Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert

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"Paris la Défense" redirects here. For the business district of Paris, see La Défense.
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Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert was a concert held by musician Jean-Michel Jarre on the district of La Défense in Paris on Bastille Day, 14 July 1990.[1] About 2.5 million people standing in front of the pyramidal stage all the way down to the Arc de Triomphe witnessed this event, setting a new Guinness Book of Records entry for Jarre. The concert was funded by the Mairie de Paris, the Ministry of Culture and a small cluster of high-profile Parisian business concerns. Later, a concert video as well as a photobook of the event were released.

The show featured new tracks from the Waiting for Cousteau album. The concert is the only time that the track Calypso 2 has been performed live to date. Vast grotesque marionettes created by Trinidadian Peter Minshall were used in the concert, along with a live steel drum band.

A 50 minute television edit was produced for broadcast worldwide after the event and a 75 minute edit later released on VHS cassette in 1992. The tracks "Equinoxe Part V" and "Rendez-Vous 4" were not included on the VHS release for unknown reasons, while encore of "Calypso 1" was played over a video montage for the end credits. Only camcorder footage exists of these tracks, available on YouTube. A DVD release of the VHS edit was mooted by Jarre for a number of years but was eventually dropped.

An unofficial, broadcast quality, double CD of the entire concert exists and has been traded amongst fans since the event.

Track listing

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  • "Waiting For Cousteau" (played on loop before the concert)
  • "Paris La Défense"
  • "Oxygène (Part 4)"
  • "Equinoxe Part IV"
  • "Equinoxe Part V"(*)
  • "Souvenir de Chine" ("Souvenir of China")
  • "Les Chants Magnétiques II" ("Magnetic Fields II")
  • "Ethnicolor"
  • "Ethnitransition"
  • "Zoolookologie"
  • "Revolution, Revolutions"
  • "Second Rendez-Vous"
  • "Calypso 2"
  • "Calypso 3" – Fin De Siècle
  • "Calypso"
  • "Fourth Rendez-Vous"(*)
  • "Calypso" (encore)

Songs marked (*) are omitted from the official video release.

Musicians

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Instruments used

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References

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  1. ^ Forman, Edward (2010). Historical Dictionary of French Theater. Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. p. 139. ISBN 9780810849396. OCLC 705622337.

Further reading

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