So if you’re in Sydney you should listen to FBi all week. And if your elsewhere you should still listen to FBi all week.
If you’re in Melbourne then this Thursday you should come down to The Builders Arms where I’ll be playing with The Motifs and Tailor Made For A Small Room who are both great. I’ll have my party hat on and will blast some new tunes.
My new album “With the Moon alongside Racing Us Home” launched today. It’s available as a free download and also as CD in lovingly handmade cardboard sleeves made just for you. I wrote and recorded the album throughout 2009 in my bedroom studio dubbed The Pentagon, It has reoccuring themes of robots, dragons, anarchism and the night sky and a little three note refrain scattered throughout.
big things happening in zeal land. my new album is hitting the net july 4th! that’s only five more sleeps. the juicy details are as follows: it has eleven tracks, many of them mention robots, several mention dragons and the stars. the whole thing has a hearty serve of anti-authoritarianism. it’s a bit electronic, a bit folky, a bit poppy, a bit ukulele. i was listening to a lot of anticon when i wrote it so it’s got some wordiness in there too. it’s going to be a free download or you can buy the amazing handmade package you see above (and below). it’s all very exciting.
and if that wasn’t enough i’m puting togethert a new zeal website. if you see zealousy.com in your address bar you’re already looking at my shiny new site. there might some broken links in the archives as i shuffle things around but i’m on it. promise. and i have a show coming up too… i leave you in suspense for now. back to web making.
you might have noticed footage from the cuba is japan clip. it’s the first time it’s graced the intertrons and it may actually be completed sometime in the near future. ooh, tantalising eh?
for something not so completely different… i’m playing in adelaide next saturday! poster:
this site is going to be revamped in preperation for the launch of the new album so prep those eyeballs for some amazement.
gigs! i’m opening for the spectacular creatures of silence next tuesday the 11th of may at the brunswick hotel. should be a grand night. if you’re a melbournite, be there or be a pear.
then may 22nd i’m playing at the exeter in radelaide with the tenacious tiger choir. yay rads!
i’m also playing bass for the inexplicable tailor made for a small room this sunday the 9th at the builders arms. lots of fun stuff to post shortly. including the release of some sort of album. oh my.
i’ve upped some video from last weeks birmingham gig. i think this might be an internet debut for this track and one of the first examples of axis out in the wild! much more coming up soon.
I’ve been getting asked for this keypad to midi patch a lot recently so I thought I’d upload it. You can get it here. You’ll also need the free max/msp runtime from cycling74.com. If you’re on windows you’ll need loopbe too.
and remember – Zeal’s live Melbourne debut this Friday!
Zeal returns to the stage in his Melbourne debut (sort of) with some tops bands.
It’ll be an awesome night of experimental indie-poptronica, ear melty goodness and I’ll be unleashing some new songs and brandishing some new stagecraft. Woop!
I’ve had a few questions and comments regarding playing chords with axis. Here’s how to do it in ableton:
This’ll only work in ableton but there might be ways to do this using comprable vst plugins etc.
The new Zeal set is coming together and the first of many Melbourne gigs is lined up for April. Oh yeah, and did i mention I have a new album ready for release? next few posts should be bigguns…
zeal has been appearing in interesting corners of the blogosphere in the last couple of days. there’s an interview at fiese falle about process and gear. they’re the sort of things that interest me in interviews so maybe you’ll be into it.
also, there’s a write up about my guitar hero to midi app AXIS on one of my fav blogs – hack a day.
the post has drawn out some entertaining flames like: “Get a haircut and a real job. Also, learn to play the real guitar. It’s a lot more fun, I promise.”
upon reading that i got a hair cut and a real job and learned to play the “real” guitar. it’s not as fun.
speaking of fun – fun new things to buy appearing soon and even fun new ways to buy said fun new things. but for now…
Zeal is 25 year-old Melbournite, Robert Jarvis. He makes indietronica in his bedroom studio and animated music videos about cats in space on his bedroom floor.
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