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Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:22 am**

The French TV archive. [edit] Just bought the hi-res version, it's mono in the hi-res version too.

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:37 am**

Nice find. Short but sweet

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:24 pm**

I got the one from the end titles too:

http://www.vdgeest.net/jarre/mp3/sport_en_fete_long.mp3

I was checking the end titles if someone is credited for the music, but no-one is.

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:10 pm**

Thanxs very muchly for the links.

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:07 pm**

Dr_Jones wrote:I got the one from the end titles too:

http://www.vdgeest.net/jarre/mp3/sport_en_fete_long.mp3

I was checking the end titles if someone is credited for the music, but no-one is.

So cool this find

!
It must be Jarre, definitely Deserted Palace style

I hope you can find the other commercials as well (Nestlé, Pepsi, Autoroute A4)!
but I also read somewhere he composed music for the International Festival of Magic (a warmup track of 15 minutes).
Anyone knows more?

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:51 am**

I always thought the Festival of Magic theme was Hypnose, but that's not 15 minutes.

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:44 am**

Dr_Jones wrote:I always thought the Festival of Magic theme was Hypnose, but that's not 15 minutes.

I seem to recall that this instrumental track was released under the name of Webb.. don't shoot me if it's not tho

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:56 pm**

GeeJee wrote:I seem to recall that this instrumental track was released under the name of Webb.. don't shoot me if it's not tho

Dominique Webb was the vocalist on the A-Side of the single.
The B-Side was the instrumental version. The release was credited to both JMJ and Dominique Webb.

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:37 pm**

Pat Gleeson wrote:
GeeJee wrote:I seem to recall that this instrumental track was released under the name of Webb.. don't shoot me if it's not tho
Dominique Webb was the vocalist on the A-Side of the single.
The B-Side was the instrumental version. The release was credited to both JMJ and Dominique Webb.

There's also a longer version of the B-side, which was as far as I'm aware, released under D. Webb's own name.

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:08 pm**

I only could find one vinyl release from Dominique Webb:
The LP "La Psychosomnie, Methode Contre l'Insomnie" (1970)

It only has 2 long tracks : La Psychosomnie (La Relaxation) / Other side : Méthode contre l'Insomnie.
At this website you can here a preview: http://www.frenchattack.com/weird3.html
interestingly, this site also states:
the background electronic music is one of the first work by famous french musician JEAN MICHEL JARRE.

Could this really be an unknown work from him

??

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:04 pm**

GeeJee wrote: There's also a longer version of the B-side, which was as far as I'm aware, released under D. Webb's own name.

Interesting I didn't know that.

This is the only one I knew about

http://www.jarre.ch/Discography.htm

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:20 pm**

Oh by the way: I just checked the Radio Walhalla interview: Jarre is not telling he will write music for airports, he is just praising the attitude of Brian Eno that HE writes that kind of music, and Jarre likes this approach

And Muzac is a pejorative term for songs designed for playing in shopping malls, telephone systems, airports, and television shows, and is also called "elevator music".
Sounds verry much like 'Deserted Palace', 'Music for Supermarkets' and 'Sports en Fete'

So what you can read on some websites: "He also composes music for the airport company Underground Musaks", this is just a BIG misunderstanding

!!.

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:56 am**

Pat1982 wrote:So what you can read on some websites: "He also composes music for the airport company Underground Musaks", this is just a BIG misunderstanding !!.

I rather think it's a translation error.

So he composed 'musak' - but for what company? Underground Air?

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:22 am**

Wikipedia-

In 1968 JMJ began to experiment with tape loops, radios and other electronic devices, and in January 1969 he joined the Groupe de Recherche Musicale (GRM) under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer, the 'father' of musique concrète. Schaeffer taught Jarre that "music isn't made of notes, it's made of sounds", and introduced him to synthesizers, the EMS VCS 3 and the Moog modular synthesizer. In GRM, Jarre was taught to think about music in terms of sounds instead of notes, and this had a huge influence upon him. He also studied foreign musical styles (African, Indian, Chinese and other oriental music) from which he learned a lot.

Here are two tracks by Pierre Schaeffer from the late 50's. I think there's a comparison with Jarre's early works.
Etude aux allures
Etude aux sons animes

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:35 am**

Pat1982 wrote:I only could find one vinyl release from Dominique Webb:
The LP "La Psychosomnie, Methode Contre l'Insomnie" (1970)

It only has 2 long tracks : La Psychosomnie (La Relaxation) / Other side : Méthode contre l'Insomnie.
At this website you can here a preview: http://www.frenchattack.com/weird3.html
interestingly, this site also states:
the background electronic music is one of the first work by famous french musician JEAN MICHEL JARRE.

Could this really be an unknown work from him ??

Wow - this is really hot!!!

Maybe this is Jarre's real first album - not 'Deserted Palace'... Damn, I have no turntable...

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