Jean-Michel Jarre
Zoolook
Label:  Dreyfus 
Date:  1984
Length:  0:00
Format:  LP
Genre:  Electronic; Ambient
  Category:  newage
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      Ethnicolor    
      2.  
      Diva    
      3.  
      Zoolookologie (Remix)    
      4.  
      Woolloomooloo    
      5.  
      Zoolook (Remix)    
      6.  
      Blah Blah Cafe    
      7.  
      Ethnicolor II    
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      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