Amazônia is the twenty-first studio album by French musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on 9 April 2021 by Columbia Records.
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. Jarre had access to the Museum of Ethnology in the city of Geneva, Switzerland.
The exhibition focuses on the Brazilian Amazon, featuring more than 200 photographs and other media by Salgado. In this album, electronic and orchestral instruments were combined with natural sounds. 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 in digital download.
Some of the revenues will be sent back to the Indigenous communities where the recordings were made, according to a statement in the CD booklet and on the LP cover. It is not yet apparent how this will be accomplished.
Track listing
Personnel Adapted from album booklet: Jean-Michel Jarre – 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) Peakposition French Albums (SNEP) 34
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