I heard this for the first time in the late 80's when I was about that age as well, eleven. Loved it and almost all of his music then. Especially the docklands concert that was on repeat on the VCR.
JMJ thank you for so much good music you gave to us without reward. May you live a long long healthy life full of happiness. This one in particular touches my soul and makes me feel like heaven.
Without reward, other than all the money from perpetual record sales and concerts of course. I think the old chap was suitably recompensed for his efforts.
Un morceau GENIAL mêlant musique traditionnelle chinoise et version personnelle de JMJ qui se marient à la perfection. Osmose, beauté et magie. On est embarqués sans violence et tellement zen après. Hyper émouvant. Bravo.
Excellent ! ! ! J'imagine l'étonnement du public chinois...car c'était en 1981 ! Plus de 40 ans ! Cette mélodie est magnifique, elle a marqué son époque...
The same is true for me - absolutely! I was also born in 1970 and I was impressed by JMJ going to China. I learned about his music by my older brother and I still love this music.
I am Jean Michel Jarre fan since 1980, I remember on my first Unitra Uvertura Stereo magnetophone Oxigen and Equinoxe, sounds like brain remedy, and soon after, the 3rd and the best (in my opinion), the great MAGNETIC FIELDS, was the only music for me in that days. Concerts in China was the synthesis of all and plus. Best regards to JMJ and Fans!
Me too; fan since 1987! Zoolook was the album, after hearing that, I bought every album he released out of my pocket money! Although I listen to tons of music thesedays, I always return to Jarre every now and then.
El Guangzou es el instrumento fundamental de esta maravillosa composición. Es una especie de arpa china que se toca apoyada en una mesa con púas metálicas en los dedos. Lo que no sé si el clarinete chino y otros instrumentos están sintetizados, pero por lo que veo en otros youtube videos, no he escuchado una mejor canción orquestal de este instrumento.
Gracias por la información. Un sonido sublime, no es una canción propia de Jean-Michel Jarre, pero hace un homenaje maravilloso a la música popular china.
The scene is also perfect just like the music arrangement. It reminds me to my trip to China in 2011. One of the picts tells about the life in Guilin. Love it
Hermosa melodía oriental. sin conocer que instrumentos son utilizados la sola musica despierta los sentidos y comienzas a imaginarte viajando por el mundo asiático.
Muito lindo. Ouvi há muito tempo atrás. Pensava que era autoria de Jean Michel Jarré, mas é uma muito antiga canção chinesa. E com essa simagens, maravilhoso, maravilhoso, maravilhosas !! De quem seriam as fotos ???
No sólo es una de las mejores composiciones de Jarre fuera de los grandes sintetizadores es que las imágenes que acompañan al tema son apropiadas y estimulantes. Una genialidad.
A Chinese couple performed a version of this at the Southampton Mela on Saturday. It obviously translates slightly differently according to which Chinese dialect is used, as they called Fishing Junks In The Evening, but it was obviously the same piece.
I think this music can be divided into five sections: The fishing boat sets sail, sunsets, storm and waves, tired but safe, and return to sail with a good harvest
I've listened to Jarre, Vangelis , Kitaro, Jon Anderson & Vangelis , Yes with Jon Anderson since I was a child in the early 1970's . I can still hear in my head "The Friends of Mr. Cairo" , Magnetic Fields, Silk Road, Starship troopers and more. I love it all, then and now. And Kraftwerk, one of the original masters. And correct me if I'm wrong, but does not the music around 03:21 sound like it is from the sound track of Ridley Scott's "BladeRunner"? Awesome, simply awesome. :-)
Why do you think they are alike? BladeRunner is after this, nobody is copy a sound track which nobody knows in China at that time. And this is not composed by Jaree, it exists as a traditional group music in before, Jaree makes it electronical.
Que hermosa melodía.. desconozco los instrumentos orientales..pero no se porque motivos me atrae todo lo que guarda relacion con el Oriente...su cultura milenaria , su Arquitectura , sus Pagodas. Y su gente..
dave474c You are probably looking for Souvenir de Chine - Jean Michel Jarre Jean Michel Jarre - Souvenirs De Chine It has the sound of clicking cameras.
It’s funny how two of the most influential electronic composers of our time were absolutely at their peak with China-themed albums. The other, a certain Mr. Vangelis Papathanassiou should need no introductions.
De verdad me gusta la música de Jarre muchas veces tan introspectiva como en esta melodia y tan moderna como en Chronologie 4, es diverso, es supermelodico y aquí nos regala grandes paisajes musicales de la tradición China.
