at the hour of closing, by Zack Nestel-Patt

at the hour of closing

by Zack Nestel-Patt

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1.	rising at dawn 04:59	buy track
2.	hearing the clicking of the clock 06:44	buy track
3.	pushing us towards the flood 07:26	buy track
4.	water fills the void 05:00	buy track
5.	through their surrender 07:43	buy track
6.	at the hour of closing 07:30	buy track

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Zack Nestel-Patt recorded his newest album, titled at the hour of closing, over the course of several years and in a variety of locations, including Baltimore, MD, West Stockbridge, MA, New York City, and Los Angeles. The compositions on the album were influenced by the various auras surrounding these different environments and by elements of the experimental electronic music (Brian Eno, Fennez) and contemporary classical music (Andrew Norman, Missy Mazzioli) he was immersing himself in. Nestel-Patt structured the album’s compositions around cascading layers of double bass and synthesizer, trying to blur the lines between organic and synthetic sounds. Though he had originally conceived the album as a series of works modeled after a classical string quartet but with differing instrumentation, Nestel-Patt’s explorations, both musically and geographically, ultimately yielded a complex, multi-layered set of atmospheric compositions, totally original and unique to themselves in form and effect.

The pieces on at the hour of closing directly grapple with the calamity of climate change. The composition titles themselves form a poem inspired by Moses Ibn Ezra, the great medieval Jewish philosopher and poet from Moorish Spain, and are a supplication for a new and revolutionary understanding of humanity’s relationship to the Earth. The pieces, along with their titles, recast humanity’s struggle to combat the destruction of a livable habitat as a modern manifestation of the biblical flood, and charge humanity to take responsibility for its own salvation.

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released November 4, 2021

Composed, performed, and recorded by Zack Nestel-Patt
Mixed by Charlie Van Kirk
Mastered by Becker

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