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Michael "ZoZ" Hazera

Michael Hazera

About Me

Michael Hazera started hitting on his drums at the age of twelve. His first band was the french band SOTOS, whose music was often refered to as avant-prog, Rock In Opposition , zeuhl, progressive rock, etc...He released two albums with them, which met with strong acclaim throughout the world.With the help of his teacher, jazz master Benat Amorena, he refines his personnal style and touch, and then enters the French National School of Music, from which he graduates.Since the late 90s, experimenting various styles of music, he played in numerous jazz, avant-garde, rock, pop or even blues bands, such as ZAAR, Kobaïa Emgalaï Kolektiw, Trio Issachar, HOMA, L’Ornithorynque, Grand Jean-Luc etc...Today, at the age of 26, he played more than 200 concerts, toured throughout France, participated in 10 studio albums, composed original soundtracks for documentaries, short cuts, websites, artist videos etc... Among his principal influences : Christian Vander (Magma), Daniel Denis (Univers Zero, Present), David King (Happy Apple, Bad Plus), Joey Baron (Masada...)

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Member Since: 2/6/2007
Band Website: zaarweb.com
Band Members: Michael Hazera : drums, percussion...
Influences: Magma King Crimson Henry Cow 5uu's Bob Drake Univers Zero Gong Present U Totem Thinking Plague John Zorn Fred Frith Stravinsky Bartok Miles Davis John Cotrane Happy Apple Shub Niggurath etc...
Sounds Like: ZAAR : Pau (France), June 2006, last concert... Kobaïa Emgalaï Kolektiw rehearsing Magma's Kohntarkosz / Nov. 2005Francis Lassus' "Elegantes Machines" in May 2007 (I'm in the top left corner !)..
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Record Label: Cuneiform Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ptäh Sextet

Ptäh Sextet is my new band. It was formed in October 2007. The main goal was to have fun, by doing covers of our favorite bands. We started with covers of King Crimson and Magma (check out the mp3s on...
Posted by Michael "ZoZ" Hazera on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:10:00 PST

!!! NEWS !!!

- Finished mixing and mastering the first 3 pieces for the AKHAN album...I'm really enthusiastic about this album. The pieces are really good, and the sound is great. - Recorded a drum part for a piec...
Posted by Michael "ZoZ" Hazera on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST

AKHAN PROJEKT

My brother Yan died on November 10, 2006, in Barcelona (Spain), after an accidental downfall. His music lives... We had started, he and myself, recording a new album. This album will happen, I reall...
Posted by Michael "ZoZ" Hazera on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:08:00 PST

ZAAR

From left to right : Cosia (hurdy-gurdy), Michael Hazera (drums), Pairbon (bass), Yan Hazera (guitar) http://cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/zaar.html A quartet of musicians who know exactly what they...
Posted by Michael "ZoZ" Hazera on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:41:00 PST

SOTOS

.. From left to right : Nadia Leclere (cello), Yan Hazera (guitar), Michael Hazera (drums), Nicolas Cazaux (violin), Bruno Camiade (bass)..> http://cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/sotos.html ..>.....
Posted by Michael "ZoZ" Hazera on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:17:00 PST