Zombie Zombie

Zombie Zombie is a completely different story. Change the mask of joy for an expression of universal horror! Forsake merriment and indulge in mournful reflections! The main avenue of the amusement park leads to a sinister graveyard. In the case of the duo Zombie Zombie, the name defines consciousness, essence, atmosphere, and all other characteristics of the group. Parisians Cosmic Neuman (drums) and Étienne Jaumet (synthesizers) play kraut-rock infused with anxious disco rhythms and graveyard howls. Of all the scrawny youths who began to disturb the kraut-rock and dark-disco field in the early 2000s (120 Days, Turzi, Padded Cell, David Gilmour Girls), these are the scariest. Probably because Cosmic and Étienne admit that they not only draw inspiration from but literally follow all the rules of composing music for horror films. Thus, the album "A Land For Renegades", according to Zombie Zombie, was entirely conceived under the impression of Peter Watkins' film "Paradise Park." In addition to cat-like yowling and haunting screeches, the guys use a whole warehouse of vintage synthesizers - Roland, Arp, Moog, theremin; when all this multilevel machinery is set up on stage, a picture no less majestic than the finale of "Night of the Living Dead" unfolds before the concertgoers of Zombie Zombie. In their other guise, the guys perform a cover version of Iggy Pop's song "Nightclubbing" - here references to film products are not acceptable, but rather to the best examples of no-wave such as Can or Suicide. "Their layered, throttled drums, humming synths and sighing electronic organs, melodic glockenspiels, and all their manner of building horror culminate in a kraut-prog bad trip that hits you in the face with angry winds and ragged screams," wrote reviewer Philippe Sherburne about the Parisian music in the magazine Wire.