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Track Listings
| 1. Zooma |
| 2. Grind |
| 3. Smile Of Your Shadow |
| 4. Goose |
| 5. Bass 'n' Drums |
| 6. B Fingers |
| 7. Snake Eyes |
| 8. Nosumi Blues |
| 9. Tidal |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
While Jimmy Page and Robert Plant carried on the Zep torch with hit-and-miss projects such as the Firm, the Honeydrippers, Coverdale/Page, and Page/Plant, John Paul Jones got his hands artistically dirty, producing the Butthole Surfers' Independent Worm Saloon, working on film soundtracks, and collaborating with radical punk diva Diamanda Galas. Not surprisingly, several of the tracks on Jones's gutsy first solo album, Zooma, breathe post-punk fire: the pile-driving title track, wrapped in a gurgling sound collage, pummels a JPJ bass riff with a "sick guitar solo" by the Surfers' Paul Leary. Jones reclaims Zeppelin as his own even as he transcends it. "Snake Eyes", an eerie blues epic arranged with orchestral strings around Jones's superb organ playing, suggests "When the Levee Breaks" filtered through Igor Stravinsky or Bernard Herrmann; and you can't miss the echoes of "Trampled Under Foot" in the bass figures of "B. Fingers". The instrumental Zooma reinforces Jones's integral role in Zeppelin, his influential and still vital bass playing, and his... well, balls. --James Rotondi
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Led Zeppelin fans waiting nearly two decades for John Paul Jones to release a solo album could be forgiven for assumingthat the bassist/keyboardist had probably mellowed with age. Luckily, ZOOMA reveals the exact opposite to be true. Longknown to be the driving force behind many of Zep's most experimental moments, Jones here goes for the jugular, delivering a slab of highly aggressive instrumental music that sounds like his former band jamming with a punk rock King Crimson. Replete with crushingly heavy grooves and gnarly sounds courtesy of an array of standard, 10-, and 12-string basses, the album twists and turns like a monster serpent devouring everything in its path. Notable guests include frequent Robert Fripp collaborator Trey Gunn and Butthole Surfers guitarist Paul Leary, the presence of both of whom gives some indication of ZOOMA's intensity and disregard for expectations.
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