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After spending the better part of a decade working on solo material after the break-up of Rage Against The Machine, Zack De La Rocha has not only announced a new project, One Day As A Lion, but a record label (Anti) and release date (July 22) for its EP. What does it sound like, you ask? “A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare. It’s a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask.” That’s what you always say, Zack. Still, less than a month before he more than doubles the amount of new music he’s released since The Battle Of Los Angeles by putting out five whole songs! Nice! Judging by the two he’s officially released so far, his standards are pretty high.
“We Want It All,” De La Rocha’s drone-rock Trent Reznor collaboration from 2004’s Songs and Artists that Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11, is so promising that it’s kind of heartbreaking that the other twenty-odd tracks they worked on may never be released.
“March Of Death,” a track with DJ Shadow released online in 2003 to protest the invasion of Iraq, is unsurprisingly cluttered in comparison, but an album of similar tracks would have been more than worthy of release.
And there’s his live work with Son de Madera.
Which isn’t “Killing In The Name,” but it’s something.
So everyone, please be nice to this new EP. I don’t want to wait another decade for the full-length.
We Want It All – Zack De La Rocha [YouTube]
Zack De La Rocha & DJ Shadow – March Of Death [YouTube]
Zack de la Rocha w/ Son de Madera – La Guanabana [YouTube]
The fact that ol Zac was seemingly everywhere in the Clinton years castigating the power structure and then was, aside from the songs you note, essentially invisible during W.’s time is retrospectively roffly.
Don’t forget the song he did with Blackalicious.
@Ned Raggett: Maybe he was making subversive and super-ironic cut-out stencil graffiti and working at a health food market, riding his bike to open mic nights like a lot of inflammatory polemics. Or somethin’.
@OingoBobo: How does a polemic ride a bike, one wonders.