It would be interesting to know how Jarre did THIS. Did Jarre listened one Chinese traditional too much? Or actually he made remix of something? Thats a total blend of 2 worlds -- chinese traditional and synthesizers.
I have always wonder who was the person who played the chinese instrument , gu-chang in this piece. It was exceptionally qdone. It is a great honour if his name is revealed. Any idea of who this person is?
I have the old vynil of "The concerts in China", and in the credits appairs the person who plays the Zither (Guzheng). Mrs. Li Meng plays it as an artistic collaboration with the Peking Conservatoire Symphony Orquestra. I hope that answer could be useful for you. Best later than never...
Grew up loving jmj and i fell in love with this tack in 1981 at only 11 years old.It Still sounds incredible today!!.:).
As did I, can picture it in my mind, having been out there, this sound captures it
I was 12 then…. My heart always goes to JMJ
I heard this for the first time in the late 80's when I was about that age as well, eleven. Loved it and almost all of his music then. Especially the docklands concert that was on repeat on the VCR.
You have real taste in great must❤.
2:35 to 4:20 blows me away every time I listen to it and has done since the early 80's...great stuff!
2:35
just listen it with an Hi-End audiophile system and on LP vinyl..... i've got both and 5 different Concert in China LPs. It's just mesmerizing!
you're so right, mesmeric section
What a bridge of melody
awesome, just like some film soundtrack
i'm listening this in 2021, this is one of the most beautiful pieces i have ever heard! jarre is so ahead of his time
JMJ thank you for so much good music you gave to us without reward. May you live a long long healthy life full of happiness. This one in particular touches my soul and makes me feel like heaven.
Without reward, other than all the money from perpetual record sales and concerts of course. I think the old chap was suitably recompensed for his efforts.
Music u need
Jean Michel jarre will never dies.
These musics will eternal.
Best track of the china concerts.. absolutely love it :)
This is the music toy funeral day ...and then I am in the nxt space... waiting for this holy day! 💐🙏🏻💐
One of my dream songs, almost near the Paradise!
Agreed
Scorpion leader
Absolutely... One of the most beautyful songs I ever hear it !!
instrumental song...
i know I'm quite randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to stream new movies online ?
@Greyson Forrest Flixportal :D
I simply adore this music. God bless Jean Michel Jarre.
Thankful to the first ape who decided to climb down from the tree. Today we can understand the power and beauty of music in a work like this.
what is it about certain tunes you never forget, they stay with you all your life... and i go back to after 40 years!... a total jem......
Un morceau GENIAL mêlant musique traditionnelle chinoise et version personnelle de JMJ qui se marient à la perfection. Osmose, beauté et magie. On est embarqués sans violence et tellement zen après. Hyper émouvant. Bravo.
One of the most beautiful music-pieces ever composed..... thank you for sharing this wit this very beautiful pictures... :-)
I am fan of Jarre since child...1976.
Claudaky ,so do i , my older brother had the lp 's oxegene and eqinoxe.
when he play thise lp 's i always listened .
Using synthesizers and traditional chinese instruments he has perfectly captured the essence of China.
My personal feeling is that this is better than the original (traditional ) version.
Yes he has...but listen to the silk and bamboo orchestra version
Excellent ! ! ! J'imagine l'étonnement du public chinois...car c'était en 1981 ! Plus de 40 ans ! Cette mélodie est magnifique, elle a marqué son époque...
à l'époque, j'étais très "en bas" le fait d'ecouter cette mélodie avec mon walkman m'a remontée le moral
The same is true for me - absolutely! I was also born in 1970 and I was impressed by JMJ going to China. I learned about his music by my older brother and I still love this music.
Muchas gracias por compartir esta bella canción. Quedé fascinado la primera vez que la oí en 1982..
Hermosa melodía !! Yo también la escuche en esa época por influencia de mí hermano mayor
Imagine flying into China for a holiday and this was playing throughout the Arrivals...... It would set you up for your whole holiday!
Best listened to through headphones in a darkened room and let yourself be drawn in ...
Oh balderdash, it's perfect just the way it is; he really captures the spirit of China.
Majestic!!!! Childhood memories right here
This piece, and "Souvenir of China" are defining the whole album - honorable mention: "Arpeggiator"
Eu ouço esse trabalho do Jean Michel Jarre desde de quando foi lançado parece que foi ontem quem é bom nunca perde a essência
I am Jean Michel Jarre fan since 1980, I remember on my first Unitra Uvertura Stereo magnetophone Oxigen and Equinoxe, sounds like brain remedy, and soon after, the 3rd and the best (in my opinion), the great MAGNETIC FIELDS, was the only music for me in that days. Concerts in China was the synthesis of all and plus. Best regards to JMJ and Fans!
