It’s rare to encounter a band that prepares for a show quite as little as Zilla does.

“We go into the show with zero plan, no plan at all, as to what kind of songs we’ll do,” Jamie Janover said of the electronica dance music band from Boulder, Colo.

Janover plays hammered dulcimer, mini-kit, percussion, sampler, electric kalimba and sitar in the band.

The thing that separates Zilla from other bands in the electronica realm is their spontaneity.

“Literally, it’s a process of listening to each other really closely,” Janover said.

One member of the trio will start playing and the other members have to listen to see what key is being played, and then play something that goes along with it.

Often this creates a unique, interesting sound – but not always.

“Hopefully we all at the same time telepathically know what to do,” said Janover. “Sometimes we’re 100 percent absolutely telepathic and sometimes we’re not.”

The band’s name is also unusual.

Janover explained that they thought of “-zilla” as a suffix that could be added onto words to indicate largeness.

“I hope it implies that we have a big enveloping sound,” he said. “There are definitely times when all of us are playing three instruments at the same time.”

The members of Zilla manage by playing simple parts on each instrument, in hopes that all the parts together will combine into a full sound.

The band plays songs in concert, Janover said, that they’ll never play the same way again.

“It’s more reflective of the way life really is – it’s always changing, it’s never the same and there’s an infinite amount of possibilities out there.”