Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. 
The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year's best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries. 
As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too. 
The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelic originators Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), and the Occitanian trad sinder Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators have included Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox), and many others.

**It was a time when birds hunted horses** (WBHH) tells the tale of a band of "newcomers" made up entirely of seasoned veterans.
WBHH brings together **David Caryn** (Goat Vomit, Luik), **Julien Bockiau** (Ultraphallus, Ramon Zarate), **Henri Gonay** (Même Les Oiseaux Puent, Some Tweetlove), and their charismatic frontman **Laurent Van de Wiele**, a true legend of the Liège punk scene, renowned from Groningen to Timbuktu.
While there may be a galaxy between *Some Tweetlove* and *Goat Vomit,* what unites these four horse-soy-loving birds is a passion for crushing heaviness and spine-chilling tales where goblins are tortured by sludge enthusiasts.
WBHH sounds like your scratched Black Sabbath record buried under a thick layer of noise.

ZAäAR is a Belgian collective born from a rib of NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM, the cosmic free-jazz orchestra that in the last two years catalyzed the attention of those in love with psychedelic music, experimental drone doom and space ambient. «Magickà Džungl'a» is ZAäAR's monumental manifesto, as amazing and ambitious in scope as was NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM's «Éons».

Moving along the same sonic coordinates of that illustrious predecessor, however ZAäAR's debut double album is a quite different electric beast. Featuring singer/multi- instrumentalist Guillaume CZLT (also active in ôROS KAà™ and SOL KIA), saxophonist- extraordinaire Jean Jacques Duerinckx, the explosive rhythmic section of Sébastien Schmit and Hugues Philippe Desrosiers, and Didié Nietzch's visionary synths, ZAäAR drink deep from the same inspirational well to open our third eye on majestic horizons of psychedelic beauty, but their approach is more instinctual, cruder, more primitive.

Their psychedelic free-jazz soaked in droning ambient melodies awakes and stimulates ancient and forgotten senses, laying dormant since when humanity has been projected into the greyness of an industrialized reality, bringing the listener back to a time when everything was new and exciting and dangerous.

ZAäAR is more than a band: it's the reconquest of our savage side; the terrifying and primeval roar of a mind ravaged by magic drugs; the lush sounds of a soul swimming in the primordial broth, savoring again an existence full of marvels and hazards. Welcome to the jungle!

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ZAäAR is :
Didié Nietzch : Synths, Ipads
Sébastien Schmit : Drums, Percussions
Hugues Philippe Desrosiers : Electric Bass
Jean Jacques Duerinckx : Saxophone Sopranino
Guillaume Cazalet CZLT : Vocals, Trumpet, Flutes, Percussions

Cover art made by Peter KľàºÄik - Untitled