X is The Budda Cakes' first album. Released on Before Sunrise Recordings.
Written, recorded, performed and produced by Gon von Zola.
Except "Turn it Up" and "Sex has made me stupid" - written by Robots in Disguise.

BUY:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album//id1019772154

SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION available via
http://thebuddacakes.bandcamp.com/album/x
Liner notes for each song
Budda Cakes Promotional Flyer from 2008
Signed and Individually Numbered 

REVIEWS "X"

"This music, for me, has a certain indescribable magic or charm that is lacking in so much music that I hear.>

The lyrics are clever, the vocals, rich and textural, the accordian...sounds cool again (did it ever?)...and it definitely has some lovely british swank going for it. "
CAVEDOLL

"The Budda Cakes make me happy, make me smile, make me wanna go tell the world about their alternative take on modern music. The Budda Cakes are just such a pleasure to partake of - their music is refreshingly strange, their sound is delightfully unusual, their lyrics are so beautifully 'normal'. Yep, I like The Budda Cakes muchly!!

'X' is The Budda Cakes' new album - a pretty stunning work that can sound glib and tongue in cheek yet it's amazingly original and thoroughly enjoyable. Just a three-piece maybe but with their armoury of instruments and accessories that most bands would leave in the second-hand shop, The Budda Cakes make a wonderfully intoxicating 'noise', they sound as if they really enjoy themselves and their enthusiasm is contagious.>

The Budda Cakes make great music, they refuse to be pigeonholed, they challenge musical normality and I love everything they do!!" TOXIC PETE

"Fractious and haphazard as a raging manic-depressive, “X” exudes a quirky sense of mystery from beginning to end. Loaded with frantic references to Central London and accompanied by a flurry of accordion-like harmonium notes....

Resting somewhere between giddiness and raving insanity, “X” is by turns both an irrepressibly hyperactive and eerily tender slice of experimentalism."
Faye Coulman / GLASSWERK

June

This track is from the album Telescope and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thebuddacakes

Telescopes

Bicycle

Love? Now What?

Oh Summer

Summer Soul DEMO

Performed by The Budda Cakes. www.thebuddacakes.co.uk

Teenage Talk (St. Vincent - Piano Cover)

Monsterwolf written by Gon von Zola. Demo recorded at Before Sunrise, Highgate Village, December 2015. 

Monsterwolf DEMO

Full album: https://gonvonzolamusic.bandcamp.com/album/french-west-coast-roadtrip-recordings

Universal - Live at Mont St Michele at Mont St Michel

A few days ago I read an article about the "Lost in Translation" movie soundtrack. I remembered how much I loved this film and its music, especially Bill Murray's Karaoke version of "More than this". So I decided to record my own version of it and film everything. You can find the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/GUI1uW1xt_M

More Than This (Roxy Music Cover)

Before Sunrise Recordings - Productions Mixtape (acoustic/rock/indie pop/electro acoustic)

Produced by Gon von Zola. 
Songwriting, Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Tessa Bickers. 
Additional Instruments and Arrangements: Gon von Zola. 
Recorded at SVS Studios (Studio 2), October 2010.

SVS STUDIOS:
www.sexyvonsilence.wordpress.com


Tessa Bickers - Waiting

Produced by Gon von Zola. 
Songwriting and Vocals: Tessa Bickers. 
Instruments and Arrangement: Gon von Zola. 
Recorded at SVS Studios (Studio 2), October 2010.

SVS STUDIOS:
www.sexyvonsilence.wordpress.com


Tessa Bickers - Lipstick Kisses

Produced by Gon von Zola. 
Songwriting, Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Tessa Bickers. 
Additional Instruments and Arrangement: Gon von Zola. 
Recorded at SVS Studios (Studio 2), October 2010.

SVS STUDIOS:
www.sexyvonsilence.wordpress.com


Tessa Bickers - Folk Off

Produced by Gon von Zola. 
Songwriting, Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Emma Marchant. 
Additional Instruments and Arrangements: Gon von Zola. 
Recorded at SVS Studios (Studio 2), October 2010.

