puzzlesolva
On par with other concept albums that i love (the wall, amused to death) the emotion drips through every song Favorite track: You Get Blue.
Hipi07
Here's the scoop my little bloopy bloop: an extremely underrated album, children's music + outer space music never sounded so good, galaxy spanning bliss from start to finish.
The level of creativity on this album is surreal, it refuses to be labelled into a single genre thanks to masterful production and a nigh angel-like voice.
Favorite track: Confessions of the Metropolis Spaceship.
Translucent red marbled vinyl LP in black paper inner sleeve housed in a 3mm spined outer sleeve. Photography by Cinque Mubarak. Layout by Adam Stover. Includes 12x12” poster insert by Avalon Nuovo and MP3 album download.
Includes unlimited streaming of Zdenka 2080
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
Purchasable with gift card
$24USDor more
Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
$10USD or more
Salami Rose Joe Louis - 'Zdenka 2080' CD [BFCD085]
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD softpack. Photography by Cinque Mubarak. Layout by Adam Stover. Includes poster by Avalon Nuovo.
Includes unlimited streaming of Zdenka 2080
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Sold Out
Zdenka 2080 Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Limited edition cassette of Zdenka 2080 plus four bonus tracks! All proceeds will be donated to Black Visions Collective, People's Breakfast Oakland, and the Anti-Repression Committee, to support the fight against oppression and police brutality and to support the nourishment of schools, art, music, and health, in black communities.
Salami Rose Joe Louis performed instruments (piano, bass, synth, drums, guitar) and vocals. Salami Rose Joe Louis recorded and mixed and composed all tracks.
Additional performances by:
Cheflee played drums on Track 3. The drums were recorded by Daoud Anthony on track 3. Cheflee played bass on Track 5.
Robert Finucane helped mix Track 8.
Cheflee played drums on the intro to Track 9.
Cheflee sang vocals on Track 16. Robert Finucane helped mix Track 16.
Bonus track “Triumphant Buttress” features Cheflee.
Mastered by Daddy Kev. Bonus tracks Mastered by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
Photography by CInque Mubarak. Cover art by Avalon Nuovo. Cassette layout and text art by Jeremy Williams (Pacific Yew).
Thank you Imari, Jeremy, Pat, PTV, and Brainfeeder for helping me put this cassette together<3 much love everyone and thank you!
150 copies available!
Includes unlimited streaming of Zdenka 2080
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
...more
Sold Out
Zdenka 2080 Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
100 percent of sales will be donated to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an organization that works locally, statewide, and nationally to shift resources away from prisons and punishment and towards opportunities that make communities safe, healthy, and strong.
Includes unlimited streaming of Zdenka 2080
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Sold Out
Salami Rose Joe Louis - 'Zdenka 2080' LP [BF085]
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
180g black vinyl disc in black paper inner sleeve housed in a 3mm spined outer sleeve. Photography by Cinque Mubarak. Layout by Adam Stover. Includes 12x12” poster insert by Avalon Nuovo and MP3 downloads.
Includes unlimited streaming of Zdenka 2080
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Salami Rose Joe Louis announces new album “Zdenka 2080” out 30 August via Brainfeeder and releases double single ‘Octagonal Room’ / ‘Cumulous Potion (For the Clouds to Sing)’. Check the video for ‘Octagonal Room’ directed by Japhy Riddle.
Salami Rose Joe Louis (real name Lindsay Olsen) - the Bay Area based musician, composer, and producer - will release her new album “Zdenka 2080” via Brainfeeder on 30 August 2019. It follows a busy start to the year in which she joined Toro Y Moi’s “Outer Peace Tour” in the US and supported The Cinematic Orchestra on their European tour.
Olsen hails from Crockett in Northern California. “It’s a tiny, very strange and sleepy little town. There is a giant sugar factory and the whole town often smells like marshmallows and caramel, which is ideal,” she says. She lives in the basement of her friend’s house which is the perfect place “to get very weird”. In 2017, in the wake of the release of her album “Zlaty Sauce Nephew”, Olsen sustained a wrist injury in a car accident that forced her to miss a fortnight of her regular job at an asbestos lab in Berkeley. Serendipitously, this coincided with one of her tracks unexpectedly being licensed for a TV commercial and Olsen decided to take the plunge. “I felt like it was a sign from the galaxies to take the leap to concentrating on music full time,” she smiles.
