JEAN MICHEL JARRE - ETHNICOLOR II

Jean Michel Jarre / Zoolook 1984 France

Official Website:
http://www.jeanmicheljarre.com/

Jean Michel Jarre -- keyboards, Fairlight CMI
Laurie Anderson -- vocals
Adrian Belew -- guitars, effects
Yogi Horton -- drums
Marcus Miller -- bass guitar
Frédéric Rousseau -- additional keyboards
Ira Siegel -- additional guitars

Track listing

1. Ethnicolor
2. Diva
3. Zoolook
4. Wooloomooloo
5. Zoolookologie
6. Blah blah cafe
7. Ethnicolor II

Zoolook is the fourth overall mainstream studio album by Jean Michel Jarre, and released on Disques Dreyfus in 1984. It makes extensive use of digital recording techniques and sampling. It is considered by many fans[who?] as one of Jarre's most experimental albums to date. Much of the music is built up from singing and speech in 25 different languages, along with 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. The track "Moon Machine" was recorded for this album but not included; it later appeared on a flexidisc in Keyboard Magazine (March 1986 issue)[1], the 12-inch release of "Fourth Rendez-Vous" (1986), and the much later Images compilation album (1991).

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

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoolook

Category:

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Tags:

• Jean
• Michel
• Jarre
• Ethnicolor
• 2´
• Electronic
• Experimental
• Sampling
• Musique
• Concrète
• Human
• Voices
• Synthi
• Synthesizer
• Disques
• Dreyfus
• 80ies
• Zoolook
• France
• 1984

[MENOTYOUism]

You have perfected this song in video,,Viva La Magntic fields in my rough Angleterre

[picturemusic75]

You are most welcome..!

[balloydspiritsoul]

Of the billions who listened to this track, I thought I was the only one thinking that this music is some kind of in the state of manic depression, sadness,loneliness, fear... But your interpretation with this video was a genius! I have it now as my favorite! Thanks!

[picturemusic75]

Thank you so much my friend..

[wgaule]

I agree, there is something melancholy about this track, and the images in this video are perfect for it.

[picturemusic75]

thanks a lot..

[spiritofangela]

It's very dark and sad, the vocals and video.

[Cordobike]

I love this track. Have been playing it in my mind all the days on the beach looking at the sea. :)

[wrobdzej]

since 1973 JmJ fascinated me with his music , but you have added a little bit of SOUL to it with your pictures...I only hope, that everyone will read it the same way as I do....what he is trying to say by music, that is the time to wake up!!!!!!, anybody follows??!!!

[ElephantKiller23]

3 minutes and 54 seconds in another world...

[minder56]

@balloydspiritsoul not for me...

[2010VinnieR]

Artistic perfection to musical genius

[PercivalFromWales]

@TekEnchAmun

Same here. Happens every time :-)...

[PercivalFromWales]

The carefully selected imagery perfectly matches the sullen mood of a track that is hauntingly beautiful in all its darkness... Too much words on my part, when the images say it all. I salute you for a job well done.

[scumimpaler]

It's extremely seldom to watch an YT visual ilustration that makes artistic sense. This one DOES. Marvellous job.