Jersey City-based artist’s Escape from Fat Kat City, recorded in shadow of a Rahway prison, arrives
Jan. 8th, 2016. Hear “Better Run” single now.
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J Hacha De
Zola as photographed by Miguel Peralta
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“Better Run”
is taken from the upcoming album Escape from
Fat Kat City by Jersey City-based musician J Hacha De Zola.
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“‘Better Run’ was lots of fun to record as it contains many
unconventional instruments and noise makers,” says Jersey City’s J Hacha De Zola of the track taken from
his upcoming Escape from Fat Kat City album. “Before the session, I visited
the local corner bodegas that I used to go as a kid and bought silly noise
makers, 25-cent whistles, rattles, plastic flutes, and cheap candy ocarinas.”
Hacha De
Zola
also brought in a toy piano that he salvaged from a random Sunday afternoon
trash day, explaining “One of its little legs was busted up but the intonation
was almost spot on! I tucked it under my arm and away I went!”
Other “instruments” that
appear on the track include a steel hatchet, a heavy steel plate, old street
signs, aluminum garbage cans, dinner plates, and a large sheet of thick plastic
which Hacha De Zola would “whip
around in the air to get a ‘wobbling’ sound.
“Walking into the session
with all of these items really threw my producer for a loop,” he remembers. “The
poor guy never knew what to expect. Sometimes I’d roll in with a tuba player,
other times I’d show up with a steel pipe.”
Of the thematic content
of the song, Hacha De Zola seeks to
make the listener question the true nature of love. “It seems that some of the
most horrific atrocities in history have been committed in the name of ‘love,’”
he explains. “Love of ‘god,’ love of ‘country,” love of a ‘people.’ I guess I’m
exploring some of the darker aspects of love with this one.”
Hacha De
Zola’s Escape
from Fat Kat City” was recorded in Rahway, New Jersey in the shadow of
a maximum security correctional facility and an oil refinery, a setting that
perfectly contributes to the slinky back alley strut, dizzying waltzes, and
surf-raga-samba-freakouts that populate the record.
With its abandoned
industrial parks, rail road tracks, and refinery flares, Rahway was the perfect
setting in which to create the album, which composites various musical styles
ranging from Blues, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Funk, and Psychedelia and influences
such as Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Syd Barrett, Cesar Romero, and Tom Waits.
Escape
from Fat Kat City by J Hacha De Zola is scheduled for release
on January 8th, 2016. Hacha De Zola is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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J Hacha De Zola
Escape
From Fat Kat City
(S/R)
Jan. 8th, 2016
Track Listing:
01. Welcome to Fat Kat City (Instrumental)
02. Strange
05. Death Rant #1 (Rant)
06. Let It Go
07. Poison Wine
08. Hold Tight
09. Down
10. Ice Cream and Cigarettes
11. City Girls
12. Moonpies and Penny Whistles
13. 7 League Boots
14. Blue Sky
15. Next Exit (Instrumental)
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J Hacha De Zola Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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