Person
Zeena Parkins
Albums
31
Members
9
Active
1956–present
Origin
United States
Biography
Zeena Parkins (born in 1956, Detroit, Michigan, United States) is a harpist active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as a custom-made electric harp.
In addition to her solo recordings, she has recorded or performed with Björk, John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Tin Hat Trio, Jim O'Rourke, Fred Frith, Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline, Pauline Oliveros, and others. She has also worked with choreographers including Neil Greenberg, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh, Jennifer Lacey, and video artist Janene Higgins.
She was a member of three experimental rock bands: No Safety, News from Babel and Fred Frith's review band, Keep the Dog.
Discography
Something Out There
Something Out There
143 Ludlow St. NYC
La Légende De La Pluie
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley
Psycho-Acoustic
Chipfarm
Isabelle
The Gift of Tongues
Mouth=Maul=Betrayer
Psycho-Acoustic >Blackburst<
Fear No Fall
No Way Back
Pan-Acousticon
The Opium War
Screen: Festival Concepts of Doing 1999
Live at Easthampton Town Hall
Phantom Orchard
Necklace
Between the Whiles
Three Harps, Tuning Forks & Electronics
Three Harps, Tuning Forks & Electronics
Captiva
Triplicates
Recognition
Scale
Glass Triangle
To Dusk
Dam Against The Spring Tide
Modesty Of The Magic Thing
Credits
Recognition
Thinking in Stitches
Rhapsody
Lovers
Biophilia Live
Biophilia
The Sad Machinery of Spring
(____surrounded):
Drawing Restraint 9
Book of Silk
Livebox
Vespertine Live
Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces, Volume 2
It’s in Our Hands
The Rodeo Eroded
Vespertine Live at Royal Opera House
Blueprint for a Sunrise
Pagan Poetry
Vespertine
Tectonics: Field & Stream
Amusia
Sirens & Silences / Work Resumed on the Tower / Letters Home
Spill
Dust to Dust
Step Across the Border
Current Trends in Racism in Modern America
Blue And Sun-lights
Captiva
Contraries
Dam Against The Spring Tide
Exquisite Corpses From P.S. 122
For People In Sorrow
Ghosts
Hope & Despair
Inside Björk
John Zorn's Cobra Live At The Knitting Factory
Learn To Talk / Country Of Blinds
Letters Home
Life Size
Live At The Knitting Factory
Minuscule
Music For Other Occasions
M Z M
Nightmare Alley
Prisoner
Scale
Sirens & Silences / Work Resumed On The Tower
Something Out There
SyndaKit
That House We Lived In
The Adorables
The Bribe (Variations And Extensions On Spillane)
The Country Of Blinds
The Letter
The Tower Of Mirrors
Three Harps, Tuning Forks & Electronics
Very Neon Pet
Weightless Animals