Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Kanta]

JM mentions he is in the studio making a new album!!!!

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002v ... lrGFZGF23g

[Dr_Jones]

JM mentions he is in the studio making a new album!!!!

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002v ... lrGFZGF23g

Nice short interview, with JMJ talking about the Ibiza concert and him saying he's busy in the studio these coming four days. I've extracted the interview here:
https://zoolook.nl/img/20260425.BBCRadio2.mp3

[dzoolook]

As the dates for Jarre’s new tour are approaching, I’ve always enjoyed trying to predict what Jarre will keep from previous tours, what he’ll remove, and what he might add.

This is the setlist Jarre used last year:
Magnetic Fields pt 1
Epica Oxygene
Oxymore
Sex In The Machine
Oxygene 2
Arpegiateur
Zoolookology
Equinoxe 7
The Architect
Zero Gravity
Exit
Industrial Revolution pt 2
Robots Don't Cry
Herbalizer
Oxygene 19
Equinoxe 4
Brutalism
Oxygene 4 RMX
Epica live
Stardust
Rendez-vous 4
Magnetic Fields pt 2
The Time Machine (only Samarkand)

He leaves out the following tracks from 2024:
The Opening
Web Spinner
Falling Down
Azimuth
These are tracks that could easily be added to or removed from the setlist.

In my opinion, this year he’s going to leave out:
Epica Oxygene
Arpegiator
Robots don't Cry

And I think it will added tracks like:
Oxygene 8
Oxygene 12
Chronologie 6

What do you think?

[Dr_Jones]

My guess the setlist will be the same as last year.

[Robi83]

Perhaps there could be one or two change in the setlist, but it's just me.

However, ADE will have the new concept!

[Kanta]

For its only French date of summer, this electro legend chooses Toulouse
After almost two decades of absence in Toulouse, Jean-Michel Jarre is preparing to make his grand return to Toulouse. The artist, a major figure in the global electronic scene, will perform on Thursday, July 16 at the Pony Club. An evening that already promises to be one of the highlights of the musical summer.
"Today is a particularly stimulating time to create, compose and share music through a multitude of media," says the artist. A few words that perfectly illustrate his approach, he who has never stopped integrating innovations, from immersive audio to virtual reality, to the metaverse

Source: https://lopinion.com/articles/art-de-vi ... MN_rdWHbNg

[Kanta]

[Xyxophas]

If it's true that JMJ is working on a new album, he might perform some of the new tracks during the summer tour. However, it’s likely that won't happen and the setlist will be identical to last year's.
I think the only difference will be the Time Machine and the laser harp, just like in Samarkand.

[Kanta]

Radom Poland concert PR
He broke his own Guinness record three times. He reveals which movie inspired him the most
Jean-Michel Jarre has repeatedly supported Poland on the way to democracy, and for the last few decades he has not forgotten about us either. -For almost the entire 20th century. Poland was an example of perseverance and resistance for us.

Source; https://m.gazeta.pl/0,0.html?utm_campai ... 8_5JwVaCjw

[Robi83]

I've heared a tiny, also still-insignificant rumour saying that tour might continue in October. I mean, more dates in October.
Hmm.
We'll see.

[Kanta]

"For me, AI doesn't mean 'Artificial Intelligence' but 'Augmented Imagination'"
The French musician will perform on July 8 at the Marina Nord, where he will present a show designed with AI that celebrates the 50th anniversary of 'Oxygène': "València still maintains that special link with electronic music."
Jean-Michel Jarre will perform on July 8 in Valencia as part of the FAR cycle, which is held in the Marina Nord. The pioneer of electronic music returns to a city that, he remembers, he already visited a long time ago and of which his unique energy stands out: a great city in which "everything is very close" and that for him works "as a nucleus, an atomic nucleus." The concert also comes at a particularly symbolic moment: the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Oxygène, a founding work that Jarre continues to understand not as an exercise in nostalgia, but as a living artistic experiment, capable of resisting the passage of time and influencing successive generations of creators. In Valencia he will present a show conceived as an immersive experience, with pieces from his catalog completely revised and a staging created with artificial intelligence "in a very poetic and organic way, very Latin."

