Téo & Téa

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Téo & Téa
Téo & Téa cover
Studio album by Jean Michel Jarre
Released March 26, 2007
Recorded 2006
Genre Electronic, dance
Label Warner Music
Producer Jean Michel Jarre
Professional reviews
Jean Michel Jarre chronology
Sublime Mix
(2006)		 Téo & Téa
(2007)		 Oxygene: New Master Recording
(2007)

Téo & Téa is an album by French composer and artist Jean Michel Jarre, published by Warner Music in late March 2007. The album tells the story, in musical form, of one day in the life of fictional cartoon characters Téo and Téa, two lookalike creatures who meet, fall in love and spend one day together.[1]

The album was launched, in physical form, as a CD bundled with a DVD and also as a CD-only edition. The DVD features the same tracks mixed for 5.1 sound, and the videoclip for the title track in high-definition, viewable on personal computers. The album was released in the US three weeks later, on April 16, 2007.

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[edit] Chart positions

Chart (2007) Peak
position
French Albums Chart 8
Swiss Album Chart 45
UK Album Chart 103

[edit] Pre-launch campaign

The launch marketing campaign of Téo & Téa started in January 2007, two months prior to the album launch, with two video teasers on YouTube (Téo and Téa), a CD-single for clubs and radio stations, pages on MySpace, t-shirts featuring three different motifs on Spreadshirt, and a DVD-single released to clubs and TV stations. In all these cases the name of Jean Michel Jarre was not mentioned or associated with the music. A promotional CD-audio of the album was released to the press in February 2007, this time mentioning Jarre's name. On March 20, 2007, an official companion website was launched.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Fresh News" – 2:44
  2. "Téo & Téa" – 3:29
  3. "Beautiful Agony" – 4:40
  4. "Touch to Remember" – 6:09
  5. "Ok, Do It Fast" – 3:25
  6. "Partners in Crime 1" – 3:38
  7. "Partners in Crime 2" – 3:35
  8. "Chatterbox" – 2:16
  9. "In the Mood for You" – 4:20
  10. "Gossip" – 2:11
  11. "Vintage" – 3:06
  12. "Melancholic Rodeo" – 3:51
  13. "Téo & Téa - 4:00 AM" – 7:06

[edit] Special editions

A promotional CD-single, including the track "Téo & Téa", and a promotional DVD-single including the videoclip for the same track, were released to clubs and radio stations in February 2007, without reference to composer or artist. A promotional CD-audio of the album was released to the press in February 2007.

The iTunes release of the album includes some exclusive bonuses: the videos "Making of (English)" -8:35 and "Making of (French)" - 11:30; pre-orders also included the tracks "Téo & Téa - 6:00 AM Special" and "Jean Michel Jarre's Track-by-Track Commentary" (English and French versions).

French hypermarket chain Carrefour included an exclusive 32-page booklet with the album.

[edit] Singles

Two singles have been released, the first, "Téo & Téa", as a promotional for clubs and radio stations in February 2007 and then in a general release. The second, "Vintage", was released in digital download format only, on July 2007, including two remixes by ATB.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Attribution of preset patches

Téo & Téa features patches of drum patterns found on the Roland MC-808, a groovebox.[3] Starting from June 19th of 2007, there was a debate amongst fans at several internet forums regarding Jarre's participation in creating them, or that he might have copied them in the album with too much ease [4] [5]. Usage of these patterns is not illegal, as expressed in the user manual on page 13.

Jarre's management Aero Productions responded on the matter on June 28th with a statement to the administrator of the Jarre's "official" web forum, who posted the following message on: [6]

"Jean Michel Jarre explained that he entered into a partnership with Roland Japan last year, to collaborate with and contribute to demos, patterns and presets for their future products. Jean Michel Jarre explained that the Roland MC808 was one of these products, therefore it is not surprising that certain elements of his new TÉO & TÉA album appear on the Roland MC-808, or any other recent Roland product for that matter."

It should be noted that the original statement from Jarre and Aero Productions has not been made public, nor has it been explicitly stated that Jarre is the sole creator of the patterns.

Jarre was credited with a patch on another model of Roland that was released in the same year, the Roland SH-201 [7], but Jarre's name does not appear on Rolands list of patch creators for the MC-808 [8], Tim Hüfken (credited as "artistic collaborator" in "Téo & Téa"'s booklet) appears instead.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Warner Music press release
  2. ^ Téo & Téa CD booklet
  3. ^ Roland MC-808's drum patterns and sequences found on Téo & Téa
  4. ^ jarreforum.com
  5. ^ BlaBlahCafe forum of Zoolook.nl
  6. ^ jarreforum.com Admin message 28-Jun-2007
  7. ^ Roland december 2006 pressrelease
  8. ^ MC-808 betatest

[edit] External links

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Jean-Michel Jarre
Albums
Deserted Palace (1972) · Les Granges Brûlées (1973) · Oxygène (1976 in France, 1977 worldwide) · Equinoxe (1978) · Magnetic Fields (Les Chants Magnétiques) (1981) · Music for Supermarkets (Musique pour Supermarchés) (1983) · Zoolook (1984) · Rendez-Vous (1986) · Revolutions (1988) · Waiting for Cousteau (En attendant Cousteau) (1990) · Chronologie (1993) · Oxygene 7–13 (1997) · Metamorphoses (2000) · Interior Music (2001) · Sessions 2000 (2002) · Geometry of Love (2003) · Téo & Téa (2007) · Oxygene: New Master Recording (2007)
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