The background music of the Central Meteorological Observatory’s weather forecast every night is an electronic version of “The Fishing Boat Sings Evening”

It is a work by the famous French synthesizer master Jean-Michel Jarre

The earliest and most influential light music to the Chinese was neither Richard Clayderman nor James Last, but the famous electronic synthesizer player Jean-Michel ·Yar. If we were to re-judge Jarre based on today's standards and common sense, we would think that he was an electronic musician and an experimental musician. The two concerts he held in Beijing and Shanghai in 1981 actually helped Chinese people accept this kind of music at least 10 years earlier. In the VCD of Jarre's concert in China, we can see that Chinese audiences know very little about his music, electronic synthesizers, or even Western music. During the performance, the announcer will give some written explanations for each piece of music to prevent everyone from not understanding it. In fact, words are superfluous to Jarre's music, but in that era, we were still used to looking for "meaning" or "function" from any piece of music. Even so, people still don’t know how to appreciate Jarre’s weird synth music.

Later, the China Book Import and Export Corporation introduced three cassettes of Jarre, including his most classic album "Oxygen", but after all, this kind of music was too unfamiliar to the Chinese, so it has never been popular. stand up. It was not until the mid-to-late 1980s that the stereo FM program of the Central People's Broadcasting Station began to introduce Yaer's music, and Yaer's tapes began to sell out.

Obviously, in radio programs, Yaer's music was classified as light music. People who heard Yaer's music through radio waves at that time would be surprised: his music has a strong rhythm, strange timbre, and lacks Melody (in fact, the three tapes sold in the Chinese market are already Yaer's most melodic music).

When Yare’s music appeared in China in the early 1980s, it seemed so disharmonious. Jarre came to China to perform as a cultural ambassador because of cultural exchanges between China and France. It was not until many years later that we recognized the value of Jarre's music and his status in the Western music industry. But after all, he is not well-known to most Chinese people. We may be familiar with the opening melodies or background music of some TV programs, but we do not know that these melodies were written by Jean-Michel, the first Western pop musician to come to China after the reform and opening up. ·Hand of Yael. ”