Well, I've started to trawl the net for English language reviews from newspapers and magazines.
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Here's the first I've found... from internet magazine 'Barcode':
"There is a lot of debate amongst listeners of electronic music, is analogue better than digital, is digital the future and analogue the stone-age past, what is the value of each and how can they co-exist. Jean Michel Jarre may not offer any solutions, but this CD/DVD re-issue of his groundbreaking 1977 album Oxygene sure gets you thinking.
The original score has been re-recorded and mixed by Jarre himself, and whilst this does little other than act as pure nostalgia, the accompanying DVD is likely to raise more than a few eyebrows. Accompanied by three musicians, Jarre plays the entire album totally live without any tape or hard-disk back up, instead surrounded by reams of analogue keyboards and other bizarre gadgets.
What Jarre is trying to prove is somewhat a mystery, but it’s fascinating nevertheless to watch four guys in a room playing classic analogue instruments live for over 1 hour, whilst the experience goes somewhat to helping you understand the real relevance and influence Jarre’s use of analogue equipment has had on particular genres of modern electronic music, especially ambient, new age and trance genres.
One thing is for sure, this live performance certainly puts paid to those who say true analogue equipment is rendered useless in a live concert setting – their resonant, earthy sound quality and powerful waveform characteristics are particularly enduring in this respect, and the musicians use of them much more akin to ‘real’ musicianship, rather than the tried and trusted convenience of using DAT or backing tapes.
Apart from the technical aspects of the live show and remastering process (the album now available in 5.1 surround), I have to say that the Oxygene album has not aged particularly well, bizarrely, what was once groundbreaking has been reduced to almost novelty status – but watching the live performance is still a thrill-seeking experience and could prove fascinating to those born long after the seventies synthesiser boom.
A bonus limited edition package of Oxygene 30th Anniversary Edition is also available, with 3D glasses no less. You’ll never get this close to Jean Michel Jarre without meeting him in person."
http://www.barcodezine.com/revjeanmiche ... 091107.htm
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