French subscription channel Match TV will have a few Christmas presents for fans who can receive the channel this Christmas, with two Jean Michel Jarre broadcasts. Of most interest, is the premiere of the Making of Egypt (The Twelve Dreams of the Sun) which will broadcast several times during the end of 2002 and the start of 2003: Monday 30th December 2002 at 22:40 (CET) Friday 3rd January .... [MORE]

Sessions 2000 will be released in the USA on Tuesday 21st January 2003, click here to pre-order the item at amazon.com. [MORE]

The French film, Les Granges Brûlées, will be broadcast on French terrestial channel France 3 tomorrow, Monday 25th November at 20:55 (CET). The film from 1973 is of important significance to fans since Jean Michel Jarre composed a new soundtrack for the film. More details about the broadcast can be found on the France TV Guide. [MORE]

Today's issue of the British newspaper, The Independent, has a small feature (1/4 page) on Sessions 2000 featuring a new photo of Jean Michel Jarre. The article (minus photo) is also online, click here to read it. There is also an advert featured in today's Guardian newspaper for the album (naturally the advert is not featured online). [MORE]

Sessions 2000 has just managed to scrape into the French album charts at position 140, view the latest official French album chart. The album, unsurprisingly, failed to chart in the UK at all. The album was released in Germany on Monday 4th November, click here to buy Sessions 2000 from amazon.de. [MORE]

Following on from our latest post on Wednesday regarding the UK release of Sessions 2000, it has now been brought to our attention from the distributors that the release date will be Monday 28th October - the same date as France, Belgium, Switzerland and Netherlands. The press release we received (click here to read the text - names and contact details removed to protect the guilty) clearly sta .... [MORE]

The new Jean Michel Jarre album, Sessions 2000, will now be released in the UK on Monday 4th November, a delay of one week from the original release date. More information about the UK release can be found here and can be purchased online at amazon.co.uk. A few sites now have 30 second samples of each track from the album, click the links below to get a taste of Sessions 2000: Sessions 2000 .... [MORE]

It has now been confirmed that Jean Michel Jarre's forthcoming studio album, Sessions 2000, will be released and distributed in the UK on Monday 28th October. An independent distributor is responsible for the UK release. Despite many fans stating that this Jean Michel Jarre's last recording for Sony Music, this is simply not the case. Only some localised Sony regions are being used on a distr .... [MORE]

Swedish TV channel SVT2 will repeat their broadcast of Jean Michel Jarre at Bourges on Sunday in their show, Pass, originally shown in May 2002 (click to read our news article from May 2002). Pass - SVT2 - Sunday 13th October - 15:30 (CET) While Dutch TV channel RTL4 will show the Jacques Cousteau documentary, Palawan - Le Dernier Refuge, which features a Jean Michel Jarre soundtrack, includ .... [MORE]

The release of Sessions 2000, the new album of Jean Michel Jarre, has been confirmed for 28 October in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Holland. In these countries, the albums will be distributed by Francis Dreyfus Music and independent distributors, NOT by Sony Music Europe (as this was the case in Holland before, since 1997). It is very likely the album will only be released in these countries .... [MORE]