ALREADY a familiar figure on the internet, Northampton musician Zallaz is to stretch further across cyberspace with his new EP.
Though his music has been available through MySpace and icompositions, Zallaz – aka Kevin Misan – will break new ground when his Cobblers By Name EP is released on iTunes.
It comes after a year when his songs have hit number one on the icompositi
ons chart and he met up with collaborators in the States.
One of Zallaz's songs, a collaboration with an American musician called Right Noises, Same Old Stories, made headlines after it was revealed the song had been inspired by a letter written to the Chronicle & Echo.
Writing on his MySpace blog, he said: "Having recorded well over 60 tracks in 2007 it was going to be difficult (almost impossible) to select just four. In the end it was a question of not only the "best" four tracks but four songs that had something in common, style-wise.
The four chosen are all the more edgy/rock sound of Zallaz solo stuff.
His sound is described as "energetic, quirky, rock songs of angst and humour."
Zallaz started making music as part of The Tones, with two friends from school. He also gigged around Northampton as part of rockabilly band Rockin' Bones, but it was the opportunities facilitated by the internet which gave Zallaz a lease of life.
He said: "A buddy of mine gave me an old Apple computer weeks before the software Garageband was released. Garageband blew my mind totally.
"I upgraded the hardware and started tinkering with recording. It was pretty bad to begin with looking back.
"The breakthrough was finding other musicians via the internet, the help and encouragement I got was incredible, still is."
A recent piece of work is no exception, with Shattered Dreams – a collaboration with musicians from Peru and Germany – also hitting the top spot on iCompositions.
