FEEDBACKS /INFO/ REVIEWS

"una oasi di semplicità e infantile punkitudine "Massimo Giacon

"Berlin-based Italian musician, graphic artist and dj Zelda Panda writes utterly charming tunes about travelling, life in the city and love. Using an old Italian 60s guitar, a loop-pedal and a toy-keyboard she works her unique lo-fi magic. Zelda is a very productive listener who draws upon a vast body of music for inspiration - among other things country, jazz, 80s pop and old italian crooner-classics - as well as literature, film and her many personal observations."-SOPA, DK

"Die aus Norditalien stammende Wahl-Berlinerin, die neben der Musik auch grafische Kunst macht und als DJane Berliner Clubs aufmischt, schreibt umwerfend charmante Songs ueber das Reisen, die Liebe und das Leben in der Stadt.
Aus einer italienischen 60er-Jahre-Gitarre, einem Loop-Pedal, einem Spielzeug-Keyboard und einer Drum Machine zaubert sie ihren einmaligen Lo-Fi-Sound, dem sie ihre rauhe, oft verzerrte oder verfremdete Stimme oben drauf setzt.
Inspirieren laesst sie sich sowohl von allerlei Musiken (Country, 80er Jahre Pop, alten italienischen Schnulzen, Jazz,...) wie auch von Literatur, Filmen und ihren eigenen Beobachtungen - die Fusion all dieser Elemente erstaunt immer wieder und besticht durch ihren Humor " Gregor, ausland,Berlin

"Marzipan Marzipan is a soft-noise lo-fi disco-dance country-swing crossover experiment, and Zelda Panda IS Marzipan Marzipan! Based in Berlin, she is also a DJ and visual artist, but when she is Marzipan Marzipan, she plays toy keyboards, old drum machines, electric guitar, loops, and effects to accompany herself singing witty originals and surprising covers. She loves Hank Williams, Ciccone Youth, Giant Sand, and Ringo Starr, likes singing old song lyrics to accompaniment very different from the original, and comes on like a solo coffee house Stereo Total."-Charlie Lewis, WFMU radio, US

"I see MM as one of the most promising female artists working with electronics. In large part because she breaks down several forms of habitual thinking. (...) Even though you could call her narrative miniatures 'electroclash' she is just as much a rock musician (out of the punk school) and storyteller. (...) There's no excuse not to discover this totally unique and very promising artist right now."- 'Recommended album', Cd review by Danish independent music magazine Geiger.

"In reality you don't really need more than an Italian 60s guitar, a loop-pedal and a toy keyboard. Definitely not if you have Zelda Panda's musicality. (...) She calls herself Marzipan Marzipan. And it is also the title of her new outstanding album. It's an album that seems inspired by Berlin's chilly sensuous and cool lyrical do-it-yourself songwriter style of artists such as Masha Qrella and Barbara Morgenstern. But as Marzipan Marzipan Zelda Panda has her very own personal and quite sensual twist."- Cd review by Ralf Christensen, P2 Radium, Danish National Radio.

"Italian multiartist Zelda Panda (what a fantastic name!) throws herself headlong out in deep waters only equipped with a out-of-tune guitar, toykeyboard and the amateur musician's inresistable drive. (...) There is definitely potential in her sensual voice, naive rhythm box and guitarbased melodies, which in the records best moments leads the thoughts towards the clattering indietronica of Casiotone For Painfully Alone. This is especially caused by her fine lyrics about life's, and especially love's, ups and downs. Tracks like the duet Ecke, where she gets help from fellow Italian Marco Brosolo's Cohen-ish voice, deserves a wider audience."- Cd review by Gaffa, Denmark's biggest music magazine

