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Not Acoustic

by J Hacha De Zola

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Strange (Not Acoustic) 04:23
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Lyrics: I feel so strange Everybody they look at me strange i know i should not complain As long as i maintain I feel so lost all around me these lines have been crossed i know i gotta win at all costs so i cut my loss i feel all these emotions inside of me oh inside of me crawled out from inside a hole in the galaxy of this galaxy Oh i feel so strange all around me the colors have changed i know i should not complain as long as i maintain i feel all these emotions inside of me oh inside of me crawled out from inside a hole the galaxy of this galaxy Oh i feel so strange Everybody looks at me strange i know i should not complain as long as i maintain i feel all these emotions inside of me oh inside of me crawled out from inside a hole of the galaxy of this galaxy Oh i feel so strange all around me the colors have changed i know i should not complain as long as i maintain
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Anarchy (Not Acoustic) 02:31
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Lyrics: Lemme tell you about a boy i knew He only learned to count to two Hang his head till the end of days Oh god if i only knew his name And then the drugs took him down And his body went a'missing He loved to take to the sky We love our government support We're broke And I need a little bit Cause right now I wanna get high I'm with the anarchy The anarchy With the anarchy It aint love no way I'm with the anarchy With the anarchy Oh yes I wanna get you high I'm gonna get you there I fare thee well Go be like everybody else Walked many a mile I've seen my dreams die Have a heart i cant save you Damn your mother And your god damn sister I wanna take to the sky We love our government support We're broke And I need a little bit Cause right now I wanna get high I'm with the anarchy The anarchy With the anarchy It aint love no way I'm with the anarchy With the anarchy Oh yes I wanna get you high
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Blue Sky (Not Acoustic) 04:39
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*Blue Sky* Stumbling through the poison rain Son of a violent Son alone with no direction home Yea but its time to go Guilty by association no destination off we go down a hole rabbit hole Blue sky find the truth behind the lies dark eyes i'm lost in your sin come on baby you gotta let me in I'm trapped on a singular path going no where and moving fast i know its time to go i go alone They say a body doesn't fall very fast moving forward no looking back unknown these boots find the road i'm on the road Blue sky find the truth behind the lies dark eyes i'm lost in your sin come on baby you gotta let me in
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Lost Space (Not Acoustic) 02:50
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Lost space I'm in a lone cold place Ever since you moved on I keep singing the same old song Lost space I'm in a lone cold place I don't know right from wrong Just keep on getting high all night long Morning Comes too quickly Quickly Comes the sun Dark wave On an evening train I'm never going back again Lost space I'm in a lost lost place As the night wore away I remember your name Lost space I'm in a cold cold place Ever since you moved on I keep singing the same old song Morning Comes too quickly Quickly Comes the sun Dark wave On an evening train I'm never going back again

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“Not Acoustic” EP (Winter 2022)

Jersey City-based J Hacha De Zola is currently in the studio completing the follow-up to his mid-2021 album East of Eden. After a recent session, he stepped back into the vocal booth to shoot a four-song “visual EP” of songs from his previous releases.

The release, entitled “Not Acoustic,” features Hacha De Zola accompanying his solo vocal takes with spare instrumentation, Spanish spoken intros, false starts, and everything else that makes these performances real and compelling. Even though the audio will drop on all streaming services on Jan. 28th, Hacha De Zola is most excited for the “visual EP” version.

“It’s a special distinction that I want to make here,” he explains. “The performance on video is the main focus. I think that hearing the audio of these performances hits differently. Seeing me do these select tunes in a personal, as if you are in the same room with me kind of way… this is how I want to present this EP.”

The stripped back versions of songs that have earned Hacha De Zola critical acclaim (“Strange” and “Blue Sky” originally appeared on the debut album Escape From Fat Kat City in 2016, “Anarchy” is from 2019’s Icaro Nouveau, and “Lost Space” is a 2021 East of Eden cut) reveals these compositions in a way that Hacha De Zola’s “reductive synthesis” approach to recording could not.

“I want to give a sense of how these songs are fleshed out before ‘studio magic’ comes into play,” he says. “It’s important to see and hear the imperfections. The majority of my songs are written in the studio, but that wasn’t the case with this particular set of tunes, some of my favorite ones at that.”

He concludes, “This is the real me – ugly, imperfect, and flawed – and I hope that maybe other folks will be inspired to express themselves as they are and let the bones fall where they may.”

J Hacha De Zola is currently completing his sixth full-length album for release later in 2022. His “Not Acoustic” EP, a four-song compilation of favorites from his catalog performed solo in the studio is out Jan. 28th, 2022.

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released January 28, 2022

Shot live in studio by Jerry Ramos
J Hacha De Zola 2021 | A Head, Wisdom And A Bed Publishing.
Produced by Jerry Ramos at Mercury Recording Studios
Mixed by Jerry Ramos at Mercury Recording Studios
Mastered by Nuno Del Torro at Tesla Mastering.

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“The kind of alluring character found in old children’s books.”

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“A wild man in the vein of such fire breathing artists like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Captain Beefheart.”

— Paste

“A fantastic power that is as carnival-like and playful as it is possessed and cacophonic.”

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