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Past Inside the Present

zakè (20th Anniversary Edition)
Although this is zakè’s debut release on PITP (2019), these arrangements were originally created in 2006. Sharing a fitting description of the label name with the release, it truly is the ‘Past Inside the Present’. These time-worn selections unfold l…
In A Small Room, Decades Ago
“Hanging in the chill out rooms of the 1990’s rave scene inspired me to create my first ambient album, Atmospherics over 30 years ago. For this album I wanted to journey back and create a love letter to those magical times, and the energy that was fe…
Still Beauty
With Still Beauty, PITP label head zakè (Zach Frizzell) and California-based marine eyes (Cynthia Bernard) present a suite of lovingly constructed pieces that combine organic, tape-saturated drones with angelic, spacious vocals and a host of other te…
HH
*100 copies limited edition* Time spent in hospital rooms. The weight still unfolding. The uncertain future. More questions than answers. Pieces of my heart, heard through the sounds of HH. For my wife. Shaped by what we are moving through together. …
Silent Portrait
On Silent Portrait, City of Dawn distils their ambient language into a single, weightless frame: soft‑focus drones and hushed harmonics deepened by Marisa Grijalva’s bass shadings, mastered into luminous stillness and wrapped in equally contemplative…
Frizzell & Duque: A Sorrow Unrequited
*200 copies limited edition* "A Sorrow Unrequited is a short but gorgeous collaboration between Frizzell & Duque, comprised of five minimalist explorations of high-fidelity sound. Each piece begins with the statement of a simple melody, which repeats…
Microliths and Momentary Drifts
*250 copies limited edition* Microliths and Momentary Drifts is the first full-length collaboration from the trio of zakè (Zach Frizzell), Ossa (Kaiton Slusher), and ASC (James Clements), where rolling analog synth lines, chest-rattling bass, and oth…
Kaizen
*150 copies limited edition* Kaizen is the PITP solo début of French ambient artist and sound sculptor Almøst Silent (aka Guy Teixeira), whose deep drones, towering harmonies, and nuanced structures strike a unique emotional chord on each of the albu…
Past/Present 2025 Compilation
*2026 repress. 100 copies limited edition* Past Inside the Present proudly presents the Past/Present 2025 Compilation, a celebration of the label’s artists and their creative output over the past year. This collection features a series of new, unrele…
Perennials
Perennials is the latest full-length from Toronto-based anthéne (aka Brad Deschamps), who builds transportive, beautifully detailed sonic worlds using only a guitar, sampler, and modest cache of pedals. Here, his refined treatments, manipulations, an…
Threewave
On Threewave, 36 gathers Wave Variations, Symmetry Systems and Reality Engine into a single arc of luminous machine melancholia: a five‑year study in concise synth miniatures where strict limitations yield ever‑wider emotional and conceptual horizons…
Oblivion
*150 copies limited edition* A surprise album by bvdub and zakè. No album description. No songs available to listen to. Must buy blindly.
Cantus for Winter in Six Parts
zakè’s deep attachment to the seasons of the Midwest, along with his intuitive approach to sound creation, has led to a deep and varied body of analog ambient drone recordings across the past ten years. Many of his albums take on the forms and colors…
Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel II
*2025 stock* 36 and Zake follow up the epic work of Stasis Sounds For Long Distance Space Travel Part 1 with another eighteen chapters "of aural anesthetics" which "continue their journey through the outer reaches of space in hypersleep." The album c…
Melatonia
*300 copies limited edition* Melatonia marks the seventh full-length release from the drone duo Pausal, celebrated for their work on labels including Barge Recordings, Students of Decay, Own Records, Dronarivm, and Infraction. Beyond their collaborat…
In Four Parts
*300 copies limited edition* The transoceanic partnership of 36 (UK) and Black Swan (US) yielded one of Past Inside The Present’s first truly essential releases in 2019, just a year into the label’s existence. In Four Parts succinctly establishes a b…
Wash Away
*2025 stock. 50 copies limited edition* 'Wash Away' written and produced by zakè, feat. Lucy Gooch and Black Brunswicker. Additional vocal arrangement and synthesizers by Alistair Lax. 'On A Sunny Shore' written and produced by Black Brunswicker. 'Wa…
Thinking Like a Mountain
*300 copies limited edition* Thinking Like a Mountain is the much-anticipated second album by ambient guitar composer From Overseas (aka Kévin Séry), who expands on the vistas and valleys of his début, Home (PITP, 2020), while reflecting on a half-de…
Stars And Silence
*100 coipes limited edition* Five years after their landmark début, Mirrored (ZDR, 2020), Drew Sullivan (Slow Dancing Society) and Zach Frizzell (zakè) present Stars & Silence, a double album that invites internal exploration and deep meditation with…
Silentium
"zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) has consistently built goodwill and community through his renowned family of labels (Past Inside the Present, Zakè Drone Recordings, and Healing Sound Propagandist) since 2018, and with the collaborative anthology Silentium,…
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