Oscar Jan Hoogland, Amsterdam 1983, is an improviser, pianist, composer who is working actively in the field of both music and dance improvisation in Amsterdam. Doing so he works within fixed bands and groups as well as in first time collaboration settings. Besides improvising he has composed for several theater and dance pieces and has been writing for his own groups as well as for other ensembles and soloists.
Renato 'Meganha' Ferreira
Double bassist, saxophonist, composer, born in Brazil, temporary immigrant in Europe, passport C category, mentally disturbed by: bureaucracy, social humiliation, university degree, laws, work, and bad treatments by national and international police.
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Pandelis Diamantides - music/sound design
Emmanuel Flores Elías - visuals
ZLB, debuted in 2007 with the shoegaze flavored and minimalism inspired “Through the eyes of a dream”. More recently he has been flowing into ambient and drone delicate tapestries, weaved with the objective of slowly making your soul wonder into other worlds, at the same time strange and familiar.
His latest album, “I was vaguely aware of something” is “of a meditative nature with psychedelic undertones, a gentle calmness sometimes shadowed by the threat of anxiety, of being launched outwards”.
ZLB is currently working on a massive simulated spatial string system, which will spit out a densely packed spectrum of all your favorite frequencies, and then, many more too. Slow delicate evolution of sometimes calming, other times unsettling drones is still the plat du’jour.