Source: https://www.levante-emv.com/cultura/202 ... NOwu4KTryw

[Kanta]

Jean-Michel Jarre: "AI will never endanger the future Miles Davis and Rosalías"
After more than half a century surrounded by synthesizers and offering the most massive concerts in history, the pioneer of electronic music reviews the great revolutions of his career. In July he returns to Spain with "a very special surprise"

Source: https://www.abc.es/cultura/cultural/jea ... ZzYAEr7SHQ

[Kanta]

At the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Jean-Michel Jarre will present compositions from his extensive catalog, "but all fully reproduced. I want to take the audience with me on a journey. And since we were talking about artificial intelligence earlier, I have new set design that has been done with its help. The show will be a bridge between what people are familiar with with surprises and a new idea in terms of music and scenography."
For the future, Jean-Michel Jarre is preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 'Oxygene' and a new album in 2027. "Also, a world tour in 2027, various documentaries and the publication of books concerning either my career or the instruments I use."

Source: https://www.tanea.gr/print/2026/05/16/p ... _W1y4d0ntA

[rinogurr]

[Richard-Eastham]

As the dates for Jarre’s new tour are approaching, I’ve always enjoyed trying to predict what Jarre will keep from previous tours, what he’ll remove, and what he might add.

This is the setlist Jarre used last year:
Magnetic Fields pt 1
Epica Oxygene
Oxymore
Sex In The Machine
Oxygene 2
Arpegiateur
Zoolookology
Equinoxe 7
The Architect
Zero Gravity
Exit
Industrial Revolution pt 2
Robots Don't Cry
Herbalizer
Oxygene 19
Equinoxe 4
Brutalism
Oxygene 4 RMX
Epica live
Stardust
Rendez-vous 4
Magnetic Fields pt 2
The Time Machine (only Samarkand)

He leaves out the following tracks from 2024:
The Opening
Web Spinner
Falling Down
Azimuth
These are tracks that could easily be added to or removed from the setlist.

In my opinion, this year he’s going to leave out:
Epica Oxygene
Arpegiator
Robots don't Cry

And I think it will added tracks like:
Oxygene 8
Oxygene 12
Chronologie 6

What do you think?

I've been listening a lot recently to the MP3 rip I made from the ARTE broadcast of the Seville show. My own personal take is that the setlist works really well at the start and finish but has a real drop-off problem in the middle. Such a strong opening, the improvised Oxy 2 opening is a highlight. I could listen to a whole album of those sorts of noodling arounds on a synth from him. The bass on Arpegiateur is terrific and these first 9 tracks just feels like banger after banger, a great mix of old and new:

Magnetic Fields pt 1
Epica Oxygene
Oxymore
Sex In The Machine
Oxygene 2
Arpegiateur
Zoolookology
Equinoxe 7
The Architect

And then it breaks down into a weird mix of dull, thump-thump dance (Zero Gravity remix and Exit), an odd misplaced snippet (Ind Rev Pt2), a low-fi improv piece (Robots Don't Cry), another thump-thump dance track (Herbalizer) and then another slow, down-tempo track (Oxy 19). This section does not hang together well at all:

Zero Gravity
Exit
Industrial Revolution pt 2
Robots Don't Cry
Herbalizer
Oxygene 19

It then picks up again, with a strong finish. Epica Live is brilliant, that bassline that kicks in during the second half is amazing. And that hard mash-up of RV4 and Mag Fields 2 - just slammed togther! - makes for a great encore. I love that he took two old classics and just played them one after the other, no pretence of mixing them. Just bang, there you go, this is what I am really good at. When you listen to Epica, Stardust and then RV4 into Mag Fields 2, that feels like the best of JMJ new and old. And makes that middle part of the set list feel saggy and disconnected. Shout out to Brutalism too, which works great live, with perhaps the best visuals of the whole show - that 'laser' that 'cuts' a line through the screen behind JMJ and lights being fired towards the stage, not just from it.

Equinoxe 4
Brutalism
Oxygene 4 RMX
Epica live
Stardust
Rendez-vous 4
Magnetic Fields pt 2
The Time Machine (only Samarkand)