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Artist:	ZEV
Title:	Queen Of Hearts
Label:	HALLUCINATION LIMITED
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HLT 016EP

Hallucination Limited delivers a limited edition vinyl-only release from Zev of Wolf + Lamb. Gathered here are Zev's strongest outings for the club since the brilliant "Forget The World feat. Beckford." "Queen Of Hearts" is one of the freshest takes you've heard of good ole house music. Pushing all the right buttons, but also some most would never think to. "Can't Get High" taps directly into the spirit of Brooklyn's nu-disco house scene while "Tonight" plays like a lost classic.

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Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	Symphony #2 Elementalities
Label:	BLOSSOMING NOISE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	BN 015CD

"A pioneer of the 'industrial' movement, Z'ev has been cultivating his percussive noise for over 20 years. Collaborating with the likes of Glenn Branca, Genesis P. Orridge, KK Null & Stephen O'Malley, to name a few. Started in late 2005, Symphony #2 was composed in London using source material drawn from his live performance in October 1990 at the Wang Concert Hall, Amsterdam. Completed January 2006 in L.A., Elementalities is a text/sound document and comes housed with a 12-page booklet."

Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	Production and Decay of Spacial Relations...
Label:	DIE STADT (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	DIESTADT 091CD

...vs. Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations. "Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the very first Z'ev studio album which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, Die Stadt is proud to announce the re-release of Production and Decay of Spacial Relations for the first time on CD. It features the original seven tracks from the vinyl plus six 'recodings' entitled 'Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations' made by Z'ev in May/June 2005. Back in the day, Z'ev used to bring boxes over from Holland when he would come back to New York City which he would sell to Bleeker Bob (a famous record shop situated in the East Village of NY) who told him: 'this is the best industrial record ever and I sell it to every Japanese buyer who comes into the store.' The CD is housed in a reproduction of the original LP (!) cover and comes with a special handmade insert. First edition of 500 copies. Total playing time: 79:57 min. The first edition of 500 copies also includes a bonus CD with never before released archive material all recorded in 1982."

Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	as/if/when
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SR 229LP

Sub Rosa presents works by industrial music pioneer, Z'EV. The physical vibrations of the objects in his works with both text and sound has been influenced by the Middle Eastern mystical system best known as Kabbalah, as well as -- but not limited to -- African, Afro-Caribbean and Indonesian rhythms, musics and cultures. He has studied Ewe music, Balinese gamelan, and Indian tala. From 1959-1965 he studied drumming with Arnie Frank, then Chuck Flores and then Art Anton at Drum City in Van Nuys, CA. In 1963, he abandoned Judaism and began his life-long relationship with World religions and esoteric systems. 1964 saw the beginning of his initial attempts at writing poetry and explorations of both two and three-dimensional artforms. After studying at CalArts from 1969-1970 with poets Emmett Williams and Michael S. Bell and writer/critic Sue-Ellen Case, he began producing works using the name S. Weisser, primarily concentrating on visual and sound poetries. In 1975, he was included in the "Second Generation" show at the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco. In 1976 he moved from Los Angeles to the Bay Area, ending up with a storefront studio on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, pretty much midway between the headquarters of the Black Panther Party, (who dissolved that year), and the Hells Angels (still extant). A primary reason for this move was his association with the San Francisco Alternative exhibition space La Mamelle (run by Carl Loeffler and Nancy Evans). In 1977 he presented his first solo percussion performance under the project title "Sound of Wind and Limb." In 1978 he began developing an idiosyncratic performance technique utilizing self-developed instruments formed from industrial materials such as stainless steel, titanium, and PVC plastics. Critic John Buckley described his performances in this era: "the instruments are collections of objects ... strung together with ropes and swung at varying speeds and directions to produce a fairly astonishing range of pitches and timbres. And the moves the guy goes through to manipulate these instruments are, for grace and athleticism, strong stuff. Z'EV is also interesting for the close correlation of visual and musical aspects, since the physical vibrations of the objects you see are the same as those picked up by the ears as sound. Also, since the rhythms of the work are dictated by the performer's every and any movement, an inevitable integrity unifies the act." Here are two pieces from the artist's early sound experiments: "As," recorded in 1978 at the KPFK radio station in Los Angeles, and "If," recorded at Savoy Tivoli in San Francisco. On clear vinyl.

Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	as/if/when
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SR 275CD

Sub Rosa presents works by industrial music pioneer, Z'EV. The physical vibrations of the objects in his works with both text and sound has been influenced by the Middle Eastern mystical system best known as Kabbalah, as well as -- but not limited to -- African, Afro-Caribbean and Indonesian rhythms, musics and cultures. He has studied Ewe music, Balinese gamelan, and Indian tala. From 1959-1965 he studied drumming with Arnie Frank, then Chuck Flores and then Art Anton at Drum City in Van Nuys, CA. In 1963, he abandoned Judaism and began his life-long relationship with World religions and esoteric systems. 1964 saw the beginning of his initial attempts at writing poetry and explorations of both two and three-dimensional artforms. After studying at CalArts from 1969-1970 with poets Emmett Williams and Michael S. Bell and writer/critic Sue-Ellen Case, he began producing works using the name S. Weisser, primarily concentrating on visual and sound poetries. In 1975, he was included in the "Second Generation" show at the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco. In 1976 he moved from Los Angeles to the Bay Area, ending up with a storefront studio on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, pretty much midway between the headquarters of the Black Panther Party, (who dissolved that year), and the Hells Angels (still extant). A primary reason for this move was his association with the San Francisco Alternative exhibition space La Mamelle (run by Carl Loeffler and Nancy Evans). In 1977 he presented his first solo percussion performance under the project title "Sound of Wind and Limb." In 1978 he began developing an idiosyncratic performance technique utilizing self-developed instruments formed from industrial materials such as stainless steel, titanium, and PVC plastics. Critic John Buckley described his performances in this era: "the instruments are collections of objects ... strung together with ropes and swung at varying speeds and directions to produce a fairly astonishing range of pitches and timbres. And the moves the guy goes through to manipulate these instruments are, for grace and athleticism, strong stuff. Z'EV is also interesting for the close correlation of visual and musical aspects, since the physical vibrations of the objects you see are the same as those picked up by the ears as sound. Also, since the rhythms of the work are dictated by the performer's every and any movement, an inevitable integrity unifies the act." This release presents pieces from the artist's early sound experiments: "As," recorded in 1978 at the KPFK radio station in Los Angeles; "If," recorded in 1982 at Savoy Tivoli in San Francisco; and "When," recorded in 1983 at Shaffy Theatre, Amsterdam.

Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	Headphone Musics, 1 To 6
Label:	TOUCH (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TO 063CD

"In 1967 Z'EV took a tape music class at the UCLA night school. The leader of the course was Joseph Byrd who was the founder and theoretician of the first electronic rock band; The United States of America. So while it's almost 40 years now that he has been involved in the production of electro-acoustic music, Headphone Musics marks the first release of a product exclusively featuring this form of music. All of the source material is drawn from the collection of cassette tapes Z'EV has amassed over the last 30 years -- sounds and soundscapes he has either recorded himself or witnessed, or tapes that have been given to him by various peoples on his travels or been received by him through the mail from fans etc. Technically he remains a bit orthodox in that basically he still plies the old tools of the tape manipulation trade in the current digital sphere. What this means is that he concentrates on editing, phase relationships, time dilation, and inherent and 3rd harmonic distortion as his only means of processing the information he is transforming. There is no looping involved, although #2 features a recording he made in 1984 using his controlled-skipping Lenco turntable. 'As Is As' is a live recording of a sound poem Z'EV produced and performed under the name 'S. Weisser' at a Sound Poetry Festival in 1976 at the La Mamelle art space in San Francisco. It was produced using 2 reel to reel tape decks, 3 cassette decks, and 2 microphones."

Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	The Sapphire Nature
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 7161

"One of the world's premier noise percussionists and a learned scholar of Kabbalah, Torah and Talmud, Z'ev has been a vital force in the downtown scene since the late 1970s. In addition to his collaborations with Glenn Branca, Rudolph Grey and his fascinating solo work, Z'ev is also a prolific writer and musical thinker. He has written on subjects ranging from music composition, ritual performance and has also translated several esoteric Tibetan and Hebrew texts into English. His latest study is Metaphonics, the spiritual in sound, and The Sapphire Nature is his first musical creation based on these principles. Accompanied by 54 pages of text in both English and Hebrew (in PDF files), the music is an atmospheric and hypnotic symphony of bangs, clangs and howls in the night."

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Artist:	ZEV
Title:	Don't Break It
Label:	WOLF AND LAMB
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WLM 011EP