Zambezi Drive

Tomorrow, 20.00, Summer Party at the W4 in De Bilt.

Ladies and Gentlemen, next to our experiments at home recording we’ve also planned a date to record the 2nd Zambezi Drive EP! We’ll be helped out by mr. David van Putten from the fantastic band ‘Frisco Bay’ The magic will happen on the 26th and 27th of June. Release is expected in August/September.

Today, we recorded Tijmens drums! No fancy studio, just his old childhood bedroom to let the memories linger and get into the right mood. After fueling up on coffee and peanutbutter sandwiches (thank you, Mr and Mrs Ruizendaal!!) he laid down some pretty good one-takers.

Yes, that’s right. Zambezi Drive will be recording some songs over the next few weeks. The experiment here is that we’ll be doing it by ourselves… or at least trying to… Of course recording music is not easy, but we thought: we have some great equipment, we have the software and we have the songs, so why not give it a shot. Drum sessions are scheduled for next week and after that it’s just a matter of adding the rest of the instruments and mix. The songs that are gonna be recorded are We Hate The Economy, I’m Gonna Go To Bed and Put Your Lights On.

Okay, so things have been a bit quiet around here. But that´s just because we´ve been too busy to update this website and everything. You know, we have jobs too to support our rock ´n roll lifestyle. That takes up quite some time. And…we´ve been pretty occupied with writing new stuff, playing new instruments and making it all fit in the unique experience that is Zambezi Drive.

One more important thing: on Saturday June 19 we will be playing a venue in De Bilt near Utrecht. It´s not just gonna be a band night, it´s gonna be a night full of live music, cool DJ´s and excellent drinks, a celebration for the summer. More details will follow shortly, but just… mark the day.

Last Sunday (Dec 26st) Zambezi Drive played a short show for Chateau Ravage, a Dutch radioshow, hosted by the ever-enthusiastic Bob and Boudewijn. Unfortunately Piet couldn’t make it due to obligations in Belgrade, but Jelmer, Tijmen and Maarten played a nice acoustic set. A lot of fun and nice experience to be playing live on the air. The show can be streamed here or downloaded from www.myspace.com/chateauravage until Sunday Jan 4th.

So we posted on this topic quite a while back, but we can now con firm that Zambezi Drive is part of the documentary “In Between” which is financed by the EU. The documentary is about immigrant youth and is shot in different cities across Europe. One of those is Utrecht and our song “Office Men” is the soundtrack to that part! Very cool of course, and the documentary will be distributed across europe. Who knows where we’ll be doing our next gig ;). We’ll be uploading the Utrecht piece shortly here.

ZD

After some months of downtime the recession is finally over! Zambezi Drive is very much alive again, incorporated some new instruments to their game and are trying to show off in front of audiences on the following dates:

* friday Oct 30th in Breda at some party

* sat Nov 7th in De Lantaern (Zevenaar)

* sat Nov 28th in Maartensdijk at a band contest

Ola,

Nieuws van het Zambezi front. We zijn gevraagd om onze muziek ter beschikking te stellen als soundtrack. Er is nog niets zeker, maar binnenkort meer info.

Daarnaast gaat ZD tot September op mini sabbatical om daarna de nation weer te rocken!

Op de Park pagina is het nu mogelijk om te EP te downloaden! Veel luisterplezier