Fanatic Promotion: J Hacha De Zola takes detour from urban junkyard sound with new synth-driven, all-Spanish language EP, “Syn Illusión,” out Nov. 16th.

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J Hacha De Zola takes detour from urban junkyard sound with new synth-driven, all-Spanish language EP, “Syn Illusión,” out Nov. 16th.

“I got in touch with my inner broken-hearted 17-year-old girl from 90’s,” Hacha De Zola says of title track, streaming now via PopMatters.

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J Hacha De Zola as photographed by Robin Souma

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“J Hacha De Zola sings a song of unrequited love with ‘Syn Illusión’. As songs on the matter go, this is one that’s bound to light the way forward and inspire a legion of imitators.” — PopMatters | Listen to J Hacha de Zola’s “Syn Illusión” at PopMatters or via the links below!

[SOUNDCLOUD]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/j-hacha-de-zola-syn-illusion

[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHGNSaorUUI

[MP3]: https://www.fanaticpromotion.com/jhachadezola/jhachadezola-synillusion.mp3

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As the Rahway, New Jersey-based artist J Hacha De Zola preps his fourth album of “urban junkyard” tunes, prompting Paste to proclaim him “a wild man in the vein of such fire breathing artists like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Captain Beefheart,” he is taking an unexpected detour.

“Syn Illusión” an original, all-Spanish language EP that Hacha De Zola will release on Nov. 16^th, could very well open the man that UTNE described as “the kind of alluring character found in old children’s books” to an audience as unexpected as this release is itself.

Hear the title track from “Syn Illusión” via PopMatters here.

“A dear friend challenged me to step outside of this ‘J Hacha’ guy,” Hacha De Zola says. “Maybe ‘J Hacha’ had a more sensitive side; maybe that guy would write a record in Spanish, my first language. I originally went into this idea of a record in Spanish telling myself, ‘I’m just going to do a stripped down Hacha record, but it didn’t turn out that way at all!’”

“‘Syn Illusión’ means ‘without delusion’ in Spanish,” Hacha De Zola continues, “but it also refers to the heavy synth sounds on this EP.” The “stripped down” J Hacha De Zola sound that he says he was going for has actually turned out to be his most produced effort to date. “My producer had all these really cool vintage synths, keyboards, Mellotrons, farfisas and retro synth emulators in the studio, so I thought, “well hell, let’s go heavy with these! I love retro 80’s synth sounds.”

Where J Hacha De Zola albums (including his upcoming 2019 full-length, produced by Dinosaur Jr, Waxahatchee visionary, John Agnello) tend to pull from various musical bags, Blurt Magazine described “a compelling all-over-the-map collision of jazz, blues, show tunes, garage rock, and Latino flavors. At points, hypnotic, cinematic, lush, and dissonant,” the four songs on “Syn Illusión” are none of that.

“Despite the lyrics and vocals being in Spanish, the music is essentially just one thing,” Hacha De Zola says, “it’s not Latin by any stretch; it’s some kind of dreamy emo synth pop.” One may be reminded of the opening strains of Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” or Irene Cara’s film theme “Flashdance… What A Feeling,” a brilliant stroke that someone needed to make happen sooner or later.

“I got in touch with my inner ‘broken-hearted 17-year-old girl from 90’s,” Hacha De Zola jokes. “I think of this as some kind of ‘undead Romeo vampire-like dude crooning about love, power, and magic.”

“Syn Illusión,” the upcoming four-song all-Spanish language EP by J Hacha De Zola, is scheduled for release on Nov. 16^th via the artist’s Caballo Negro label. Hacha De Zola’s fourth full-length album is scheduled for release in early 2019.

Hacha de Zola is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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J Hacha De Zola

‘Syn Illusión’ EP

(Caballo Negro)

Nov. 16^th, 2016