NOTICE: The player containing the music catalogue and lyric sheets has been taken down due to storage space. The songs will be slowly rolled out on Spotify (link below), Apple Music, iTunes, etc.
LA WIRE:
The Zzeben Project is a new incarnation of a character-driven music project — in which I created four different personas (male and female) to inhabit the particular emotional terrain of a song. After decades of silence, I decided to turn what had once been unspoken into sound: rhythm, atmosphere, metaphor, and melody. The catalogue contains songs for the visible life, and for the battles no one sees.
Yes, the moniker comes from the mute warrior character in the 90s action-adventure series — a character who turned silence into presence, restraint, and strength. That name became the foundation and metaphor for a larger creative world: music, memory, myth, and the side people keep hidden from the world.
All lyrics and melodies are written by me (a real human), using AI production tools to refine the arrangements to achieve the final vision (a vast improvement over the TC-Helicon VoiceLive 2). Some tracks are playful and upbeat, while others move through the more atmospheric terrain of a life carried in silence. But the heart of TZP remains the same: stories from a survivor, told through metaphor, character, atmosphere, and message.
The Zzeben Project is a silence that found its sound.
