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Revolutions is the ninth studio album by electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, first released in September 1988. The album reached number 2 in the UK charts, Jarre's best chart position since Oxygène. The Destination Docklands concert in London coincided with the release of the album.
Composition and recording
The album was recorded and mixed at Croissy studio.[5] The song "London Kid" was a collaboration with Shadows guitarist Hank Marvin.[6] The title track contains reworked samples of an unpublished composition by Turk Kudsi Erguner, which Jarre had acquired from ethnologist Xavier Bellenger. Erguner took his case to court and won a modest indemnity.[7] Jarre removed the flute part—the Ney—from new releases of the record and from live performances, the track was later retitled as "Revolution, Revolutions".[citation needed] The title track also featured vocoder by Jarre and Michel Geiss. The track "September" is dedicated to South AfricanANC activist Dulcie September, who was assassinated in Paris on 29 March 1988.[5]
Track listing
1988 vinyl edition
Side one
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Révolution industrielle" (Industrial Revolution)
16:51
2.
"London Kid"
4:27
Side two
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Révolutions" (Revolutions)
4:57
2.
"Tokyo Kid"
5:21
3.
"Computer Weekend (recorded and released in 1987)"
