@pugsleysdad805
It just makes sense that a collaboration between two amazing artists would produce an equally amazing product. I missed out on the cd version of eve, but am happy to have the opportunity to purchase the digital album to play on my Walkman. eve sounds amazing when listening with a good pair of headphones on the couch. Three absolutely stunning tracks eve, frost, and pine (and a bonus track of all three songs collected into a unified track). Another great album that takes your soul on a journey.
Favorite track: eve.
enrique rivera
Pine sure sounds like perfection!!! Like it was written for the mountains themselves. The whole album is truly epic in scope.
Favorite track: pine.
Ur Trommler
I was lucky enough to be awake at midnight when this gorgeous set dropped, I fell asleep blissfully to it upon first listen - these two are among my favorite artists and I knew this would be special. Subsequent listens (it’s on repeat) find this to be one of my favorites this year - pure deep blissful joy!
Favorite track: ❆ unfurled mix ❆.
Steve Mahoney
A great collaboration here Zake & Benoit Pioulard. To of the biggest names in the world of ambient drone music. Drifting, ebbing sounds. Chill out, sit back, relax while they take you on this amazing journey over 52 minutes with the Unfurled mix track. Musically I cannot never get enough of Zake Drones. Benoit a master of this genre just as Zake is. Another 10 out of 10 rating from me
Favorite track: ❆ unfurled mix ❆.
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Signed, hand-assembled CD + unique Polaroid photo [ltd. to 30]
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
-- Signed by both artists
-- Housed in a hand-stamped and numbered kraft sleeve
-- Includes a unique Polaroid photo by Benoît Pioulard
-- Includes typewritten liner notes and an obi strip
-- Fully hand-assembled by zakè and Benoît Pioulard
-- Limited to 30 copies [15 here / 15 from pioulard.bandcamp.com]
-- Shipped from the USA
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Signed, hand-assembled CD + unique Polaroid photo [2nd ed | ltd. to 50]
-- Second edition (green ink)
-- Signed by both artists
-- Housed in a hand-stamped and numbered kraft sleeve
-- Includes a unique Polaroid photo by Benoît Pioulard
-- Includes typewritten liner notes and an obi strip
-- Fully hand-assembled by zakè and Benoît Pioulard
-- Limited to 50 copies [20 here / 30 from pioulard.bandcamp.com]
-- Shipped from the USA
Includes unlimited streaming of eve
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Winter’s most precious gift is its snow-muffled hush. eve, the first full-length collaboration between zakè and Benoît Pioulard, pays tribute to the kind of supernatural December night where fleeting moments of peace manifest in visible exhalations and crystalline silence.
Comprising three long-form pieces, eve arose from more than a decade’s worth of sound fragments, recovered and arranged into harmonic strata like photographs in a family album. For each chapter, zakè crafted the sonic bedrock from these remnants, and Pioulard added varying orchestrations of tape-processed guitar, voice, dulcimer, melodica, and synthesizer. The results strike a perfect balance between the idiosyncratic textures of each artist, while conveying the kinship of melancholy beauty that defines their solo works.
The title track, “eve”, rises with rich, low-end swells and the subtle scrape of a turntable stylus, suggesting light hail on a metal roof, or the comforting crackle of a fire in the next room. It is pensive and patient in its slow-moving expanse, a cold sun nesting behind gray clouds. “frost” sets in on swirls of Pioulard’s reverent voice, progressing into windswept drones and shimmering bells, which ripple across the stereo field throughout its glacial second half.
Monumental closer, “pine”, evokes the imposing stature and strength of its namesake, and the eerie union of comfort and mystery that occurs in the depths of the forest. Across twenty minutes, a dark, breathy undercurrent is accented by soft-needle dulcimers and reedy whispers, eventually opening to a final few minutes of utter calm. Here we find the edge of the wood, and a windless snowfall settling on an open field.
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zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) is the founder and head of Indianapolis-based Past Inside the Present, which has become a standard bearer for modern ambient and experimental artistry since its creation in 2018. In addition to PITP, he runs the collaboration-focused Zakè Drone Recordings, and has released for Azure Vista Records, Dunk!Records, Polar Seas Recordings and others.
Benoît Pioulard (aka Thomas Meluch) is a Michigan-born, Brooklyn-based musician and photographer with an extensive body of work for kranky, Morr Music, A Strangely Isolated Place, Dauw, and others. Previous efforts for Past Inside the Present include the May/Atra LP (2019) and Silencer EP (2021), as well as many of the label’s album covers, which he shoots exclusively on Polaroid SX70 film.
credits
released December 24, 2023
Written and produced by zakè & Benoît Pioulard
Recorded late 2023 in Indiana and New York
Mixed at Kaleidoscope Tone Studio by zakè
Mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard
Cover photography by Benoît Pioulard
"We’ve often mused on what makes a successful collaboration, but the truth is the best collaborations have a kind of magic to them that can’t be planned or replicated, and eve has that feeling of unforced serendipity.
As we’ve come to expect from Past Inside the Present, eve is joyful music to get lost in that rewards both attentive listening and blissful abandon.
Listening to eve, I’m reminded of this capacity that sound has for creating social spaces, for bringing us into relation with one another, sharing in joy and sorrow, celebrating the hope of what tomorrow may bring.”
-Joseph Sannicandro, A Closer Listen / Sound Propositions
“Over three long form tracks, “eve”, “frost”, and “pine”, zakè & Benoît Pioulard gather lush sound fragments and bring them together into an epic 52-minute sound journey. One that unfurls into epic moments of spiritual exaltation, an organic oneness with Mother Nature, and that syncs you with that great cosmic hum.
For a few fleeting moments escape into its world, bask in the beauty, and find yourself immersed in this musical gift from two masters of sound.”
As I drift away from the Earth and all its chaos, its gleam reduces to a speck in the vast cosmos surrounding me. I close my eyes and take my solace among the ocean of stars. Christopher Nolan
we're all beside a wooded creek, laying on this silken mossy chord, listening as leaves tumble down in succession. the pond nearby catches each leaf and we sync our thoughts using the chain of ripples in the water. thanks a lot for this one. recommended for relaxation or when it just gets to be too much out there Ews Nsj
From the always-excellent label Past Inside the Present comes this stunning work of sustained tone and timbre. Gorgeous. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 1, 2022
