What the heck is Zira? umm....err..... Zira

Zira is a monster... I guess in a manner of speaking, my own personal monster... maybe my muse is a nicer name for him.

He loves to play music, he'll play anything he can get his paws on.

That doesn't mean he's proficient he's just fearless, which makes him brilliant and an idiot at the same time.

I asked him once what he thought about being named after a woman,
he just shrugged his shoulders and said it was better than having a passe name like mine.

I bought a computer two years ago so now he's going high tech.
I told him he could get as high as he likes, he's still gonna be low tech.

He messes around with the computer and makes dancey silly soundtrack music to movies in his head (under the name Mailer Daemon). Most recently he told me he's gonna show me how to mix his soundtracks with his live stuff (old school indie rock) so it wouldn't be so either or.

Supposedly the album he's "composing" is going to have a little of everything.

Hopefully by the end of 2003 he'll have recorded a bunch of songs and given out a bunch of cdrs.. ed@spy-fi.net The goal was to find the greatest hits and release an album for 2002. But now He's just released an e.p. which has six songs and two interludes : like a champ, boomerang, the single malt, winter holiday, do or try, all the good ones are faking, Beverly Hills Prekop, and I know you can’t control yourself any longer .

He says he's sold out of the "Zira Lowtech Cool Kids Indie Pack" which was released the last day of August. As a limited edition including pressing of fifty which includes: 3” cdr , nametag, special sleeve, bookmark, and a “radio-ed” pin. With special design work by Charlie Calderin.

He has released the whole e.p. online with a downloadable cover. He’s currently starting pre-production on the full-length scheduled for release in early 2004. There is some sort of Zira band playing round Miami. (Ed, Ivan, Mr.X, & Johnny) They recently played a show with The Remedy Session, Val Emmich, Pygmy, and Stardriver.

 

You can check out some mp3s at his Iuma site http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Zira/  

During the course of working with Zira, Ed started playing drums for "Bling Bling"

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