Battle of Adwa On March 1 every year, Ethiopia celebrates the Victory of Adwa (also spelled Adowa), the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian force led by Emperor Menilek II defeated the invading Italian forces on Sunday, March 1, 1896, in a decisive victory that prevented Italy’s campaign to expand its colonial […]
Okuda Hiroko The Roots of Sleng Teng Fresh out of college, having graduated from the Kunitachi College of Music in 1980, Okuda Hiroko was hired by Casio, a maker of calculators. Casio was developing musical keyboards and assigned Okuda Hiroko to develop the preset rhythm patterns for these new keyboards, including the MT-40. Okuda Hiroko […]
Maya Angelou American Women’s Quarter Program Celebrated writer, performer, and social activist, Maya Angelou, became the first Black woman to appear on a US quarter. The Maya Angelou quarter is the first in the American Women Quarters Program, which went into circulation on Monday, January 10, 2022. “Each time we redesign our currency, we have […]
Lo-fi IRIE Feeling Stonefrenge Soundtrack Multi-artist ZOOLOOK is back with the third track from his ‘Stonefrenge: Black in Space’ album. Titled ‘Lo-Fi IRIE Feeling’, this track explores ZOOLOOK’s love for the Lo-Fi music genre. ZOOLOOK plans to release the song as an NFT through the Rally.io platform. The official release date is January 6, 2022. […]
IRIE NFT Series ZOOLOOK It’s ‘I’fficial! IRIE is selling NFTs of its magazine covers published by ZOOLOOK as collectibles. As a result, IRIE fans will get a chance to own the digital imprint of some of our most iconic magazine covers. So what exactly are NFTs? NFTs or Non-fungible tokens are unique digital assets that […]
ZOOLOOK™ X • XXX • MCMXCVI On October 30, 1996, 25 years ago, multi-artist Nicholas’ Nico’ Da Silva decided to join the world wide web. He had already chosen his artist name, ZOOLOOK, inspired by the French composer Jean Michel Jarre’s 1984 album of the same name. He would register ZOOLOOK.com, .net, and .org to […]
Stonefrenge™ Lo-fi Reggae Music Multi-artist ZOOLOOK is hard at work on his latest project, Stonefrenge, a nine-track lo-fi reggae album featuring 4k animated videos produced with Adobe Animate. Additionally, ZOOLOOK plans to include three additional lo-fi tracks that he will remix from other artists, including Zoe Mazah’s upcoming release, On top of the World. Multi-artist […]
Stonefrenge™ Black in Space™ Multi-artist ZOOLOOK is back with a new music project titled Stonefrenge: Black in Space. ZOOLOOK has begun work on a lofi reggae album featuring animated music videos for each song. ZOOLOOK, a lifelong user of Adobe products, will use Adobe Animate to bring his vision to life in stunning 4k. Lofi […]
ZOOLOOK™ Stonefrenge™ What do you get when you mix art, music, history, and science? You get ZOOLOOK’s latest media project, the sci-fi animated music series Stonefrenge! Stonefrenge is a original story idea that ZOOLOOK has been developing since 2004. The series is inspired by his love for storytelling with music and art and his obsession […]
Dread & Alive: Nine Night™ The Akan Concept of Evil In ZOOLOOK’s Dread & Alive series, to protect their people and their sacred, communal land from evil, Cudjoe and Quaco call on the Gods’ support and the Spirits of their ancestors. The brothers also rely on the abosoms, the lower deities or spirits. Each brother […]
Dread & Alive: Nine Night™ The Soul The Akan believe we come into this world possessing a soul (Kra or Okra) and a spirit (Sunsum) when we are born. The soul is our life force from God (Nyame), the spirit, our personality. It is the spirit that connects the body (Honam) to the soul. A […]
Nine Night Chapter 1 It’s ‘I’fficial! Chapter 1 of ZOOLOOK’s Dread & Alive: Nine Night maxi-series is now available! Nine Night is the next story arc in the Dread & Alive reggae comic book and music series from ZOOLOOK. The prequel to issue #1 of Dread & Alive, Nine Night is the story of how […]