis Vanzetto -- engineer, mixing
Pastelle Paris - Paint Box Mikros Images -- artwork
Ph. de Selliers, A. de Wildenberry, Peter Montain, Ph. Jackson, Daniel Simon -- photos

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