For his second full-length of 2016, artist travels with
“Fat Kat” band to boiler room in Portland, OR to create Beefheart, Barrett, Zappa-inspired
freak-out.
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J Hacha De
Zola as photographed by Miguel Peralta
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“Bubble Gum” from the upcoming new album (the second of 2016!) by J Hacha De
Zola, out Aug. 12th
[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/jhachadezola-picaroobscuro/mp3/jhachadezola-bubblegum.mp3
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“The kind of alluring character found in
old children’s books.” – UTNE
J Hacha De Zola has managed to actually “escape from Fat Kat City,”
(the title of his early 2016 debut album), leaving Rahway, New Jersey and the
shadow of the maximum security prison that literally loomed over him while
recording that record, and venturing across the country to a tiny studio built
in an old boiler room in Portland, Oregon.
It’s here that he was joined by the rest of the “Fat
Kat” band, as well as some legendary players in the form of Ralph Carney and David Coulter, to record Hacha
De Zola’s second full-length album of 2016, Picaro Obscuro, arriving
on August 12th. The
single “Bubble Gum” can be heard
now via Northern Transmissions here.
Influences on the sound of Picaro Obscuro according
to Hacha De Zola include: Perez Prado, Captain Beefheart, Screaming
Jay Hawkins, Danil Kharms, Arthur Rimbaud, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Syd Barrett.
“He’s like a codeine cough syrup dream on the train to
Zurich,” is how legendary sax man Carney
describes Hacha De Zola. Carney, who made his bones with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, The B-52s,
They Might Be Giants, and Frank Black (and who is also the uncle
of The Black Keys co-founder, Patrick Carney), makes his tenor and
baritone horns an omnipresent force on Picaro Obscuro.
Multi-instrumentalist Coulter is everywhere, as well.
Coulter, who has recorded,
performed and toured with artists as diverse as Damon Albarn, Jarvis Cocker,
Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, Yoko Ono, and Beck among
many other notables, shares a common compatriot with Carney in Waits.
Carney performed on the Waits
album The Black Rider, a collection of the songs from the theater
piece of the same name for which Coulter
served as Associate Musical Director.
The first
single from Picaro Obscuro is “Bubble
Gum,” which Hacha De Zola
describes as “a song about distractions, escapism, confusion, and detaching
from reality in pursuit of confections. The world might be burning while we’re
caught up in our trivialities. Ultimately, it’s not a criticism; it’s just an
observation, as I’m right in it, too.”
Picaro
Obscuro, the second album (and
second of 2016) by J Hacha De Zola
arrives on August 12th, 2016.
Hacha De Zola is available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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J Hacha De Zola
Picaro
Obscuro
Aug. 12th, 2016
Track Listing:
01. A Curious Thing
02. Bad Fiction
04. In Curtains
05. Falling Out of Chairs
06. Picaro Obscuro
07. Black Water
08. Taking Names
09. On Your Own
10. Dead End Street
11. Tears of Summer
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J Hacha De Zola Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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