Rahway-based musician’s third album “Antipatico”
conjures “fire breathing artists like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Captain
Beefheart,” says
Paste.
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J Hacha de
Zola as photographed by Miguel
Peralta Jr.
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J Hacha de Zola – In The Press
“The kind of alluring character found in old children’s
books.” — UTNE
“Possibly the wildest record I’ve heard all year.” — BLURT
“Mutant blues rock.” — Treble Zine
“As enticing as it is distant and strange.” — MAGNET
“Straight from the mind of John Carpenter.” — Elmore
“Possessed and cacophonic.” — Atwood
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J Hacha de
Zola – “Lightning Rod Salesman”
(taken from Antipatico, out now)
“A wild man in the vein of such fire breathing artists
like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Captain Beefheart.” – Paste
[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk-HMXvCg4w
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Listening to Rahway-based musician J Hacha de Zola’s recently released
third album Antipatico invites all of the insightful praise mentioned in
the press quotes above. What with a cavalcade of fellow avant artists including
Dana Colley of Morphine, Tom Waits collaborator Ralph Carney, Frank London
of Klezmatics, and “Psycho Mambo” collective, Gato Loco in tow, it’s not surprising to get exactly what this
group of musicians is known for.
That said, Hacha
de Zola will take a decidedly different direction tonight when he takes the
stage for an all-acoustic solo set at famed actor and all-around renaissance
man Alan Cumming’s provocative Club Cumming in the East Village of NYC
(505 E. 6th St.) Set time is 7PM EST. Read more about Club Cumming via
the New York Times here. RSVP for tonight’s event here.
“The role of religion,
its political power and its ability to reach out and touch a vast amount
of common folks in this country is truly terrifying,” Hacha de Zola states when discussing the subject matter of his song
“Lightning Rod Salesman,” recently premiered
as Paste’s “Daily Dose,” in which
writer Robert Ham described the
artists as “a wild man in the vein of such fire breathing artists like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Captain Beefheart.” Hacha de Zola continues, “I assumed the role of the archetypical
preacher man and told the tale of my previous life as a sinner and evil doer
under an air of repentance.”
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. On Antipatico, Hacha de
Zola again practiced his “reductive
synthesis” method of, as he elegantly says, “shooting the arrow first and then
painting the bullseye around it.”
Antipatico, the latest album from J Hacha de Zola, is out now. 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)
Out Now
Track Listing:
01. Antipatico
02. March of the Hollowmen (YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY | APPLE
| SOUNDCLOUD
| MP3)
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 turned
Ariana Grande’s “Bad Decisions” into a “swaying barroom roll somewhere between Tom Waits and the Pogues,” according to the most popular cover song website Cover Me. Now he’s back as part of the Cover
Me Turns 10 compilation that celebrates the site’s ten-year
anniversary. This time Hacha de Zola
does a similar, and similarly spectacular re-working of Milli Vanilli’s
one-hit wonder. Have a listen
to J Hacha de Zola’s take on “Girl You Know It’s True” now!
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J Hacha de Zola clips coupons, folds laundry, waters plants, vacuums,
and mops to the concern and dismay of his friends.
Enter
J’s world, and check out the
mini-documentary “Super Clean.” Watch it here.
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J Hacha de Zola recently recorded a batch of direct-to-vinyl
lathe cuts for Leesta Vall’s
series of “Office Sessions.”
This unique run is already sold-out, but you can hear
J’s favorite takes here.
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J Hacha de Zola Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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