zachary paul: calendar

Zachary Paul is a violinist and composer currently living in New York. Having played in orchestras for most of his life, his beautiful violin work has recently emerged in the new music scene on the East and West coasts. Recently collaborating with musicians like Simon Scott and Patrick Shiroishi, Zachary has long been a "session violinist" for many Recital releases. It's with great pleasure to finally release a full-length solo album of his work on Recital. Calendar is a collection of unfinished demos, compositional experiments, and edited re-released tracks which span the past eight years. Recital operator and composer Sean McCann took seven hours of Paul's music and edited it down to these eight tracks over 50 minutes, folding them into themselves and into one another. The editing is also sometimes crude and immediate, with creases and torn edges. This album reflects trying to break one's perception of time into its smallest parts, watching the seconds pass, and freezing these snapshots into saturated memories and moods. "Wind of midnight" is a pastoral quartet piece (two horns, cello, and violin) that breathes slowly, not unlike an Ingram Marshall work. While "Fear" conjures up memories of Los Angeles at night, an imagined soundtrack for a hazy Michael Mann-ish cobalt landscape. A gust of smog on "Possessor" interrupts this vaporous scene, getting swallowed up in tape destruction, then settling back into the underlying pastel dusk of Calendar's unhurried chamber ambience. Glass-mastered CD edition, limited to 200 copies. Includes a 12-page booklet.