Out today, the Jersey City artist released new renditions of a few of his own favorite tracks entitled the Not Acoustic EP. The release, which is acoustic and sparse on instrumentation, finds J Hacha De Zola accompanying his solo vocal takes with, Spanish spoken intros, false starts, and everything else that makes these performances real and compelling. After a recent session, he stepped back into the vocal booth to shoot a four-song “visual EP” of songs from his previous releases.

“It’s a special distinction that I want to make here,” he explains. “The performance on video is the main focus. I think that hearing the audio of these performances hits differently. Seeing me do these select tunes in a personal, as if you are in the same room with me kind of way… this is how I want to present this EP.”

“I want to give a sense of how these songs are fleshed out before ‘studio magic’ comes into play,” he says. “It’s important to see and hear the imperfections. The majority of my songs are written in the studio, but that wasn’t the case with this particular set of tunes, some of my favorite ones at that.”

He concludes, “This is the real me – ugly, imperfect, and flawed – and I hope that maybe other folks will be inspired to express themselves as they are and let the bones fall where they may.”