Evidemment, les radios apprécient moyennement.
Quelques années plus tard, il se fait remarquer avec "Non-assistance", chanson proto-funk, ovni dans le contexte de l´époque.
Suivent quelques activités alimentaires , en vrac : arranger et diriger les séances d´enregistrement d´une équipe de rugby de renom, écrire des chansons pour un célèbre chanteur non-voyant, sortir une version house de la musique du jeu Tetris, ce genre de choses, tout ceci agrémenté de nombreuses musiques de pub, courts-métrages, génériques etc..
Parallèlement, il connait la jubilation d´écrire avec mc Solaar "love slow motion", le 1er single extrait de l´album "A la légère" pour Jane Birkin . Il monte également un groupe, Métèques, dont il qualifie la musique de harissa-pop et tourne pour promouvoir leur album jusqu´à ce que leur label mette la clef sous la porte.
Zackman décide alors de continuer en solo et s´écrit sur mesure un recueil de chansons joyeusement déprimées , un univers qu'il défend sur scène avec originalité et humour, une pop salad pour guitare, voix, loop pedal et instruments hétéroclites.
ENGLISH:
L’Homme Zack
Born and raised in sunny Casablanca, Morroco, living in gay Paris, his debut single was produced by his uncle, - his mother is the twin sister of- legendary french cult artist Serge Gainsbourg.
The first lyrics of his first song ever recorded, approved, signed and delivered by the illustrious rock poet were chanting something like : « got my dick in my hand, and a joint in my mouth ». Shocking !
And obviously, Zackman didn’t get much airplay on that one …
Another confidential frenchie protofunk single later, we find Zackman again engaged in various creative activities such as :arranging and directing recording sessions for a famous rugby team, releasing a dancefloor cover version of the Tetris’s music, the famous Nintendo game, while offering to various singers his songwriting expertise (among them british-french adopted actress-singer Jane Birkin). He also often writes soundtracks for movies (one of them selected for the Cannes festival) as for TV shows .
He also formed his own band : Meteques (funk-rock-reggae with an oriental scent) and toured to promote their eponymous album until their label abruptly went AWOL.
So free at last, in his city of light, he’s deciding to follow his own track, and in order to do so he‘s performing live these epic new songs he wrote all by himself, alone with his guitar, a loop pedal and a few exotic instruments of his own. That Zackman is new, fresh , fun, poetic, blazed, eccentric and so much more…