Zach Hill Q&A with Rock-A-Rolla Magazine out in Issue 33. Click photo to enlarge

In honor of our love of all things Zach Hill we thought it appropriate to share his bounty. So we made a Vinyl and CD deal so you can have all three of the releases Sargent House has put out of his for a mighty fine price!  All this month we will have the Zach Hill Ultimate bundles in Effect!

Featuring
Hella - Tripper ( The New Album from Hella! Zach Hill & Spencer Seim)
Zach Hill - Face Tat (Why Haven’t you Already Got this!)
Bygones - by - (Zach Hill and Nick Reinhart join forces, the outcome = sweet)

and you can add a Zach Hill or Hella T-Shirt to the pile as well. Nice.

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Hella: Scribbling Outside The Lines

Hella’s Zach Hill and Spencer Seim don’t just color outside the lines of rock ‘n’ roll — they scrawl all over the page, across the tabletop and into the next room. Depending on your perspective, the result is either a dazzlingly unruly abstraction or an unholy mess.

The Sacramento instrumental duo has basically one setting, and it’s full-speed-ahead sensory overload. Hill’s polyrhythmic drum assault and Seim’s jittery, Beefheart-by-way-of-Bad Brains guitar parts volley and tangle frenetically, battling to occupy every square inch of sonic real estate. Needless to say, it’s not easy listening, but with a little patience, unsnarling the duo’s dueling lines can yield exhilarating rewards.

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Hella Tripper Vinyl or CD or Special Bundles are now up and available for Pre-Order. 275 Limited 11x17 Album art posters to the first orders of bundle packages.
Orders will ship before release date. You can also order the new Hella Tripper shirt individually. 

In 2007 I wrote a brief, less-than-positive review of Hella’s There’s No 666 In Outer Space, the record where the Sacramento noise-rock duo expanded to a quintet and started sounding like a rootsy Mars Volta. It appeared inSPIN. The guys gamely turned the pith into a t-shirt. My issue with There’s No 666 was (what I saw as) the aimlessness created by those extra members — i.e. the shift didn’t seem necessary. So then, four years later, it’s great to be able to announce that Hella have a new album on the horizon that finds the core of guitarist Spencer Seim and drummer extraordinaire Zach Hill back as a streamlined, well-oiled twosome. As of today the 10-song album has no title. Ditto this song. But you can still listen to it just fine. And it shreds. 

• Hella – “Untitled”Download

Hella’s asking fans to create a video to go with the song. Once you do, post it to YouTube and/or the band’s Facebook page. The goal is to find “the most amazing, insane, awesome videos possible.”

Look for the album at the end of July or first week in August via Sargent House.

     
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Zach Hill

Name an accomplished drummer whose playing, without any other clues or context, you can recognize within a few measures of any given song. John Bonham? Keith Moon? Dave Lombardo? Elvin Jones? Point taken, but anyone familiar with Zach Hill’s rabbit-footed self-taught expressionistic approach to the kit would have to add the Sacramento, California-based drummer, songwriter and artist to that rarefied list. “I’ve always been more interested by people like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane to name a few, than by other drummers,” he explains. “Those non-drummers’ ideas and free-form expression are what I’m trying to apply to the drum kit.” But, it was the music Zach was introduced to while watching skateboard videos as a youth that formed his earliest influences.

Hill earned his stripes as a co-founder of the Sacramento-born duo turned quintet, Hella, with whom he’s recorded four albums and a number of EPs, split releases and compilation tracks. But, Hill’s resume as a drummer boasts a mind-melting number of collaborations. From his work in the Deftones offshoot, Team Sleep, to his jazz-oriented gigs with Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and members of Sun Ra’s orchestra or Prefuse 73, to his roles backing Mike Patton, harpist Joanna Newsom and the Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, to name but a few. His creatve compulsion unbridled, Zach’s visual art is featured in the packaging of many of his musical releases, as well as on the premiuim quality 30 singles Lil’ Scuzzy and Scuzzball t-shirts that we’re honored to present to you.

HELLA is in the studio recording a new album. Now, it’s been a while since the duo of Zach Hill & Spencer Seim got together. We are pretty excited about all this and will have loads more Hella news, in the mean time make sure to join up with the FB page if you want to stay on top of the latest developments. 

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