Rahway artist practices “reductive synthesis” in
studio with members of Morphine, Klezmatics, Gato Loco, legendary sax man Ralph
Carney.
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J Hacha de
Zola as photographed by Miguel
Peralta Jr.
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Check out “A Fanciful Invention” via the links below!
[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz6tsNAbPrQ
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J Hacha de Zola – In The Press
“The kind of alluring character found in old children’s
books.” — UTNE
“The main influence is that of Tom Waits. But if Zola
has influences, he also has talent.” — VOIR
(Canada)
“To say that De
Zola’s creative process and musical style are unique is an understatement.”
— SLUG
“Mutant blues rock.” — Treble Zine
“A twisted, dystopian narrative straight from the mind
of John Carpenter.” — Elmore
“Visionary.” — BLURT
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Hoboken! The Latest Noise Presents: J
Hacha de Zola celebrating the release of Antipatico
at Maxwell’s on Sat. Oct. 14th.
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“This one felt like a good way to close out the
record,” says Rahway, New Jersey’s J
Hacha de Zola of “A Fanciful
Invention,” the new single from his upcoming third album Antipatico, arriving October 6th,
2017. “It opens up with a Kaval
beatbox, which is a Bulgarian folk instrument. The song is a lamentation – the
entire record has a theme of dark romanticism going and this one is very much
part of that, being about the paradoxical nature of love. Does it exist at all?
Does anyone love anyone? ‘Love is a fanciful invention,’ an unrealistic
enterprise rife with the extreme emotion,” he says.
The tune is but one example of the magical voodoo to
be found on Antipatico, (translation: “wicked”) which follows-up Picaro
Obscuro, the second of Hacha de
Zola’s two “urban junkyard” albums of
2016. At the time of that record’s release, Hacha de Zola insinuated that he might not continue on to make a
third, and if he did, his plan was to “lighten up” the sound that he has
variously, previously (ominously?) described as “boozegaze.” Turns out maybe he
was overthinking things, which isn’t so surprising for a scientist turned
auteur. Indeed, Hacha de Zola was a year deep into a PhD program after
receiving his Master’s in Biochemistry when he decided to fully turn his
attention towards his art.
On Antipatico, Hacha de
Zola (and his gaggle of cohorts and
underground legends including Dana Colley
of Morphine, Tom Waits
collaborator Ralph Carney,
Frank London of Klezmatics, and “Psycho Mambo” collective, Gato Loco among others) is again practicing his “reductive
synthesis” method of, as he elegantly says, “shooting the arrow first and then
painting the bullseye around it.”
Hacha de Zola explains, “I never go to the studio with songs
written. I allow the musicians to be themselves and throw all they’ve got at
it. Then I’ll go and peel back the various layers to fashion a song from it
all. It’s a pretty risky way of making an album because when it’s all done, you
may have something that isn’t agreeable to you. Other times, you arrive at
something truly magical and the songs take on a life of their own. There’s a
certain kind of voodoo there that could not be planned.”
Antipatico, the latest album from J Hacha de Zola, arrives October
6th, 2017. Hacha de Zola
is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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J Hacha de Zola
Antipatico
(Caballo
Negro Records)
October 6th, 2017
Track Listing:
01. Antipatico
02. March of the Hollowmen
03. Lightning Rod Salesman
04. No Situation
(YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY | APPLE
| SOUNDCLOUD
| MP3)
05. El Desgraciado
06. On a Sleepless Night
07. Eigengrau
08. That Same Thing
09. Amaranthine
10. A Fanciful Invention (YOUTUBE |
SPOTIFY | APPLE
| SOUNDCLOUD
| MP3)
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J Hacha de Zola Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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