Zoolook

Infobox Album
Name = Zoolook
Type = studio
Artist = Jean Michel Jarre


Released = 1984
Recorded = 1982-1983
Genre = Electronic
Length = 37:17
Label = Disques Dreyfus
Producer = Jean Michel Jarre
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:yj6xlfge0cqt link]
Last album = "Music for Supermarkets"
(1983)
This album = "Zoolook"
(1984)
Next album = "Rendez-Vous"
(1986)

"Zoolook" is the fifth album by Jean Michel Jarre, and released in 1984 on Disques Dreyfus. It makes extensive use of digital recording techniques and sampling. It is considered by many fans to be Jean Michel Jarre's most experimental album to date. Much of the music is built up from song and speech from over thirty different languages, together with other synthesizers, as well as more traditional instruments. Much of the tone of the album appears to be influenced by elements of musique concrète and by his time as a student of Pierre Schaeffer.

Parts of the album were reworkings of material that had already appeared as sections of the album "Music For Supermarkets", released the previous year. "Moon Machine", a track that later appeared on a flexidisc in Keyboard Magazine, the 12-inch release of Fourth Rendez-Vous, and the much later Images compilation album, was recorded for this album but not included.

It is one of the first Compact Discs labelled as DDD: Digitally recorded, mixed and mastered.

Languages

The voices heard on this album were based on recordings of speech and singing in numerous languages:

Aboriginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Buhndi, Chinese, Dutch (Ethnicolor II - 3:15), English, Eskimo, French, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Malagasy, Malayan, Pygmy, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Swedish, Tibetan and Turkish. [The sleeve notes in the CD]

Track listing

# "Ethnicolor" – 11:40
# "Diva" – 7:35
# "Zoolookologie (Remix)" – 3:42
# "Wooloomooloo" – 3:18
# "Zoolook (Remix)" – 3:50
# "Blah-Blah Cafe" – 3:20
# "Ethnicolor II" – 3:53

Some later Polydor CD issues contain remixes of the originally released versions of "Zoolook" and "Zoolookologie" (by François Kevorkian), and reverse the positions of these two tracks in the running order. The original versions appear on early Polydor releases of the album as well as the remasters that appeared in the late 1990s after Jarre's move to Sony.

Personnel

* Jean Michel Jarre – keyboards, electronic devices
* Laurie Anderson – vocals
* Adrian Belew – guitars, effects
* Yogi Horton – drums
* Marcus Miller – bass guitar
* Frédéric Rousseau – additional keyboards
* Ira Siegel – additional guitars

Equipment

* Linn LM-1
* Linn LinnDrum
* Simmons SDS V
* Eminent 310 U
* Garfield Electronics Doctor Click
* E-mu Emulator
* Fairlight CMI-II
* ARP 2600
* EMS Synthi AKS
* Moog 55
* Oberheim OB-Xa
* Sequential Circuits Prophet-5
* Yamaha DX7
* EMS Vocoder 1000

References

External links

* [http://www.jarreuk.com/discography_zoolook.htm "Zoolook"] at Jarre UK