We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

B​⁴​+​3

by zakè

supported by
cotterluppi
cotterluppi thumbnail
cotterluppi These sonic emotional states, they awaken memories and unify cosmological realities that are always present yet sometimes forgotten. The childlike wonder, the warmth of wool, slaying the imperial dragon with a word, a poem, a drone what have you. We ride the night skies 🐉 and surrender.
Steve Mahoney
Steve Mahoney thumbnail
Steve Mahoney A New release from Zake Drone. Well that is always a great day. Another brilliant release. The depth in the sound is immense. Drifting ambient tones. Glacial in sound. So many shuttles tones coming through. This man is the Brian Eno of modern day Ambient Drone music. Buy this, I love it. Highly recommend to you. 10 out of 10 rating from me today
Favorite track: Burnt.
Ur Trommler
Ur Trommler thumbnail
Ur Trommler an absolute mastepiece, zake never fails to astound with his mastery of light and shadow, mood and intent... a brilliant set that will be on repeat...
Favorite track: Burnt.
more... more...
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $6 USD  or more

     

  • Cassette + Digital Album

    🇬🇧 Juno Records
    shorturl.at/msyzQ

    🇺🇸 PITP.US
    shorturl.at/ekM28


    Solid black cassette with dark gray imprinting, housed in a clear norelco box with an O-Card slipcase. Loaded with FerroMaster C456™ super ferric, ultra-high performance type-1 music grade analog tape. Shrinkwrapped. Limited to 100 units.

    Includes unlimited streaming of B⁴+3 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 100  13 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $12 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 27 zakè releases available on Bandcamp and save 80%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of B⁴+3, Live Improvisations, eve, Cadere, Polymorph EP, LL, Drift, Pyramiden, and 19 more. , and , .

    Excludes subscriber-only releases.

    Purchasable with gift card

      $30.20 USD or more (80% OFF)

     

1.
Bracken 11:53
2.
Betrayal 10:13
3.
Burnt 11:32
4.
Banded 12:00
5.
Blight 07:11
6.
Bane 06:24
7.
Barren 11:57

about

Monochrome drone for the gray days we see more often than we wish.

credits

released February 29, 2024

Written, recorded, and produced by zakè
Mixed at Kaleidoscope Tone Studio by zakè
Mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard
Layout and design by zakè

© 2024 Zakè Drone Recordings
℗ 2024 Past Inside the Present Publishing (BMI)
This is ZD-030
zakedronerecordings.com
zakedrone.com
pitp.us



zakè – B⁴+3 (Zake Drone Recordings, 2024)

“Monochrome drone for the gray days we see more often than we wish.”

This is the enigmatic description given by zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) of B⁴+3, a reimagined and expanded edition of B⁴ (Zakè Drone Recordings, 2023), which was originally composed to accompany a limited series of striking, chiaroscuro art prints created by the artist.

While the suite may conjure grayscale melancholy, it is characteristically brimming with texture and depth. Anyone familiar with Frizzell’s worldly catalog of tape-saturated drone knows that each volume exists in its own unique climate, and forms a distinct topography – with B⁴+3, you might imagine a weathered harbor dock at dawn, with black water rippling out into fog, and dense swathes of old-growth looming behind.

“Bracken” opens with delicate harmonic themes that build into vast waves, while a granular crackle intimates the last throes of life in the soil before hibernation. Like much of zakè’s work, its simmering power comes from restraint and patience. “Betrayal” – the first of a trio of new pieces on this collection – goes a notch darker, teasing out layers of listing soundforms across a sprawling drone, each one a ship’s light passing and disappearing into the distance.

When discussing the original quartet of themes on B⁴, zakè notes an ongoing feeling of “unfinished business”, and of having left them “in a kind of purgatory state”, which kept pulling him back to the studio. The revised iteration of “Burnt” is the sound of a roiling sky, opening up as a murmuration spills across the panorama. The warp and weft of its carefully developed structure make it a standout not only of this album, but of the broader genre of organic, tonal ambient music that zakè fosters through his renowned Past Inside the Present label.

On “Banded”, strata of ice begin to crystallize at the shoreline, moving outward while shafts of light dapple the surface in the distance. Comforting, sub-bass swells appear in full form, imperceptibly pulsing like the slowed hearts of subaquatic life in the midst of a freeze. The album’s most shadowy passage arrives with new pieces “Blight” and “Bane” – the former a bone-chilling wind across the tundra, and the latter a dive through an ice cave into some unforgiving abyss, both illustrating the immense range that defines zakè’s vision.

“Barren” is a perfect closer to this suite, its solemn, holy tonality like an ashen cross on the forehead, a mark of grace and humility in the cryptic infinite. As its final chords fade, B⁴+3 offers only an ambiguous sense of resolution. Through pensive processes and a philosophy of open-ended, shapeshifting composition, zakè reminds us that no piece of music is ever truly finished – one only finds a stopping place before summoning the will to carry on deeper into the mist.

- Thomas Meluch, (Benoît Pioulard)

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

zakè

Independent works + collaborative projects.

contact / help

Contact zakè

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like zakè, you may also like: