Zane Coppard Releases Start Session

Zane Coppard is a multifaceted musician who brings aspects of his avant-garde experiments into a beautiful union with pop music.

Pulling from vast musical influence, not only those famed from the present and past but also having been steeped in music at home as a child, Zane has garnered a unique ability to express many aspects of the human experience through what he creates.

With a musician for a father and being surrounded by alternative arts at home, Zane was made to choose his instrumental path at a young age.

From 8 years old he had been trained as a drummer, playing in bars and clubs at 14 and going on to tour as a session drummer for various groups including, most recently: Dralms, Belle Game, Evan Konrad and the heavy psyche band Crosss.

During this time he continuously made music under his own monikers 1000 Petal Lotus and dounpour (both being heavily experimental ambient projects) as well as Smash Boom Pow, a band he shares with his brother Ulysses.

In his sophomore album, Of Self (Bonfire Records), Zane draws attention back to what is most essential but overlooked in our outwardly focused society – the Self, just as the title indicates. Not only a reminder and reflection for himself, this work allows the listener to interpret as it suits them and their own human experience.

Personal sentiment is layered throughout the album with Jasper Miller (Outback, Diamond Cafe) on additional synth and drum programming, Dougal Bain (Layten Kramer) on strings, Ulysses on guitar, as well as mixing and mastering and Zane’s partner Mikayla on background vocals.

Zane’s most recent release, the Dupoint EP (released March 12th), was co-produced and co-written with Jasper Miller AKA Outback. After a series of more serious and piercing releases there was this innate desire to create something that tapped into the root of the duo’s musical background. “Dupoint was an exercise in reconnecting with our most authentic musical inspirations”, Zane states. The EP cements the duo’s love for dance music. Drawing from unlike samples, cassette recordings, dub, drum and bass, house, and pop. Dupoint is a homage to Zane and Jasper’s love of music and nothing more.

This whole EP came together so seamlessly. Jasper and my intersection in which the creation of this music occurred was one of aggravation. We had both kept witnessing the ego centric focus of artists and that desire to propel themselves forward, often burning bridges in doing so. Start Session starts with the words, “it’s not about the places you travel doing this, it’s not about the people you work with, cut the “sh*t “ and put it on the record”. The song talks about how keeping yourself in relationships like the one mentioned above often comes at a cost. “I don’t want to be tired anymore when we talk”, is another line from Start Session, where I clue into the needy nature motivating the actions of someone around me. I really believe in making music for the sake of making music. If you couldn’t brag about what you are doing, would you still be doing it? – Zane Coppard