SVS STUDIOS:
www.sexyvonsilence.wordpress.com



Emma Marchant - Never Ever Say Never

Produced by Gon von Zola. 
Songwriting, Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Emma Marchant. 
Additional Instruments and Arrangements: Gon von Zola. 
Recorded at SVS Studios (Studio 2), October 2010.

SVS STUDIOS:
www.sexyvonsilence.wordpress.com


Emma Marchant - Home

Hey guys, I’ve started using my name Gon von Zola, rather than ‘The Budda Cakes‘. I have written millions of new songs, and I am currently doing a 50 demos / 50 weeks series. Feel free to follow me here: 
www.soundcloud.com/gonvonzola
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7vWXM3-cFNkly9sq2D8GNQ
Get ’Fruit Porn’ for free: www.gonvonzolamusic.bandcamp.com
You can also find all my other songs and albums there!

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Fruit Porn
(M. Gonjaeff)

Lay awake, got no sleep got no sleep
The way you ate that strawberry, strawberry
Total fruit porn fantasy and memories 
Of your red lips red lips and how I kissed your lips your lips your sugar sweet lips

Forbidden fruit, a cheeky bite
No one knows, just you and I
Obsessed with you, can't make it stop 
I think I'm down to turn it up
But I need a snack first

Lay awake got no sleep got no sleep
The way you ate that strawberry
Mon ami
Total fruit porn fantasy and memories 
Of your red lips your lips, I thought I’d die, a kiss, just like
A free fall ride

Starving Barbie needs a snack
Nipple picture art attack
Insomnia and morning glory
Turn a page in our story

Chapter 1 was short and sweet, dark and deep
Chapter 2 a different path, and not much meet
Still only a fantasy - chapter three 
And in between some fruit, some finger food, a substitute for what we’d do

Copyright: Gon von Zola

Gon Von Zola - Fruit Porn (Acoustic Demo)

www.patreon.com/gonvonzola
The Budda Cakes are Gon von Zola and his two Alter Egos King Prince and Gordon Naspick. 
They have opened shows for such acts as Kate Nash, Lykke Li and Ed Sheeran. Their work was featured on the single “The Sex Has Made Me Stupid” by Robots in Disguise, “Frohe Schritte” bei Brockdorff Klang Labor, “German Heart” by Dead Kids and several indie compilations. 

Camden New Journal named The Budda Cakes single “Walking Home” RECORD OF THE WEEK” in Feb 2014. The music video features Damian Lewis (Homeland) in a cameo. In 2013 The Budda Cakes won the EXPLOSIVE UNSIGNED AWARD (Sky TV). 

The Budda Cakes’s albums have received numerous rave reviews and radio plays (incl. BBC6 and XFM).

 
Their sound is definitely unique, it’s impossible to find any comparisons.
Christine Trower, Music4m

RELEASES:
"Telescope" (2014)
"the Edge Of Different" (2012)
“Most Doubtful Black” (2009)
“X” (2008)
Robots In Disguise “Turn It Up” (2008) – B-Side
Robots In Disguise “Sex Has Made Me Stupid” (2007) – B-Side
Brockdorff Klang Labor “Frohe Schritte” (2007) B-Side
“The Budda Cakes EP” (2005)
Various Artists “John Lennon – Give’m A Chance” (2005)

REVIEWS:

” ‘X’ - a pretty stunning work that can sound glib and tongue in cheek yet it’s amazingly original and thoroughly enjoyable. They challenge musical normality and I love everything they do!!”
Toxic Pete

They are brilliant. It’s been quite a trip by the time the last note rings out, and one which is going to keep you interested for ages.
Leeds Musicscene

The Budda Cakes combine more creative artistry and freewheeling melodic depth than a fair few bands currently receiving accolades and plaudits. They appear to have an uncanny knack at shitting tunes at will.
Loosing Today

The Budda Cakes are quite unique from anybody else.
Nat Geraghty, Glasswerk

The Budda Cakes make me happy, make me smile, make me wanna go tell the world about their alternative take on modern music.
Toxic Pete

“Possibly one of the most diverse acts we’ve ever seen at dancetillyoudie, The Budda Cakes use every instrument from Toypianos to Harmoniums to Sock Monkeys to create quite astonishing music.”
DanceTillYouDie
London Promoter

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