Ever since I first started hearing about this project a few weeks ago I’ve been dying to hear what the music sounds like.  Finally Anti Records sent out a blast today revealing the first song from Zack de la Rocha & Jon Theodore’s on-going creative collaboration One Day As A Lion.  Jon Theodore (one of the former drummers in The Mars Volta) is on percussion and Zack on vocals and keyboards.  Check out “Wild International” off their debut self-titled EP which hits outlets worldwide on July 22nd.  Follow the click for more info on the group, the tracklist for the EP, and official Web links.

One Day As A Lion “Wild International”

The band writes:

“One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept.”

“A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare.  It’s a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask.  One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California.”

“The name taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall in an unspecified section of Boyle Heights.  It reads: ‘It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.’  This record is a stripped down attempt to realize this sentiment in sound.”

The songs:
01 – Wild International
02 – Ocean View
03 – Last Letter
04 – If You Fear Dying
05 – One Day As A Lion

Links:
www.onedayasalion.org

www.myspace.com/onedayasalion