Ben Zaidi deluxe Album of ‘Acre of Salt’ LP

Ben Zaidi deluxe Album of ‘Acre of Salt’ LP

Artist and poet Ben Zaidi shares the deluxe version of his highly acclaimed debut studio album, Acre of Salt. The deluxe sees the addition of nine unreleased tracks that were written along with the original eleven but cut due to length restrictions. The album was recorded with producer Tony Berg (Phoebe Bridgers, Peter Gabriel, Beck) at the iconic Sound City Studios in LA along with backing band members Ethan Gruska, Sebastian Steinberg (Fiona Apple,) saxophonist Sam Gendel and Kane Ritchotte (Portugal. The Man.)

Zaidi explains, “I wrote more songs for this album than any project I’ve ever made. In the studio, we made some truly excruciating cuts to get it down to the 11 songs that ultimately became Acre of Salt. Tony and I nearly came to blows over whether or not to include a couple tracks… So now, after much mediation and couple’s counseling, we have decided to share these nine songs that we loved too much to confine to the dustbin of history.”Today he also shares the visualizer for the new track, “Gen Zero.” He adds, “One of the most persistent themes of the album was this idea of a ‘generation with no destination.’ There’s a famous abandoned highway offramp near Seattle where I was trying to shoot the album cover that inspired the lyrics ‘a six-lane highway running out of road.’ It was this bridge to nowhere that the city must’ve stopped building when money ran out or plans changed. Just a stretch of highway emptying out into the sky. We used to jump off it into Lake Washington as kids. But when I went back to try and find it to shoot the album cover, it was gone. It had been torn down. No picture could be a better metaphor than that.”

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