Dorian Zero

Dorian Zero — aka Kenneth J. Passante (Jan. 16, 1948 — Jan. 7, 1994) — is an American art-rock musician and songwriter from NYC who released a self-titled album on Amerama Records in 1977.

Passante hailed from an unrecorded rock group called Sweet Dirt, which was active in NYC circa 1973. He was briefly in London trying to form a new band but returned to New York to launch a series of groupings under the Zero nameplate: Dorian & Zero, the Dorian Zero Revue, etc.

In 2022, a previously unreleased reggae track from 1975, "In Transit to Bermuda", recorded at Electric Lady Studios by Eddie Kramer, was included in Episode 3 of Stranger Things 4 (Vol.1) and in the Stranger Things Official Playlist.