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FFF

by ZOFFF

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1.
Ye 10:16
2.
Vav 06:58
3.
Har 02:58
4.
Dig 05:57
5.
Ca 02:11
6.
Zeta 08:45

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SORRY THE VINYL RELEASE OF THIS ALBUM HAS SOLD OUT

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FFF is ZOFFF’s third album and second studio recording featuring for the first time actual ‘tracks’, culled from an improvised recording session in March 2017. A clear vinyl release of FFF will be available late April/early May 2018 courtesy of Deep Distance, the label who brought us ZOFFF 1 on white vinyl last year.

Recorded on the Full Moon March 2017 by Simon Janes at The Homesick Recording Company Hove England.
Released on the Full Moon March 2018.

Edited, compiled and sequenced by Damo Waters.
Mixed by Bic Hayes at Aurum Autumn 2017.
Mastered by Ron Synovitz with Amak Golden at Golden HIVE Prague studio on the Winter Solstice 2017.

Chris Anderson ~ Bass
Richard Gorbutt ~ Modular Synth
Bic Hayes ~ Guitar
Al Strachan ~ Monophonic synth, Trumpet
Damo Waters ~ Drums, Percussion

All titles by ZOFFF Anderson/Gorbutt/Hayes/Strachan/Waters
Produced by Bic Hayes and Damo Waters.
Artwork by Michael Chapman.

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released March 31, 2018

“ZOFFF are all about light and shade, and the dynamic movement from the subtlest curlicues of gentle sound to the full raging storm of sonic attack, and back again. On their second studio album ‘FFF’ the south coast psychedelic five piece serve up six tracks of improvised instrumental experimentation that blend seamlessly into a consistent whole: a trip, if you will, from First Faltering Feelings to Final Full-blown Freak-out.
'Ye' assembles around a lonesome trumpet overture, before the drums and dirty fuzz guitar kick in and we're off, with no messing around and no ambient noodling: direct to the cranium and the groove with high-energy space rock reversing the polarity and shaking out the ghosts. 'Vav' takes it up another notch: tense and urgent, it climaxes in Coltrane-like sheets of sound over double-time drumming, before 'Har' arrives at a relatively gentle pace, dub-like sonic action swooping and fluttering over a rock-solid beat until the bass takes over and the direction becomes clear: FFForward!!!
Side two starts with the appropriately titled 'Dig'. All the elements are in balance and the band are Firing at Full Force. 'Ca' kicks off with horn, static and splash, a classic slow burn taking us up to the final eleven-minute climax of 'Zeta'. This surprisingly exploratory piece doesn't just aim to go out with a bang but takes time to set up new possibilities and juxtapositions, opening new doors right to the end where other lesser bands would already be packing up the scenery.
Recent years have seen ZOFFF reaping acclaim and blown minds wherever they've appeared. Their live album, (last years KOZFEST MMXVI) baring striking testimony to this. With psychedelia an increasingly devalued term, ZOFFF remain the connoisseur's choice. That's ZOFFF with three Fs by the way. We wouldn't want you to forget now...”

Ben Graham

'FFF' has 6 tracks, all with one word and somewhat esoteric titles - speaking to Chris from the band about this and the title of the album, he remarked "The title FFF hints at ‘very loud’ in musical terminology and is a bit of a light-hearted, subconscious prod to people to spell the name right (lots of people spell it ZOFF).The titles of the tracks are phonetic spellings / pronunciation of the letter F in different languages." So now you know!. '
Ye' gets things going, opening with some pulsing electronica and blasts of melancholic brass which combine to create an atmosphere rich in dread and foreboding. This scene setting is a bit of a red herring truth be told; a tattoo of drums interrupts the warbling electronics and heralds the onset of a sublime ten minute epic that flits between groove filled kosmische jams and mind-bending electronica. It is a track that never settles, instead constantly morphing and evolving...it is a real trip (in whatever sense of the word you care to choose). 'Vav' takes that same basic recipe of kosmische jams and synths but sprinkles it with lashings of motorik goodness and the result is a delicious and deeply hypnotic track that is as erudite as it damn groovy. 'Har' is a short (3 min) affair but seems to pack a great deal into a short amount of time....pulsing bassline, metronomic drums, oscillating electronica and enough spacey effects to soundtrack a year's worth of NASA docs. 'Dig' opens with some eastern tinged horns and a fizzing hum redolent of vinyl static. The track as a whole has the feel of a groovy, jazz informed krautrock number with the skittish drums and melancholic horns but the little flourishes of electronica and subtle underlying drones add a different dimension. 'Ca' is a short but uptempo track with a glorious motorik rhythm and a spacerock vibe going on, my only complaint is that just a tad over 2 minutes it's way too short. 'Zeta' closes the album with a laid back jam - a pulsating bass dominating things and providing a groove laden framework over which the guitar weaves its spells and some cacophanous electronic effects give things a spacey vibe. The electronica grows in intensity until it is very much centre stage, throwing the listener off-kilter and the track becoming akin to the soundtrack of a psychotic mind, but then sanity is restored and the chilled jam of the beginning sees the track to its logical conclusion.
'FFF' sees ZOFFF doing what they do best, namely improvising around a theme and playing with the tropes of psych and krautrock - there is nothing predictable about this album and certainly, to me, that is a very good thing. That the guys in the band are superlative musicians is a given (again, if you've ever seen them live...wow!) but what is heartening to me is this willingness to bend and build on 'accepted' structures and sounds. In short, 'FFF' is bloody good! It has pretty much everything you need from an album.

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