Ernesto & I put about 20 CD's together in the late 1990's and early 2000's... this is from our very first one & reviewers felt like it had more "accessibility" than some of our more "wacked" improv excursions.
Please tell us what YOU think with a REVIEW, ok?
01/06/09 05:10:49AM @brian-mattson:
Yeah, I love the originality you know. Your play on words is fun, and the music is just up my alley. You have a real skill for crafting new vistas in a world where so much sounds the same. I enjoy your style! Brian
11/19/08 08:39:41AM @mark-reed:
This is the second number I've listened to and you have a very unique approach. A super backing with the spoken word delivery. An effective combination which you work so well.
12/29/08 11:59:03AM @huge-artist:
Well,I kind of always feel at home with your musical creations...
I think it is through a lifetime of listning to bands like Hawkwind,with all it's solo spin offs,Calvert, Brock,Friends nd Relations etcetera...
This really would fit right into those albums...
It has the same freedom of expression that they have.
Sometimes artist become so focused on giving what they think the public want and totaly sacrifice their own musical expression in doing so.
This for me sounds and feels like musicans following their instinicts and pleasures,and I must say that it is a breath of fresh air.
Excellent.
Nigel.
07/24/08 05:25:46PM @vesa:
This is a cool tune...like that signature spoken word...brings out the lecture genre into a song,/// no one else does like you; that's your very own genre, like it; it tingles, can't explain the sensation...very cosmic with fine synth sounds. Spacey key work, creating a intelligent atmosphere of cool sounds. Great artistry. Most creative.
-Your friend. -Vesa.
Many of you here know me from Kyle's original MIX site. I did a LOT of reviewing there!Above all else, what we've always hoped comes through in our music is...
Many of you here know me from Kyle's original MIX site. I did a LOT of reviewing there!
Above all else, what we've always hoped comes through in our music is a sense that if you maintain your sense of INDEPENDENCE, you can make just about anything happen that you want... more as it happens!
Rotcod Zzaj grew outta' th' fermentation that wuz' th' '60's; alla' th' "hex"periences from those times that yer' could possibly imagine (both sweet & sour) were what created his attitudes towards music & th' playing thereof.
Th' name is (as you prob'ly awready recognize) a perversion of "Doctor Jazz"; buncha' doodz' in th' early '80's started tellin' this Zzaj that hiz music wuz TRULY TWISTED, a form of BACKWARDS jazz, ergo th' name!
Tho' Zzaj haz attached th' moniker of (irr)Reverend to his nick, there's no "cosmic mystic crapola" involved... th' premise of ALL Zzaj Productions (tapes, CD's, a 20 page paper 'zine, & a chap or two) izzat' music & art BELONG to th' PEOPLE! NOT to some self-assigned "guardians" of our morality (if we're IMmoral - we need to FIX it ourSELVES, right?)... ...or some PRIEST of the PROPER, who tells hiz flock what to wear, what to eat, what to breathe - who to BE! Well, ya' won't find ANY o' that krap at ZP! Plain & simple, we're about music that the PEOPLE produce, whether for themselves, just for friends, or perhaps for radioplay... what- EVER... ya' got it, send it to US for review & comment!
We ALSO need ALL of your D.I.Y. material - tapes/CD's/vinyl/7"'s... &, DESPITE the (slightly misleading) TITLE - we want ALL genres! I don't care WHAT form it takes (or doesn't) - AS LONG as the ENERGY is there... a TRUE LOVE of playing is what gets your music a rave review here. (Virtually) ALL musical material sent in is reviewed! We also take S-H-O-R-T poems (NO heartz&flowerz pleez!!!), in PARTICULATE stuff that is (after ANY fashion) related to MUSIC!!!
LET US HEAR you (& from you) at the snail (or e-mail) below:
Rotcod Zzaj SNAIL: 5308 65th Avenue SE, Lacey, WA 98513
Yeah, I love the originality you know. Your play on words is fun, and the music is just up my alley. You have a real skill for crafting new vistas in a world where so much sounds the same. I enjoy your style! Brian
This is the second number I've listened to and you have a very unique approach. A super backing with the spoken word delivery. An effective combination which you work so well.
Well,I kind of always feel at home with your musical creations...
I think it is through a lifetime of listning to bands like Hawkwind,with all it's solo spin offs,Calvert, Brock,Friends nd Relations etcetera...
This really would fit right into those albums...
It has the same freedom of expression that they have.
Sometimes artist become so focused on giving what they think the public want and totaly sacrifice their own musical expression in doing so.
This for me sounds and feels like musicans following their instinicts and pleasures,and I must say that it is a breath of fresh air.
Excellent.
Nigel.
This is a cool tune...like that signature spoken word...brings out the lecture genre into a song,/// no one else does like you; that's your very own genre, like it; it tingles, can't explain the sensation...very cosmic with fine synth sounds. Spacey key work, creating a intelligent atmosphere of cool sounds. Great artistry. Most creative.
-Your friend. -Vesa.