Jean Michel Jarre and Danish hi-fi company Bang & Olufsen signed a deal back in 2000 for Jean Michel Jarre to promote products in the B&O range (more background information about this agreement to follow on here).

One of the spin-offs of this agreement is that a 40 second commercial for BeoSound 1 (one of B&O's many products) uses a Jarre soundtrack made up of several compositions. The most exciting thing about this advert is that one of the pieces is previosuly unreleased, entitled Crazy Saturday, composed during the recording of Metamorphoses in 1999. This is a track which both Jean Michel Jarre and Joachim Garraud (producer of Metamorphoses) originally wanted to feature on the album, but decided the style of the track would not fit in very well, therefore it was not included.

The advert itself was produced by Square Prod (who Joachim Garraud works for) and with Joachim personally working on this project. The advert has mainly been shown in cinemas for the past few months and Square Prod worked on a Dolby Surround version of the soundtrack. Other tracks to feature include Je Me Souviens, C'est la Vie, Miss Moon and Millions of Stars.

Want to see and listen to the advert for yourself? Then you can right now ;-)

To view the advert in it's pre-production stage, view the advert on the Square Prod website (please note for this page to work it is essential that you have the Quicktime plug-in installed on your browser - else download the plug-in here).

To view the fully produced advert, the B&O website offers the advert in three different resolutions in mpg format, low res, medium res, and high res (hi-res version is a whopping 16.5Mb, but worth it!)

Enjoy listening to the excerpt of Crazy Saturday, a shame it is only around 10 seconds and not the complete track. Still it is better than nothing at all... ;-)

Special thanks to Joachim Garraud for his help and clarification.