JEAN MICHEL JARRE - ETHNICOLOR (edit)

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:

Music

Tags:

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

[cochyr]

Thank you for editing this song. I love this first part - it sounds tense, almost supernatural - but I've always found that the whole, long version should have been split in two, because the second part has a different atmosphere. Nice job.

[picturemusic75]

@cochyr you are most welcome:)

[tuxradio]

Thank you so much for posting this! I remember it from the scene of the movie, "Something Wild," when Ray Liotta dies. It was never included on the original soundtrack, but you can't miss it.

Your artwork here is great, too! Nice work!

Thanks, again! Danke!

//rt

[picturemusic75]

@tuxradio you are welcome!

[Jerseybob]

Absolutely the best album (Zoolook) that Jean has produced & your videos mirror that effect! You are a truly talented producer ~ Thank You! JB

[picturemusic75]

@Jerseybob Thanks for watching my friend. Greetz / Ferdi

[Rysskyi]

ЭТО ПОТРЯСАЮЩЕ!!!

[sammi221us]

This is the most haunting and outlandish earth music one has ever created! He has a connection with some other levels of reality and being...it is so beautiful and universally cosmic! LOVE you Jean!!!

[MrAdil313]

this is one of the greatest music,which make people who understand this music to think about the life and about everything ...thank YOU JEAN MICHEL JARRE...

[Moytube2012]

Good



[blagoydimitrov85]

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SONG IN THE WORLD ! IT SOUNDS SO SCARY.....SO EMOTIONAL...SO POWERFUL....SO Extraterrestrial !

[gustavodidobh]

impossível não me lembrar de minha infância... SHOW!!! anos 80

[wrobdzej]

I think U R all wrong....you can not extract one track from the record....what counts, is the whole IDEA....He' has a message....bigger than anyone can think off....But then again... it's just my expression...have a good thinking.....

[Garyfication]

@romkyns i was th same for me about this song !

[sportsattelite]

used to devour this song almost thirty years ago,still love it! thanks!