Sessions 2000 is an album

Album

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 by Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...

, released on Disques Dreyfus

Disques Dreyfus

Disques Dreyfus is a record label which is currently home to artists such as Klement Julienne. Jean Michel Jarre was part of the label for more than 20 years.Francis Dreyfus founded Disque Dreyfus in 1985...

 and distributed by Sony Music in 2002. It was released in the U.S.

United States

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 in early 2003. It is his eleventh overall studio album

Studio album

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The album was partly created so he could be free from his contract with Sony Music. Therefore it is not so commercially minded. The style is ambient

Ambient music

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, lounge

Lounge music

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, chill-out and jazz

Jazz

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 and the recordings are made from jam session

Jam session

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s. After 2000's Métamorphoses, Jarre somewhat returned to his usual formula with this album, with it consisting of six long, instrumental

Instrumental

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 tracks (like Oxygène

Oxygene

Oxygène is an album of instrumental electronic music composed, produced, and performed by the French composer Jean Michel Jarre. It was first released in France in December 1976, on Disques Dreyfus with license to Polydor. The album's international release was in summer 1977...

), although this time there are short breaks between the tracks, and the track titles are different dates spread over a year (presumably the year 2000, given the album's title), instead of the tracks being indicated as "parts". It is unclear what these particular dates represent. Some synthesizer workstations, most notably the Korg Triton

Korg Triton

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 and the Roland XP-80

Roland XP-80

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, were heavily used. Some of the sounds in this album were used earlier on Interior Music

Interior Music

Interior Music is an album by Jean Michel Jarre, and released in as a special release for Bang & Olufsen in 2001. The album consists of two atmospheric and lengthy tracks; the first track, "Bonjour Hello", is a collage of sounds with voices saying short sentences in French, English and Danish...

released in 2001.

The CD does not come with an actual booklet. The album cover is just printed on cardboard, with the track listing and credits on the back side.

Track listing

1. "January 24" – 5:57
2. "March 23" – 8:02
3. "May 1" – 4:49
4. "June 21" – 6:18
5. "September 14" – 9:30
6. "December 17" – 8:11

External links

• Sessions 2000 at Discogs
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• Sessions 2000 at JarreUK
• Sessions 2000 at Jarrography