Zali

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»Zali« is the exhilarating debut single from Mediterranean psych-rock band: Buzz' Ayaz.

Buzz' Ayaz will appear at ESNS 2024 on January 17th, 2024
esns.nl/en/festival/artists/buzz-ayaz/

The band's self-titled first album will be released by Glitterbeat Records in September, 2024.

Hailing from Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia, this recently born ensemble – led by Antonis Antoniou founder of the esteemed Monsieur Doumani and Trio Tekke – is the start of a new adventure in Eastern Mediterranean psychedelia. Buzz’ Ayaz’s arresting sound is a wild mixture of fuzzy synth textures, dubby electronics, 70s psych organ, growling bass clarinet, tribal beats and microtonal Anatolian melodies.

An Eastern Mediterranean folk element runs deep in the veins of each band member, and they collectively use that to build a 21st-century sonic universe that has a strong local identity and tang. The result is a contemporary reflection of place; of the politics, geography and fluctuations of light and shadow found in the turbulent soul of Nicosia, an urban melting pot of Greek, Turkish and other cultures.
The members of the band come from both sides of the city’s Greek/Turkish divide. Their joining together is a deliberate attempt to create a music that gives voice to the whole city. A music that echoes above its concrete walls.

Buzz' Ayaz's Antonis Antoniou tells us this about the themes of their debut single: »Zali (Dizziness) is about not conforming to the rules set by any conventional structures. It’s about taking a different direction from the ordinary, about the urge of exploring new experiences and falling in love with them whatever the cost. It’s about daydreaming, about hovering tenderly in our imagination, about letting our senses get drunk and dizzy on the purity of life.«

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Ζάλη

Ζάλη, τούτ’ η ζάλη αλλήθωρη σφυρίζει

Ζάλη στο αρφάλιν, μια σβούρα στροβιλίζει

Να τυλιχτώ μέσα να παιδευτώ

Κάτι φωνές κράζουν να συναχτώ

Λιποταχτώ, θέλω ν’ αφοριστώ

Σ’ τούντο καμίνιν να καψαλιστώ

Ζάλη για χαλάλιν τα μίλια πά’ στα πόθκια

Ζάλη να ’ν’ καπάλιν τα μέλια τα σιρόπκια

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Zali (Dizziness)

Dizziness, this dizziness is whistling, cross-eyed

Dizziness in the navel, a top is spinning

I want to wrap myself inside and struggle

Some voices are shouting for me to break it off

I desert, I want to be excommunicated

To scorch inside this furnace

Dizziness, the miles on these feet were worth it

Dizziness, may the honey and the syrup flow abundant

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released January 10, 2024

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