Kommune 1 LP, by Zack Oakley

Kommune 1 LP

by Zack Oakley

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1.	We Want You To Dance 07:36	buy track
2.	Further 05:51	buy track
3.	Look Where We Are Now 05:31	buy track
4.	Hypnagogic Shift 16:02	buy track
5.	Demon Run 08:06	buy track

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“Kommune 1” is the 2nd full length album from San Diego multi-instrumentalist, engineer and producer Zack Oakley. The record explores gang vocal harmonization, bass and drum polyrhythms found in afro-beat and latin jazz, walls of sound produced by dueling twin guitar lines harmonizing against Fender Rhoades and B3 counterpoint, earth tones of harmonica and a wide range of world-music hand percussion set to a backdrop of kinetic psychedelic energies supplied by droning, echoing and modulating theremin and synthesizers. This record showcases a live band versed in improvisation while making playful use of stressed harmony and the ability to execute tight arrangements with razor sharp clarity. Lyrically, Kommune 1 modulates between the political (We Want You To Dance), existential (Hypnagogic Shift, Demon Run), science fiction (Further) and the dance party relief of the mid-album lysergic funk of “Look Where We Are Now.”

Kommune 1 finds its glue in the recording workflow; all five tracks being recorded in DIY fashion in the bands rehearsal room in San Diego. The room, dubbed “Kommune Studios,” is a cozy, windowless affair stacked with vintage drum sets, amplifiers and synthesizers at the heart of which lies a late 70’s 24-track Trident recording console. The room itself represents creative freedom, as well as freedom from any outsider expectation and the insular comfort to follow any creative impulse to its fruition or naught. The tunes were recorded and mixed in the last few months of 2023 and are indicative of a band humming with inspiration and captured on specifically curated analog gear in the comfortable surroundings of their rehearsal headquarters.

The album is aptly named Kommune 1 as the first album recorded in the bands homegrown studio.

credits

released March 1, 2024

Zack Oakley - vocals, guitar, percussion, tracking engineer, mix engineer, producer
Cory Martinez - vocals, guitar, synth, tracking engineer
Peter Cai - vocals, bass
Travis Baucum - vocals, harmonica, theremin
Garret Lekas - vocals, keys, synth
Justin De La Vega - vocals, drums
Jody Bagly - B3, rhoades
Tim Lowman - flute

Carl Saff - mastering engineer
Andrew Tamlyn - art and layout

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Zack Oakley San Diego, California

DIY. Kommune Records.

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San Diego, CA

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