Yves WEYH, accordion
Alexandre WIMMER, guitar
Vincent POSTY, el. bass
Pascal GULLY, drums
Influences
ZAKARYA loots the most various of musical styles.
From rock, it takes the sound group. From contemporary musics, polyrhythms and un-tonality. From dance music, the direct and popular side. From jazz, the improvisation. From Klezmer or Balkan musics, their melodies. "Musiques concrètes" or electronic, cartoons, circuses, sound effects and minimalism are not forgotten. With all those elements, ZAKARYA makes a stimulating and surprisingly original music. Here, folk arts are coming close to the avant-garde; the composed and the improvised are walking hand in hand; jazz and rock exchange winks. The only rule is to play a personal, rigorous and exhilarating music. Compositions "à tiroir", hidden beats, musical puzzles, culinary recipes as scores, clichés. Each of us is invited to listen to the story in the story, to appreciate the wheeze or to unravel the scripts which are building this repertoire.
Sounds Like
DISCOGRAPHY : * Zakarya. "The true story concerning Martin Behaim" - Tzadik - release end of 2008 * Zakarya, " 413 A ", featuring Marc Ribot - Tzadik - 2006 * Zakarya, " something obvious " - Tzadik - 2003 * Zakarya, eponymous - Tzadik - 2001
ZAKARYA is a French quartet founded in 1999. In 2000, John ZORN, leader of New York's musical avant-garde, discovered the compositions of the unclassified accordionist and band's leader, Yves WEYH and proposed to produce their first CD on his prestigious label TZADIK. Only French band produced by John ZORN, ZAKARYA, released its first album in 2001. In the midst of TZADIK, their name comes close to others like Masada, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, and Mike Patton...and the CD is available all over the world (USA, Europe, Japan...).
Two years later, in 2003, TZADIK produced ZAKARYA's second album, "SOMETHING OBVIOUS".
August 2006 : ZAKARYA releases its third cd produced by TZADIK, "413 A", featuring the guitarist Marc RIBOT.
End of 2008 : New release on TZADIK : "THE TRUE STORY CONCERNING MARTIN BEHAIM"
OUT NOW on Idiosyncratics Records : Phil Maggi - Blue Fields in Paramount CD
..Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a stricly limited to 300 copies ekopack edition with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek...
Quand un quatuor classique s'enflamme sur un rythme à 5 temps, porté par un quartet de jazz et des tambours de l'Afrique et des Antilles, notre sale histoire commune liée par les chaînes de l'esclavage s'écrase devant l'évidence que l'humanité respire et gronde dans l'altérité.
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HAPPY EASTER FROM WOODSTOCK 2009! thank for your friendship,great musik be invited to listen to my new song the crazy Derwish "woodstock"Demoversion in celebration of the event's 40th anniversary! I'll be delighted to receive a message / your comment. Peace!
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