ZAN HOFFMAN PLAYS NEW WAVE MUSIC

Zan Hoffman is a quarantined North American artist living and working in Louisville, Kentucky. Since the beginning of the eighties he built curious and personal work full of abundance and strangeness. He already produced IN EXCESS OF 1000 (tapes, records).
A « brut music » in the meaning of « art brut » as result of an inside necessity. A music for itself, a music as a frame for texts. A non stopping movement of PERPETUAL creation, production...
Zan is a poet. Like the best ones of the « beat generation », or some inspired slammers and the « sound poets » of the seventies. He chants his text materials with a profound voice, much timbered and unstoppable.
Zan is a real american dandy, a particular guy, especially human, warm, and able to create surprise and great connection with his audience.
« During this concert, people were so happy that they would sing with me, even songs they never heard before... » (Zan)
« Zan began to play, and I was just amazed. Then I began to not only see him, but colors all around him, he was creating colors by himself, from himself... »(JP, Brussels, may 10)
Zan is creator of every instant, he's also an obsessed collector of sounds, cassettes, archives and musics.
Zan plays alone, but under different conceptual principles and names.
One of those concepts is particulary exciting : during the day of the concert he would record street sounds, and will use later those sound ambiences as backing for an improvisation.
Zan not only trades his own records with the other musicians he meets, he also share the stage with improbable meetings, savage jams with a great mastery...

http://www.myspace.com/zanhoffmanlive