{"id":511,"date":"2012-01-09T20:40:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T20:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/?p=511"},"modified":"2013-02-14T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:49:31","slug":"featured-artist-comandante-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/featured-artist-comandante-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Artist: Comandante Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brooklyn-based Indie band\u00a0Comandante Zero<\/a>–composed of\u00a0Ken White and Dan Freeman–is offering music goers\u00a0“a new course for electro-funk-dance.” If you live in Williamsburg, then you might be familiar with this duo’s tracks, such as \u201cThe Future\u201d or \u201cGive It Up,\u201d which is on their first E.P., “Slouching Towards\u00a0Babylon Part I.” They have teamed up with Chic keyboardist Russell Graham, David Siskovic, Bob Power<\/a>, among many more, adding to Comandante Zero’s\u00a0rhythm\u00a0of\u00a0\u201cbuild[ing] all of our songs from the bottom up….play it continuously for enormous time spans \u2013 and in that space, the song will emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now working on, “Slouching Towards\u00a0Babylon Part II”–the\u00a0follow-up E.P. to Part I–Comandante Zero is keeping up with their growing momentum in music scene. Want to see this duo group live?\u00a0They will be performing on Friday, January 27 at Blue House Monday at 10 pm, a show you won’t want to miss. Listen to their first single from their E.P., “Russian Disco (C0m1x 2011),” below.<\/p>\n