ZEA Quartet & DUFFHUES

ZE4 / ZEA quartet
ZEA's new Frisian album 'In lichem fol beloften' is released in November, with the ZEA Quartet: Arnold de Boer - guitar, voice, Xavier Charles – clarinette, Harald Austbø – cello, Ineke Duivenvoorde – drums

Zea seizes time, stretches it out, pushes rhythms into pulsing circles, pulls tones from the earth and conjures lyrics from the tips of his toes. The new album “In lichem fol beloften” (A body filled with promises) becomes a dance to enchant bodies, to drive away pain, and to put death in checkmate. A cadence of drums and strings, a minimal trance of guitar, cello, clarinet, and drums. Hardly an arsenal, yet enough to spark poetic battles. Zea draws from his mother tongue—the language of the android—guttural poems about the promises of the body, about the time it takes to reach others despite the rain, about life's urgency that makes us forget its limits.

DUFFHUES
The dark rocking troubadour from the low lands has released a new album, about a future without a face. It has no Face is the new album by DUFFHUES. With songs including warmongers, faithful snake charmers, a catnapper, despots and apocalyptic imagery. DUFFHUES tells us the world has become a darker place, with a future without a face.
DUFFHUES' previous album Warlock Enemy (2024) ended with the distorted and apocalyptic song Burn. The distorted sound continues on It has no Face, with electric guitars, irish bouzouki, rusty brown and crunchy vocals, and a low pitched stomp
box mercilessly driving the urgence. It has no Face counts 11 dark, atypical, story telling songs, with a reflective, existential view and melancholy feelings towards the world and its habitants. Tags: grungy blues, avant-gardistische roots, anti folk noir.

BandCamp –https://nielsduffhues.bandcamp.com
Video Warlock –https://youtu.be/NJToKBE2aWc

Video Burn -https://youtu.be/A6PctFXWlUI

Video Theatre Off Grid -https://youtu.be/f_BnepXb-4I