Zola Jesus - Arkhon (Full Album - 2022)

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 help, something she had never done this early in an album’s lifetime. "At some point, I had to work with other people. I needed new blood. I needed somebody else."
-Bandcamp
Chapters:
0:00 Lost
3:24 The Fall
7:27 Undertow
11:41 Into The Wild
15:55 Dead & Gone
19:07 Sewn
24:46 Desire
29:48 Fault
34:02 Efemra
37:51 Do That Anymore
Credits:
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
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