''Zooma'' is the 1999 debut solo album by English musician

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, best known as the bassist and keyboardist of

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. The album consists of rhythmically focused

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, highlighting Jones’ aggressive

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and

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

playing.

Track listing

All tracks written, composed, and arranged by John Paul Jones.

Critical reception

The album received positive reviews from AllMusic and ''Rolling Stone''.

Personnel

Adapted from the ''Zooma'' liner notes, the recording personnel was as follows: *

– 10 string

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(1, 4, 6, 9); 12 string bass (2, 3); 4 string bass (5, 7, 8); electric mandola (1);

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(1, 2, 4, 7, 9); spoken word (2); mandola (3); bass lap steel (3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10);

guitars The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

(6); organ solo (7); string arrangement and conducting (7) * Pete Thomas –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

(1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9) *

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– guitar solo (1) *

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–

touch guitar The touch guitar is a stringed instrument of the guitar family which has been designed to use a tapping, fretboard-tapping playing style. Touch guitars are meant to be touched or tapped, not strummed. History The touch or tapping technique was ...

solo (2, 6) * Mo Jones – spoken word (2) * Denny Fongheiser –

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(3); drums (5) * London Symphony Orchestra – strings (7) The technical personnel was as follows: * Stuart Sullivan – recording engineer * Richard Evans – recording engineer * Brian Foraker – recording engineer * Geoff Foster – recording engineer * Akio Morishima – design * Amy & Tanveer – photography

References

External links

John Paul Jones official website
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