RZR | RZRecords - An Extremely Independent Music Collective

Our dearly beloved friend and collaborator, Itai Matos , has released an album, which we support and even assisted in the distribution of. Titled "The Second Coming of Itai Matos", it's an honest diary, obsessively documenting self analysis, introspection, anxiety, pain, love, addiction, restlessness and other, more mundane happenings. This weirdly beautiful collection of songs is the epitome of TFIM (The Famous Itai Matos), it's all over the place, navigating the wide spectrum of rock, channeling influences, stirring up memories, it's a homage, it's a work of outsider art, it's everything all at once. Spoken word poetry read over synth noise, followed by surf music, followed by 90's electro-rock, followed by more 90's style alternative with noise rock influences, suddenly exploding into something that's more of the same and yet something completely different. It also mixes English and Hebrew. It's an all around mash up.  It's a strange...

Sfinot, a collaboration between Itai Matos and gaop is now available for streaming, purchase, and as a limited multi-format release. This three track EP merges noise oriented soundscapes with spoken word poetry. Sfinot / ספינות by gaop, Itai Matos Here's the original cover, featuring a very young Itai Matos, taken at gaop's bedroom studio, on an early digital camera: You can find most of Itai's solo albums on his bandcamp, right here: Itai Matos . We encourage you to follow his page and support him by purchasing his releases.  His discography is pretty interesting, with tracks in both English and Hebrew, spanning across various genres. 

This type of post is really fun (for us to do), a blast from the past if you will. We hope you appreciate it cos sometimes nostalgia can be a bit like smelling your own farts. That said, so is experimental music, so there's that. We can only hope you like it. This post is dated back, but we're actually writing it in the future, or present, because while the release is from the past, the update is of the here and now type. The release, Moth, by gaop , is one of the first physical copy releases by RZR. Dating back to 2004-2005. Originally released as a four track EP (tracks 1-4). Later released with three additional tracks (and another hidden gem that kicks in after three minutes of silence). The CDR came in a paper sleeve, with the art and details xeroxed and glued on both sides. Some versions of the CDR were numbered, some were spraypainted, there were several batches. Everything was put together after hours, in various living rooms. Here are pictures of a copy of the release...