Zoolook

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Zoolook

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.

1 Languages
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 Equipment
5 References
6 External links

[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, Pygmy, 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

Some CD issues contain remixes of the originally released versions of "Zoolook" and "Zoolookologie", and reverse the positions of these two tracks in the running order.