Hello Zenzile fans

We just uploaded our selection of live recordings of songs played by Zenzile at radios shows (France Inter, Nova, RFI, France Culture...) : several Mind Over Matter versions and covers of Guns of Brixton (Clash), Impasse Casbah (Vince and Raggy project) and of Stepping Razor (Peter Tosh - Jean Gomis singing)
it's free download on our website www.zenzile.com in ALBUMS section (click on buy/acheter link and enter your email to download)

We've got a few Pawn Shop vinyl collectors left (250 ex limited edition, homecrafted by Zenzile). You can get them at merch booth during goncerts and on our website.

We are very excited by our first tour in Asia in june : Vietnam, Laos and China. Then a few dates have been added to our European tour, at Fusion Festival and Dour Festival.

Dont' miss Zenzile on stage :

may 21: Rio Grande - Montauban (France)
may 22: Le Cafémusic - Mont De Marsan (France)
may 28: La Luciole - Alencon (France)
june 08: Théatre de la jeunesse - Hanoï (Vietnam)
june 09: Palais An Dinh - Hué (Vietnam)
june 11: Beijing (China) - Yu Gong Yi Shan
june 12: Qingdao (China) - Red Star Club
june 19: Ventiane (Laos)
june 24: Fusion Festival - Larz (Germany)
june 26: Festival Les Rockailles - Reigner (France)
july 02: Festival Pechbonnieu (France)
july 03: Festival les Traver'Cé Musicales - Pont de Cé (France)
july 09: Ciné-concert " Le Cabinet du Docteur Caligari" - Chateau d'Angers (France)
july 10: Festival Terre du Son - Tours (France)
july 16: Dour Festival - Dour (Belgium)
july 17: Festival aux Zarbs - Auxerre (France)
july 22: Les Rencontres Brel - St Pierre de Chartreuse (France)
july 24: Festival Rock Aux Fées - Amanlis (France)
july 28: Festival Emmaus - Pau (France)
july 31: Festival de Domaize - Domaize (France)

see you in China

Zenzile a travaillé dur pour fabriquer, découper, imprimer à la main ces 250 collectors en édition limitée et numérotée du double vinyle Pawn Shop. La pochette est sobre et un effet spécial imaginé par Alex vous attend à l'intérieur (en plus de l'album à télécharger en mp3 et en wav comme d'habitude).

Voici une petite vidéo présentant l'objet et son effet spécial.

Vous pouvez vous procurer le collector à notre stand de merch après les concerts, ou sur notre site web www.zenzile.com. Nous expédions dans le monde entier avec soin et par La Poste.

Ne manquez pas nos derniers concerts en France de cette saison, la tournée en Europe de l'Est en avril et nos 4 permières dates en Asie en juin.

vendredi 09 04 2010     Nantes     festival Ram Dam     
jeudi 15 04 2010     Paris (75)     l'Alhambra     
vendredi 16 04 2010     Dunkerque (59)     Les 4 Ecluses     
samedi 17 04 2010     Brest (29)     Les Agités du Bocal     
mardi 20 04 2010     Ljubljana (SLO)     Gala hala     
mercredi 21 04 2010     Pecs (HU)     Pecs Pen Fest     
jeudi 22 04 2010     Zagreb( CR )     Kset     
vendredi 23 04 2010     Budapest (HU)     West Balkan     
samedi 24 04 2010     Kapuvar (HU)     Shop Shop     
jeudi 06 05 2010     Nevers (58)     Festival les échos du charbon
vendredi 07 05 2010     Gray (70)     Festival Rolling Saone     
samedi 08 05 2010     Lille (59)     Fivestival     
vendredi 21 05 2010     Montauban (82)     Rio Grande     
samedi 22 05 2010     Mont de Marsan (40)     Le CaféMusic     
vendredi 28 05 2010     Alençon (61)     la Luciole     
dimanche 06 06 2010     Hanoi (Vietnam)     CCF     
lundi 07 06 2010     Hué (Vietnam)     Festival de Hué     
mardi 08 06 2010     Hué (Vietnam)     Festival de Hué     
samedi 12 06 2010     Beijing (cn)     Yu Gong Yi Shan     
vendredi 16 07 2010     DOUR (Belgique)     Dour Festival

Ami de Zenzile bonjour.

