Ahead of their collaborative appearance at Rewire 2018 on Saturday, 7 April in The Hague, Zs share a new track they made with Arto Lindsay and discuss why they’ve had enough of streaming culture.
“The New York experimental band Zs are collaborating with the renowned guitarist and composer Arto Lindsay on a new album called Zs Arto, and you can listen to lead track ‘E’ above.
“The trio, comprised of Sam Hillmer on tenor sax, Patrick Higgins on guitar and Guardian Alien’s Greg Fox on drums, recently started their own label Social Noise in conjunction with the NYC Commend record shop and RVNG INTL in order to release their last album Noth in February and the Arto Lindsay collaboration which will be released later this Spring.
“The label Social Noise has been created as a way of giving Zs more control over their output – at every level of the process, including not having any of their music streaming on services such as Spotify, with an emphasis placed on the physical object (although albums can be bought as downloads as well as on vinyl).
“Ahead of the Arto Lindsay and Zs concert at Rewire 2018 this weekend, Patrick Higgins and Sam Hillmer talked to us about the incompatibility of the socialist model with a capitalist mechanism when it comes to streaming, why they prefer an honest gangster to a corrupt businessman and why their stance is not luddite.”
Arto Lindsay & Zs perform live at Rewire 2018 on Saturday, 7 April.Listen to the first song of their forthcoming record below and learn more about their performance at: Arto Lindsay & Zs.
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