Nikola Karabatic tells "Fourth Rendez-vous" by Jean-Michel Jarre
He is a legend of tricolor sport, the best player in the history of French handball. At 40, he has already won 4 medals at the Olympics, including 3 in gold. At the microphone of Frédéric Pommier, Nikola Karabatik evokes "Fourth Rendez-vous" by Jean-Michel Jarre, a piece that he associates with his father's memory.
Nikola Karabatic: "It's important to me because it corresponds to, I think, my first musical memory as a child. I think I must have been around 4 years old maybe. It's a musical memory linked to sport, to my sport, handball, and to my dad who was my idol. So the memory corresponds to when my father came from the former Yugoslavia to France, to Strasbourg. He played for ASL Robertsau, which was a club from Strasbourg. And when he entered the field, the club did a show with the lights off, a big sheet where he projected photos of the players. And it was to this music that he entered the field. It's stayed with me since childhood, this music, as soon as I listen to it again, I have a whole bunch of emotions that come up."
Re: Rendez-vous
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:42 pm
by melo
A few months ago, there were complaints from fans reporting that RV-2, from the album Rendez Vous, had disappeared from music platforms (Deezer, Spotify, Apple Store, Amazon Music, etc)...
Now the full album has disappeared without any reason... What's going on? It's one of the artist's most popular albums!!!
Re: Rendez-vous
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 1:59 pm
by shadow
Checked Deezer and it's gone there as well and on Qobuz you can't purchase it either anymore. Odd situation that the album has been removed. It was a ghastly remaster, so not much of value was lost anyway, but that's besides the point.
Re: Rendez-vous
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 12:01 pm
by Jote
Maybe Simon Jensen flagged it as copyright infringement :>
Re: Rendez-vous
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 3:49 pm
by Robi83
Or he has recently discovered the weak remaster of Perreau and it gets a new remaster...
Re: Rendez-vous
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 6:13 pm
by Adam
Also First Rendezvous and Fourth Rendezvous have gone from Planet Jarre
Re: Rendez-vous
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 11:47 pm
by shadow
Still up on Deezer and Qobuz, so unsure what's going on there.
Robi83 wrote: Wed Sep 25, 2024 3:49 pm
Or he has recently discovered the weak remaster of Perreau and it gets a new remaster...
Can you imagine this actually being the case? They messed up the remaster, redid the remaster only for doing it a third time. Honestly, they'd deserve an awards for this incompetence
Re: Rendez-vous
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:57 pm
by Finaero
While it would be a nice effort, the badly-remastered Planet Jarre LPs/CDs and cassettes are still out there
Re: Rendez-vous
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 12:50 am
by jhstewart1970
Rendez-vous is one of my favorite albums. I am also wondering why it is not longer available on Apple Music.
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 8:05 pm
by plate of chips
Feffeli wrote: Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:06 pm
While Equinoxe was the creation and growth of Earth, Rendez-Vous is the creation and development of the Universe itself.
In part one, the universe fades into existence out of darkness, becoming a warm glow that slowly forms into the first star...
Part two is more stars forming, surging around as if in a great ocean, forming whirlpools and flows, the galaxies, nebulae, and so on.
Part three is the silence between the stars, sad yet beautiful.
Part four is when life begins to emerge.
Part five is the rapid expansion phase of space travel. It starts out with a few ships dancing lazy circles around the planets of their home system, then lonely wanderings between the stars, and then when life of different planets meets and shares their resources, things take off!
Part six is... It's a lament. In this new universe, will we ever truly be able to return to our roots?
This is wonderful.
Also how JMJ named them First Rendezvous Second Rendevous Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Rendevous is so evocative.
JMJ changing the naming from Oxy, Equi, MagF titles just this simple change in Rendevous.
Re: Rendez-vous
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:40 pm
by Robi83
The youtube-er says "....covering the 8th - and 1986 - studio album by electronic musician".....so you can really guess it will be this very album.
What a lovely story 
