zakè & Tyresta // The Worlds We Leave Behind CD

アメリカのアンビエント作家zakèとTyrestaが、2024年9月に同国インディアナポリスのアンビエントレーベルPast Inside The Presentからリリースした共作CDです。

ドリーミーなアンビエントドローン6曲を収録。4面デジパック、シュリンク仕様です。

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CD in 4-panel digipack. Edition of 200. 

Tracklist:

1. Undiscovered 09:46
2. Heavy Skies 03:59
3. You Will Become a Song 05:49
4. The Worlds We Leave Behind 08:42
5. Speaking Without Words 05:50
6. Departing Day 04:48

Text excerpt by Past Inside The Present:

"The Worlds We Leave Behind, the second full-length from the duo of zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) and Tyresta (aka Nick Turner), opens with “Undiscovered”, a heavenly, inviting glide that occupies a full quarter of the album’s run time. It sets the scene perfectly with a bedrock drone beneath a cyclical, ascending melodic theme, until gently shifting into shadows, its third act evoking a half-speed choir singing in rounds. The title hints at all the world’s concealed beauties, sacred in their elusiveness, reminding us to keep searching and remain humble.

In his day-to-day, Turner is a Chicago-based social worker, and his musical efforts serve as a cathartic response to the emotional weight of facing so directly the infinite challenges of life — according to the artist, he “explores themes related to the human condition, including impermanence, grief, and growth.” This drive underlies pieces like “You Will Become a Song”, where a sweetened, reassuring air rises from whorls of shoegaze guitar, accented by a subtle crackle like seeds emerging from dewy soil.

The breathy shimmer and stirring harmonies of Turner’s solo recordings create an ideal foil to zakè’s more melancholy, low end-laden tendencies, as exemplified on “Heavy Skies”. Here, the two flirt with dissonance and grain, conjuring the image of a bird in a windstorm seeking safe harbor, and exhibiting a tonal versatility that seems effortless. Title track, “The Worlds We Leave Behind”, is bathed in panoramic rustle and organic textures, complemented by swathes of guitar dressed in mile-wide reverb. Fitting with the album’s motifs, its evolution occurs in carefully constructed moments of beautiful, meditative patience.

According to Frizzell, these tracks comprise a “spiritual sequel” to the duo’s first album, Drift (2023), whose chillier climes crystallized from looping murmurs of soft melody, well suited to the cover image of a snow-covered canyon. Created in quick succession, but allowed to gestate for a few seasons, The Worlds We Leave Behind occupies a warmer place – in line with the predominantly ruddy, Polaroid sleeve art – conveying the calm of a late summer dusk, and the vanishing of evening into cricketing quiet...."

Artist : zakè & Tyresta

Label : Past Inside The Present