Amazônia (album)

Amazônia is the twenty-first studio album by French musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on 9 April 2021 by Columbia Records.

Background
The album serves as the 52-minute musical score for the exhibition Amazônia, a project by photographer and filmmaker Sebastião Salgado presented from May to October 2021 in the Paris Philharmonic complex. Jarre had access to the Museum of Ethnology in the city of Geneva, Switzerland.

The exhibition focuses on the Brazilian Amazon, featuring more than 200 photographs and other media by Salgado. In this album, a combination of electronic and orchestral instruments was made, natural sounds were also used. As well as a standard stereo version released on CD and LP, a binaural version and a 5.1 surround sound version were made available in digital download.

Some of the revenues will be sent back to the Indigenous communities where the recordings were recorded, according to a statement in the CD booklet or on the LP cover. Yet, it is not yet apparent how this will be accomplished.

Personnel
Adapted from album booklet:
 * Jean-Michel Jarre – production, mixing
 * Patrick Pelamourgues – technical assistance
 * David Perreau – mastering
 * Sebastião Salgado – Amazônia photographs
 * Gong Li – Jean-Michel Jarre portrait
 * Renato Amoroso – Sebastião Salgado portrait
 * Eric BDFCK Cornic – graphic design