Morocco - Water For Life - 2006


To put the spotlight on one of the planet’s crucial issues, the protection of clean drinking water, Jean Michel Jarre conceived and performed the concert "Water for Life" as part of UNESCO's campaign to increase awareness of this problem.

 

The concert was commissioned by the Kingdom of Morocco and took place on December 16, 2006 in the Moroccan desert near the city of Merzouga.

 

Jarre invited the best of Moroccan musicians and singers to join him on-stage with special musical arrangements of his work to include their talent.

 

Jarre imagined giant-doors to stand in the dessert around the stage upon which he deployed lavish lights and images to accompany the main them of Water…quite surrealist in such a barren, but most enchanting environment.


Track list:

1. Intro Saturée

2. Suite For Flute

3. Oxygene 2

4. Miss Moon

5. Oxygene 7

6. Space Of Freedom [March 23]

7. Chronologie 6

8. Millions Of Stars

9. Oxygene 4

10. Education [Revolution, Revolutions]

11. Gagarin

12. Light My Sky

13. Oxygene 12

14. Chronologie 2

15. C’est La Vie

16. Theremin Memories

17. Souvenir Of China

18. Unesco Theme [Eldorado]

19. Fourth Rendez-Vous

20. Second Rendez-Vous

 

Musicians:

Jean Michel Jarre

Francis Rimbert

Claude Samard

 

Local musicians:

Abdellah El Miry

Ahmed Alaoui

Alizées Choir

B’net from Marrakesh

Casablanca Orchestra of Arabic Modern Music

Charaf and Dansers

Gnawa Maaster Hamid Elikasri and his Band

Hadji Younes

Morocco Philharmonic Orchestra

Saida Charaf

 

Date and Place:

16. december 2006 - Merzouga, Morocco

 

Estimated Audience:

20.000


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