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“You know how sometimes you try to fit in, but you stand out like a man in a rabbit costume on fire?”

Zero: Exile II sets out to answer the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What is real?

Most songs on Exile II are written from the perspective of Zero, whose life-changing near-death experience has pushed him from ordinary mind to Beyond Mind.

“Most people run through life without really thinking about it. They’re just getting by. I’ve tried that. I was a drone in their machine, ‘till one day, I broke free.”

Exile II continues of the story of Zero, a nothing guy living an ordinary life until he finds himself in an alternate, surreal dimension of reality where he starts to question fundamental notions of his own existence.

Notes: Zru Vogue released The Exile, part I, in 2006. "Penetrating Octavia" and "No Occupancy" appear on the 2018 vinyl-only compilation Zru Vogue: Assembly For Body Movements on the French label Musiques Electroniques Actuelles.

Avant-pop, art-funk, post-punk from the San Francisco Bay Area. Zru Vogue's first single "Nakweda Dream" (1981) is a dark-wave classic. Band members are Andrew Lawrence Jackson, Rick Cuevas, and Patrick Coyne.

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