Zakè
Statica Memoria
With Statica Memoria, zakè returns to Affin for his third solo album. Over the past years, his work with the label has developed into a distinct and continuing body of work, shaped by an ongoing exploration of duration, resonance and the spaces that emerge when sound is given enough time to unfold.
zakè has developed a particular way of approaching long-form ambient music. His compositions create an open environment in which listening can move freely between close attention and complete absorpti…
Lowland: In Three
*50 copies limited edition* Lowlands: In Three is a 44-minute suite in three movements, built around hazy drone and distant guitars. Inspired by hot, humid Indiana summer evenings, the music reflects the sounds and atmosphere of the landscape as daylight fades. The accompanying photography documents the places, light, and surroundings that shaped the recordings, connecting what was heard with what was seen.
An Evening of Drone
This compilation was specially curated for those in attendance at the Past Inside the Present Label Showcase, presented by Indy CD & Vinyl on December 5, 2026, at The 808 in Indianapolis, Indiana, featuring live performances by zakè, Wayne Robert Thomas, and Marc Ertel. This sampler brings together selected works spanning 2019 through 2025, offering a retrospective of each artist's contributions leading up to the evening's performances.
Tide Requiem for the Low Sea
*200 copies limited edition* Written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by zakè. Heavyweight picture disc vinyl featuring photography by Benoît Pioulard. Housed in a deluxe, heavyweight 12" picture disc sleeve with flap. 3.5"x2" signed hype sticker. Includes a 2" square sticker featuring album artwork and a vintage 35mm unique photo slide.
Tree Grid
*30 copies limited edition. Signed, hand-assembled CD + unique Polaroid photo by zakè, housed in a hand-stamped and numbered 2-panel kraft cardstock sleeve* Toward the end of 2024, I sent Brian Grainger (Coppice Halifax) a collection of sounds, loops, and textures, giving him complete creative freedom to reshape them into something entirely new. Much like his remarkable reinterpretation of LL ('LL1 (Beige Mix)' ZD-026, 2023), every piece on this album was constructed exclusively from the source …
Revector
*150 copies limited edition* Written, recorded, mixed, and produced by zakè. Featuring various instrumentation and improvisations by the following brethren: anthéne, Benoît Pioulard, Marc Ertel, and Purl. Piano accompaniments by hoax.
zakè (20th Anniversary Edition)
Although this is zakè’s debut release on PITP (2019), these arrangements were originally created in 2006. Sharing a fitting description of the label name with the release, it truly is the ‘Past Inside the Present’. These time-worn selections unfold like a slow-moving cascade, quiet, delicate, and gracefully drifting. The understated arrangements weave together warm, ambient drones that shift from faint lo-fi textures, while sinewy mid-tonal synths sway between idle afternoon reflections and hazy…
Still Beauty
With Still Beauty, PITP label head zakè (Zach Frizzell) and California-based marine eyes (Cynthia Bernard) present a suite of lovingly constructed pieces that combine organic, tape-saturated drones with angelic, spacious vocals and a host of other texturally nuanced instrumentation. Building on the hushed promises of their collaborative debut, Unfailing Love (2021), the two artists immerse us in the processes of loss, grief, and renewal, spiriting us through overlapping shadows into newfound lig…
Low Harmonics
*2026 stock* Following his Affin debut Dolere in the summer of 2024 and his collaboration with Joachim Spieth and Markus Guentner on Arcadia, zakè returns to the imprint with his second solo album, Low Harmonics. As the title suggests, the record sinks into the lower depths of sound, shaped by heavy bass currents, low frequency drift, and slow moving vibration. Low Harmonics extends the reflective world introduced on Dolere, which explored how time stretches during periods of sorrow and how soun…
HH
*100 copies limited edition* Time spent in hospital rooms. The weight still unfolding. The uncertain future. More questions than answers. Pieces of my heart, heard through the sounds of HH. For my wife. Shaped by what we are moving through together. An attempt to meet pain with love. Keep going. Try to rest. When can we. Holding each moment close, celebrating it as if it were both our first and our last. Knowing that love, in its truest form, is never measured by grandeur but by the depth of wha…
Frizzell & Duque: A Sorrow Unrequited
