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On 24th August (not unexpectedly Jean-Michel Jarre's birthday) NiMO will release the album "Jarre Acoustique [music by Jean-Michel Jarre performed on piano]". The album contains 11 acoustic piano interpretations of Jean-Michel Jarre's music, featuring Jarre's long time collaborator Patrick Rondat as special guest on "Chronologie part 3".




Tracklist:


These acoustic versions of his music have been approved by Jean-Michel Jarre personally and his management and will be officially released on 24 August 2024. The album is now available for pre-order!

More info:

https://store.dutchmusicworks.com/page/nimo-jarre-acoustique

NiMO is the moniker of Jeroen van der Wiel, a self-taught keyboard-player / composer. Over the years Jeroen has worked with musicians like John Hayes, Ian Parry, Kane and many others... Furthermore Jeroen has been a long-time member of the Dutch instrumental progressive rockband Odyssice with which he released 3 albums. After the demise of Odyssice he released his first solo project 'Thirteen'.

After working in rock music for over 25 years Jeroen headed into a new musical direction, heavily influenced by the music of Jean-Michel Jarre, of which he'd been a huge fan for years! He started composing and recording experimental electronic music as NiMO. ('nimo' is taken from the name Geronimo: Jeroen is the 'geron' part and 'nimo' the left over part of the name.)

During the process of composing electronic music the idea surfaced to interpret the music of Jean-Michel Jarre acoustically on piano. Between the summer of 2022 and autumn 2023 NiMO arranged, performed, recorded and mixed the piano adaptions of 11 original Jean-Michel Jarre tracks. He was introduced to long-time Jarre collaborator Patrick Rondat by Ian Parry, who agreed to record acoustic guitar on Chronologie, part 3.

Oh, thanks for the news! I talked to him in Bratislava and he said it was just a matter of an ok from jmj's management. And here it is! Sounds nice, I'm always interested in piano versions of jmj songs

Is this the same artist as this one?

No, that's a different person.

Also, I find it very cool that these days you can get OG Jarre contributors like Patrick Rondat to feature on these tributes

I just got the CD. It's a fun listen. And I love that he didn't chose the standard tracks but more "deepcuts" as they say. The focus lies on the melodies, and these stand out because JMJ made some very strong melodic songs. I often forget this because of the lush production, but this album helps to re-appreciate certain songs. Well done!
Rondat on acoustic guitar is also a surprise. Works very well.
One minor tidbit (and this is a problem I have with all piano albums like Vangelis' Nocturne and Rammstein's Klavier): it tends to sound the same after a while. But playing this album in short bursts will fix this.

I'm particularly loving Oxygene 17.

Nimo give a interview :

JARRE ACOUSTIQUE’-INTERVIEW MET JEROEN VAN DER WIEL [NiMO]

And on his birthday too!