Label: Sony Music (Germany), 88875046352
Style: Ambient, New Age, Electronic
Country: Lyon, France (24 August 1948)
Time: 37:56
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 265 Mb
Charts: AUS #69, AUT #28, GER #24, NL #27, SWE #21, SWI #30, UK #47, NZ #35. UK: Silver.
Much of the music is built up from samples of singing and speech in 25 different languages recorded and edited in the Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer. The album spawned two singles: the title track and "Zoolookologie".
"I've always been involved in ethnic music, though I thought the way a lot of people have been using ethnic music was a little superficial. Sometimes it works, like the Brian Eno stuff, it worked the first time, but for me what was more interesting was not making a particular statement about recording in Africa or in China, but taking some sounds and having exactly the same attitude as when you were in front of a Moog 55 or a modular system, replacing the oscillators with a bank of actors or people, treating them through the Fairlight or the EMS synth, and establishing an orchestration using only voices."
Some of the vocals were recorded during Jean-Michel's travels, while others are instead the result of his work with Xavier Bellanger, a French ethnologist who during his travels recorded "a large collection of tapes". For this album, Jarre used the synthesizers Moog 55, ARP 2600, some by EMS, the LinnDrum machine, the Yamaha DX7, the Matrisequencer 250 designed by French sound engineer Michel Geiss for Equinoxe (1978), and the E-mu Emulator. The different languages as listed in the album's liner notes are: Aboriginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, English, Eskimo, French, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Malagasy, Malayan, Pygmy, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Swedish, Tibetan, and Turkish.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoolook)
01. Ethnicolor 1 (11:48)
02. Diva (07:22)
03. Zoolook (03:52)
04. Wooloomooloo (03:18)
05. Zoolookologie (04:21)
06. Blah-Blah Cafe (03:21)
07. Ethnicolor 2 (03:52)
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