The Concerts In China - CD 1  (40:32)
	01	The Overture						04:47
	02	Arpegiator						06:54
	03	Equinoxe IV						07:49
	04	Fishing Junks At Sunset						09:38
	05	Band In The Rain						01:29
	06	Equinoxe VII						09:55
The Concerts In China - CD 2  (38:31)
	01	Orient Express						04:22
	02	Magnetic Fields I						00:21
	03	Magnetic Fields III						03:49
	04	Magnetic Fields IV						06:49
	05	Laser Harp						03:37
	06	Night In Shanghai						07:02
	07	The Last Rumba						02:11
	08	Magnetic Fields II						06:26
	09	Souvenir Of China						03:54

1982 Disques Dreyfus France / Polydor 811 551-2

Composed and Produced by Jean-Michel Jarre

This album was recorded during five concerts which
Jean-Michel Jarre presented in Peking and Shanghai.
The concerts were the first performances of rock or
contemporary music ever given in The People's
Republic of China.

Jean-Michel Jarre write several new compositions for
this historic occasion, including "Night in Shanghai",
"Laser Harp", "Arpegiator", "Orient Express", "Souvenir
of China" and "Fishing Junk at Sunset", which was
performed with the Peking Conservatoire Symphony
Orchestra.

Musicians:
Jean-Michel Jarre: Fairlight, Eminent, OBX A, Taurus,
AKS, VCS 3, Elka, Lynn Drum, Electroharmonix
Micro Synthesizer, Laser Harp
Frederic Rousseau: MDB Polysequencer, RSF, Yamaha
CS60, Korg Rhythm Boxes, ARP 2600
Dominique Perrier: Moog Liberation, Prophet 5, Eminent,
Korg Polyphonique, Kobol
Roger Rizzitelli: Electronic Percussion and Simmons Drums
Pierre Mourey: Musical Instrument Coordinator




Les Concerts en Chine
Date of Release 1982

Jean-Michel Jarre performed a handful of concerts in Peking and Shanghai in 1981, marking the first time that a modern Western musical artist had played in communist China. Sensing the historical importance of the event (and the career milestone it represented), a double-album of live music from these concerts was released the following year as Les Concerts En Chine. The release is half musical travelogue (featuring new pieces presumably inspired by China) and half career retrospective, with faithful reproductions of excerpts from Equinoxe and Les Chants Magnetiques (Magnetic Fields) interspersed with new works and snippets of Chinese dialogue. There has always been a strong visual component to Jarre's live shows, which the listener is left out of on these recordings (small pockets of applause during some of the songs allude to the graphic goings on), but even without the lights and lasers this is engaging stuff. Highlights from the show include "Jonques de Pecheurs au Crepuscule (Fishing Junks At Sunset)," a welcome respite from Jarre's ultra-modern music that features a traditional Oriental arrangement, and new works like "Arpegiateur" and "Nuit A Shangai" that compare favorably with the brisk, streamlined sound of Tangerine Dream in the early '80s. Connecting these sections with dialogue and street noises (some of which, in the case of "Les Chants Magnetiques," have always been there) breaks up the concert nicely, although two light-hearted intermissions ("L'Orchestre Sous La Pluie" and "La Derniere Rumba") make too fine a point of it. Owners of Equinoxe and Magnetic Fields expecting to hear a new interpretation of these albums won't find any surprises on Les Concerts En Chine except a short ping-pong match inexplicably billed as "Les Chants Magnetiques I." The real attraction is the new music, and the newness that all of this must have held for its audience. Regrettably, when Dreyfus reissued the concert on compact disc in 1992, it opted to split the original double elpee into two separate discs as Volume 1 and Volume 2. Whether motivated by greed or a complete lack of common sense, the decision divides two halves of the original release (which, incidentally, would have fit on a single disc), resulting in twice the cost to consumers. It may be the ugly side of capitalism, but it's still a small price to pay for freedom. - Dave Connolly

Jean-Michel Jarre - Synthesizer, Director, Drums, Keyboards, Multi Instruments, Producer, Elka, Bass Pedals, Fairlight, Mixing, VCS 3 Synthesizer, Oberheim Obxa, AKS
Rene Ameline - Mixing
Francis Dreyfus - Producer
Mark Fisher - Design
Dominique Perrier - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Moog Synthesizer, Multi Instruments, Korg Synthesizer, Prophet 5, Kobol
Red Saunders - Photography
Fredrick Rousseau - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Multi Instruments, Sequencing
Pierre Mourey - Synthesizer, Multi Instruments, Producer, Mixing Assistant
Roger Rizzitelli - Percussion, Drums, Electronic Sounds, Multi Instruments, Drum Machine, Electronic Percussion
Orchestre Symphonique du Conservatoire de Pйkin
Frederic Rousseau - Korg Synthesizer, Arp 2600
M Wang Zhi - Art Direction
Wang Zhi - Performer
Marc Garanger - Photography

1982 CS Dreyfus 811551-4
1982 CD Dreyfus 811551-2
1982 LP Dreyfus 811551-1
1982 CD Dreyfus FDMCD18112
1982 CD Dreyfus FDMCD18111
1982 LP Polydor 3
Polydor 811 551