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Zelta Zonk Studio revisited

by Zelta Zonk

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Zelta Zonk - Lady Of The Fading Sun (revisited) 10:31
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Zelta Zonk - End Of The Journey (revisited) 04:07
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Zelta Zonk - [ Instrumental ] (revisited) 03:12
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Zelta Zonk - Perfect Hero (revisited) 05:18
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Zelta Zonk - Dream Scene (revisited) 04:00
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Zelta Zonk - Kubla Khan (revisited) 16:27
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The Mewlips (revisited) 24:44
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From mid 1975 well into 1976 Zelta Zonk had the opportunity to use the location of a nearby school to rehearse and eventually record. A 'live in the studio' setting created the framework to record the self penned progressive rock tracks. Recordings were done using their 16 channel mixing console and an analogue stereo tape recorder (Revox A77) -- plain stereo only, directly from soundboard, mixing done on the spot. Later a few of these recordings got an overdub session for additional voices like extra guitars, keyboards and/or singing. This time the mixing sourced the stereo material from one tape machine to a second of the same calibre.

That was it, no other tricks, no gimmicks. Not all tracks got that additional treatment, thus the resulting material is neither perfect nor complete. The tapes in possession of Stephan were digitized by him in 2001. He transferred the material to a CD and send it out to Andreas.

Andreas had the same tracks on his tapes, but alternate and additional versions of very various quality as well. In 2006 he started transferring his tapes to digital. After tampering a while using Audacity, things got shelfed again.

Another 12 years later, it all came alive again, since now a DAW got involved. Arrangements got completed, filled up, drums added, voices created, all according to the subjective treatment by Andreas.

"Dream Scene" (words by APi, 1975) and "Kubla Khan" (words by S.T.Coleridge) got their vocals, well, spoken lyrics.

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released May 17, 2020

All tracks by Zelta Zonk.
Artwork by APi.

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APi Vollersode, Germany

Making music since age 8, guitar at 15, starting a band (mainly bass). Doing many genres, slightly biased towards prog rock [see www.ZeltaZonk.de].
Created tracks with many instruments to analogue tapes. Digital music editing started in mid 2000s, the DAW in 2018. Tapes got reworked. Since then new tracks are created. Since 2020 he works with co-musicians and publishes them. ... more

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