NEWS

Tammy Newell of mybrum.co.uk writes with insight and gusto about Zang's own growling, whistling street folkster. As well as a short article there's an interview with Benjamin as well. Thanks for the local love:

http://www.mybrum.co.uk/article/benjamin-blower-artists-of-2011

 

The Army of the Broken Hearted will be hitting Union Street at noon this Saturday 29th January, right in the thick of the 2-dimentional, businessman-made, commercial deities that we all grew up to fear and desire. We, the ABH, will be contending for the sacredness of humankind against the sexual commodification of womankind for profit. Come along with your pots, pans and shakers and lets see how long we last.

Also, maybe ready to buy some flowers, if you like, because there's a nice lady selling flowers nearby, and she'd appreciate it.

2011 is now happening and we here at Zang are squaring up for Fction Fight's first ever long player. Barrowclough and Benjamin Blower have new releases in the canon. Selina Blakeney is sitting on a mine's worth of coal she's been crushing into musical diamonds ...and there's other things too, but we're not saying about that yet.


For anybody who need forgiveness, there's a new free download from Benjamin Blower's Darkness sessions.

Zang very proudly presents ZANGTHOLOGY 2000-2010, a compilation celebrating the indie- label's first decade of work.

We have selected 30 tracks from the first 10 years of Zang featuring University of the King, Ickberg, Benjamin Blower, The Custodians and Bethan Marshall. For some of these tracks, it is the first time they have been available online...

Today we see the release of Waler's first album on Zang.

After honing their work in a string of socially conscious dance/hip hop EPs, Waler have put together their Zang debut: an album of high-energy, idiosyncratic pop music. Vincent Gould and John Napier cut popular music to shreds and paste it back together into things crystallised - iconic upon first listening. Popular music boiled down to its basic elements. Popular culture stripped of every facade and pretence. It exists somewhere in the mind of the post modern, before it’s even been played.

Formulas: a tribute to early ‘90’s dance music, Italo-disco and 80’s new wave. Every loop, every guitar riff and every iconic chorus is loaded with irony and a grave suspicion of our inherited musical history, as well as fathomless love and nostalgia.

The album is available on iTunes and in the Zang Online Store right now.

It will be available on Spotify and most other digital download site from next Monday...

Say Anything is first single from Josiah Gillespie's debut album, here is the music video...