"We are excited to premiere the new video from J Hacha De Zola called “Super Squeaky” today at Pancakes And Whiskey. The song is off his new album entitled Icaro Nouveau and lucky for us, it’s out this Friday (3-29-19)…
'Super Squeaky' has a disjointed, yet sneaky and bluesy backbeat that snakes around the emotional vocals and storytelling." …
Read More“Earlier this year, I wrote about J. Hacha De Zola, Rahway, NJ-born, Jersey City, NJ-based singer/songwriter and musician, who became a scientist and musician because of his father’s massive influence on his life. About a year within his Biochemistry, Ph.D. program, Hacha De Zola’s father died….”
Read More"Icaro Nouveau is a dark tango, a gothic circus, a dirty, melodic cacophony you just have to love. Based in classic Latin American folk, J Hacha De Zola created his very own, unique blend of Gothic Norteño and Tango. Imagine Los Tigres del Norte combined with The Tiger Lillies ."…
Read MoreJ Hacha De Zola’s new album was Produced by John Agnello, a career–long cohort of another “J” – J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, and most recently the man behind albums by Waxahatchee, Nothing, and many more. Hacha De Zola describes the new album as as full of “villains, spells, desires, romance, danger. redemption, and revelations.” …
Read More“…Sung entirely in Spanish, the four tracks here suggest what might have happened if Julio Iglesias had teamed up with Joy Division, or if Bryan Ferry had been raised in Barcelona.” - Jim Testa, Jersy Beat
Read MoreBTRtoday presents the first song from the upcoming album ‘Icaro Nouveau.’…
Read MoreThe Big Takeover has a special sonic treat for those of you who are visiting the site this weekend – a premiere on a Saturday – of a dangerously delightful, whirling, and rhythmic cha-cha-cha track called, appropriately, “On A Saturday” by PASTE-approved musical “wild man” J Hacha De Zola…
Read MoreHacha De Zola – Released his four song E.P. Syn Illusión on November 16 of this year. The E.P. which is entirely in Spanish, is raising eyebrows for not only his fans but the industry as well. Heavy on the 80’s synth sound, the lead single and title of the album, is intriguing. It’s as if the late Michael Hutchence decided to partner with Joy Division and create a driving, emotional opus…
Read More“Syn Illusión” an original, all-Spanish language EP that Hacha De Zola will release on Nov. 16th via the artist’s Caballo Negro label, could very well open this man that UTNE described as “the kind of alluring character found in old children’s books” to an audience as unexpected as this release is itself…
Read MoreA little over a year ago, BLURT spotlighted New Jersey’s J Hacha de Zola’s second album, Picaro Obscuro, premiering the remarkable “In Curtains” song, his Tom Waits-meets-Nick Cave sound as unique as any we’d heard in 2016. Now comes the new Antipatico, which apparently translates from Spanish as “unfriendly.”…
Read More18. J Hacha de Zola – Girl You Know It’s True (Milli Vanilli / Numarx cover)
“I remember when this song came out as a kid (just dated myself.) Admittedly, I secretly liked a few Milli Vanilli tunes – they were really quite infectious – just couldn’t get them out of your head when you heard them…
The fall installment of The Latest Noise Live! comes to Maxwell's Tavern on Saturday, Oct. 14, as Jersey City singer/songwriter J Hacha De Zola releases his latest album, "Antipatico."…
Read MoreThe artist known as J Hacha de Zola is a wild man in the vein of such fire breathing artists like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Captain Beefheart. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to find him emerging from a coffin onstage or sending his backing band through the conceptual wringer while writing songs in a secluded location…
Read MoreDark, driven and intense, New Jersey’s J Hacha de Zola describes his latest song as “a dirge – a march – a funerary march, almost – an ostentatious obscene lamentation full of noise & fury – anxiety – fear – grit.” Indeed, “March of the Hollowmen” carries within it a fantastic power that is as carnival-like and playful as it is possessed and cacophonic. Welcome to the circus of life…
Read MoreSinger/songwriter J Hacha De Zola premieres the track “A Fanciful Invention” and when there’s a song of this caliber we all must take note. The track is culled from De Zola’s latest release, Antipatico which drops on October 6th, 2017. This will be De Zola’s third full-length release which follows Jan. 2016’s Escape From Fat Kat City and Aug. 2016’s Picaro Obscuro. The New Jersey native has quickly made a name for himself, quickly turning around a third release in the span of just two years…
Read MoreOn October 6, singer/songwriter J Hacha de Zola will release his third album, Antipatico. The album follows two Beefheart-inspired records of mutant blues rock, and this time around he’s joined by guest artists such as Tom Waits collaborator Ralph Carney, Morphine’s Dana Colley and The Klezmatics’ Frank London. Today, Treble is premiering the new single from the album, titled “No Situation.” It’s a bluesy and atmospheric track, with a spacious and laid-back sensibility, de Zola citing influences such as Lee Hazelwood and Leonard Cohen. The former in particular is a strong parallel, the horns and lightly psychedelic guitars echoing Hazelwood’s idiosyncratic ’60s and ’70s productions. J Hacha de Zola released a statement about the track…
Read MoreWe get a lot of Ariana Grande covers submitted to us, and they tend to follow a formula: a young woman showcases her best arena-filling belt on YouTube. Like Mariah Carey before her, Ariana Grande songs offer an occasion to show off one’s vocal chops. Some of the belting is pretty good, but big, powerful singing doesn’t make an Ariana Grande cover any different than an Ariana Grande original. But now, finally, we have a musician taking a very different approach….
Read MoreRahway, NJ, native J Hacha De Zola is about to drop a new album (and second of 2016) on August 12, Picaro Obscuro. It contains track “In Curtains,” which heavily features Tom Waits collaborators Ralph Carney on sax, and David Coulter on percussion and violin, and you can hear it exclusively today right here…
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