zwei by zweihandr
a year ago I released 15 remastered songs from a 366 song project - this year I decided to compile another 13 songs (plus a bonus!) to serve as a sort of swan song for the project. here is a lengthy description/writeup I made last year that I feel fits better than anything I could add today.
"at the beginning of 2022 a friend & I set out to write and release a song every day for a full year. I decided to re-imagine, re-record and remaster 15 of my favorite songs from the project - here they are, enjoy. this album stands as both a sort of personally curated "greatest hits" record as well as a sort of condensed representation of the entire project. I tried to match the original vision as closely as possible while also giving each track the benefit of having more than a day of writing/production put into it. in the end it's still rough in some spots but that's in the spirit of the project.
to be honest - I’m not sure what zweihandr was. some sort of hyperpop manifestation of isolations from a lifetime of internet usage. an attempted musical movement on a dead platform. an art project. a series of feelings encapsulated in little songs. a bunch of webpages counting as tally marks for lost sleep. a gigantic wad of URLs collecting dust in cyberspace. a personification of the crustiest flash games you could find on a defunct website. a musical journal. a slightly more mature way to say “I wish anime was real”. a Rebecca Peake tribute project.
really all of these could be said, and that’s either indicative of trying to do way too much or a statement of the versatility of the project. in any case what resulted of this year-long struggle was an unignorable mountain of sound that I think has some pretty cool moments in it.
every track, even down to the most minuscule, has a little glimpse of what I was going for with the project in it. I hope seeing it all at once makes it make a lot more sense.
much like a diary, this is raw and unfiltered. some of it is bad, some of it is ugly, but all of it is honest. each day is a diary entry, unfiltered and laid before you - my soul on a page, be nice to it."
Tracklist
| 1. | legacy | 4:33 |
| 2. | Forgotten Refrain [ft. Scarlett Lemieux] | 2:55 |
| 3. | together | 4:05 |
| 4. | Live Long And Prosper | 3:40 |
| 5. | pastime [ft. DJ ARCHFIEND] | 3:07 |
| 6. | msg2all [ft. bappy] | 2:12 |
| 7. | empty orange sky | 3:55 |
| 8. | OOM | 2:35 |
| 9. | wake up slow down | 1:44 |
| 10. | daybreak [ft. peaches_jpg] | 2:51 |
| 11. | N2G | 4:49 |
| 12. | life support juice | 2:48 |
| 13. | unspoken | 3:10 |
| 14. | Center of the Earth (Bonus Track) [ft. Myth and the Machine] | 6:59 |
Credits
live drums on tracks 1, 3, 4, and 7 by Gus Stathes
bass guitar on tracks 1, 3, and 4 by Aidan Kljucanin
vocals on track 4 by scyphozoa
intro chiptune synth on track 9 by yung money
