The Story

Zenon Zamora

Zenon has been playing music since he was 5 years old. Growing up in a musical family, Zenon was exposed to various artists in multiple genres of music. After taking music lessons for two years, Zenon found himself a true student of music, studying musical theory, repertoire, and composition. By the time he was 15, Zenon taught himself piano, guitar, violin, viola, and cello, and studied other instruments associated with orchestral composition. Inspired by his surroundings and experiences, Zenon quickly fell into his own in terms of writing style, creating a unique and easily discernible sound. He fronted various bands and musical projects over the years, but eventually his endeavors lead him to the creation of a project he called “CASCOVA”.

CASCOVA

The idea behind CASCOVA started when Zenon’s writing started to gear towards the synthetic as opposed to the naked and raw alt-rock he produced in the 2000s when he fronted the group Harlequin out of Albuquerque, NM. He wanted his music to be of orchestral quality, both in texture and in execution. As a result, Zenon started a solo project that would eventually become CASCOVA. Since that time, he has worked with brilliant musicians, including Maurice Meintzer, Chris Leyba of “Santa Mira”, and Jason Call who is currently running for Washington’s Second Congressional District. Musicial endeavors have run the gamut from composing a symphony, a series of concerti, and mainstream rock and electronica projects.

Instrumentation and vocals on all CASCOVA tracks are performed by Zenon Zamora.

Words

Lyrics from “Imitations of Light”

All Lyrics by Zenon Zamora, © Genius Humanus LLC

WISH

Twilight ebbs to morning’s sway

You’re still here another day?

Where did you come from?

Why are you saving me?

It’s not this easy

You’re supposed to leave me

It’s not supposed to be like this

Behind my smile

And all the while we stay

And walk with feet of clay

CHORUS:

Why wish upon the stars?

Why wish upon the stars when we are we?

Behind your heart you find the one and try to calm his wary eyes

With just one kiss

And I will have my wish

Fallen angels

Fallen friends

Take these teeth and carve the end

Now I bleed and so I am

Without a reason to believe in all your words

And all the world I see

Through eyes of blissful sleep

CHORUS

Perchance to dream of heaven’s rage

Just one fall from grace

You and I will lead the way

With just one kiss

And I will have my wish

Without a reason to believe

♦

USER

You know I never left you alone

Plug in the mainframe – turn me on

Start your engines and pray that you will dare to dream

One more night of this and we’ll be falling in too deep

(You’re so deep)

CHORUS:

You are the user

My user

You are the user tonight

I heard that you were here

Drawn away from all these guiding lights

Baptized in headlines

You signal your retreat

Drifting off towards your humdrum sleep

Just one scene away from me

Your destination

One more night of this and we will never get to sleep

CHORUS

I want to be impossible

Pure as the driven snow

My criminal of love

Voy a sonar contigo

But it’s as far as I can go

CHORUS

♦

SCENE

Sometimes they see you

Sometimes they love you

They never will know you

In blue magazines

You’ll make the scene

Whatever that means

Page after page

We see your blue rage

And pray that it never comes to this

CHORUS:

Never comes to this

It comes to this – you know my bliss

I know you see that in my machine
In my machine

You’re so scene

Consider this and all is mended

It’s all a dream

There’s nothing to see

Just a new way

A new model of means

In blue magazines

You’ll make the scene

CHORUS

Sometimes see, sometimes love, sometimes they know

Sometimes they feel when you don’t make the scene (you know the scene)

Sometimes see, sometimes love, sometimes they know

You are my machine

♦

SIGNS OF LIFE

Human by birth

Haunted at every turn

No sign of life

In these our final times

All the girls and boys

Shake their mortal coils

CHORUS:

Do you believe in fate?

No sign of life

Tonight

Through riddled eyes we see

Signals of precious light

Faces like dolls

Perfected and evolved

Where did we go in treatments and downloads?

