Jean-Michel Jarre Comes to DVD-Audio

Aero’, Jean-Michel Jarre’s latest album, will be released as a DVD-Audio disc on 21st September, according to the official Jean-Michel Jarre web site.

Aero’ is a greatest hits album, but also includes four previously unreleased compositions. Rather than re-mixing old recordings for surround, all the tracks have been re-recorded by Jean-Michel, Francis Rimbert and Patrick Pelamourgues to take full advantage of DVD-Audio’s potential, the surround mix being created by Joachim Garraud.

The album will be released on East West records, a Warner imprint, and preliminary details indicate that it will include 3/2.1 surround mixes in Dolby Digital and DTS form for DVD-Video players, and 96kHz 24-bit PCM for DVD-Audio machines.

While the CD and DVD-Audio track lists are identical, the DVD-Audio version will include “scenes”, small interludes between tracks, created by Joachim Garraud at Square Productions, Paris, back in August 2003.

Track List:

  1. Aero Opening – Scene 1
  2. Oxygene 2 – Scene 2
  3. Aero – Scene 3
  4. Equinoxe 8
  5. Oxygene 4 – Scene 4
  6. Souvenir of China – Scene 5
  7. Aerology – Scene 6
  8. Equinoxe 3 – Scene 7
  9. Equinoxe 4 – Scene 8
  10. Last Rendez-Vous – Scene 9
  11. Zoolookologie – Scene 10
  12. Aerozone – Scene 11
  13. Magnetic Fields 1 – Scene 12
  14. Chronologie 6
  15. Rendez-Vous 4