Zen Babies

Zen Babies formed in Los Angeles in the early 1990s with Thomas Jefferson on vocals and guitar, Samuel Johnson on bass, and William Smith on drums. Their debut album 'In the Garden of Ghosts' came out in 1994, followed by 'The House of a Thousand Sorrows' in 1995. The 1996 album '6 More Minutes' gave them their most recognizable song, which shared the album's title.

Their music had a drifting, atmospheric quality that drew from psychedelic rock and ambient textures. Songs like 'Beautiful Journey' and 'Smoke Filled Skies' carried that same hazy, introspective feel. They toured regularly and built a following through the 1990s before dissolving in the early 2000s.

A few years after they stopped playing together, a collection called 'The Lost Tapes' surfaced in 1999, and a live recording from Berlin came out the following year. Their albums occasionally turn up in used record stores, and '6 More Minutes' still gets played here and there on college radio.