ZYFA
Track: Dreams
"Op een druilerige zondagvoormiddag slenterden Zyfa en zijn beste makkers moe, maar gelukkig door een klein zijstraatje. Uit hun hoeden kwam een opmerkelijk muziekje. Eerst wat melancholisch, bevreemdend, maar hoe meer ze zich thuis begonnen te voelen, hoe dromeriger en hoopvoller hun deuntje werd. Elke hoed had zijn eigen klank, maar ze hadden die zeker in dezelfde winkel gekocht. Dat kon je horen..."
Halverwege hun tienerjaren startten enkele gedreven kerels een muzikale reis. Deze leidde hen naar de zomer van 2007 waar Zyfa ontstond: eerst vervoegde Timm (allround) het duo Anton en Jan, even later werden zij vervolledigd door Pino (drums) en Dams (bas). Vandaag gooien zij samen en gemotiveerder dan ooit hun creatieve hoeden in de lucht.
"De muzikale reis gaat door... naar de hoofdstraat en veel verder."
Introducing the band
Live in a very dark dark place
Making the video
A little visit from TV Brussel
Media box met Usb stick:
- 3 Zyfa Mp3's
- muziek clip
- foto's
- teksten
- sticker
media box cover
zyfa box achterkant
zyfa box binnenkant info
zyfa box boekje illustratie
zyfa box boekje illustratie 2
zyfa box boekje: foto's
zyfa box boekje: video
zyfa box boekje: tekst
sticker
Logo zyfa
Home
This is Zyfa.
A crew of five young musicians.
With five different hats.
Bought at the same hat shop.
All in a different shape and color.
We met on a small side road.
On the highest point of Flanders.
And the high road in sight.
Lying on a farmer’s cart.
Waiting for the wind to pick us up.
Don’t forget to let us in.
You will never look the same.
After trying on five hats.
After listening to Zyfa.
In Concert
12 months a year: your house
Do you have a big living room, a warm garage or a cozy attic?
Enough friends in your phone or mailbox that like music?
Then you can invite Zyfa for a concert at your house.
We’ll bring our songs, sit on your lap and smile to your grandmother.
This is as close as it gets.
2 May: De Vooruit
We need your vote for the Popfolio awards. We also need you in De Vooruit.
To cheer for us in the old Ballroom. Maybe you can even dance?
To smile when we go on stage. Maybe you can even whistle?
To see our first video. Maybe one day, we’ll make a whole movie?
24 April: ’t Karrewiel
Without a doubt, wheels are the most important thing on a cart.
They even made it to becoming a name for this pub.
We can be wheels too. Let’s make a head roll and move forward by spinning round and round. Until everything turns. And wonderfully gets out of balance.
Kerkstraat 8, Merchtem, 9 p.m.
19 April: Stoemp!
Stoemp is the Dutch word for a traditional dish with mashed potatoes and vegetables. But it’s also the name of a pub festival in Brussels.
Zyfa is asked to give the kick start. When the engine’s hot and running,
they’ll give over the pedals to Guy Swinnen.
12 April: Listen to the radio
Zyfa goes on the air! We bring a studio show on FM Brussels between
8 and 10 p.m. The audience can’t be heard, can’t be seen. But they’re out there. Chained to their radios. Waiting for Zyfa to come in for a visit.
About us
We’re not famous.
Not yet.
Don’t know if we even want to be.
Be a poster on somebody’s wall?
Be a story in a magazine?
I guess we do.
Because we love our music.
Because we need an audience.
People will only listen to us if they know about us.
We’re stuck in this vicious circle.
So give me that fame!
Give me your attention!
Write about Zyfa!
Put us on stage!
Put us in your lunchbox.
Sneak in before noon.
And save the bread crumbs for later…
RifRaf Magazine about Zyfa:
’Ryan Adams is supposedly their big hero,
but Buffalo Tom is also just around the corner.
The opening song ‘Spring (play)’ makes a soft
start on its socks and then surprises you with a
complete turnover in beat and atmosphere. ‘Shed a Tear’
winks to My Morning Jacket, while ‘Dreams’ reminds us of the Pavement.
The bonustrack ‘Well I Once Read’ puts you in a cozy saloon.
It’s a nice way to finish a solid demo.’
Popfolio for Zyfa:
8 Belgian bands get selected for Popfolio.
Zyfa is one of the lucky ones that receive a budget of
1000 euro and a team of creative people to make a
professional portfolio. The awards are scheduled
for 2 May in De Vooruit. All bands are winners.
Only some will be bigger winners then others.
