Zazen Tapes

06/02/2024

Out now: Milkweek “Rumspringa”

The long awaited cassette for from Buffalo’s Milkweed, chock-full of home spun, alt-country good vibes!

Available on limited edition cassette and digitally at
zazentapes.bandcamp.com

Tapes in edition of 40

09/01/2024

The label has been pretty inactive as of late, but I’m happy to announce a new tape from Milkweed is in production and will be out in the near future. Let’s go!

27/11/2022

Review for Wylie Something’s “Scatter the Pieces cassette from Razorcake/Gorsky Press, Inc.
Check it out!

Jacob Smolinski is an experimental singer-songwriter from Buffalo who plays cacophonous, discordant tunes with oddball, drone vocals. Using the name Wylie Something for his one-man band, Smolinski recorded Scatter the Pieces over a three-day stretch in a cabin playing all of the instruments himself,...

23/07/2022

Just a dude and his tapes 😁

Grab a copy of the Wylie Something cassette while they still last at
zazentapes.bandcamp.com/album/scatter-the-pieces

01/07/2022

Out now: Wylie Something “Scatter the Pieces”

A collection of songs full of texture and tenacity, minimalism and melody, warming the listener like a wood burning stove

Available on limited edition cassette and digitally at
zazentapes.bandcamp.com/album/scatter-the-pieces

Tapes in edition of 40

21/06/2022

“Forgiveness,” the second single from the upcoming Wylie Something cassette is out today!

Stream it at:
zazentapes.bandcamp.com/track/forgiveness

And check out the far-out 3D video for the track below!

Preorder the album on cassette or digitally on the Zazen bandcamp. Album out July 1st!

08/06/2022

RUST BELT DREAM ~ THE LEAD SINGLE OFF SCATTER THE PIECES IS OUT NOW ON ALL STREAMING ALONG WITH A MUSIC VID

https://youtu.be/t6LMtbTOcNQ

I've been waitin' to share this tune for a long while. An ode to working, playing, and livin' hard in the Ruff Buff. I lost my mind makin' this vid.

"Can't remember where I went... in the city"

Special thanks to John Bohn for mastering and Zazen Tapes for putting out the dang thing.

Pre-order is live for a limited edition cassette release on zazentapes.bandcamp.com

Scatter the Pieces out July 1st. Blessssssssssssssssss

Filming by Brandon Schlia n driving by Bailey

02/06/2022

I haven’t been able to spend too much time on the label lately, but I am back to announce a new release coming out in July: “Scatter the Pieces” by Buffalo’s own Wylie Something
These songs were recorded over 3 days in a cabin next to a wood burning stove using minimal equipment but containing maximum spirit.

The first single from the album is called “Rust Belt Dream” and will be available for download on June 7th. You will also be able to start to pre-order the cassette at that time.

04/08/2021

New review up for EAT’s cassette “Moving Objects” in the latest issue of Vital Weekly, along with Raoul Van Herpen’s solo work, released on Flag Day Recordings
Check it out!

Review and full issue can be found at:
http://www.vitalweekly.net/1295.html

29/07/2021

Thanks to Lost In A Sea Of Sound for this review of HAHN’s “Handed All He Needs”
Check it out!

Reviews and descriptions of cassettes, tapes, records, labels and vinyl. Including pictures and links to help the reader.

30/06/2021

I did a little interview about the latest Zazen release, “Moving Objects” by EAT

Check it out and listen at: https://open.spotify.com/show/5hHsZs4wkLSBv8WdG9ZiMi?si=CinVFbCPS_C-QRQQrWVgAg&nd=1

21/06/2021

Out now: EAT “Moving Objects”

Excellent and interesting electro-acoustic improvisation

Available on limited edition cassette and digitally at
zazentapes.bandcamp.com/album/moving-objects

Tapes in edition of 25 copies

11/06/2021

Life’s been busy recently, so I haven’t been able to put as much time into Zazen Tapes as usual. But I finally have some time to start getting our next release together. So coming soon, some good ol’ experimental electroacoustic improvisation from E.A.T.

13/04/2021

Next release is in the works! Get excited for the dynamic and interesting improvisation of Netherland’s electro acoustic trio, E.A.T.

13/03/2021

Thank you to Noise Not Music for reviewing HAHN’s “Handed All He Needs”

https://noisenotmusic.com/2021/03/12/review-hahn-handed-all-he-needs-zazen-tapes-mar-5/

05/03/2021

Out now: HAHN “Handed All He Needs”

Forty one-minute harsh and screeching noises tracks flowing from one to another

Available on limited edition cassette and digitally at
zazentapes.bandcamp.com/album/handed-all-he-needs

Tapes in edition of 15

09/02/2021

Starting work on our next release, a collection of 40 one-minute noise bursts courtesy of harsh noise project HAHN

06/02/2021

Great review from of Sara Ohm’s “Sovtek/Bourne/Luxembourg” 😊

25/01/2021

A couple recent reviews for “Resistance Etiquette” by Indentured. The first one’s from the latest issue of Razorcake/Gorsky Press, Inc. and the other is from Maximum Rocknroll

17/01/2021

Thank you for the review of Sara Ohm’s “Sovtek / Bourne / Luxembourg” 😁

18/12/2020

Out now! Sara Ohm “Sovtek / Bourne / Luxembourg”

Noise punk from the great one-woman guitar army!

Available on limited edition cassette and digitally at
zazentapes.bandcamp.com/album/sovtek-bourne-luxembourg

Tapes in edition of 25

All proceeds for this album will go to ‘Glasgow St. Pauli’ in honor of Ossan
www.glasgowstpauli.com

Artwork by Stark Produkt

11/12/2020

One week from today (on Friday Dec 18th), we will be releasing the new album from Sara Ohm entitled “Sovtek-Bourne-Luxembourg”

Artwork by Stark Produkt Zine

07/12/2020

Review for Much Band’s “Literally Too Pleasurable” from the latest issue of Razorcake/Gorsky Press, Inc.

For those into stuff that “mercilessly straddles the fence line between noise and music”

04/12/2020

Today, we are donating all sales to The Bail Project. The Bail Project helps post bail for people in cities across the county. So grab a punk or noise tape or download, and help get some people out of jail.
zazentapes.bandcamp.com

03/12/2020

All sales tomorrow (Friday Dec 4th) will be donated to The Bail Project to raise some money to get some folks out of jail and back with their loved ones this holiday season. If you are thinking of grabbing any noise or punk tapes, tomorrow would be a good day for it.

The Bail Project is a national organization that helps combat mass incarceration by by helping post bail for individuals in cities across the country.

Please consider donating to your locate bail fund or an organization like The Bail Project. Now is as important a time as ever to bail people out of jail as COVID has been spreading like wildfire in jails and prisons.

Thank you as always to for organizing!

11/11/2020

Very excited to announce that our next release is gonna be the new album from Sara Ohm entitled “Sovtek / Bourne / Luxembourg”

Artwork by Stark Produkt

06/11/2020

Check out this new review of Much Band’s “Literally Too Pleasurable” from Maximum Rocknroll

04/11/2020

New review up via Maximum Rocknroll for “Do More Than Deconstruct-o” by Zurich Cloud Motors. Check it out!

02/11/2020

A couple great reviews of Prayer Rope’s “Everything Fell Away and I Left Myself Behind”

12/10/2020

Thank you to StickingItToU ( on Instagram) for the review of “Sandstorm” by Systematic Elimination

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQNBeFpyD-/?igshid=1xipfd59vhrmu