Notre tournée d'hiver se termine ce soir au Run Ar Puns (29) et demain samedi à Auray (56) pour le festival Les Nuits Soniques. Nous serons de retour sur scène dès février, et le 15 avril à l'Alhambra (Paris  10°).

Nous venons de refaire nos stocks de tee-shirts et vestes Bus (noires et rouges), Monochrome (noir), Sound Patrol (orange et vert) et le tout nouveau Pawn Shop.
Pour vous assurer de recevoir votre commande avant Noël, toutes les commandes passées avant mercredi 23 à 12h seront envoyées en Chronopost (au prix du courrier simple).
c'est ici : www.zenzile.com/shop

à bientôt

After a thirteen years old career, including: seven albums, five Maxi LP's and hundreds of live concerts throughout the world, you would think you knew all about ZENZILE. However, those who have following this band since their beginnings in Angers, France, know well that: No one knows what will resemble a new album of Zenzile before it gets out.
Instead of cloning their music precisely year after year, the quintet has always chosen to focus on their trade mark sound which is rich and various, thanks to a dazzling bass and whooping guitars.
From the start, Zenzile is having fun mixing the same influences (post punk, Dub,folk,soft rock,soul jazz) with a savvy sense of measuring them all out, in order to produce a unique album every time.
For Pawn Shop, the Angevins (from Angers) have deliberately let their POP spirit opened up, in an humble and formal way of course.Only two tracks are exclusively instrumental and are welcome signs of a previous life. All eight other  tracks are carried by the voices of olds partners: Jamika Ajalon et David K. Alderman (Warehouse), demonstrating some new and unexpected sides of their talent.This eighth studio album is less angular and more confident than the previous Living in Monochrome in which the band had let the guitar lead out.Today Zenzile seems to have found the right balance between staying simple while being demanding.Strings and organs are more present than ever to form melodies never dared before.Evidently freed from any past inhibitions, the band now sweats out many old legendary Vinyl albums, reminiscent of their teen age years. Shadowy organs, bony guitars, ramping bass, Bela Lugosi spirit glides above Pawn Shop.
There are also lingering feverish memories of ESG, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave or PIL but everything is digested and sublimated only to be more accomplished.
With a real consistency throughout the entire album, despite the variety of sounds, you never feel like you are loosing tracks.Each song has its own space and there is space for each song.From the very Serge Gainsbourg inspired Mind Over Matter to the lively  Fire Eater, you will feel the majestic of Histoire de Papiers or the disturbance of Crooked Man, always sensing a serious focus on the subject.
Remarkable finish from Zenzile with Thursday Night Rover Disco where Alderman's voice reminds the one of his Welsh fellow J. Cale (The Velvet Underground) before the last Caution Horses where the singer throws himself out in a long, progressive and flamboyant post folk rise. With Pawn Shop, Zenzile leaves all the cash on the table and walks out with style...at least for now.

es nuestro proximo album, disponible ahora en mp3 y el 5 de octubre en las tiendas de musica.

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Pawn Shop est notre prochain album, disponible sur notre site et en magasins le 5 octobre.

Restez à l'écoute sur www.zenzile.com, www.facebook/zenzilemusic ou www.twitter.com/zenzilemusic pour les dates de la tournée.

Next Zenzile's album is ready, it is called "Living in Monochrome", and will be released in France on 3rd of september. Definitely more rock, the album is still unmistakable. The full band will tour again from the 28th of september till middle of december, for around 30 gigs (see agenda). Jamika will be on stage with the quintet, and David K Alderman, "Warehouse 99 project"'s singer, who appears on two tracks on the album, will be part of the tour as well this autumn.

Released in march 2007, Meta EP is composed of two remixes from the track "Mille Francs Mille Francs", one by Doctor L and one by Matthew Herbert. On the A side, one unreleased track, "Real Rock", wich had been recorded during the same studio session as Meta Meta's titles.