Low Harmonics zakè

Following his debut on Affin in the summer of 2024 titled Dolere and his celebrated collaboration with label founder Joachim Spieth and longtime partner Markus Guentner on Arcadia (Affin, 2025), zakè now unveils his second solo release for the imprint, Low Harmonics. True to its title, the album descends into the shadowed strata of sound, exploring the resonance of low frequencies, deep bass currents, and subsonic vibrations. Within these layers emerges a paradoxical tension that is at once pacifying and soporific, inviting listeners into an experience that is both grounding and transcendent. The record continues the contemplative ethos of Dolere (Affin, 2024), a work that spanned two expansive compositions and examined “the ways in which time itself seems to stretch and slow during phases of sorrow and pain, ” while offering “a refuge for those burdened by distraction or sorrow, providing a brief respite from the inexorable passage of time” (Affin, 2024). Where Dolere traced the fragile boundary between anguish and reprieve, Low Harmonics pushes further into existential terrain, using subterranean registers as both metaphor and medium. In doing so, zakè positions his practice within an ambient tradition that harmonizes intimacy with expansiveness, echoing the textural gravity of Thomas Köner and the spectral poetics of Geir Jenssen, while at the same time advancing Affin’s pursuit of “uncommon sonic spaces outside the mainstream” (Affin, 2024). In this way, Low Harmonics resonates as both a continuation and a deepening of the path set forth by Dolere. If the earlier work enveloped listeners in melancholic waves of drone and decay, this new album distills that energy into a singular vision, an elemental exploration of vibration itself where deep listening reveals its existential weight and quiet transcendence. The CD comes in a 6-panel design.