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The Twelve Dreams Of The Sun was a concert held by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt starting on December 31, 1999 and carrying overnight to January 1, 2000. It was attended by 120,000 people. The concert consisted of two parts, the Main Concert and a Sunrise Concert. The concert cost approximately $9,500,000 and it originated when Jean-Michel Jarre was contacted by the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak with a special project to celebrate the dawn of the new Millennium at the foot of the only remaining monument of the original 7 Wonders of the World - the Great Pyramids.
Jarre's team had developed giant projections to be displayed on the faces of the Great Pyramids, however a heavy cloud of fog made the pyramids almost invisible, so most of the projections were discarded. Photographs of the projections exist from the rehearsal.
SETLIST
The Main Concert
The Legend
Bells
Je Me Souviens
Dream 1: The Rock
Miss Moon
Oxygene 2
Dream 2: The House
Chronologie 6
Dream 3: The Tree
Equinoxe 7
Magnetic Fields 2
Dream 4: The Boat
Millions of Stars
Dream 5: The Flesh
Souvenir of China
Oxygene 10
Dream 6: The Voice
Oum Kalsoum tribute
Dream 7: The Sky
Hey Gagarin
Gloria Lonely Boy (Orchestral Version)
Millennium Countdown
C'est La Vie
Salma Ya Salama
Dream 9: The Bell
Equinoxe 4
Dream 10: The Snow
Oxygene 4
Tout est Bleu
Dream 11: The Blood
Evolutions (Revolutions)
Oxygene 12
Dream 12: The Gate
Give Me A Sign
Oxygene 8
Band in the Rain
Rendez-vous 2
The Sunrise Concert
Ethnicolor
Oxygene 7
C'est La Vie
The Sun
Hey Gagarin
Eldorado
The Musicians
Jean Michel Jarre - Keyboards, Laser Harp, Vocals
Gary Wallis - Drums & Percussions
Francis Rimbert - Keyboards
Joachim Garraud - Sound design, Keyboards
Christopher Papendieck - Bass
Natacha Atlas - Vocals on 'C'est La Vie'
Laurie Anderson - Vocals on 'Je Me Souviens' and Dream introductions
Amal Maher - Vocals
Yvan Cassar - Symphonic Orchestra Musical Arrangements
Sacha Séméria - Sound Designer
Frédéric Sanchez - Sound Illustrator
Cairo Opera Symphonic Orchestra - Conducted by Dr. Moustafa Nagui
Cairo Opera House Choir - conducted by Aldo Magnato
National Arabic Ensemble - conducted by Nasredine Dalil
National Folkloric Music Troupe
El Nil Folkloric Music Troupe
Aswan Folkloric Music Troupe
OFFICIAL RELEASES:
The main concert was broadcast live on TV stations around the world. A 60 minute edit was then produced for broadcast. The sunrise concert was not broadcast live, however the tracks ‘The Sun’ and ‘Eldorado’ were included in the 60 minute edit. High quality camcorder audience footage exists of the full sunrise concert.
All of these versions of the concert are available on YouTube. No official video release of the concert took place due to Jarre’s displeasure with the quality of the recording.
This concert was also broadcast on M6, BBC, CESKA TV.
Total playtime approx. 60 minutes