Zen Rock

17.04.2016

Vårjevndøgn følger Vintersolverv, Which is to say, Equinox follows Winter Solstice - with no delay, so run come put some spring in your step, do remember and don’t forget. 21st of March, this Saturday indeed, summer’s fast on the approach with great great speed. Skank towards the light with Hold A Medi on this night, and you’re sure to enter summer in high delight.

Melahuset comes alive ones again with heavyweight bass, conscious roots reggae & deep dub frequencies.🔥 Come feel the music and let the vibes lead the way. ❤️💛💚 10th April // 22-03 // 150,- // Id: 18

Posters & such, for @rootsinvasionsoundsystem as seen in Grønland, @holdamedimelody as seen on screen & on fabric, all drawn & designed by Zenny, plus a cool cold fast blast winter medi puja at Klosterenga.

This weekend I tasted berry-ripened coffee. Listened to some good music. Tried to keep la vida pura. Drew some angelic beings. Ate injera. Held a medi. Sent some messages, received some messages. Dodged the news, cursed the algae riddims, and put a load of records back on the shelves. I did not chop wood. Nor was water carried any significant distances, (although #tomrobbins once wrote that water invented humans as a means of transportation). 🤠💙

2025 was the year the bond of word was made manifest. Which is to say the sound system I’d long been saying I was going to build was built/acquired and put into action. Not the easiest thing to do, and certainly not a thing that venues and audiences are crying out for in my neck of the woods. - But well received amongst those who’ve experienced it so far. This is more of an ultramarathon than a sprint, and slowly building a foundation with patient endurance is what it’s about. But that word was kept, and thus word sound power came good. There are a few sessions on the cards for 2026, if you’re interested, kindly give @holdamedimelody a follow. Info of all that will be posted there. On the way out of 2025, Zenny will be the first to say that the internet is whack. SoMe is SoCorp and the algae riddims have choked the creative pond. While these platforms might still afford some sense of community, the degradation of that is surely plain to all. The sense of pushing creative efforts into the bot feeder scrape engine fails to feel valid. And yet here we all are, with convenience and third rate distraction available at the swipe of an opposable thumb. Opposition is now surely about doing the thing, not fussing about the thing on the online. Thumbs up to that. Certainly sound system only makes sense if you’ve *felt* it. Them boxes aren’t just for the ears, nor eyes. That’d miss a big chunk of the vibes. Indeed the whole vibe is about positive vibes, something the doom scroll news-roll makes it hard to keep in tune with. But as they say, it’s captive viewing, and it might just be a trap. Yet this platform reaches your palm, so here we (sn)are. But there are better ways of building community. And this little digression session is simply a meditation on the mediation of all that. Authentic Ignorance is still a thing. So AI is confused that this account flits between art, tattoos, sound systems, rasta philosophy and the odd book review. If you follow the person, it’s holistic, but if you just want a slice, not the pie, a lot of it’s chart junk. But hey, hip hop was sold to our youth-selves as dance, music and visual art all in the same bag. Want a bag with that?

Tried to keep a note of every book read in 2025. Not the most academic/heavy selection, I’ll admit.. - it is what it is. Mostly did this to get an idea of what my leisurely reading habits roughly amount to. Have a big ol’ backlog of unread stuff on the shelves, and new and interesting things are always popping up. As with records, there’s a fomo thing along with a common sense vibe and then the struggle to configure these into some form of constructive alignment. Hoard more and keeping building cases, or shed what’s been read? Might 2026 be a depth year? Who knows.. it might very well just maybe. Is time spent reading better than time spent online? You tell me… 🤓

Dub academicks inform da perceptions of da dance, but da dance also has a proprioceptive knowledge body all of its own embodied within da body moves and musical grooves, so for the headz that don’t know, and the bodies that do, between da two of these, reading, writing and rhythmic ticks, man do script and flip da doodles into manuscripts quick.

Happenstance Meditation. On the first look at SoMe today, who should I-n-I see but Akae Beka speaking about artistic integrity. Then this Trungpa page with talk of breakin free, so we observe synchronicity, as mind rewind to Akae lyricality. Ital Soup being the record label, and it’s role in the cosmic slop being what bubbled up, no doubt ital is most Haile vital. Today’s reading of wizdumb literature aka Zendo Jackanory. Bless.

Haile irie mail day. Some Zen Rock paintings in these lovely books, and in some very fine company too. Give thanks @rastafari.heart @kingsley.jahsiah for tireless efforts in putting things together. (Excuse the sounds of outdoor roadworks.)

“Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears”

Self-mutilation healed; red, black & green panther. Zen Rock tattoo news coming soon.