℗ 1981 BMG Rights Management (France), division Francis Dreyfus Music
| Released | January 5, 2024 |
| Duration | 36m 00s |
| Record Label | Disques Dreyfus |
| Genre | Electronic (Ambient) |
Les chants magnétiques / Magnetic Fields
Jean-Michel Jarre
Available in MQA and 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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1.1
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Magnetic Fields, Pt. 1
Jean-Michel Jarre |
17:58 | |||
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1.2
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Magnetic Fields, Pt. 2
Jean-Michel Jarre |
3:58 | |||
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1.3
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Magnetic Fields, Pt. 3
Jean-Michel Jarre |
4:10 | |||
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1.4
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Magnetic Fields, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre |
6:25 | |||
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1.5
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Magnetic Fields, Pt. 5
Jean-Michel Jarre |
3:29 |
Les chants magnétiques / Magnetic Fields is the fifth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus on 20 May 1981. The album reached number six in the United Kingdom, number 98 in the United States and number 76 in Australia.
The title of the album is a play on words in the French language. The literal English translation of the French title, "Les Chants Magnétiques", is "Magnetic Songs". However, the French word for 'fields' (champs) is a homophone of the French word for 'songs' (chants), so in French, if the title is spoken out loud, it can be interpreted as either magnetic fields or as magnetic songs. (Les Champs magnétiques was a surrealist book published in 1920.)
The English title, "Magnetic Fields", is a literal translation of "les champs magnétiques" rather than "les chants magnétiques", and the pun in the original French title is lost in translation.
The album is one of the first to use sounds from the Fairlight CMI. Its digital technology allowed Jarre to continue his earlier sonic experimentation in new ways. He also used instruments from the EMS company, among them the Synthi AKS, the VCS 3 and the Vocoder 1000.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Disques Dreyfus Studio Masters
Tracks 1-5 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit; contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-5 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit; contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.74 -0.78 to -0.70 | -13.10 -15.89 to -11.45 | -10.24 -12.50 to -8.60 | 7 6 to 9 | |
| 1 | Magnetic Fields, Pt. 1 | -0.73 | -11.58 | -8.8 | 6 |
| 2 | Magnetic Fields, Pt. 2 | -0.76 | -11.45 | -8.6 | 7 |
| 3 | Magnetic Fields, Pt. 3 | -0.76 | -15.89 | -12.5 | 9 |
| 4 | Magnetic Fields, Pt. 4 | -0.70 | -12.46 | -10.1 | 7 |
| 5 | Magnetic Fields, Pt. 5 | -0.78 | -14.12 | -11.2 | 8 |