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ZAKARYA

About Me

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

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/30/2006
Band Website: tzadik.com
Band Members: Yves WEYH accordion, composition - Alexandre WIMMER guitars, electronic, composition - 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, new CD - Tzadik - release end of 2008
- Zakarya, " 413 A ", featuring Marc Ribot - Tzadik - 2006
- Zakarya, " something obvious " - Tzadik - 2003
- Zakarya, eponymous - Tzadik - 2001
Record Label: Tzadik
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"413 A" - English, german, italian & slovakian reviews

" 413 A " - REVIEW IN ENGLISH ZAKARYA"413 A"Probably one of the finest proponents of avant-klezmer to be found anywhere, Yves Weyh's Zakarya ensemble produce a heady mixture of traditional composition...
Posted by zakarya on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:19:00 PST

Zakarya has played there....

ZAKARYAConcertsFrance : _ Festival Jazz à Vienne _ Festival Sons d' Hiver _ Festival Banlieues Bleues _ Festival Jazz D' Or, Stra...
Posted by zakarya on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:01:00 PST

NEWSPAPER'S QUOTES - French

« Zakarya bouscule bien des préjugés en pulvérisant à l'envi jazz, klezmer et rock »LIBÉRATION - TOP 3 des meilleurs disques de l'année 2006  Dominique Queillé« Un chef-d'oeuvre de cuisine sonore 4 ...
Posted by zakarya on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:37:00 PST

Zakarya in the top 3 from the best cds 2006 in " LIBERATION "

Zakarya "413 A""Ce n'est pas un hasard si le 4tet strasbourgeois Zakarya mené par l'accordéoniste Yves Weyh a été repèré par John Zorn, apôtre avant-gardiste new-yorkais. Seul groupe français de son...
Posted by zakarya on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:02:00 PST