Amazônia (album)

Amazônia is the twenty-first studio album by French musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on 9 April 2021 by Columbia Records.[1][2]

Amazônia
Studio album by
Jean-Michel Jarre
Released9 April 2021 (2021-04-09)
Recorded2021
StudioJMJ Studio, Paris
GenreElectronic
Length52:47
LabelSony Music
ProducerJean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre chronology
Radiophonie vol 10
(2020)		 Amazônia
(2021)		 Welcome to the Other Side: Concert from Virtual Notre-Dame
(2021)

Background

The album serves as the 52-minute musical score for the exhibition Amazônia, a project by photographer and filmmaker Sebastião Salgado presented from May to October 2021 in the Paris Philharmonic complex.[3] The exhibition focuses on the Brazilian Amazon, featuring more than 200 photographs and other media by Salgado.

As well as a standard stereo version released on CD and LP, a binaural version and a 5.1 surround sound version were made available.

Jarre made use of recordings made among various Indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest by Gustav Verswijver, Daniel Schoepf, Franz Treichler, Bernd Brabec de Mori, Louis Fernandez, George Love, René Fuerst, Xavier Bellenger, Denis Vanzetto, Jean-Michel Beaudet, Hervé Rivière, Philippe Luzuy, Simone Dreyfus-Roche, Matthias Lewy, Pierre Salivas.

A remark in the CD booklet/on the LP cover states that a part of the royalties will be returned to the Indigenous communities where the recordings were made. It is however unclear how this will be achieved.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jean-Michel Jarre.

Amazônia track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Amazônia Part 1"7:42
2."Amazônia Part 2"9:59
3."Amazônia Part 3"8:10
4."Amazônia Part 4"3:16
5."Amazônia Part 5"6:04
6."Amazônia Part 6"3:33
7."Amazônia Part 7"4:18
8."Amazônia Part 8"3:19
9."Amazônia Part 9"6:23
Total length:52:47

Personnel
  • Jean-Michel Jarre – composition, production, mixing
  • Patrick Pelamourgues – technical assistance
  • David Perreau – mastering
  • Sebastião Salgado – Amazônia photographs
  • Gong Li – Jean-Michel Jarre portrait
  • Renato Amoroso – Sebastião Salgado portrait
  • Eric BDFCK Cornic – graphic design

Charts
Chart performance for Amazônia
Chart (2021) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[4] 13
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[5] 23
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[6] 6
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[7] 24
French Albums (SNEP)[8] 34
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[9] 5
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[10] 30
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[11] 6
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[12] 7
Scottish Albums (OCC)[13] 4
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[14] 23
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[15] 4
UK Albums (OCC)[16] 21

References
  1. "Jean-Michel Jarre | Official Home". Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  2. "JEAN-MICHEL JARRE CREATES SOUNDTRACK FOR 'AMAZÔNIA,' AN IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION BY SEBASTIÃO SALGADO". Pressparty. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  3. "Salgado Amazônia | Philharmonie de Paris". philharmoniedeparis.fr. Retrieved 15 June 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Austriancharts.at – Jean-Michel Jarre – Amazônia" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  5. "Ultratop.be – Jean-Michel Jarre – Amazônia" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  6. "Ultratop.be – Jean-Michel Jarre – Amazônia" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  7. "Dutchcharts.nl – Jean-Michel Jarre – Amazônia" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  8. "Top Albums (Week 15, 2021)" (in French). SNEP. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  9. "Offiziellecharts.de – Jean-Michel Jarre – Amazônia" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  10. "Album Top 40 slágerlista – 2021. 17. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  11. "Oficjalna lista sprzedaży :: OLiS - Official Retail Sales Chart". OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  12. "Portuguesecharts.com – Jean-Michel Jarre – Amazônia". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  13. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  14. "Spanishcharts.com – Jean-Michel Jarre – Amazônia". Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  15. "Swisscharts.com – Jean-Michel Jarre – Amazônia". Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  16. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
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