Jean-Michel Jarre – Zoolook LP

Jean-Michel Jarre – Zoolook LP

Zoolook is a studio album by French electronic composer and producer Jean-Michel Jarre. Originally released in 1984, it is one of his most experimental and distinctive records, built around digital sampling, vocal fragments, electronic rhythm structures and the Fairlight CMI sound that helped define part of the album’s futuristic character.

This single LP edition includes Ethnicolor, Diva, Zoolook, Wooloomooloo, Zoolookologie, Blah-Blah Cafe and Ethnicolor II. The album is especially important for Zoolook, Zoolookologie and the long-form opening track Ethnicolor, and remains one of Jarre’s most adventurous electronic releases.

This LP vinyl reissue was released by Sony Music Catalog on 4 October 2018. The edition presents Zoolook as a single-record vinyl release for Jean-Michel Jarre fans, electronic music collectors and listeners interested in sample-based, experimental 1980s electronic sound.

Artist: Jean-Michel Jarre
Label: Sony Music Catalog
Release date: 4 October 2018
Catalog number: 19075843751
EAN: 0190758437514

On a good hi-fi system, Zoolook should sound colourful, spatial and highly textured: sampled voices moving through the mix, electronic percussion with precise timing, layered synthesizers and a playful experimental soundstage that makes the record very different from Jarre’s more flowing cosmic albums.

Listen on TIDAL