Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Pat Gleeson]

I hope there will be no region block.

This press release refers to broadcast licenses only. AFAIK, there are no plans for any disc release (at least for now).

[Xyxophas]

I hope there will be no region block.

This press release refers to broadcast licenses only. AFAIK, there are no plans for any disc release (at least for now).

Yes, you're right. I meant that some videos on Arte are only available in selected countries. Fortunately, if you have a link to a blocked video, you can download it using the yt-dlp program, which has a built-in feature to bypass regional restrictions on Arte.

[Kanta]

Iconic Santalucía Sevilla Fest 2025: a musical shock in the Andalusian capital
The festival breaks all records, consolidating itself as a great reference of the summer festivals of our country
With performances as outstanding as - and we repeat, diverse - as those of authentic heroes and heroines of our times such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Cypress Hill, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue, Madness, Kaleo, Leiva, Megadeth, Zahara, Parov Stelar, Vitalic or Rigoberta Bandini, it was to be expected.

Source: https://www.ocimagazine.es/iconica-sant ... HzV-pnTIqQ

[Richard-Eastham]

I have put together a short Instagram reel of some of my phone videos from Brussels. I've posted it on my work account.

[Oxygene]

I have put together a short Instagram reel of some of my phone videos from Brussels. I've posted it on my work account.

A really nice reel. It seems from your point of view the show really hit the spot.
Just two little corrections: The tour consisted of twelve dates and the final one was Stuttgart, not Seville.

[Richard-Eastham]

I have put together a short Instagram reel of some of my phone videos from Brussels. I've posted it on my work account.

A really nice reel. It seems from your point of view the show really hit the spot.
Just two little corrections: The tour consisted of twelve dates and the final one was Stuttgart, not Seville.

Thank you! Text now corrected.

I did like the Brussels show a lot, my only real sense of a missed opportunity is that he didn't link the surrounding architecture of the Royal Palace into the show experience. Seville and Venice appeared to be better Integrated.

Also, Zero Gravity Remix and Exit, two tracks I can do without .... otherwise, it was a good night!

[Kanta]

