Jean-Michel Jarre - Arpegiateur/Arpegiator (State Azure Cover)

Been working on this cover for quite a while and finally finished and recorded this today. I think my performance/video is a little boring (I just played atmospheric parts, strings, ambient pads and the lead), so I added some interesting stock footage that I think worked pretty well with the track.

I tried to keep this cover pretty faithful to the original, keeping the Emulator drums very close and most of the other parts, while adding a few new bits here and there and a fair amount of new ambient/atmospheric pads etc. The lead part is completely new and improvised on the spot, although I improved and changed it a little post recording (and because my playing sucks). Some of the later sequence parts were impossible for me to figure out precisely, so I had to come up with my own versions.

Arpegiateur/Arpegiator was always one of my favourite tracks by JMJ and this was really fun to work on! Hope you enjoy it.

Synths used:
Dune 3 (bass sequence and 1st synth sequence)
Emulator samples (Emulator flute sequence)
FM8 (2nd sequence bells)
Serum (3rd sequence)
Nexus x2 (later additional sequences not in the original)
Omnisphere (choir pad)
Diva (synth bend transitions)
Diva (synth arp transitions)
Phase Plant (additional pad)
Dune 3 (later bass solo part)
Diva (additional new lead part)
3rd Wave (additional synth keys)
Iridium (additional atmospheric pad/strings)
Summit (additional pad)
SH-2 (outro synth bass)

Video shot on a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k with a Sigma 18-35 lens. Editing and colour grading done in Da Vinci Resolve.

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