Z'EV
Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser) was an American text-sound artist and mystic who is perhaps best known for his work as a catacoustic (reflected sound-based) percussionist. Acclaimed as one of the world's best and most original percussionists, Weiser began recording in the late '60s in a handful of psych-out projects. By the late '70s, he took on the Z'ev moniker to explore the "spatial poetics" of the polyrhythmic clamor he had established with his hand-built percussive instruments. His dozens of collaborative projects expanded to include work with John Cage, Glenn Branca, The Hafler Trio, Psychic TV, and Rhythm & Noise
Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser) was an American text-sound artist and mystic who is perhaps best known for his work as a catacoustic (reflected sound-based) percussionist. Acclaimed as one of the world's best and most original percussionists, Weiser began recording in the late '60s in a handful of psych-out projects. By the late '70s, he took on the Z'ev moniker to explore the "spatial poetics" of the polyrhythmic clamor he had established with his hand-built percussive instruments. His dozens of collaborative projects expanded to include work with John Cage, Glenn Branca, The Hafler Trio, Psychic TV, and Rhythm & Noise
The Ascending Scale
*350 copies limited edition.* 2024 stock.Nick Parkin and Z’ev were introduced to each other by Charles Powne of Soleilmoon Recordings at a social get together in London in 2005. The following year they ran into each other again at the ICA’s Sonic Arts Festival, and after a series of meetings and conversations realised they had a number of common sonic and philosophical threads, and decided to try recording together. The two musicians shared an interest in site-specific recordings and the atmosph…
Rhys Chatham & Z'EV
*200 copies limited edition*
Rhys Chatham: trumpet in B flat, transverse flute in C, alto and bass flutes, electric guitarZ'EV: Yamaha DTXPRESS, 16-bit AWM2
Recorded at Studio Myrha, Paris 2014
Spirit Transform Me
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist experimenting in the dark trance-inducing worlds of ambient, industrial and electronic music. His newest collaborative project features the legendary percussionist/composer and mystic Z’EV in a hypnotic series of pieces exploring the inner meanings of the Hebrew Alef-beit. A remarkable vision from beginning to end, with sounds both fragile and powerfully intense, Oren and Z’EV take the sonic investigation…
Heart Of A Wolf (2CD)
** 2022 stock ** Limited edition of 423 copies. Released in six-panel Digipak with additional insert card. This is the second collaborative album by the industrial legend the Polish duo from Torun, and is a sonic postcard from their 2011 tour in May 2011 and is composed of two, supposedly without overdub, livesets: „Live in Torun” is the first set, a long track, and is focused on the resonance of the cymabals and gong notoriously used by the players in the first part of the gig while the develop…
Der Muter Objekt Fur Die Hunde
Here we have Kommissar Hjuler un Frau working with Z'EV and Bryan Lewis Saunders in their ongoing (seemingly) endless series of disjointed mail collaborations. Fantastic and absurd! As with all BN tapes this one comes with two vinyl stickers (these feature a self portrait by Saunders done especially for the hounds) and a 1" button. Limited to 100 copies. - Blossoming Noise
Z'EV / De Waard / Nÿland
**50 numbered copies + 18 un-numbered copies** "On December 7, 2014, Z’EV opened up for Steven Wilson & Thomas Köner as part of the Extrapool program Brombron at the local Doornroosje venue. Z’EV was an earlier guest, recording with KK Null in 2009, and provided a great audio-visual support. The next day, he set up his electronic drums in Extrapool and Peter Johan Nÿland and Frans de Waard rooted the sound to various speakers in- and outside the venue, using the acoustic qualities of the spaces,…
Heart Beat Ear Drum
"Heart Beat Ear Drum" is a feature length documentary about the late artist and musician Z'EV (1951-2017), known for his punk era scrap metal music - an extraordinary range of acoustic phenomena resulting in trance-inducing sounds. This documentary shows how his music changed and grew and how his personal journey led him to the margins of art and the depths of heart. From 2007-2015, director Ellen Zweig followed Z'EV, shooting concerts and interviews, and collecting archival footage. In addition…
Shed Light On The Origins
With side A and side AA “Shed light on the origins” dissolves the B side, mocking polarities. Thus, Carbon Sink & Z’EV invite us to enter in an electric climate world, crossed by AC high voltages, and by electromagnetic waves of luminous gases. A trip across the elementary particles on hypnotic rhythms, to the encounter of cyborg-birds, interferences and echoes. “Shed light on the origins” is an electroacoustic music in a “dark-tropical” style.
as/if/when
Sub Rosa presents works by industrial music pioneer, Z'EV. The physical vibrations of the objects in his works with both text and sound has been influenced by the Middle Eastern mystical system best known as Kabbalah, as well as -- but not limited to -- African, Afro-Caribbean and Indonesian rhythms, musics and cultures. He has studied Ewe music, Balinese gamelan, and Indian tala. From 1959-1965 he studied drumming with Arnie Frank, then Chuck Flores and then Art Anton at Drum City in Van …
Sang
Marc Hurtado, voice and instruments (recorded by Marc Hurtado at Fire Music Studio, France). Z'ev, percussions (recorded by Z'ev in London, UK). Mixed and mastered by Marc Hurtado at Fire Music Studio. Art Direction and photos by Marc Hurtado.
