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LOS ANGELES CA January 15 2004--โ€" Smudge, the highly anticipated album by Los Angeles' Zallen, has been released.
Mike Jones is Zallen, whose talents run from singer/songwriter to musician, painter and visual artist. Smudge, his latest work, is a move back towards the pop-rock genre after six highly successful indie albums that ranged from psychedelic, mod and glam rock.
Tony Visconti, David Bowie's producer, sums it up best: "Zallen's music is awesome in scope, covers a lot of ground and different styles, with an emerging style of his own and has obviously paid much attention to the guitar heroes of our time as well as the best songwriters"
Zallen's talents extend far beyond guitar and songwriting. Smudge was completely conceived, written, played, produced and engineered by Zallen at Casa De Reseda Studios in Los Angeles. His music career began with success straight out of the box at the tender age of fifteen with his band Eulogy co-founded with acclaimed guitarist Rusty Anderson (Paul McCartney, Perry Farrell, Sinead O'Connor), moving on to form Zicko Glick, an early incarnation of the top-selling Berlin.
After an independent release with his band Bozart, he was courted by Prince's Paisley Park label.
Since then, his career has included top-rated Zallen solo albums Afactsafact, I Live In A Box, Mook, Spintime, Top 10 and Spacetoy, plus major film and television work.
Smudge is available at e-retail stores including BarnesandNoble.com, CD Now, Amazon.com, Borders Books and Music.com, as well as directly through Zallen's website www.zallenmusic.com.
