art direction [album cover] Mark Fisher bass Marcus Miller composed by, producer, edited by [ethnic vocals processed by], keyboards, electronics [electronic devices] Jean-Michel Jarre copyist Didier Egea copyist Mark Suozzo design Kate Hepburn design [assistant] Fiona Doulton drums Yogi Horton tracks a1, a2, b2, b4, b5 engineer [mixing] David Lord engineer [recording] Daniel Lazerus guitar [additional] Ira Siegel guitar, effects Adrian Belew keyboards [additional] Frédérick Rousseau mastered by Jack Skinner tracks b1 mixed by François Kevorkian tracks b3 mixed by René Ameline tracks b1 mixed by Ron St. Germain musical assistance [assisted by] Denis Vanzetto musical assistance [assisted by] Pierre Mourey producer [production assistant] Frédérick Rousseau research [ethnologist] Xavier Bellenger tape op Alan Moulder tape op Maureen Thompson Phonographic Copyright (p) Francis Dreyfus Music (U.S.A.) Inc. Copyright (c) Disques Dreyfus Recorded At Clinton Recording Studio Mixed At Croissy Studio Mastered At Sterling Sound Published By Jean-Michel Jarre Published By Francis Dreyfus Music Manufactured By PolyGram Records, Inc. Distributed By Polygram Records, Inc. Only US issue. Released with printed inner sleeve. Originally comes with a Digitally remastered silver sticker on the plastic shrink on front sleeve (see images).
Laurie Anderson & Marcus Miller appear courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc. Adrian Belew appears courtesy of EG Records.
The human voices heard on this album were created from recordings of speech and song. The original recordings were made in the following languages: Aboriginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Buhndi, Chad, Chinese, English, Eskimo, French, Gabonese, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Madagascan, Malayan, Pigmy, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Sweedish, Tibetan, Turkish. They were edited and transformed using different electronic devices.
Keyboards and electronic devices: Fairlight CMI, Emulator, Moog 55, ARP 2600, DX7, Prophet V, OBXA, AMS, Simmons SDS V, Matrisequencer, AKS, EMS Vocoder, Eminent, Doctor Click, Linn 1, Linn 2.
Special thanks: Bob Telson, Dominik Troiano, Kris Parker, Michel Geiss, AMS, Lazare Electronic, Music Land, Fred Bova, Denis Sergent, Nicolas Jiddings, Michael Sukin, Merril Wasserman, Jean-Pierre Lafont, and Sony France.
Labels: 57 ℗ 1984 Francis Dreyfus Music (U.S.A.) Inc. except Zoolookologie ℗ 1985 Francis Dreyfus Music (U.S.A.) Inc. Barcode: 0 42282 37631 2