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 as one of Jarre's most experimental albums to date, and his most
experimental album to this point. 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), the
12-inch release of "Fourth Rendez-Vous" (1986), and the much later
Images compilation album (1991).
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