zakè (20th Anniversary Edition) [CD]

4-Panel Digipak CD. 20th Anniversary Edition. Glass-mastered, silkscreen printed CD housed in a 4-panel, 300g satin cardstock Digipak. Clear cd tray. Shrinkwrapped. Pressed, manufactured, and assembled in Ontario, Canada. Edition of 200.

Also available at:

🇬🇧 Norman Records
🇬🇧 Juno Records
🇮🇹 Soundohm Records
🇯🇵 Tobira Records
🇺🇸 pitp.bandcamp.com

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Although this is zakè’s debut release on PITP (2019), these arrangements were originally created in 2006. Sharing a fitting description of the label name with the release, it truly is the ‘Past Inside the Present’.

These time-worn selections unfold like a slow-moving cascade, quiet, delicate, and gracefully drifting. The understated arrangements weave together warm, ambient drones that shift from faint lo-fi textures, while sinewy mid-tonal synths sway between idle afternoon reflections and hazy daydreams.

Subtly distorted lows, punctuated by transitional swells, propel the music forward, creating a sense of weightless motion. The album breathes with a natural cadence with its final moments dissolving into a quiet, lingering afterglow.