The first release from Colorado based piKziL.

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Brand New Soul

Zuba

The music of the world is combined through the playing of Denver, CO-based quintet Zuba. While rooted in soul and funk, the band's repertoire includes ballads, swamp folk, acid jazz, and modern dance music. High Times dubbed them "stoner band of the month" in February 1997. Performing more than 175 shows a year, Zuba has built a very loyal national following. Their annual appearance at the One World Music Festival in Denver has provided some of the event's most exciting moments. Formed in 1993, Zuba represents the combined vision of founding members Wallace Lester and the single-named Liza. While Lester's rock-steady drumming provides the foundation of the group's sound, Liza's haunting vocals and lightning-fast guitar picking provide its spirit. The group's initial lineup -- which also included lead guitarist Ian Selig, keyboardist/tenor saxophone player Mark Pauperas, and bassist Scott Johnson -- has undergone numerous personnel changes. Zuba added former Chitlin saxophone player Ben Senterfit and ex-Sponge Kingdom bassist Mike Cykoski in 1997. Zuba's greatest exposure has come through their performances on movie soundtracks, including There's Something About Mary, Say You'll Be Mine, the Farrelly Brothers' Kingpin, and Warren Miller's Snowriders. The group's first three albums, released on their own Cool Therapy label, sold more than 30,000 units.

The New Cruelty

4:20

Future People

South Of Eden

Keep On Movin

Speed Queen

Imagine Freedom

Zuba

Water Me Down

Universal

Sunrise On The Road

Planet Of Love

The music of the world is combined through the playing of Denver, CO-based quintet Zuba. While rooted in soul and funk, the band's repertoire includes ballads, swamp folk, acid jazz, and modern dance music. High Times dubbed them "stoner band of the month" in February 1997. Performing more than 175 shows a year, Zuba has built a very loyal national following. Their annual appearance at the One World Music Festival in Denver has provided some of the event's most exciting moments. Formed in 1993, Zuba represents the combined vision of founding members Wallace Lester and the single-named Liza. While Lester's rock-steady drumming provides the foundation of the group's sound, Liza's haunting vocals and lightning-fast guitar picking provide its spirit. The group's initial lineup -- which also included lead guitarist Ian Selig, keyboardist/tenor saxophone player Mark Pauperas, and bassist Scott Johnson -- has undergone numerous personnel changes. Zuma added former Chitlin saxophone player Ben Senterfit and ex-Sponge Kingdom bassist Mike Cykoski in 1997. Zuba's greatest exposure has come through their performances on movie soundtracks, including There's Something About Mary, Say You'll Be Mine, the Farrelly Brothers' Kingpin, and Warren Miller's Snowriders. The group's 4 albums were released on their own independent 'Cool Therapy' label.

I'd Have To Say_In The Butt Bob

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piKziL is the musical creation of Liza Oxnard and Kip Kuepper. Long-time friends
and collaborators, the two describe their music as somewhere between slanky electro-lounge and jazz nouveaux, with a little bit of scenester grit thrown in.

You might know Liza Oxnard from her successful 90’s touring band, Zuba, or perhaps you’ve heard her sitting in over the years with Colorado favorites String Cheese Incident and The Motet. She is an accomplished composer, has a luscious voice, and shreds on guitar.

Kip Kuepper spent decades as co-owner, producer, and resident musical genius at Coupe Studios in Boulder. A Grammy nominated musician, Kip has performed at jazz festivals across the US, releasing multiple albums as engineer/ producer/ player with guitar great Danny Heines, and woodwind virtuoso Nelson Rangell.

Liza’s raw and emotive musicality, smooth vocal style and playful, catchy melodies combined with Kip’s lush arrangements, hook mastery and deep jazz influences are the perfect counterbalance.

piKziL is a warm and primordial roux, a hot tango between Astrud Gilberto and Debbie Harry. piKzil is cool, urbane, a place where trumpets float like Dark Rum in a Mai Tai, as magnetic orbits intersect in space.

Their first CD, to be released this summer, unveils a comforting crackle of vinyl long-play as violins swell in anticipation of a grand reveal. Slippery Sambas bent on a warm embrace, elegantly caramelize particles out of every sound.

This is an alternate universe where taxicab girls lie silky and hot, sunning in lounge chairs by the pool of an imaginary motel…a place where Beck and Joni Mitchell might play a fierce round of Bocce.

The music is cinematic, evocative, funky, and inexplicably sentimental.

piKziL

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