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French chamber rock band that released a self-titled album in 2006 and broke up later that same year. Members: Cosia, Michael Hazera, Pairbon, Yan Hazera. This band came to be after the breakup of SOTOS when drummer Michael Hazera and guitarist Yan Hazera (brothers?) decided they wanted to continue the spirit of the avant-garde chamber rock sound. They recruited the incredibly talented bassist Pairbon and of all things a hurdy gurdyist named Cosia. If you are unfamiliar with a hurdy gurdy I suggest you check out the demonstration on YouTube by the world's leading hurdy gurdyist Matthias Loibner. It is a 7-stringed instrument that is really a mechanical violin with keys like an accordion that you push while you crank with the right hand to sustain the sound. It's capable of creating an amazing diversity of soniferous delight! It can sound like a drone that is similar to a bagpipe, a cello or an organ at times. ZAAR is basically a avant chamber rock which upon first listen reminds of Univers Zero, Art Zoyd or anyone else in the subgenre. There are two monster tracks “Sefir” and “Omk” which are both over 17 minutes long and ebb and flow through a variety of passages and moods from slow and dreamy to bombastic. The remaining tracks are shorter and more to the point. I really have a hard time differentiating between tracks since the longer ones just feel like a bunch of shorter ones strung together and the continuity of the album pretty much flows from beginning to end anyway.