Listened to this all night though Jarre Fan since 1987.
I have always been in love with this music ❤
This song went through my mind for a whole 2 weeks when I went to China the first time, 11 years ago!
Que suerte ..Poder viajar a China, estuve en Cambodia y Tailandia, siempre me ha gustado lo oriental...su cultura y su gente..
I love this tune it’s so beautiful and unique.
Perhaps my fave Jarre composition of all time
Me too; fan since 1987! Zoolook was the album, after hearing that, I bought every album he released out of my pocket money! Although I listen to tons of music thesedays, I always return to Jarre every now and then.
Merci pour l'audio j'adore
simply beautiful music. I love it
I love the entire track,,but at 3.10 it takes me to music heaven..❤
El Guangzou es el instrumento fundamental de esta maravillosa composición. Es una especie de arpa china que se toca apoyada en una mesa con púas metálicas en los dedos. Lo que no sé si el clarinete chino y otros instrumentos están sintetizados, pero por lo que veo en otros youtube videos, no he escuchado una mejor canción orquestal de este instrumento.
Jarré tiene varias piezas basadas en sus vivencias en China y respetan mucho el espíritu chino en gral.
Gracias por la información. Un sonido sublime, no es una canción propia de Jean-Michel Jarre, pero hace un homenaje maravilloso a la música popular china.
Great music, I had been a Jarre fan since 1986
The scene is also perfect just like the music arrangement. It reminds me to my trip to China in 2011. One of the picts tells about the life in Guilin. Love it
Jeez, what can I say after all those comments... Ever so humble, I admire the last 3 thousends of Chinese music amplified with the JMCG electronics.
i just love this song!!!
i remember hearing it in the vhs of my baptism!!!!
Hermosa melodía oriental. sin conocer que instrumentos son utilizados la sola musica despierta los sentidos y comienzas a imaginarte viajando por el mundo asiático.
Beautiful ur work. Thanks from Chile.
I have always loved this since I very first heard it way back then lol
Love it so much jmj for it thank so much jmj
mon 1er 33 tours : equinoxe, JMJ est le maitre de la musique électronique, il a inventé la musique électronique, merci jean michel !!!!!!
( 3:09 - 4:17 ) That part deserves to be the future anthem of China.
Muito lindo. Ouvi há muito tempo atrás. Pensava que era autoria de Jean Michel Jarré, mas é uma muito antiga canção chinesa. E com essa simagens, maravilhoso, maravilhoso, maravilhosas !! De quem seriam as fotos ???
Synths parts, the best of Jarre's.
No sólo es una de las mejores composiciones de Jarre fuera de los grandes sintetizadores es que las imágenes que acompañan al tema son apropiadas y estimulantes. Una genialidad.
A Chinese couple performed a version of this at the Southampton Mela on Saturday. It obviously translates slightly differently according to which Chinese dialect is used, as they called Fishing Junks In The Evening, but it was obviously the same piece.
I wish I had been there !!!
is an awesome song!!
beautiful video, congratulations...
5/5 and fav...
i remember this song because it was the soundtrack of a videocassette in which my baptism was recorded!!!!
Good taste they had!
Love this song ... reminds me a lot of Tomita in the parts with the big orch sounds. Great.
Maravillosa melodía china , saludos...
I think this music can be divided into five sections:
The fishing boat sets sail, sunsets, storm and waves, tired but safe, and return to sail with a good harvest
6:06 - 7:15 W-O-W ! ! !
So so good u feel it when happens.
Thank you very much for posting :)
I've listened to Jarre, Vangelis , Kitaro, Jon Anderson & Vangelis , Yes with Jon Anderson since I was a child in the early 1970's . I can still hear in my head "The Friends of Mr. Cairo" , Magnetic Fields, Silk Road, Starship troopers and more. I love it all, then and now. And Kraftwerk, one of the original masters.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but does not the music around 03:21 sound like it is from the sound track of Ridley Scott's "BladeRunner"? Awesome, simply awesome. :-)
Studio dub ?
Why do you think they are alike? BladeRunner is after this, nobody is copy a sound track which nobody knows in China at that time. And this is not composed by Jaree, it exists as a traditional group music in before, Jaree makes it electronical.
