About
Introducing Hanz Bronze
I played in a middle school band with Hanz Bronze doing Fugazi and Beatles covers.
Hanz was the lead-singing-drummer with the alternately sweet and manic doo-wop voice.
Years later, when “Wowee Zowee” came out, it changed our worlds.
We would drive around in the summer in Kansas City with the windows down playing “Wowee Zowee”
with the stereo maxed.
The golden-green of avenue canopies through polarized shades...
Trying to chat up girls in cars next to us at stoplights while "Rattled by the Rush" went berserk...
Hanz started writing songs in Lawrence while attending the University of Kansas.
He had many bands: the Manhattanizers, Halcyonics, the Electricities, each in complete shambles and
yet each suffused with such beguiling and perfect pop, it would break your heart.
Hanz lived in a big bohemian house in Lawrence with Tracey Trance, the brothers from Fourth Of July,
and Justin Roelofs (White Flight).
He played percussion on the White Flight record and wrote a handful of songs that Suzannah Johannes
recorded for her EP.
Despite attempts, Hanz never recorded a proper album until finding indie rock refuge in Bloomington,
Indiana and meeting Marmoset's Dave Jablonski.
Hanz's "S/T" debut album was recorded in Dave’s “Dave Cave” in Indianapolis and is a frenzied snapshot of the
uniqueness of his songwriting: infectious humor, tragic longing, and insistence that the songs
remain as loose and alive in recordings as they sound on summer evenings, windows and beers open,
jamming with the band.
Zach Hangauer | May 2015 | San Francisco
Credits
Recorded and mixed by Dave Jablonski in the Dave Cave, Fountain Square, Indianapolis.
Mastered by Carl Saff.
Artwork by Zach Hangauer.
Thank you dear Zach, Dave, my band, Jorma, Sonny and Doog and all my great friends.
Hanz Bronze: vocals and guitar, drums on "Limestone Blues"
Kray fanny Korvela: guitar
Chris Barth: bass
Peter King: drums, lead guitar on "Jordan"
Sagan Victoria Stier: vocals, lead vocals on "When You Were Nine"
Rachel Weidner: vocals
Christian Taylor: lead guitar on "Elena's Birthday Party", "Fountain Square" and "Limestone Blues"
Fred Brown: bass on "Jordan"
Dave Jablonski: keys on "Moni"
Released June 19, 2015 (Digital/Cassette) on Range Life Records.
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