Our songs
Read
‘In my dreams there are no sheep, just ugly people and guys who drink’
‘If my hair was long, I'd cut it off! If it's short, I'm in the mood for some sport’
‘Perfectly wrong, when looking back on when we were young’
‘Nothing is wrong, except the feeling is gone and your weekends will remain’
‘Sleeping trees, a meadow of bees, it's all to call a waste of time (is money)’
‘Have you ever considered that happiness is not a train to catch?’
‘And it's beyond reasonable doubt: every turn you take leaves a lovesong unsung’
Buy
Our pride and joy.
Our demo for 3 euro.
Available after a show or with an email to contact@zyfa.be
Made with the help of producer Douglas Firs.In Bijloke Studio (Gent) & ‘t Smiske (Asse).
Quotes
‘The ordinary is perfect. Everybody knows it. But we just don’t give it any attention.’ Anton Vanderhasselt, lead singer Zyfa
‘Good music is something you put on in good times and bad times. To both celebrate the high and embrace the blues.’ Tim De Keyser, bass player Zyfa
‘You can make it completely different by just changing very small and simple things. That’s what I like about music.’ Pino Buggenhout, drum player Zyfa
‘In blues you’ll know that his wife left. In country you’ll also get to know why.’ Jan Staels, lead guitar Zyfa
‘We’re taking Dylan by the balls and asking him: how does it feel?’ Zyfa
‘ The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Aaaaw" Jack Kerouac
‘With my lips for food, and my skin for sheets, my eyes for light and my blood for heat and my two white arms for an overcoat.’ David McComb (Triffids)
‘If you cannot run, then crawl. If you can leave, then leave it all. If you don't get caught, then steal it all.’ David McComb (Triffids)
‘What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.’ Leo Tolstoy
‘Just to dig it all and not to wonder... And I'll be satisfied not to read in between the lines.’ Van Morrison
‘No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.’ Bob Dylan
‘Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles.’ Bob Dylan
‘I love woman, I hate womankind.’ Marvin Gaye
‘You can’t see tomorrow with yesterdays’ eyes.
’ Ryan Adam‘Make it new.’ Ezra Pound
‘Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.’ Percy Shelley
‘Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.’ Percy Shelley
‘I love not Man the less, but Nature more.’ Lord Byron
‘Under the sea, down here with me I find I'm not the only one who ponders what life would mean if we hadn't been so disappointed in the sun.’ dEUS
‘Situations get fucked up and turned round sooner or later...’ Elliott Smith
‘The road is long and the road is hard and many fall by the side.’ Nick Cave
‘Hey my wheels don't turn if the road don't feel right...’ Moondog Jr.
‘Just hand me down and give me a place to be.’ Nick Drake
‘I’m not carefree, no. I’m free to care, I just never knew!’ Conor Oberst
‘People always told me, that bars are dark and lonely. And talk is often cheap and filled with air.’ Jim James
‘The Mayans stole tomorrow, hid it underground, we come with heavy magnets but it stil hasn't been found.’ Monsters of Folk
‘I watch you braid your hair, you're from another time when the earth wasn't so angry, and God was on our side.’ Monsters of Folk
‘I will be your ark, we will float above the storm.’ The Low Anthem
‘Once you’ve known love you don’t know how to find love, yeah once you’ve found love you don’t know how to find new love.’ The Low Anthem
‘One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.’ Bob Marley
‘Our time has come today, And young hearts will go their way, Can't put it off another day, We don't care what others say, They say we don't listen anyway, Cause our time has come today.’ Willy Deville
‘Put your lover to your chest, put all your fears to rest, forever baby...’ Ryan Adams
‘The bar lights and the liquor, and the way all the bottles they shine. Well I got five more dollars, drink another, You’ll feel fine!’ Ryan Adams
‘I’ve got the No Pussy Blues! Damn!’ Nick Cave
‘Ashes of laughter. The ghost is clear. Why do the best things always disappear? Like Ophelia. Please darken my door.’ The Band
‘Walkin' blues have played a number on my feet.’ M. Ward
‘Be home before your memories, before they make you blue.’ Stef Kamil Carlens
‘My role is just to stay as long as I can’ Bob Dylan
‘Everybody is having them dreams. Everybody sees thereself, walkin’ around with nobody else. All the people can be half right some of the time, some of the people can be alright part of the time, but all the people can’t be alright all of the time. Abraham Lincoln said that. I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. I said that.’ Bob Dylan
‘You lose yourself, you reappear, you suddenly find you got nothing to fear. Alone you stand with nobody near, when a trembling distant voice, unclear, startles your sleeping ears to hear that somebody thinks, they really found you.’ Bob Dylan
‘Name me someone that’s not a parasite and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him.’ Bob Dylan
‘I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.’ Jack Kerouac
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