Release Notes
Label: Affin
Release: Low Harmonics
Date: December 5th, 2025
Mastered By: James Bernard
Artwork By: Markus Guentner
Here’s another sneak peek at what we’ve been up to over at Headphone Community. For the entire month of November, we have been spending time with Zach Frizzell, also known as zakè, talking about his musical journey, composition process, and his fantastic imprint, Past Inside The Present. I’m changing things up with this platform, but going deeper into each artist’s world, enveloping the loyal subscribers and followers with plenty of music (we’ve given out about a dozen Bandcamp codes to full albums already!). There was also plenty of unreleased pieces from the past and premieres of future releases, like this upcoming track on Affin, which I’m sharing with you here today. And we’re not done yet! You can still join us on this journey, with full access to all of the past entries. Meanwhile, let’s get deeper into this track.
Following his debut Dolere (2024) and his collaboration with Joachim Spieth and Markus Guentner on Arcadia (2025), Zach returns to Joachim’s imprint with an intensely captivating work that explores the resonance of low frequencies and subsonic vibrations. There are only three pieces on this 55-minute release (the first track runs for over 28 minutes!), and you get to preview one of them before the album is out. This is music shaped for your deep, immersive, and glacial listening sessions. Good headphones and a subwoofer (yes, at the same time) are recommended. Perfect for my slowly-waking, frazzled mind this morning!
Low Harmonics builds upon the reflective world first introduced by Zach on Dolere, which explored how time stretches during periods of sorrow and how sound can create a brief shelter from that weight. The predecessor fluctuated between ache and relief, and now its follow-up dives further into the inward, existential space beneath those emotions. Here, the use of deep and subterranean tones feels both intimate and vast, pulling you deeper into the lower spectrum of sound, shaped by heavy bass ebbs, low-frequency flow, and slow-moving drift. This album echoes the textural gravity of artists like Thomas Köner and the cold Arctic brush of Geir Jenssen, while remaining rooted in Affin’s commitment to sound that lives outside the expected.
And here are some words from Zach on the record:
As winter settles in and everything slows, I feel pulled toward simple, hypnotic loops and layers that melt into each other. I wanted these long-form tracks on Low Harmonics to feel like a steady breath, a gentle space to settle into. The low frequencies are shaped to be calm and grounding, almost like a quiet balm for the long, heavy winter days ahead. The season moves at its own pace, and Low Harmonics is meant to move with it, a companion to the slow burn of winter.
— Zach Frizzell
The album will be out on December 5th, 2025, via Affin, available as a 6-panel digipak or digital download. You can pre-order your copy via the label’s Bandcamp.
