Zea The Beginner

Four years after 'Insert Parallel Universe' Zea returns to earth with a the album 'The Beginner'. On the way Arnold de Boer left Remko Muermans in Russia, and since 2008 Zea is Arnold's solo project. Last year he sent two short messages, in the form of 7" vinyl singles, and before that Zea released a cassette tape for the Ethiopian market where Zea toured in 2008 and 2009. Now, finally we get a full new collection of Zea's wildly varying songs. Songs that hold no stock in normality or convention and while the ingredients can come from all different corners of the world, and from all sorts of styles, the listener will always hear this unique form of a song that is as joyfully as it is obstinate and as energetic as it is catchy. 'Song For Electricity' is based on the Ethiopian song 'Bogiye' (Abonesh Adenew) and the song 'Bourgeois Blues' is based on the original Leadbelly song, the lyrics are from a version by The Fall, called 'Bourgeois Town'. 'The Beginning' is spoken by an old neighbor of Ken Carbonu, the Ghanian musician Zea recorded and played with in Accra, Ghana in 2008. The title 'Staande Ben Ik Vergeten Wat Ik Dacht Toen Ik Lag' is inspired by a poem of Flemish poet Eddy van Vliet, called 'Staande'.