ZOOLOOK

Different from any other Jarre album, "Zoolook" lived in a totally different world. Jarre used extremely much sampling here, sampling from human voices that Jarre recorded while travelling around the world back in the early 80's, over 30 different languages totally. Notably in the massive opening track, "Ethnicolor" features a lot of voice sampling, backed up with synths and various sound effects. With this feature, Jarre makes this album to an extremely interesting and unique listening experience that is very hard to match up with. The only weak spots here is "Ethnicolor 2", which is not a very bad track, but is a weak ending to this album, and Laurie Andersons vocal contributions on "Diva" which I find a bit annoying. Adrian Belew (of King Crimson and Frank Zappa) plays guitar here and does a very good job!

May be hard to acquire for some. It was my first album by him and I loved it first time I heard it, but some people might get confused or turned off while listening to this album. It needs an open mind and patience. 4.25/5