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Jarre - Les Chants Magnétiques flac album
  • Performer Jarre
  • Title Les Chants Magnétiques
  • Date of release 1981
  • Country UK
  • Style Abstract, Ambient
  • Other formats ADX TTA DTS RA WAV AU XM
  • Genre Electronic
  • Size MP3 1390 mb
  • Size FLAC 1626 mb
  • Rating: 4.4
  • Votes: 815

Les Chants Magnétiques (English title: Magnetic Fields) is the fifth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus on 22 May 1981. The album was one of the first records to use sampling as a musical element and represents a departure from the sound of Jarre's previous efforts. The long first track consists of three distinct movements, the slower second movement being heavily laden with sample work

Les Chants Magnétiques was the third of Jean Michel Jarre's albums in a row to update Tangerine Dream's atmospheric sequencer trance for a synth pop and mainstream crossover audience. The side-long "Les Chants Magnetiques, Pt. 1" is the capstone of the album, while "Pt. 2" through "Pt. 5" move through driving electronic pop and several passages more indebted to Jarre's past in the musique concrète scene.

Though Jean-Michel Jarre's first album of the ’80s is composed of a single electronic suite, it’s both more urgent and features greater rhythmic momentum than any of the epic synthesiser journeys he’d taken before. Seemingly informed by the early ’80s synth-pop explosion-for which Jarre’s earlier albums helped lay the groundwork-Les Chants Magnétiques is the sound of a concept coming full circle. Upbeat, percolating rhythms and perky snatches of melody tickle the ear along the way, as the extended piece evolves. Les Chants Magnétiques, Magnetic Fields Jean-Michel Jarre.

Les Chants Magnétiques (English title: Magnetic Fields) is the fifth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus on 22 May 1981. The long first track consists of three distinct movements, the slower second movement being heavily laden with sample work

Les Chants Magnétiques, Magnetic Fields, 2015. Les Chants Magnétiques, Magnetic Fields, 2015. Magnetic Fields, Pt. 3, 04:10. The long first track consists of three distinct movements, the slower second movement being heavily laden with sample work. It was also used as the interval signal of a numbers station of the same name

Disc: 1. 1. Les Chants Magnetiques, Pt. 2. 3. 4. 5. Product details. I was first introduced to Jean-Michel Jarre in about 1980 or 1981 by a neighbor's older brother. This was the only recording of Jarre's earlier work that I really got into and so it was I kept the album. Jump ahead 35-years and I finally decided I missed it enough to purchase the CD and I'm very glad I did. I won't say that the style survives perfectly into 2015, but I still see why I liked it when first introduced to it.

Tracklist

Les Chants Magnétiques
A Part I 18:07
B1 Part II 3:50
B2 Part III 4:41
B3 Part IV 6:07
B4 Part V (La Dernière Rumba) 3:28

Companies, etc.

  • Distributed By – CBS
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Disques Dreyfus
  • Copyright (c) – Disques Dreyfus
  • Published By – Francis Dreyfus Music
  • Recorded At – Croissy Studio
  • Mixed At – Croissy Studio
  • Mastered At – Dyam
  • Printed By – Imprimerie De Saint-Michel
  • Pressed By – MPO

Credits

  • Composed By, Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – J. M. Jarre*
  • Cover – Rémy Magron
  • Lacquer Cut By – Y.D.*
  • Recorded By [Assisted By], Mixed By [Assisted By] – P. Foulon*, P. Mourey*
  • Recorded By, Mixed By – J. P. Janiaud*

Notes

CBS distributor issue without printer credited on back sleeve, printer credit available on spine.
Imprimé en France

Other Category "FDM 18108" issues are available:
Vogue distributor
CBS distributor, APEP printer
Transitional "DLP 2001" Category and "PolyGram" distributor stickers on previous CBS issue

Inner sleeve:
Thanks to M. Geiss, MCI, Music Land, RSF, Fairlight, Oberheim & MDB.

Labels:
℗ © 1981 Disques Dreyfus
copyright by Francis Dreyfus Music
Fabriqué en France

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Runout A, variant 1): Y.D. J.M.JARRE A F25 81 5 FDM 18108 A F 25
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout B, variant 1): Y.D. J.M.JARRE B F25 81 5 FDM 18108 B F 25
  • Price Code: CB 281
  • Rights Society: SACEM SDRM SACD SGDL
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout A Variant 2): MPO FDM 1808 Y.D. J.M.JARRE A F22
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout B Variant 2): MPO FDM 1808 Y.D. J.M.JARRE B F22
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout A Variant 3): MPO FDM- 18108 -A4 STERLING JS
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout B Variant 3): MPO FDM 18108 - B3 STERLING JS

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
POLD 5159 Jean-Michel Jarre Magnetic Fields ‎(LP, Album, RE) Polydor POLD 5159 UK 1981
PD-1-6325, 2311 075 Jean-Michel Jarre Magnetic Fields ‎(LP, Album, TP) Polydor, Polydor PD-1-6325, 2311 075 US 1981
MCR 16392 Jean-Michel Jarre Magnetic Fields = Campos Magneticos ‎(Cass, Album) Polydor, Disques Dreyfus MCR 16392 Mexico 1981
Y - POL - 2311075.9 Jarre* Magnetic Fields ‎(LP, Album) Polydor Y - POL - 2311075.9 Peru 1981
FDM 46050 36142 1 Jarre* Magnetic Fields ‎(LP, Album, RE, 180) Disques Dreyfus FDM 46050 36142 1 France 2011


Talk about Jarre - Les Chants Magnétiques


Granigrinn
Fields (en)=Champs (fr)...not "chants".How is it right?...Stupid,ten words for post.
Yllk
That's actually a pun in french, because the words "chant" (a song) and "champs" (Fields) are perfect homophones. But it is impossible to translate in English.
Pipet
This album sounds even more incredible on vinyl! Its as if every beautiful note sticks out! The cover and (heavy)innersleeve are great too. Definitely a beautiful album and must have if you enjoy electronic soundscapes.
Qiahmagha
Practically a sequel to both, "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe" (in itself already a sequel to "Oxygene", a decent one though), each a couple of years away, one can sense Jarre's predictable synth-doodling on "Les Chants Magnetiques" reaching its painful dead end, somewhat even before the laser hits the CD/the stylus cuts into the vinyl. The opening sequence is adorable in itself but very quickly, as the album progresses, Jarre starts sounding too desperate in trying to fill in the gaps - the title suggests a bit more serious and conceptually stronger exercise but in the end the whole is just ruined with his attempt at showing (off) how accessible electronics can be, plus a truly laughable ending moment that is the hawaii-flavoured "La Derniere Rhumba" - which sounds exactly like on cheap autopilot. Of course, there are still some beautiful examples here, like "pt. III" - adding a kalimba to amazing effect, providing one of Jarre's most adorable avant-garde moments - which should have been the key-point regarding inspiration for this album, because it does provide an interesting angle from which "Les Chants Magnetiques" could have taken off more properly into something far less predictable. Sadly, his self-indulgent soundplay here is a downright hit and miss affair. Maybe it's a trilogy thing - but despite occasionally sympathetic synth-popping trademark (pts II, IV), "Les Chants Magnetiques" is Jarre at his least inspired and most mediocre.