All the girls and boys

Shake their mortal coils

CHORUS

Believe that we are everything we need

Evade your fame inside your sleep

With signs of life

♦

33 DEGREES

CHORUS:

Work me over

Work work me over

While we slumbered here

Waiting for visions to appear

All of the kings men

Hypnotized us to the end

How the shadows will rise

Behind our eyes with the aid of our pure light

Pure light

I’m so tired

Between the lines

But I – I – Idle hands are idle minds

Take your place in the line

Raise your colors hight tonight

Tonight – Tonight

CHORUS

Hidden from all this light

Insight a riot in low tides

Where do the fallen go?

We are in need of control

Precious leaves fall away

Reveal I’m only three degrees away

Take your place in the line

Raise your colors high tonight

Work me over

Over and over again

CHORUS

♦

BAG OF BONES

Stop calling me love

This skin is too rough for you

You break apart to find the pearls

And in the end you throw away

We need another day

A piece of time to play

There is another way here

Follow hearts

Follow thoughts

Follow every hollow start

Playing Sade for you

Killing god for you

He’s not the only one who steals from you

CHORUS:
You’re in the boneyard

You’re in the fall

I’m in the headlines and calling you (Home)

Have I heard from you?

Have I learned from you?

Have I burned every kiss on you?

You know it’s loneliness that holds you here

You have to make me disappear

With your eyes

With your skies

With your raven hair disguise

This is another scar

I am your falling star

How did you come so far without knowing me?

CHORUS

With but a whimper so starts the winter of our love – Of our love

You scream like an angel and taste like I am god to you

Only you

Baby

♦

LOST

Are you lost tonight?

Have you walked beyond the light?

Like me? Like me

Before you turn these pages

Have you thought about their heart?

How can it be this tragic

Looking up from the grave, up towards the stars?

CHORUS:

Somewhere near the moon you hide

And promise with the tide

That you will search the night

For me – For me

On cobbled streets we brave the night

In morning light we hunger for twilight

If sobering love should find you

Stay down

Stay down now

I am the one

I am desire

Just one wish

Just one kiss

CHORUS

For me

Like me

♦

THIS TIME

The battle’s over

You were watching from the corner

You were tired of light

And all the empty life

You were the maker of dreams

She is the power

She is the author

She is searching too

The world will end with you

Over and over

CHORUS:

Will you see me in the dark, my special friend?

Will you bring love to an end?

The city lights are gone

Your shadow is all you have left of your soul

When morning brings the snow

You’ll be as quiet as the grave

CHORUS

Never see the stars

Never know

Home

Never see the stars

Never know

This time

♦

JABBERWOCKY

Off with your head I say

No game with the queen today

One dance to give you the chance

To save your life someway

We walk these frozen streets

Smile to scare the creeps

One kiss to make you believe

That I will swallow your heart, my lovely

CHORUS:

I am the Alice – Lost in the palace

I am the creature that feels you

I am the Alice – Lost in the palace

And I’m the only one here

Drown these tears in seas of tears

And sell my name in reverse

Then you can taste my curse

You look for home but it’s not that easy

You have to be where you are

You are the only one with my vision

You are this blanket of stars

Drink me if you want to be me

With your heavy heart

CHORUS

I would die for you

You are the only one

With my heart

With your heavy heart

♦

YOU’RE LATE

We look up to the same grey sky

We dream of finding love like you

We have no champions of prudence

To help us believe what’s right is right

CHORUS:

I looked over to hear you say

“You’re late”

I say I fear the wait

Why does my lumbering pause bring you so much pain

When we have much to gain?

We have no voice

One chance at grace

The binding, blinding 19 of our one refrain

So strange to feel no pain

The clamor of my glamour

Yet you see my face

And walk with delight and bare my gate

CHORUS

In desert skies we lost our minds

One time

Seek shadows here

Seek comfort here

One time

One voice

One chance at grace

CHORUS