Zoolook
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| Zoolook | ||
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| Studio album by Jean-Michel Jarre | ||
| Released | 1984 | |
| Recorded | ??? | |
| Genre | Electronic | |
| Length | 37:17 | |
| Label | Disques Dreyfus | |
| Producer(s) | Jean-Michel Jarre | |
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| Jean-Michel Jarre chronology | ||
| Music for Supermarkets (1983) |
Zoolook (1984) |
Rendez-Vous (1986) |
Zoolook is the fifth mainstream 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.
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[edit] Languages
The voices heard on this album were based on recordings of speech and singing in numerous languages:
Aboriginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Buhndi, Chinese, English, Eskimo, French, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Malagasy, Malayan, Pigmy, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Swedish, Tibetan and Turkish.[1]
[edit] Track listing
- "Ethnicolor" – 11:40
- "Diva" – 7:35
- "Zoolook" – 3:42
- "Wooloomooloo" – 3:18
- "Zoolookologie" – 3:50
- "Blah-Blah Cafe" – 3:20
- "Ethnicolor II" – 3:53
[edit] Personnel
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Keyboards and electronic devices
- Laurie Anderson - Vocals
- Adrian Belew - Guitars and effects
- Yogi Horton - Drums
- Marcus Miller - Bass guitar
- Frédéric Rousseau - Additional keyboards
- Ira Siegel - Additional guitars
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- ^ The sleeve notes in the CD
