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Jean Michel Jarre: Zoolook

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Label: Disques Dreyfus
Released: 1984
Time:
 37:55
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jean Michel Jarre
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jeanmicheljarre.com
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Purchase date: 2003.02.03
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] Ethnicolor (J.M.Jarre) - 11:40
[2] Diva (J.M.Jarre) - 7:35
[3] Zoolook (J.M.Jarre) - 3:42
[4] Wooloomooloo (J.M.Jarre) - 3:18
[5] Zoolookologie (J.M.Jarre) - 3:50
[6] Blah-Blah Cafe (J.M.Jarre) - 3:20
[7] Ethnicolor II (J.M.Jarre) - 3:53

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JEAN MICHEL JARRE - Keyboards, Vocal Programming, Electronic Devices

LAURIE ANDERSON - Vocals
ADRIAN BELEW - Guitar, Effects
YOGI HORTON - Drums
MARCUS MILLER - Bass
FREDRICK ROUSSEAU - Keyboards

MARK FISHER - Art Direction
DANIEL LAZERUS - Engineer
DAVID LORD - Mixing
ALAN MOULDER - Tape Operator
MARK SUOZZO - Copyist
DENIS VANZETTO - Assistant
PIERRE MOUREY - Assistant
FIONA DOULTON - Assistant
KATE HEPBURN - Design

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1984 CD Disques Dreyfus FDMCD18118
1984 CS Disques Dreyfus FDMCS18118



On the first departure of his career since 1977's Oxygène, Jean Michel Jarre combined an actual band and processed vocal samples — recorded in 25 different languages — with his rich, melodic synthesizer pop. The rhythm is often propelled by guttural vocal snippets, as on "Ethnicolor" and "Zoolookologie." That's not half as disconcerting for those used to his previous work as the album's art-funk backing: Adrian Belew on guitar, Marcus Miller on bass, and Yogi Horton on drums, plus Laurie Anderson on one track. Though Zoolook is interesting throughout, the tracks with Jarre alone are often the best, reprising the classic Oxygène sound.

John Bush - All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2003 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Jarre, the son of film composer Maurice Jarre, had already cemented his reputation as a seminal electronic/new age figure with the late-'70s albums Oxygene and Equinoxe. But 1984's Zoolook was a more urbane effort, fleshing out tape-looped voices with gurgling, washy synthesizers and on-the-money live players, notably Zappa/Talking Heads guitarist Adrian Belew and Miles Davis bassist Marcus Miller. Less cosmic pretense and more information-age irony, Zoolook, with bizarre titles like "Wooloomooloo" and "Zoolookologie" had as much to do with media-manipulators like Laurie Anderson-who also makes a cameo-as proto-ambientists like Robert Rich or Brian Eno, with whom Jarre is usually bracketed.

James Rotondi - Amazon.com
 

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