Zooma

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This “roaring and powerful” 9-track instrumental albums features Jones playing four-string, ten-string and 12-string basses, as well as bass lap steel, Kyma, Mandola, organ and guitars while also arranging and conducting members of the London Symphony Orchestra for one of the tracks. John Paul Jones envisions Zooma as the advent of an on-going solo career. He is keen to return to touring and a planned world tour will begin with major cities in fall. Track list includes: “Zooma,” “Grind,” “The Smile of Your Shadow,” “Goose,” “Bass ‘n’ Drums,” “B. Fingers,” “Snake Eyes,” “Nosumi Blues,” “Tidal”

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While and carried on the torch with hit-and-miss projects such as the , the Honeydrippers,
Coverdale/Page, and , 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 ; 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