Zen Lu, experimental musician and sound artist, hosted and founded We Play!Records,and he is the founder of Neo Sound group,is now working and living in Shenzhen,China. In the past few years, while insisting on independent solo composing, Zenlu founded and joined in several local musical outfits. In 2002, he founded a post-rock group “Consciousness”. In 2004, he joined YOUNG CRAZY, and it was there he developed a huge interest in the genres of experimental electronica and industrial noise. In April 2006, he formed ZenBOBO and by that time he has become totally engrossed in composing minimalist/ambient music. In September 2006, he collaborated with Polish experimental musician Grzegorz Bojanek and formed ChoP, from which an album is to come out. In the future series of release of ChoP, two musicians of different nationalities will be invited to join in composing for each release. In May 2007,he founded Skybox duo with Dickson Dee. Zenlu has been released 4 CDs until now,and performed in New Vision Arts Festival(Hong Kong),SAND Festival(Hong Kong), Asia Europe Music Camp and Clandestino Festival(Gothenburg,Sweden), Moving Closer International New Media Festival(Warsaw,Poland),Chinese Sound Art in Poland project(5 cities in Poland),Get It Louder Exhibition(Guangzhou ,China),etc. Actively taking part both in solo and group composing, Zenlu has gradually established his another musical personality with his distinctively abstract and visual style of electronic music. Zenlu also organized experimental music/sound art performance in Shenzhen.
Now you can listen to the part of the live-act from Polish Radio EURO. This is a short version of the 12 minutes track called "EUROPA?". I play guitar in this track and use samples of the old grand piano.
MANIFESTA7 Thanks for the add !! Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will take place in the region of Trentino-South Tyrol Italy from 19 July until 2 November 2008.
this works are actually recorded in the nice tourist town Dresden where Jan lived for 4 years and on several places in germany/thuringia and denmark/sjaeland +++ Jan recorded all with an old 4-track, one old minidisc-recorder, two old guitars and some old pedals and a brand new notebook+++Enrico Wuttke aka Flim helped him out with some Fieldrecordings and beautiful Piano Pieces+++ new tracks are growing every day on his minidisc-walkman he records woods, highways/autobahnen, shopping centers, farms, children rooms, camping sites, rehearsel rooms and roofgardens ...etc and himself and his friends and familys+++ since spring 2007 he lives on a farm in thuringia, germany+++to be continued +++