Drawing inspiration from film, literature, art, and music, “Zdenka 2080” was heavily influenced in particular by a series of apocalyptic sci-fi novels by Octavia Butler and Gene Wolf. “They inspired me to explore the realms of fantasy as a means of illuminating concepts and truths about our own society and humanity,” she says. “I also was very inspired by the movies Tekkonkinkreet and Embrace of the Serpent - a beautiful exploration of capitalism, colonialism and greed.”
Musically, Olsen references fellow members of Oakland record label/musical family Hot Record Societe: Cheflee, Mejiwahn, Asonic Garcia and Pacific Yew as ever present influences, alongside musical giants Shuggie Otis and Herbie Hancock, composer, bandleader and all-round visionary Raymond Scott, plus the likes of Stereolab and Flying Lotus.
“Sometimes my songs can be very silly and whimsical,” Olsen explains - with new single ‘Cumulous Potion (For the Clouds to Sing)’ being a case in point. “Sometimes they are more serious and emotional. I was looking for a way to weave all of my styles into a cohesive narrative, and I found a lot of inspiration in the way often movies and shows in the animé tradition seamlessly connect the whimsical, silly, serious, and meaningful.”
Olsen’s music is highly conceptual and “Zdenka 2080” describes a future dystopian Earth in the year 2080 that has been mis-managed by unethical governments and corporations. An initiative by greedy big business to capture solar energy to power a super-sized spaceship, results in a rapidly cooling Earth, and the elite escape via the spaceship to colonize another distant planet. The earthlings left behind find themselves fading with the cooling sun. The first half of the album follows the journey of a young earthling left behind. She discovers an octagonal room with eight paintings, each one leading to a new dimension, and travels through the dimensions in search of a way to save her planet. Her journey eventually leads her to a window where we discover that the octagonal room is the brain of the Earth and the paintings and coinciding dimensions are the thoughts of the Earth creature. The imagery of the paintings affect the thoughts of the Earth creature. Zdenka is the name of the artist who creates the paintings inside the octagonal room. Thus, she can influence the thoughts and actions of the Earth creature and humans on Earth based on what she paints. In this story, Zdenka is lost and confused and she paints very dark imagery. The young earthling begins a quest to find and convince her to paint more positive imagery.
Olsen says that her moods are often very connected to whether or not she is feeling creatively inspired and productive. “I have noticed creative blocks for me can be dark spirals into ego-centric, self loathing, isolating, and selfish tendencies,” she explains. “In this story, I wanted to explore the ways in which art can easily take dark and careless turns, but how important it is to remember the effects art has on others. I am not advocating for optimistic art only - I just wanted to write this story as a reminder to myself to strive to be intentional in the art I create."
credits
released August 30, 2019
All songs written and composed by Lindsay Rose Olsen (Copyright Control)
All instruments (Piano, Bass, Synth, Drums, Guitar) and Vocals performed by Salami Rose Joe Louis, except:
‘She Wakes Up / First Dimension’ - Drums by Cheflee. Drums recorded by Daoud Anthony
‘Cirrus Floccus / Second Dimension’ - Bass by Cheflee
‘Confessions of the Metropolis Spaceship’ - Drums by Cheflee
‘Diatoms and Dinoflagellates / Fifth Dimension’ - Vocals by Cheflee
Recorded and Mixed by Salami Rose Joe Louis
with additional mixing help on Track 8 and Track 16 from Robert Finucane.
The sound of movement enlightening the difference between loneliness and solitude…
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -or something to that effect…
azucena’s ghost
Four killer instrumental funk tracks make up the latest EP from Renegades Of Jazz, deep grooves and crackling beats. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 13, 2023
Tenth entry in Bomb Strikes' "Funk n' Beats" compilations series, featuring 26 hidden gems from the worlds of funk and hip-hop. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 8, 2023
An album (mixtape?) so nice, I bought it twice (realized the original release without Sam Gendel's name attached--it was Fresh Bread by Fresh Bread--wasn't in my iTunes anymore and was deleted from Bandcamp). World of Echo
