This song has already put itself at a special place in my heart, which I´m sure the whole album will after spending some time with it. This already feels like a special gem in music, created by an artist not afraid of doing his own thing; listening to his soul, instead of thinking of how the music shall sound.
Zoungla is Costa Damoulianos from Quebec, Canada. learning the piano already at the same age as learning the alphabet. As he grew older he went on to learn other instruments such a the bassguitar and drums, and at the age of 17 he attended Vanier
Music School to learn jazz guitar. It was when his father introduced
him to a tape mixer, that Costa first found his love
for mixing and producing music and he quickly moved on to electronic composition. His influences can be traced to various styles of music such as Pink Floyd, Ott,
Shpongle, Jeff Martin, Dream Theater, Argaman, Rush, Hans Zimmer, Pain
of Salvation, Yanni, Devin Townsend and Koji Kondo. He describes his music as a blend of "ethnic sounds of the past with
futuristic electronic tones, extremes from silly to sad, dark to bright,
calm to intense and serious to fun."
His album can be downloaded be free through Ektoplazm and if you really like his music feel free to donate money to Costa directly via his Bandcamp.
matt-in-orbit 2013
Wish I could get the lyrics of "Young Man". That song is magical!
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