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. 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.
6-541: 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 5 and Rendez-Vous 4 were not included on
12-448: 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
18-479: The beach)', but it was changed at the last moment. A promotional tape contained this title. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday 11 June 1990. AllMusic described the album as "groundbreaking stuff", due to its stylistic differences from his other albums. The album reached Number 14 in the UK charts. En attendant Cousteau is divided into two distinct stylistic halves:
24-461: The event. Songs marked (*) are omitted from the official video release. Waiting for Cousteau En attendant Cousteau ( English title: Waiting for Cousteau ) is the tenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre , released on Disques Dreyfus , licensed to Polydor . The title is a reference to the play Waiting for Godot . Originally, Jarre intended to call it 'Cousteau sur la plage (Cousteau on
30-452: The first three pieces titled "Calypso" and the title track, an ambient piece which was used in the soundtrack of a 1991 documentary entitled " Palawan : Le dernier refuge" by Cousteau and Jarre. However two tracks from that documentary did not appear on the final album. The title track was also played at Jarre's exposition Concert d'images in Paris, 1989. According to a Jarre fan-magazine, it
36-433: Was created via an app on an Atari Mega-ST, on which Jarre programmed 16 starting notes. He apparently got the idea from the book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams . He denied it in a later interview, claiming all notes are actually played by hand, noting however that the track includes some time-stretched samples mixed into the background. Jarre performed the album for about 2.5 million people at
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