Magnetic Fields (album)
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| Studio album by Jean Michel Jarre | ||||
| Released | 22 May 1981 | |||
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| Length | 35:53 | |||
| Label | Disques Dreyfus | |||
| Producer | Jean Michel Jarre | |||
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Magnetic Fields (French title: Les Chants Magnétiques, a play of word of chant, song, and champ, field) is the fifth album by Jean Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus on 22 May 1981.[2] The album was one of the first records to use sampling as a musical element and represents a departure from the sound of Jarre's previous efforts. For this album Jarre was partly inspired by the works of Andy Warhol and a fascination with the reproducibility of digital sound.[citation needed]
The long first track consists of three distinct movements, the slower second movement being heavily laden with sample work.
The album reached #6 in the UK charts and #98 in the U.S. charts.[3]
Album title
The album has official titles in both French and English. The French title, Les Chants Magnétiques is a play on words. Literally translated into English this means "Magnetic Songs"[4] or "Magnetic Singing".[4] Spoken aloud however, it sounds as "Les Champs Magnétiques" (literally: "Magnetic Fields"), due to the French words chants (songs or singing) and champs (fields) being homophones. As this is not the case in English, the more straightforward title "Magnetic Fields" was used in English. In the caption for picture 5 on the album's inner sleeve, the word "champs" in "champs magnétiques" is crossed out and the word "chants" is written above it.
Track listing
- "Magnetic Fields Part 1" – 17:50
- "Magnetic Fields Part 2" – 3:59
- "Magnetic Fields Part 3" – 4:15
- "Magnetic Fields Part 4" – 6:18
- "Magnetic Fields Part 5 (The Last Rhumba)" – 3:30
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References
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r171689
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- ↑ Les Chants Magnetiques (Magnetic Fields)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 1989, The Collins Pocket Reference French Dictionary, William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., ISBN 0-00-433255-5