Que hermosa melodía.. desconozco los instrumentos orientales..pero no se porque motivos me atrae todo lo que guarda relacion con el Oriente...su cultura milenaria , su Arquitectura , sus Pagodas. Y su gente..
pfffff ! que dire ? ç'est magnifique !
Una canción tradicional china con toques de Jean Michel Jarre
En serio??? me interesa mucho esa información. Podría saber qué obra es la original para buscarla? gracias!!
Claudaky Si Claudaky, esta cancion es una interpretacion de una melodia tradicional. Te paso un enlace: es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concerts_in_China
Claudaky En el enlace viene toda la informacion. Espero que le sea util y a mi me encanta esta melodia. Un saludo
Gracias!!!
je l'adore cette musique
Love this song from 1987
Lo más bello de música ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ un Gran Genio del teclado mi Jean Michel Jarre lo más extraoidinario
Wunderbar !
dave474c You are probably looking for Souvenir de Chine - Jean Michel Jarre Jean Michel Jarre - Souvenirs De Chine It has the sound of clicking cameras.
It’s funny how two of the most influential electronic composers of our time were absolutely at their peak with China-themed albums. The other, a certain Mr. Vangelis Papathanassiou should need no introductions.
goosebumps !!
Que Musica Tan Preciosa !!!
De verdad me gusta la música de Jarre muchas veces tan introspectiva como en esta melodia y tan moderna como en Chronologie 4, es diverso, es supermelodico y aquí nos regala grandes paisajes musicales de la tradición China.
i love it very much
i like j.m music he is realy a legend
Esta si que es música hermosa hoy día se escucha pura basura la lacra del reggeteon daña a mis oídos
Deacuerdo contigo
pescando junkos al atardecer.......tema acompañado de la filarmonica de shangai, una melodia tradicional china. bravissimo.
Juncos de pesca al atardecer/Juncos pescando con la puesta de sol/Juncos que pescan al ocaso del sol (ó del día). Cualquiera de éstas tres es válida.
Se refiere a los juncos, embarcaciones tradicionales de china. Por lo que la traducción sería Juncos pescando al atardecer.
Majestic.
min 2:33 is when magic starts.
Concert in China!! Wwwwuuuuauuu!!!
I m inspiring in my asian part of soul...💥😍💥
Top notch!
Que hermosa melodía de la Gran cultura China país milenario cultura total ❤❤❤😅🎉🎉😢😅😊
Juncos pescando al atardecer, los juncos son embarcaciónes tradicionales de china. Por cierto muy buena adaptación de éste tema por parte de Jarre.
Son extractos de varias piezas musicales y al unirlas pareciera ser la misma
where are we now with the sequel?
Se escucha demasiado bien para los años en que fue subido
Cool. Thanks. :)
Many of those photo in the video were taken from Hong Kong.
master Jarre
AH tranquillity. ...
非常美麗的音樂
love him since I was young, 80ties, what is young, in eternity, gods? goddesses? ✨️🎏🕎
Did not the Chinese State broadcaster adopt this as their equivalent of BBC's 'Sailing By' soon afterwards?
In a form of a national call signal?
Chicken or egg?? Much of this melody was already centuries old and very much a a Chinese product
Does anyone know or have a link to the Chinese junks at sunset track that has the sound of clicking cameras on it?
@pikuci right from the heart!!!!!! Me too!
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非常好
Sorry typo or age error Sunset not dawn..
Unitra... that was professional equipment at home!
It would be interesting to know how Jarre did THIS. Did Jarre listened one Chinese traditional too much? Or actually he made remix of something? Thats a total blend of 2 worlds -- chinese traditional and synthesizers.
I heard the Chinese version played on a little instrument by a student in China and it does sound the same...and better !!!
dave 474x...might you mean Souvenir of China?
naw wait for it ......The Arpegiator
Tuna Chunks at sunset.
I have always wonder who was the person who played the chinese instrument , gu-chang in this piece. It was exceptionally qdone. It is a great honour if his name is revealed. Any idea of who this person is?
danny lim what's it called? a gu-chang? It sounds similar to a koto.
+tall32guy Koto is Japanese. It should be a guzheng. Basically Guzheng is the origin of Koto.
Kyoko Yonemoto. maybe
I have the old vynil of "The concerts in China", and in the credits appairs the person who plays the Zither (Guzheng). Mrs. Li Meng plays it as an artistic collaboration with the Peking Conservatoire Symphony Orquestra. I hope that answer could be useful for you. Best later than never...
thank you x always late than never is good.
Chanson très pure..
When Mao died, and Deng Xiaoping got to power, this came to be(j)ing.
This would be *impossible* under Xi Kingpin.