Биография

Carl, Mike, Ken, and Bill are releasing a single, New Frontier, on February 28, 2023! Then a full album called "Star Creatures" later in March. The first ideas of the core of the new music began around 2018 or so, and was influenced heavily by European and Scandinavian electronic music. A primordial version of the music was played live in 2019 at Voice of the Valley festival near Morgantown, WV. Then the Covid crisis came upon the world, and we all went into seclusion. Mike, Ken, and Bill at this point made a decision to commit to producing the music remotely using the Ableton Live software platform, by sharing and augmenting the music files in the cloud space. The music slowly took form, and one song in particular, Star Creatures, the album’s namesake, pointed the musical story towards outer space themes. The resulting music is quite different from the more traditional progressive and orchestral rock of Zen Carnival’s previous three albums (“Inheritance,” 1999; “Bardo,” 2006; “Lucid Dreamer,” 2015). Star Creatures is a mixture of dance music as well as ambient and symphonic textures, with the live playing of Carl, Mike, Ken, and Bill, as well as the wonderful sampled female soprano vocal sounds of guest artist, Bridget Murphy. The music is fresh and new, but retains many of the improvisational progressive and orchestral elements that the band is known for.