Zen Beer



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Click to enlargeGrand Unified Chaos







Play The Night Sky
Play Grand Unified Chaos
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Songs on this album are:
1. The Night Sky
2. Whispers From The Sea
3. The Explorers
4. Moons Of Jupiter
5. Duel At Dawn
6. Cathedral Of Time
7. Vicious Circles
8. Action This Day
9. Caves OF Ice
10. The Brewing Storm
11. Grand Unified Chaos
12. The Alone
13. Mad Science
14. Doomsday Machine Activation
15. Tumbleweed Junction



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Click to enlargeBass, The Universe and Everything







Play The Glass Half Full
Play Head In The Clouds
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Songs on this album are:
1. The Glass Half Full
2. Head In The Clouds
3. That's The Way Things Be
4. Life In Suburbia
5. Cubed Squared
6. Edo's Parking
7. A Mari Usque Ad Mari
8. Fireplaces and Lapcats
9. Beer Baron
10. This Song Is Not About Pirates
11. The Photon
12. Audio Slam Radio
13. Bass, The Universe and Everything



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Click to enlargeThe Cosmic Trigger EP







Play Ancient Temple
Play The Cursed City
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Songs on this album are:
1. Ancient Temple
2. The Cursed City
3. Ion Storm
4. Journey To The End
5. Interlude
6. Rituals Of The Fire



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More About Zen Beer

Zen Beer is the brainchild of Canadian freelance bassist Adam Tanner, who throughout a professional and semi-professional career spanning a decade has played bass in many different styles and environments. Heavily influenced by a very wide variety of music from Bach to Squarepusher to Opeth, hearing the pioneering work of bassists such as Victor Wooten, Tony Levin, Les Claypool and Stu Hamm gave him the drive to pursue a solo bass project of his own when the time was right.

That time turned out to be 2003, when Adam became familiar with the solo work of bassists such as Steve Lawson and Michael Manring, which incorporated on-the-fly looping technology. Emboldened by the seemingly endless possibilities that the combination of bass and live looping might offer, he began to explore this newly charted realm of the low end, adding to it his own personal style, experience, and the concept of unintentional music, flowing from the heart and not the head.

Various unreleased home recordings were to follow over the next couple of years. Buoyed by the positive response to both these and a few live improvisational performances, Adam went into the studio in mid-2005 to record Zen Beer's debut CD, "Grand Unified Chaos", a 15-song record with a style all its own - solo bass and, with the exception of one track, only bass. Yet, many different elements can be heard: progressive and alternative rock, ambient electronica, electro-acoustic, classical, jazz and funk.

This debut CD represents only the beginning of the journey for the Zen Beer project, with more live shows and recordings to come in the near future. The concept continues to grow, evolve and forge its own path in so doing.