Monday, November 27, 2017

Tonight! J Hacha de Zola takes stage at actor Alan Cumming’s East Village “Club Cumming” for acoustic set of trademark Boozegaze tunes.

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


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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)
03. Lightning Rod Salesman  (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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