## Arkhon - Artist(s): [[Zola Jesus]] - Release Year: [[2022]] - Ostensible or actual genres: [[alternative]], [[electronic]] - [Bandcamp Link](https://zolajesus.bandcamp.com/album/arkhon) Notes: #album #👍 %% ## Tracks: | No. | Title | Featuring | Notes | | --- | ----- | --------- | ----- | | | | | | %% ## Bandcamp Copy > There is a way a voice can cut through the fascia of reality, cleaving through habit into the raw nerve of experience. Nika Roza Danilova, the singer, songwriter, and producer who since 2009 has released music as Zola Jesus, wields a voice that does that. When you hear it, it is like you are being summoned -- not to somewhere new, but to a place that's already wrapped inside you, somewhere previously obscured from conscious experience. This place has been buried because it tends to hold pain, but it's also a gift, because once it's opened, once you're inside of it, it can show you the truth. > Zola Jesus's new album, Arkhon, finds new ways of losing that submerged, stalled pain. Not long after she had started writing the songs that would comprise the record, Danilova found herself stuck in a creative barrens, a spell of writer's block more stifling than any she'd experienced before. "It got to the point where I couldn't even listen to music. Everything sounded the same," she says. > On previous albums, Danilova had largely played the role of auteur, meticulously crafting every aspect of Zola Jesus's sound and look. This time, she realized that her habitual need for control was sealing her out of her art. When the frustration of being unable to create became intolerable, she took a leap of faith and reached out for...  more > > ### credits > > released June 24, 2022 > > All music and lyrics written by Nika Roza Danilova / ZOLA JESUS (SESAC) administered by Terrorbird Publishing, LLC > > Chamber accompaniment on Dead and Gone composed by Louise Woodward / > > Music on Sewn written by Nika Roza Danilova, Randall Dunn & Matt Chamberlain / ZOLA JESUS (SESAC) administered by Terrorbird Publishing, LLC / Aleph Music Eternal (BMI) / Chunky Nuggets (ASCAP) > Produced by Randall Dunn and Zola Jesus > > Mixed by Randall Dunn at Circular Ruin > > Mastered by Heba Kadry > > Vinyl cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis > > Recorded by Randall Dunn at Circular Ruin and Strange Weather > > Drums and percussion recorded by Matt Chamberlain > > Chamber accompaniment on Dead and Gone recorded by Tucker Martine at Flora Recording > > Additional vocals recorded by Nika Roza Danilova > > Assistant engineer at Strange Weather - Garrett De Block > > Performed by > > Nika Roza Danilova - Vocals, Piano, Synthesizers, Programming > Randall Dunn - Synthesizers & Programming > Matt Chamberlain - Drums & Percussion > > With Additional Performances by > Brent Arnold - Cello > Keiko Araki - Violin > Joseph Berger - French Horn > Pansy Chang - Cello > Shahzad Ismaily - Bass > Shin-young Kwon - Violin > Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Modular Synthesizers > Charles Noble - Viola > Jason Schooler - Double Bass > Skúli Sverrisson - Bass > > Cover photo by Mother and Bethany Tucci > > Costume Design by Katie Martin (Grace Land, New York) > > Love to my family. Devon. Ash. Simon. All of my patrons. But particularly: Robert, Jacob, Neil, Aksel, Carlos, David, Lieven, Eric-Paul, Quinton.