Jean-Michel Jarre and Edward Snowden Team Up for New Song "Exit": Listen

Jean-Michel Jarre recently announced a star-studded new album, Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise, featuring Pet Shop Boys, Cyndi Lauper, Julia Holter, Primal Scream, Gary Numan, and many more. Today, he’s unveiled the final collaborator: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. They teamed up for a track called “Exit,” which you can hear via Spotify below, or on Apple Music. Scroll down to see a video of the pair talking together, via the Guardian.

Speaking about the track, Snowden said in a press release, “You have a choice and ‘Exit’, whether it’s used as a noun or a verb, is something which we pursue. It’s something where we direct ourselves. It’s about an action which may change everything from where we are to another direction, a departure to somewhere else.”

Jarre said:

I wrote a speedy techno track evoking the constant and hectic production of data and the obsessive quest for more information. I then linked the music with this mad hunt and chase in order to get hold of people like Edward Snowden. One of the recurrent themes of Electronica Vol. 1 & 2 is the ambiguous relationship we have with technology. On one side we have the world in our pocket and on the other side, the world is spying on us constantly. Edward Snowden became a modern hero, not by saying ‘stop’, but to be careful regarding the (ab)use of technology. Our future needs brave people like him.

 

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