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Musique pour Supermarché
1983 studio album by Jean-Michel Jarre From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Musique pour Supermarché (English title: Music for Supermarkets) is the sixth studio album by electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre. Only a single vinyl copy was ever pressed. It was sold at an auction, where its master plates were deliberately destroyed. However, later Jarre albums such as Zoolook (1984) or Rendez-Vous (1986) sample/reuse several parts of the album.
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Composition and recording
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In 1983, Jarre was approached to create background music for a supermarket-themed art show Orrimbe, to be held in Paris during June 1983. Jarre recorded the album between February and May.[2] Comparing the album to a painting, "not just a worthless commercial product", he chose to auction it along with other art pieces.[3][4] The auction was held on July 6, 1983, at the Hôtel Drouot auction house in Paris,[5][6] and raised about 69,000 francs (equivalent to 8,960 dollars at the time) for charity.[5][6] Jarre explained this was his protest at the "silly industrialisation of music".[7][8]
In the inside cover, 11 polaroid photos show the step-by-step creation of the disc, leaving one slot so that the final owner could add their photo with the album. The album owner was kept anonymous at first, but later revealed to be real estate dealer M. Gérard.[2][4] Shortly after the auction, Jarre allowed Radio Luxembourg to broadcast the album once, in its entirety, and encouraged listeners to record the broadcast with the words "Piratez-moi!" (Pirate me!).[5] Various parts of this album would be reworked for later Jarre projects such as Zoolook (1984) or Rendez-Vous (1986).[2] A demo version of "Musique pour Supermarché (Part 1)" was included on the 2018 compilation Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music.
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Track listing
All music is composed by Jean-Michel Jarre.
The duration of the tracks is calculated from bootleg recordings, as the album has never officially been released internationally.
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See also
- Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, an album by American hip hop artists Wu-Tang Clan of which only one copy was released
- List of most valuable records
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