Live report: Jean Michel Jarre – Stuttgart, Schlossplatz 11.07.2025
August 2025
Jean-Michel Jarre is the musician who has accompanied the writer of these lines continuously for almost 50 years. In the second half of the 1970s, a young boy who was not even 15 years old discovered the music of the first albums and was inspired to draw spaceships. I was literally glued to the radio so as not to miss a chance to save his pieces on cassette. Alongside Vangelis, the Frenchman is a pioneer of electronic pop music; the music world would probably be different without him. Jean-Michel Jarre has always embarked on new paths all these years, which no one has ever gone before him, without denying his past. Just if you review the six studio albums of the last ten years, you will find traditionally knitted works, current party electronics and purely avant-garde albums. With this joy of experimenting with music in various directions, he is also musically progressive and fits with his music to STONE PROG, even if he only uses electronic instruments.
Live tours were not so his. To my knowledge, this summer tour 2025 with 12 concerts is only the fourth tour of his almost 50-year artistic career. Mostly they are gigantic individual concert events, with which he regularly inspires for decades. Here he is the only artist to have already cracked five million spectators, his concert in Moscow in 1997 in front of 3.5 million spectators is considered the show with the largest number of concert visitors of all time. In May 2024, Jean-Michel Jarre gave an overwhelming large concert in Bratislava in front of more than 100,000 fans, where he included practically an entire district including the Danube Bridge and houses as a projection screen in his show. This show was streamed free of charge at the time and will now be released on sound carriers in September 2025. Under the impression of this show, which was already overwhelming on the screen, the joy was great to finally be able to marvel at the master again in Stuttgart after 9 years in a big stage show.
The Schlossplatz in Stuttgart welcomes us with pleasant summer weather. Measured by the dimensions described above, we can almost expect a club concert here together with not even 7,000 guests (not sold out), which should fascinate us precisely because of a certain compactness of the square and relative proximity to the master. The support concert of Martin Kohlstedt starts at 6 p.m. and leads to the appearance of the master with often improvised moods. You can see in the music, which resembles the style of Jean-Michel Jarre, how much he worships today's main act.
So far so good. Because in the next abundant hour, the organizer probably wanted to ruin the mood of the visitors. First with a dance inlay as part of the local "Colors Of Dance" festival. Okay. If that has to be, then a positioning in front of the two music acts would have been better, but above all more sensitive. This is now followed by intensive advertising by the sponsors, which ranges from chainsaws to banks and comes loudly and screaming from the boxes and brightly from all video walls. This will bring any concert mood to zero. At least this advertisement will be approx. 15 minutes before the start of the concert. By means of this silence, tension is created again and the fans are prepared for the start of the concert. Jean-Michel Jarre! The One and Only! Without warning, suddenly there is a loud countdown from 10, and the legend walks unspectacularly and simply dressed behind the control units. Finally the time has come!
The following almost 2 hours of concert are among the best and most perfect music shows I have ever seen. Before the concert started, we counted 21 (twenty-one!!!) Speaker systems that are suspended all around the Schlossplatz and provide the best possible sound. In addition to the three large projection surfaces on the left, right and behind Jean-Michel Jarre's workplace, there are another 12 (twelve!) partially column-like projection surfaces, which will later ensure a very spatial effect of the images shown. All this is suddenly brought to life with the beginning of the concert. Goosebumps, because with "Magnetic Fields" in the original version the evening begins. With the modernized "Oxygene 2" he puts on glasses with a camera, so that you can observe on the screens what his fingers are doing. Surprisingly, we find a lot of analog equipment there; they work with keyboards, mixers and controls, less with tablets as in the last last time. In the an-moderation of "Arpegiator", Jean-Michel Jarre breaks a lance for Germany and German music history. He appears on the small catwalk, takes off his glasses and speaks freely (even if it seems strange that German translations are running on the video walls). We do not know a sought-after closeness to the audience, combined with a relaxed appearance, from past concerts. This makes the evening personal, provides a feeling of closeness to this star and brings warmth to the concert despite a sometimes cool electronic music.
This type of presentation takes place several times in the show. Once he breaks a lance for AI. Much in this show is generated by AI. It is not AI as such that is dangerous, but dealing with it can be dangerous if it is used by the wrong people. We see the projections as razor-sharp, rhythmically exactly to the point and full of crazy ideas. Jean-Michel Jarre plays the mega show on stage completely alone - through AI it seems quite conceivable that he also controls the prepared sounds and projections completely alone. Sometimes you see a stage full of framed paintings and moving images, sometimes a stage full of washed-out colors or geometric shapes, supported by laser light. In "Robots Don't Cry", virtual robots dance around on stage. In "Oxygene 4" we discover between dancing virtual legs dressed in shoes on the screens suddenly dancing sneakers in the stage light... These are the feet of the master, as he is dancing behind his keyboards! Some in the audience will not have noticed this at all due to the optical overkill. When implementing this show idea, it must be borne in mind that Jean-Michel Jarre is already on his 80s. Even if he seems to have the genes to age only slowly, and you really don't look at it.
Several old pieces I discover as modern instrumented. I don't know any other pieces. But it is the mixture between old, renewed and new pieces that makes the evening so varied. He has something in store for every generation of his fans. If you listen openly and curiously to the music without the sleg of a generation of his almost 50-year career, it can be stated that we experience a musically very balanced and varied evening. Even for me as a fan of the first hour, a concentration on the old albums and their 1:1 representation on stage would have been boring.
It's hard to summarize the impressions of this great concert. The announcement that the concert has been recorded is gratifying. One can be curious when and in what form these shots will see the light of day. We wish Jean-Michel Jarre continued very good health and tireless mental freshness and creativity. One has the impression that the legend of electronic pop music still has a lot to do. I think we will enjoy the never-tired Frenchman for a long time.
Setlist:
Magnetic Fields
Epica Oxygene
Oxymore
Sex in the Machine
Oxygen 2
Arpegiator
Zoolookology
Equinoxe 7
The Architect
Zero Gravity
Exit
Industrial Revolution
Robots Don't Cry
Herbalizer
Oxygene 19
Équinoxe 4
Brutalism
Oxygen 4
Epica
Stardust
encores:
Rendez-vous
Magnetic Fields 2

