Making destroyed sounds for a while as part of Dracula Pamphlet, Tongue Depressor, Marsh Chapel, and more, New Haven bassist/improviser/generalized freak Zach Rowden is in a solo tape zone on Like A Mirror Does. The two long pieces here are made up of uncomfortable loops and passages of unintelligible, knotted harshness. Slow moving and weightless, the sounds on Like A Mirror Does smolder without ever igniting, filling the room with a weird smoke that takes a while to be noticed.
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released February 18, 2022
ZR - tapes
Recorded in New Haven, CT & Jacksonville, FL
July-August 2021
Mastered by Henry Birdsey
supported by 18 fans who also own “Like A Mirror Does”
I can’t even pick one track I like more than the others. The work is one whole in my opinion and takes me anywhere I want to go. Thank god for the Doberman. Popsnacking
supported by 18 fans who also own “Like A Mirror Does”
like listening to a washing machine ingest forty of tones of concrete like its been fasting for the last twenty years. absolutely delicious raw music. james mcilwrath
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