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We had the pleasure of interviewing Ben Zaidi over Zoom video!\xa0

BEN ZAIDI\u2019S NEW SINGLE \u201cGOING ON GONE\u201d OUT NOW!

DEBUT ALBUM PRODUCED BY TONY BERG DUE
2022 ON NETTWERK

Emerging Brooklyn-based artist\xa0Ben Zaidi\xa0unveils a new song from his forthcoming\xa0Tony Berg-produced debut album. Listen/share \u201cGoing on Gone\u201d\xa0HERE\xa0and watch/share the official lyric video\xa0HERE.

Zaidi explains the song was inspired by a drunken moment on the beach in Florida, which was \u201cinterrupted by a sudden vision of mortality and climate apocalypse. The desire to detach from reality and live with your headphones on is strong.\u201d

The track follows first single \u201cBen Zaidi\u2019s Blues;\u201d Watch/share the video\xa0HERE.

Zaidi\u2019s debut album is set for release in 2022 on\xa0Nettwerk, and was produced by\xa0Tony Berg\xa0(Phoebe Bridgers,\xa0Peter Gabriel,\xa0Beck) and recorded at Los Angeles\u2019\xa0Sound City Studios\xa0along with backing band members\xa0Ethan Gruska,\xa0Sebastian Steinberg\xa0(Fiona Apple,) saxophonist\xa0Sam Gendel\xa0and\xa0Kane Ritchotte\xa0(Portugal. The Man.) More details to come.

Watch Zaidi perform live at\xa0KEXP\xa0HERE.

Born and raised in Seattle, Zaidi is a Harvard-educated poet whose debut album explores a variety of themes: death, racial identity, quarter-life changes and the loss of innocence that comes with a rapidly decaying planet. Growing up with a lot of Northwest music influences, ultimately lyric-heavy albums such as Bob Dylan\u2019s\xa0The Times They Are A-Changin\u2019\xa0and\xa0The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, as well as Joni Mitchell\u2019s\xa0Blue, were in heavy rotation while writing his new album.

Much of the record was influenced by a long drive down I-95 from Brooklyn to Florida to visit a friend who had been diagnosed with Stage IV non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma and going through chemo. \u201cAnd that obviously was the first smack in the face of, \u2018Oh, we're not invincible anymore\u2019 It's not like, \u2018Oh our whole life is ahead of us stretching out in front of us,\u2019 but instead there is a certain frailty that this is all precariously balanced on. And I think the album's grappling with that.\u201d More details to come soon.

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