Amazônia is the twenty-first studio album by French musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on 9 April 2021 by Columbia Records.
Contents
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.
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