*200 copies limited edition* "A Sorrow Unrequited is a short but gorgeous collaboration between Frizzell & Duque, comprised of five minimalist explorations of high-fidelity sound. Each piece begins with the statement of a simple melody, which repeats throughout as additional layers accumulate, slowly teasing out new melodies. Rather than linger in the imperfections of media, as so many artists who work with repetition tend to do, instead the duo pursue an attention to fidelity that forces them t…
Microliths and Momentary Drifts
*250 copies limited edition* Microliths and Momentary Drifts is the first full-length collaboration from the trio of zakè (Zach Frizzell), Ossa (Kaiton Slusher), and ASC (James Clements), where rolling analog synth lines, chest-rattling bass, and otherworldly atmospherics evoke and build on the timeless qualities of peak-era 90s ambient. Each artist has released solo and collaborative works for Zakè Drone Recordings and Past Inside The Present over the last half-decade, but in this combination, …
Hild
*200 copies limited edition* Hild is the first full-length collaboration between zakè (Zach Frizzell) and UK-based rhubiqs (Tom Squires), whose transcontinental dialogue yields an avalanche of deep drone, spacious piano, and immersive texture, alternately colossal and weightless. Both artists have released solo works with Germany’s Affin label (headed by Joachim Spieth and Markus Guentner), where their kinship found its footing in naturally-inspired environments full of rich harmony and understa…
Oblivion
*150 copies limited edition* A surprise album by bvdub and zakè. No album description. No songs available to listen to. Must buy blindly.
Cantus for Winter in Six Parts
zakè’s deep attachment to the seasons of the Midwest, along with his intuitive approach to sound creation, has led to a deep and varied body of analog ambient drone recordings across the past ten years. Many of his albums take on the forms and colors of the space in which they are heard, but others convey something more fleeting and indefinable, far beyond the five senses. Cantus for Winter in Six Parts creates a space for comfort, contemplation, nostalgia, and longing; a moment of stillness tha…
Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel II
*2025 stock* 36 and Zake follow up the epic work of Stasis Sounds For Long Distance Space Travel Part 1 with another eighteen chapters "of aural anesthetics" which "continue their journey through the outer reaches of space in hypersleep." The album comes in different coloured versions and this yellow copy boasts the sort of grainy and immersive ambient that immediately takes you out into the farthest reaches of space. It's widescreen and cinematic and makes for the sort of journeying album that …
Wash Away
*2025 stock. 50 copies limited edition* 'Wash Away' written and produced by zakè, feat. Lucy Gooch and Black Brunswicker. Additional vocal arrangement and synthesizers by Alistair Lax. 'On A Sunny Shore' written and produced by Black Brunswicker. 'Wash Away (quietly)' written and produced by zakè. Photography by Benoît Pioulard on Polaroid SX-70 film. 'Wash Away (quietly)' mixed at Kaleidoscope Tone Studio by zakè. Mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard. 'Wash Away' and 'On A Sunny …
Stars And Silence
*100 coipes limited edition* Five years after their landmark début, Mirrored (ZDR, 2020), Drew Sullivan (Slow Dancing Society) and Zach Frizzell (zakè) present Stars & Silence, a double album that invites internal exploration and deep meditation with its fluid blend of rich ambience, hypnotic IDM, and melodic finesse. “Everything we do is about reconnecting with the resonance and energy that we are made from,” Sullivan states, and in each of the album’s passages, we feel the pulse of an expandin…
Silentium
"zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) has consistently built goodwill and community through his renowned family of labels (Past Inside the Present, Zakè Drone Recordings, and Healing Sound Propagandist) since 2018, and with the collaborative anthology Silentium, those roots bear remarkable fruit in the form of 22 compositions across more than two hours. It is a towering testament to care and kinship, as well as to the artist’s noble ambitions as a creator and curator. During an extended period in early 2024…
Aire EP
*100 copies limited edition* Aire EP features four improvisational, loop-driven pieces created with minimal instrumentation and hardware-based processing, including electric and bass guitars, tape machines, and pedals. Written, recorded, and produced by zakè and Tyresta. Mixed at KTS by zakè. Mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard.