zakè 'Orchestral Tape Studies III' [4xCD Boxset]

Four glass-mastered, silkscreen printed CDs housed in an 8-panel, 300g satin cardstock Digipak. Clear cd trays. Includes download code insert. Shrinkwrapped. Pressed, manufactured, and assembled in Ontario, Canada. Mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard. Design and layout by zakè. Additional design elements by Jakob Skøtt. DDP authoring and assembly by Rafael Anton Irisarri.

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Across eighteen movements, Orchestral Tape Studies III deepens and refines the ever-expanding orchestral universe of zakè (aka Zach Frizzell), building on the foundations established by Orchestral Tape Studies I & II (2019/2023), Orchestral Studies Collectanea (2020), Veta (2024), and Caelum (2025). Frizzell describes this suite as “a slow-burning meditation, like a manuscript left open to the rigors of time.”

While Orchestral Tape Studies III aptly enriches the vision that Frizzell has developed over more than two decades of writing and recording, its defining quality lies in its extensive gestation. Bringing together longtime friends and collaborators who have shared in that journey, the suite broadens its tonal palette while allowing memory, time, and lived experience to leave their imprint on the music.

Notably, these pieces emerged one by one, finding their form in the spaces between other projects over the course of nearly a decade, lending the work a sense of patience, unhurried fullness, and quiet completeness.

The suite draws to a close with sweeping recompositions by Brock Van Wey (bvdub), Wayne Robert Thomas, and Abul Mogard with Rafael Anton Irisarri. Each contribution extends the work into new emotional and expressive terrain, reshaping its orchestral language through distinct perspectives while remaining deeply connected to Frizzell’s singular vision. Together, these closing works form an expansive coda, bringing the album to a resonant and contemplative conclusion.

Produced, arranged, mixed, and recorded by zakè. Recompositions by Abul Mogard with Rafael Anton Irisarri, Wayne Robert Thomas, and Brock Van Wey (bvdub). Mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard. Layout and design by zakè. Additional design elements by Jakob Skøtt. DDP authoring and assembly by Rafael Anton Irisarri. Pressed, manufactured, and assembled in Canada. Marketing, distribution, and phonograph copyright: Past Inside the Present. ©℗ 2026 Past Inside the Present. This is PITP89.