"A mix between Candy Candy and Suicide" -DJ Taffy, Italy


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RELEASES


THE FIRST MARZIPAN MARZIPAN 'GREATEST HITS' (!) HAS BEEN RELESEASED BY SOPA,
IT CONTAINS 20 SONGS RECORDED BETWEEN 2003-2006 WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY ZELDA PANDA+ ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS LARS K.DIDERIKSEN, NICHOLAS BUSSMANN, TODOSCH, 9, BARBORINI, THOMAS CHARBONNEL, SINGVOGEL...
"This cd is one packed disc - part new stuff, part
retrospective. A veritable "best of" collection of
selected material from everything recorded so far.
It shows Zelda Panda's journey from the very
beginning in 2003 to now in 2006 where she's
closer to her own unique voice than ever. The
album shows her working on her own and with
various friends as collaborators. The tracks were
recorded at different times and places in Denmark,
Germany, Italy and the USA and they have all been
remastered for this release to improve sound "
AVAILABLE AT LIVE SHOWS OR AT THE ONLINE SOPA SHOPhttp://www.sopa.dk/menu/shop.htm,
THROUGH NORMAN RECORDS(also with credit card)http://www.normanrecords.com/records/92133
AT DENSE RECORD SHOP in Berlin,
AT IRMA VICTORIA, Borups Allé 33, Copenhagen
AT REPOMAN RECORDS, Fensmarkgade 36, 2200 Copenhagen N


THE TRACK "CIELO GRIGIO" PERFORMED AND RECORDED WITH NICHOLAS BUSSMANN AND TODOSCH IS OUT ON "THE WIRED ONES" COMPILATION BY WIRED RECORDShttp://www.wiredrecords.biz/



"ENNIO" (MUSIC BY MARZIPAN MARZIPAN, WORDS BY ENNIO FLAJANO) IS ON THE BEAUTIFUL COMPILATION-BOOK ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SCENE IN BERLIN RELEASED BY THE JAPANESE LABEL IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPANhttp://japanimprov.com/imjlabel/308-9/index-e.html



MY LATEST SOLO SONGS ARE ARE ON SELF RELEASED CD-R TITLED "STRAIGHT KICK", AVAILABLE AT LIVE SHOWS



the compilation SOPA DELICIOSA contains the very first song made by marzipan marzipan "The Love Song"-2004
And also the famous track by Todosch & The Kadillac Lobster - Urlaub (Hin Und Zurück)
mixed by Elle Elvis springtime 2007 ..among other 42 soundpearls
(cover art by zelda panda)Go to
http://www.sopa.dk/sopadeliciosa/



SOPA CURIOSA the brand new SOPA compilation is here! 22 tracks from a whole line of exciting artists from around the world. Exclusive tracks from some of the SOPA artists and a lot of our old and new friends. Check it out !
http://www.sopa.dk/sopacuriosa/
MM is in there with the track "weatherface(wild version)",where she is joined by Big Daddy Mugglestone on drums and Mattef Kuhlmey on bass. It was recorded by Elisabeth Enke.
(cover art by zelda panda)



"I'M JUST BUILDING VOLCANOS", A MISCELLANEA OF MUSIC+ARTWORK BY MARZIPAN MARZIPAN/ZELDA PANDA WILL BE RELEASED BY THE ITALIAN LABEL THIS IS IT,FOREVERhttp://www.tiif.it/
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VIDEOS





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LIVE ON AIR /WFMU
marzipan marzipan played a live set at charlie's show on WFMU radio, Jersey City, US, in may 2006
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/19125
thanks THANKS to charlie, gil and gloria !

Visit www.wfmu.org
the best radio
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OTHER PROJECTS

I am one half of the trash chic/ très chic electroPop duo THE NAONIANS

http://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THENAONIANS
the other half is my best friend BARBORINI
and we are also MOLOTOV BITCH ( the dark side of The Naonians)
http://www.myspace.com/molotovbitchmolotovbitch



 I sing and play tiny casio in the cover band THE KADILLAC LOBSTER
Marcello Silvio Busato plays drums and Seby Ciurcina plays acoustic guitar, kazoo and sometimes he sings too (we play songs by hank williams , lydia lunch, peppino di capri,dead kennedys,giant sand, cure, nancy sinatra/lee hazelwood, kurt weill, the velvet underground ,nicola arigliano, paolo conte, margareth kammerer, cccp, the beatles.....)
http://www.myspace.com/kadillaclobster


I started with EL FUNERAL DE KOCIS,when i was 17
( i didn't know what i was doing but i will never forget)
http://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ELFUNERALDEKOCIS



bonus track:
http://www.soundtransit.nl/3399/73-panda-33.99records.mp3
( "angel" on vinyl with Singvogel)






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DJane ZELDA PANDA

" the KING of djs!"- Ignaz Schick, Berlin