Source: https://stone-prog.de/2025/08/03/livere ... 1-07-2025/

[Kanta]

[Kanta]

[Kanta]

Jean-Michel Jarre Special Summer Live Tour 2025
In the world of monumental stage shows, where music intertwines with visual magic, precision and innovation are key. At KVANT Show Production, we've always prided ourselves on our ability to transform concert venues into unforgettable audiovisual experiences. That's why we're filled with immense pride to have stood alongside one of the greatest pioneers of electronic music, Jean-Michel Jarre, and contributed to his groundbreaking Special Summer Live Tour 2025.
KVANT Show Production was a key partner in delivering the monumental laser show for the legendary pioneer of electronic music, Jean-Michel Jarre, during his Special Summer Live Tour 2025.
This extensive European tour, which took place throughout June and July 2025, captivated tens of thousands of fans in prestigious venues across Europe:
13.06.2025 Oslo, Norway
15.06.2025 Helsinki, Finland
17.06.2025 Tallinn, Estonia
20.06.2025 Slupsk, Poland
23.06.2025 Sofia, Bulgaria
26.06.2025 Budapest, Hungary
28.06.2025 Pula, Croatia
01.07.2025 Brussels, Belgium
03.07.2025 Venice, Italy
05.07.2025 Pompeii, Italy
08.07.2025 Seville, Spain
11.07.2025 Stuttgart, Germany
Our team at KVANT Show Production was responsible for the extensive and dynamic laser effects that perfectly complemented Jarre's captivating audiovisual presentation at every concert of the tour.
From famous arenas in the Nordic countries, through historical amphitheatres in Croatia and Italy, to iconic squares in the hearts of European metropolises, we brought our cutting-edge technology and creative approach to create a unique and immersive atmosphere at every stop.
For this tour, we deployed a fleet of our most advanced high-power laser systems, precisely calibrated and programmed to harmonize with every note of Jarre's music.
Specifically, to enhance the already spectacular setup for the Seville concert, we reinforced the show with 1x Architect 1500W, 2x Architect 500W, and 8x Kvant 600W Prestige Beam units. Every beam, every pattern, and every spatial effect was the result of detailed planning and flawless synchronization, creating an astonishing symphony of light and sound.
Our technical solutions enabled us to transform vast concert venues into interactive canvases, where lasers drew abstract landscapes, pulsing tunnels, and shimmering arcs that enveloped the audience. It's not just about the power of the beam, but about the intelligent use of space and the emotions that light can evoke.
We believe that a laser show is more than just a visual accompaniment – it's an integral part of the overall artistic expression. On the "Special Summer Live Tour 2025," our lasers weren't just an addition; they were a living element that drew the audience into Jarre's futuristic world.
Their interaction with smoke effects created three-dimensional tunnels and walls that shifted perspective, adding depth to the concert. Spectators were literally immersed in rivers of light that undulated above their heads, creating moments of pure audiovisual magic. The fusion of Jarre's timeless music and our visual production left a deep and unforgettable impression on every attendee.
Thanks to the deployment of our cutting-edge laser systems and the vast experience of our team, we were able to create visually stunning backdrops that elevated every note and every melody to a higher level. We're incredibly proud to have been part of such a significant and visually rich tour, which reaffirmed Jean-Michel Jarre's position as an innovator in music and visual production, and once again demonstrated why KVANT Show Production is a leader in the industry.

Source: https://kvantshowproduction.com/pages/j ... uYhId1hbeg

[Kanta]

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[Kanta]

Wololo Sound interviews Jean-Michel Jarre
One of the highlights of this summer was undoubtedly Jean-Michel Jarre's show at Icónica Santalucía Sevilla Fest. The French legend returned to the Andalusian capital more than 30 years after his last performance, and we were fortunate enough to chat with him before his sold-out run in July. Get a closer look into the mind and artistic vision of a true genius thanks to this interview.

[Xyxophas]

September is coming to an end, and there is still no announcement of a concert from Seville on Arte.

[Jote]

sigh