Revolutions (Jean-Michel Jarre album) explained

Revolutions
Type:studio
Artist:Jean-Michel Jarre
Cover:Revolutions Jarre Album.jpg
Released:26 September 1988[1]
Recorded:1987–1988
Studio:Croissy studio
Length:44:21
Label:Disques Dreyfus
Producer:Jean-Michel Jarre
Prev Title:Rendez-Vous
Prev Year:1986
Next Title:Jarre Live (Destination Docklands)
Next Year:1989

Revolutions is the ninth studio album by electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, first released in September 1988. The album reached number 2 in the UK charts, Jarre's best chart position since Oxygène. The Destination Docklands concert in London coincided with the release of the album.

Composition and recording

The album was recorded and mixed at Croissy studio. The song "London Kid" was a collaboration with Shadows guitarist Hank Marvin.[2] The title track contains reworked samples of an unpublished composition by Turk Kudsi Erguner, which Jarre had acquired from ethnologist Xavier Bellenger. Erguner took his case to court and won a modest indemnity. Jarre removed the flute part—the Ney—from new releases of the record and from live performances, the track was later retitled as "Revolution, Revolutions". The title track also featured vocoder by Jarre and Michel Geiss. The track "September" is dedicated to South African ANC activist Dulcie September, who was assassinated in Paris on 29 March 1988.[3]

Track listing

1991 remaster

Personnel

Personnel listed in album liner notes:

References

Notes
Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BPI.
  2. Book: Larkin . Colin . The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Glebb, Lloyd-Lincoln, Abbey . 1995 . Guinness Pub. . 978-1-56159-176-3 . 2137 . 28 August 2022 . en.
  3. Revolutions . 1988 . liner notes . . 837 098-2 .