https://www.preservationsound.com/better-is-gold-debut-ep-from-enid-ze-available-now/ information and ideas about audio history Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:54:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.preservationsound.com/better-is-gold-debut-ep-from-enid-ze-available-now/#comment-601004 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:54:54 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=9465#comment-601004 […] enid ze, is the sonicscape brainchild fleshed by Zimbabwean-born Yale University graduate of Philosophy of Religion and musician Nyasha Chiundiza. The work of mediating his imagination and daydreams through music has been a part of Nyasha’s life from the age of eight as he was growing up in the suburbs of Harare, Zimbabwe. Under the moniker enid ze, the music created by the artist can be described as pop-rock created from a state of mind floating between experiences of home and abroad. However, this category of definition omits so much of the experimental and genre untethered creative work done by Nyasha as enid ze. At the heart of his creations and this experience, ze is inspired by Zamrock (W.I.T.C.H., Wells Fargo, Keith Mhlevu, Paul Ngozi and his Ngozi Family) along with the Southern African musical movement of the 70s which took its inspiration from Garage and Psychedelic Rock. Last month saw Nyasha release his debut EP Better is Gold, an eight track wonder which one could argue attempts to imaginatively answer the impossible question: “what would Zamrock sound like today?”. Melancholic, exuberant and defiant with the curiosity, shock and nostalgia that comes with being in new places, revisiting old places, facing new quandaries and old ones. Of new loves, old loves—geographically and psychically situated. Quite effortlessly ze contemporizes the Zamrock sound, assisted with newer sounds from Rnb to Grunge. To quote a post by composer, producer and collaborator on the project Chris Ruggiero: […]

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