Reverbalizations
Z’ev and Simon Balestrazzi are two masters of the industrial and post-industrial sound.The first inventing his own world of self made metallic percussions, the second spreading the seeds of the industrial noise pollinated with electronica and future folk forms through his various outputs, T.A.C. (Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata), Dream Weapon Ritual and Candor Chasma.This record takes shape from several encounters between the two. A Z’ev live recording in Cagliari, Sardinia from 2007 is …
Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear
DOUBLE CD EDITION: For the second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev performed together, and this was the first time they recorded it. Part of the Sub Rosa/Laboratoire Central sessions, this is unreleased material from Charlemagne's lair -- a place now called "Charleworld," where both fellows spent three days in June 2010. "I first started to play the bells while at a high school for music and art in the '60s at St. Thomas Church across the street from the Museum of Modern Art…
Ghost Time
Ghost Time is Ken Hyder, Z'EV, Andy Knight. Ghost Time is a unique trio, fusing tastes of ambient and drone with spices of neo-folk and jazz into Dead Jazz. A true witch's stew where everything is of the moment. Recorded live and direct from the Ghost Time. The lineup is unusual too. English pocket trumpeter Andy Knight is flanked by two drummer-percussionists, Z'EV from the USA and Ken Hyder from Scotland. As a group they allude to traces of greatly diverse influences and traditions. Bas…
The Dossier Years
After leaving Subterranean Records, Z' ev moved on to the fabulous German label Dossier for his next two albums. "Schönste Muziek" and "Bust This!" were released in 1986/1988 and bring you the classical Z'ev percussion sound. Rarely has he been more innovative and more experimental in his work, a great variety of sounds is being created out of all kinds of percussion instruments. On this CD re-issue, both these albums have been carefully remastered. Possibly a perfect starting point if you want …
EyEar
EyEar presents for the first time the visual experimentations of legendary percussionist and musician Z´EV, part of live events series using percussion and rhythm to alter visual pattern waves, this DVD release is as hypnotic as it gets. An inner journey of Primitive Industrial Psychedelia.
There must be a way accross this river / The abject
EVP recordings made in 2009 by Esposito at the onetime home of Duncan in Prospect Heights, Illinois, to which the current resident would not permit entry (though his spouse had previously agreed to it). Heidi Harman, the medium who was present at the encounter, heard Duncan's name specified by the voice. There Must Be A Way Across This River represents Duncan's involvement and processing of the events at his childhood home; The Abject is the result of Z'ev dealing with the occurrences in …
The Deep Path
A monumental album featuring three impressive tracks in which Z'EV (mythical avant-garde experimental artist, percussion master and world wide performer), collects and exhibits brave and incredible sonic solutions, mixing and alternating enormous, deep and sometimes exploding and devastating sound masses based on low frequencies, to noisy metallic sounds, gongs and cymbal stratification... all oriented in temporary resounding "tunnels", where sonic elements are mixed through suggestive cy…
In V. Tro
A highly intriguing set of live recordings and "extreme aural mixes" capturing, for the first time, the disciplines of Larsen and Z'ev in collaboration. 'In V. Tro' was conceived as the soundtrack to a series of micro-cinematic images created between 1935 and 1985 at Bologna's Instituto di Anatomia Umana Normale (Basic Human Anatomy Institute) and assembled by professors Dario Cantino and Antonio Barasa. The images pay tribute to the maestro of anatomical discipline Giuseppe Levi, and there's a …
Intervals
'Z'EV: percussion. Jason Kahn: percussion, analog synthetizer. Recorded by Jason Kahn April 13-14, 2009 in Zürich and Lausanne, Switzerland. Mixed and mastered by Z'EV. Artwork by Mirt.' label info Jason Kahn, born 1960, New York, USA. Composition, installations, percussion, electronics. Based in Zürich, Switzerland. Z'EV. After studying at CalArts with Concrete Poet Emmett Williams he concentrated on producing visual and sound poetries, and was included in the ÔSecond Generation' show at the Mu…
Ghost Stories
special price offer: "Ghost Stories" was originally produced by Van Lagenstein for Helmholtz Theatre and recorded at De Duif, a legendary church in Amsterdam that features a major stained glass window of The Green Man. It was recorded in four hours, and all the takes were 'first takes'. It was remastered by Z'EV and Mark Wheaton for this release. The 20 pieces recorded at De Duif employed the entire range of instruments collected by Z'EV during the previous seven years of his residency in Europe…