Hey Im Zairen! I’m a Multi-instrumentalist, Artist, Producer, and Performer from Austin, TX.
I play an array of instruments ranging from trombone, seaboard, piano, bass, guitar, drums, keyboard, didgeridoo, vocals, and recorder (if that counts).

Being raised in a musical family, I was always around instruments and the sound of my dad creating music.  I was heavily influenced by the art he was making throughout my childhood. 

In fifth grade, the Middle School band came to our Elementary school to have us try out instruments. I was able to pick up the trombone and actually play a decent tone from the get go. I ended up falling in love with music, like my father did, at this same age.  

I ended up getting into the Jazz Band where I won a few performance and solo awards, and was later in the All-Region Band and Wind Ensemble. In my freshman year of High School I made the Austin All City Jazz Band and got to do some performances with them. 

That following year though was rough. Sadly, I began to slip into a dark period of depression and self-loathing that almost ended my chances at being here. Luckily, I was able to pull through it by some miraculous higher will - within me and in others around me, to support me through that time in my life. 

Once I was on the other side of that, I was truly further humbled to be here. I was reinvigorated with a passion to use my music to help others through their own struggles. Little did I know what was around the corner though.

Spring 2020, I was a senior in high school preparing for graduation. I had just recently met the audio visual design instructor, and he was kind enough to lend me access to all of the equipment and software in his classroom to learn music and video production in GarageBand and Adobe Premiere Pro. 

We were preparing for Spring Break when the first reports of a possible nationwide lockdown aired for a virus that we knew hardly anything about. Quickly, reality set in that life wouldn't just resume back to normal. This was something altogether new. We went to Spring Break my Senior year and never came back. Everything slowed to an eerie stop and then we were all isolated at home for two surreal years.

In that downtime, I continued to heal and trust myself. I learned a lot from many different people in the film industry at an Austin film festival speaker series In collaboration with M.B.K lead by Charmaine Degrate, (She was commissioned to write the screenplay for House of The Dragon) 
During that series we learned from the likes of Immensely skilled writers Ranging from the likes of Ali LeRoi to Malcom Spellman. I am so Grateful for that opportunity to occur by total chance. 
Since then, I have been spending my time producing new music on a daily basis.
while building out a pretty formidable fully portable production setup, 
that is simultaneously plug and play for performance as well. 
Now I think it’s time to show you what I have been working on.

ZAIREN ATLAS PHILLIPS