zakè : Caelum

zakè, aka Zach Frizzell, is a musical explorer. This is something he’s proven time and time again over the course of the last several years as a solo artist; as well as collaborator, label runner, and all around thoughtful creative. He never seems to take for granted the time he spends composing blissful, long form […]

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Benoît Pioulard, Viul, From Overseas, zakè, Marc Ertel, Wayne Robert Thomas : Koselig

Zakè Drone Recordings was born out of a time of unknowns and uncertainties five years ago in 2020. While the world was isolating and social distancing, musician and label head Zach Frizzel(zakè) started an offshoot of his home label Past Inside The Present, a label built on a community of like-minded creatives. Zakè Drone Recordings […]

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Billow Observatory Return With New Track “Systol Nightshade”; New Album Coming In 2025

The last full-length album from the ambient/shoegaze duo Billow Observatory(Jonas Munk and Jason Kolb) was 2022’s excellent Stareside, which was a culmination of what these two musicians had been working towards since their self-titled debut in 2012. Munk coming from Denmark and with plenty of work under his belt as guitarist for Causa Sui; not […]

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My Autumn Suite

Happy Friday all. Today I have released onto the world my latest musical work, Autumn Suite I-IV. It’s an 18-minute suite consisting of 4 parts that I’ve sewn together to make one long movement, if you will. It didn’t start out that way, though. It began back in September as me wanting to make an […]

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Jonas Munk : Mirror Phase

Fall is upon us. It’s the time of year where everything seems to slow to quiet contemplation as the leaves turn and die. Slow motion diving as their brittle remains dust the forest floors and residential lawns in a last act of authority and condemnation. Fall brings chilled walks in the mornings and evenings while […]

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Justin Sweatt : North Texas Electric

Justin Sweatt has been making forward-thinking electronic music for well over a decade. He first began making electronic music as Xander Harris, releasing a collection of classic electronic music that ranged from darkly illuminated techno to hazy ambient to 80s-inspired synth pop with a touch of 70s German electronic pioneers for good measure. But then […]

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Jonas Munk Returns With ‘Mirror Phase’, Out 10/25; Listen to Album Opener “Dawn Layer”

Jonas Munk has long been a master of mood-heavy electronics; be it with his past project Manual, his masterful ambient collaborations with Ulrich Schnauss and Billow Observatory, and of course his solo work like Pan and Absorb Fabric Cascade. He knows the instruments like he knows the backs of his hands, and he uses guitars […]

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Umberto : Black Bile

Musician/composer Matt Hill, aka Umberto, started out releasing albums that felt like imagined soundtracks to horror and sci fi films. Pulling heavily from 70s Italian horror films you’d catch late night after everyone went to bed, his early albums had everything from Italio Disco, Giallo melodrama, and synth-heavy sci fi sounds. His moniker was taken […]

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