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zenmetalshirt

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zenmetalshirt is experimental electronica, industrial, breakcore, metal,ambient.
zenmetalshirt is a one man - music - project formed in 1997. it has grown out of roy’s need to develop his musical world beyond trend-measurements.
his ambition is to produce powerful, straightforward music.
there is no preproduced stuff in his music.


a review from streetblast.com about zenmetalshirt in january 08:

...a phenomena emerging from Zurich, Switzerland

...an acquired listen at first, and becomes almost addictive thereafter. It’s the rawest form of acid/industrial...

I have NOT heard anything like this before, and that is refreshing.

...it cannot be compared to anything produced by the like of NIN, Skinny Puppy, or other bands in this class.

In review, would I recommend this music? Sure. This is not sanitized by any means, and the mainstream market would turn up their nose with ignorance to the art form that is this choreographed "noise," simply because they would not be able to understand the vision and depth of the musical techniques involved.

Sophistication is a great word to define the results of "Zen Metal Shirt’s" tracks, only because this is an exhibition of musical genius, and not a sugar coated mechanism to simplify electronic music.

The exploration of sound, in it’s rawest and yet advanced electronic form is exciting for me. "Zen Metal Shirt" is the supplier of that excitement, and while it may be an acquired listen at first, it could be the future of electronic music.


listen to the other songs of zenmetalshirt and please buy some for the support of médecins sans frontières on the kaazong player...


I made this music player at MyFlashFetish .com.

8-2008 please have a look at the great illustrations of my friend bea and visit her website...and add, if you like her art ! ( click here )



the zenmetalshirt donation - player; my ethical commitment

please have a look on the left side for the kazzong-player.

i want my music to make sense - more than just my personal musical expression, i want music to heal the world in a very practical way. i want to say to all musicians: help the ones that are in need to satisfy their fundamental rights for health. every song you buy will be a direct support for the medecins sans frontieres.

kazzong will donate 0,50 euro for every of the first 200 downloaded songs!

85% of the earnings for one year will go directly to the "medecins sans frontieres" - no matter if i sell one song or a billion! I WILL GET NO CENT ! if i earn 1 billion, i spend 1 billion, that’s the fact. if you doubt my credibility please contact " kazzong " or medecins sans frontieres switzerland or send me a message.

after 1 year kazzong will directly submit all the earnings to the medecins sans frontieres.

please install the player on your myspace-site too . your place in my tops will be for sure and all the earnigs there go exactly the same way.

join " my ethical 20 cents " if you want to go further . decide for your ethical commitment now...

please visit kazzong (click on the logos) or read the blog (in german) on blog.kazong.com .






january 15.07: fugue on terrorism - collaboration with the great pappa thorpe

pappa sent 22 waves to me; i mashed them up with my live-recorded and looped drumbeats, arranged and send them back...he reorded some beautiful voice over - vocals and out comes the new electronic-industrial-metal-flow-job (go to pappa thorpes myspace-site here )...


...a kind of psychedelic nightmare originated by the overpowering information & fear overload of the massmedia and governments.

christmas-project: rmx for pink noise - strike&recoil ...based only on synthsounds by the amazing canadian artist pink noise and drums played by myself, finished dec 17 at 3am // visit pink noise and listen to the original: here


NEW 2 Dec. 07:
LIVEPERFORMANCE07: excerpt from our (charles atan and me) live performance in stammheim - zurich, 20. april 2007
the ’lesezirkel stammheim’ invited charles atan and me for the topic ’electronic music, not only boomboom’ (elektronische musik, nicht nur bumm bumm). klick here for a quality download.

narrations: american hiroshima veterans and andy reinhart, zurich, reading my "heile welt" nightmares


i am very proud and happy ’pandateam’ , one of my favourite bands on myspace, puts my dirty & noisy heilewelt-remix of their great new song ’panda propaganda’ on their remix site...please visit them and look there what i have done to them here



My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/1/2006
Band Website: zenmetalshirt.com
Band Members: zenmetalshirt
Influences:

° pink floyd ° suicidal tendencies ° soulfly ° tool ° metallica ° bach ° dr.seuss ° hieronymus bosch ° enki bilal ° jean michael jarre ° alistair maclean ° manowar ° faith no more ° mani matter ° tom waits ° glenn gould ° toy dolls ° edvard grieg ° hg wells ° bob dylan ° mozart ° paco de lucia ° daft punk ° carl orff ° jiddu krishnamurti ° primus ° ennio morricone ° david lynch ° motorhead ° clint eastwood ° michael nyman ° public enemy ° john prine ° RHCP ° john carpenter ° peter greenaway ° faithless ° NWA ° terry gilliam ° jrr tolkien ° john frusciante ° soundgarden ° ang lee ° system of a down ° quentin tarantino ° audioslave ° apocalyptica ° sepultura ° tchaikovsky ° alan parker ° my ableton autofilter °

° the deep, dark and bright soul °


THE DONATION ZENMETALSHIRT-PLAYER; if i earn 1 million i donate 1 million to the médecins sans frontières!

i really want to change something. i don’t see no sense in selling music for my own profit.

so i garantuee i will donate every cent i earn for the songs in the player below to the organisation " medecins sans frontieres " from today january-21-2008 until january-21-2009 .

so each song you’ll buy will be a direct support for this great organisation (actually 85% of your payment - 15% goes to kazzong, that’s fair).


(please feel free to put this player on your myspace site - every song sold there too will be donated to msf)

THANKS TO KAZZONG FOR THEIR SUPPORT!

médecins sans frontières now support this project! please contact them via their homepage in switzerland if you have questions about my credibility (click here )


More than 34 000 views till august 08! thank you, audience!!!
(thank you, beethoven!)

inspired by the fantastic movie "elephant" by gus van sant, i put together the clip for a theatre-project named "amok2006"; it was shown on a cinema-screen between sequences played by my students. all psychedelic-effects are handmade...don’t know nothing about the pianist. to me it sounds perfectly warm and slow...yes...watch it if you need to slow down a bit...



Sounds Like: ...it has to sound. no compromise.
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

HARTMANNSWILLERKOPF - reinterpretation of "fly away" by Jennifer Thomas

some weeks ago i visited the Hartmannswillerkopf in Elsass-Lothringen with my students - an warseat in World War 1 where thousands of soldiers fought face to face for some feet of territory. the place...
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:26:00 PST

label thy resistance °°° review on streetblast.com

streetblast posted another awesome review on streetblast.com.....Regardless, this collaboration has melted into a song that creates an semi-angry, anquished, melodic, technological, industrial, almost...
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Sat, 17 May 2008 01:42:00 PST

join my group and post something smart...

if you, like me, don't care about mainstream and you're the same time frustrated and glad you have no success and maybe you find there's a lot of stupid sites on myspace, you don't want to be categori...
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:15:00 PST

humanchas bulletin about "my ethical 20 cents"; virtual humanchain

the new italian organization humancha has a great plan: build virtual human-chains for a better world! i'm glad to be one of the first supporters and want humancha help to spread the amazing idea......
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:40:00 PST

AWESOME REVIEW ON STREETBLAST.COM

i am extremely thankful to jake for the awesome review about my musical project on streetblast.com. please check out the review on:streetblast.com some excerpts from the review: °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°There ...
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:38:00 PST

flammen aus angst...gedicht 2

die wüste ist schwarznur ein greller punktdann schneidendes kreischen und ruhe rundumjemand in flammen läuft auf mich zuflackern und kreischenrundum ist ruhich stehe stillbin ich denn dagelähmt in der...
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:17:00 PST

Militär, fällt nicht schwer...ein Gedicht

Ein kleines Gedicht. Auf der Rückfahrt von der Arbeit in mein Hirn gerutscht. Ohne Anlass. Mit einer kleinen Melodie...vielleicht werde ich es mal vertonen.MilitärFällt nicht schwerBist du dummbumbumb...
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:48:00 PST

roys heile welt zum lesen

verlangsamt für web und clip-gewöhnte seelen, aber stetig wächst meine heile welt in musik, texten und geschichten.die geduld ist mein freund. die zeit der boden...keine dieser geschichten ist abgesch...
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:29:00 PST

rap-project with my students

a school project this summer led to 16 rap-songs, the students mainly made themselves.they're about 13 to 15 years old. they had to write the lyrics themselves. our guidance was: write what comes from...
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:19:00 PST

giving up anonymity; energy-consuming dualism

been thinking about this a lot the recent months. just felt for a long time like splitting up in 2 personalities; the father, husband, teacher, neighbour, walk-out-the-dogs-guy, handyman against the u...
Posted by zenmetalshirt on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:57:00 PST