How come your third CD, Private Wars, is so different from the first two, Give it All Up and Permanent Happiness?

We made our first two CDs using the technology we had available in our small project studio. Right back in the beginning of Zrazy we had a six piece band which collapsed under money pressure. We decided to take the computer/sequencer route, which neither of us knew much about but set about mastering (or mistressing). We enjoyed the creative freedom this allowed... a sense of moving from black and white into full colour. Both Give it All Up and Permanent Happiness were made on minimum budgets with no additional musicians involved. Then in 1999 we received an Irish Arts Council Award for contemporary composition in the field of jazz/new music and proceeded to make a purely jazz album. This was something we had spoken of for a while and it gave us the opportunity to work with excellent musicians. Private Wars also gave us both an opportunity to explore greater subtleties in voice and saxophone. We wanted to make a consistently mellow album, moving away from the techno-pop-funk of the first two. But who knows what will happen next?