Zack Rosen - 'Circles' EP (Digital)

Please read more about Zack here.

"A truly brilliant artist. Zack’s songs are astonishing and original. He had a peculiar, poetic, and playful mind." - Sean Ono Lennon

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Profits from Zack's music will be donated to several non-profit mental-health organizations, including Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), and Treatment Advocacy Center. To support young musicians, Zack’s parents have endowed a music scholarship in Zack’s name at Wesleyan University, and established a fund that pays for teaching and performance opportunities for adjunct and visiting music faculty beyond their usual responsibilities. Zack's parents will also match and donate every dollar spent on downloads.

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Zachary Golub Rosen died by suicide May 18, 2019, at the age of 30, after suffering with schizophrenia and the effects of medications for the illness during the last years of his life. Zack grew up in upper Manhattan and was an exceptional self-taught guitar and bass player, writing instrumental music throughout his life until he started composing songs as a singer-songwriter in his twenties, many of them in the throes of his illness up until his death.

In 2018, Zack approached his friend Connor Grant (who plays under the name Tongues Unknown and is also a guitarist in Sean Ono Lennon’s band, The GOASTT) about producing his Syzygy project, which was largely unknown outside a small circle of friends and family beyond a handful of gigs at NYC venues. They were deep into their process at the time of Zack’s death, leaving Connor to comb through Zack’s home recordings, unearthing many that no one had heard except for Zack.

Zack fought his demons for years and unfortunately, the shame, stigma and fear of schizophrenia made him those to take on his battle alone. However, he was able to keep writing and performing right up until the end. There are glimpses of Zack’s internal struggle in the lyrics of some of his songs, but his creativity and gifts as a writer, an artist, and a man stretched far beyond the subject of his disease.