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 (one track, every other week) on Spotify (link below), Apple Music, iTunes, etc.
The Zzeben Project is a resurrection of a character-driven music project from decades ago — Back then it was called “The Survivor Project”. The problem was I never felt my high tenor vocals fit the emotional terrain of the songs. I experimented with voice processors (Roland VT1, later a TC-Helicon VoiceLive 2) to create three main alter egos/characters (male/female), but the results sounded too artificial, and the demos went into storage.
Recent advances in technology (including Vocoflex) enables that concept to return with greater accuracy and range (when used as tools, not replacement for creativity) – The lyrics and melodies were/are/will always be 100% human. The decision was to either let the songs decay in storage, or use the tools available to give them new life. The answer resulted in TZP.
The core idea remains — to turn what had once been unspoken into sound: rhythm, atmosphere, metaphor, and melody. The catalogue (90s demos – present day) contains stories for the visible life, and for the battles no one sees. Some tracks are playful and upbeat, while others move through the more atmospheric terrain of a life carried in silence.
The name (applied in 2026) comes from the “mute” character on the old action-adventure series, who turned silence into presence, restraint, and strength. That “silence” became a metaphor for TZP: the things people hold inside, the stories that don’t always come out in their own voice.
The Zzeben Project (link below) is music about the human condition — the visible life, the private one, and all the strange, beautiful territory in between.
