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Cassette + Digital Album
topics of cancer on cassette, limited to 100 hand numbered copies
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
LP release will include: coke bottle clear vinyl, hand-numbered + limited to 100, plus a risograph-printed lyric sheet and poster insert.
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topics of cancer is a multi-concept album that's set to a soundscape of dark souling and tension-melodic riffs while embracing soft boi magik, neurodiversity, and transforming privilege. topics of cancer plays on a constellation of social, political, and existential cancers, which venn-diagram as a caricature case study of myself as an emotional and disruptive cancerian.
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about riife
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riife is the concept-driven solo project of zach frimmel (he/they), who identifies as a neurodivergent creative and leftist in left field stimulated by subcultures, subjects, and subversions. riife is a self-taught, alt-tuned guitarist who grew up in the florida punk and post-hardcore scene while absorbing influences from murder city devils and david bazan before moving to seattle in 2012. their storytelling is rooted in their english literature studies reflecting on other peoples’ stories, nuances, and humanity. zach currently champions the arts community as northwest film forum’s grants manager, as an intersectional activist, and previously as a music journalist for kexp and the stranger.
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artist statements
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sound-body of work |
the “sound” element refers to both the vibrations heard through the air and the holding of acceptable views. the “body of work” layer refers to both a cohesive series of creativity, plus me existing in an evolving body that consciously strives towards “the work” to disrupt the status quo, interrogate white privilege, and transform power.
molt |
what does it mean to be a sensitive, introspective masculine-of-center person? what good can i offer from the privileged ritual of years reflecting alone with my thoughts and engaging in the lineage of white male leisure? my profile is embedded with a lot of power. knowing for whom, when, and where to use it is the only way i think i might ever honestly be able to say that i’m living to the fullest. i reference white dude energy of the past, not to regurgitate it, not to perpetuate the cultural supremacy of the white patriarch. instead, to recalibrate whatever composites of art or truth i’ve found in them into repurposed expressions of a new guard of masculinity, one that is neither toxic nor fragile, one that promotes men openly learning and transforming.
rife frequencies |
“generated by a machine built for dr. rife in 1936. the frequencies would devitalize the disease organisms, believing that every disease organism had a frequency range and could be affected by its 'window of vulnerability.' each disease had its own center frequency, and the radio frequency signal match would be used to eradicate the disease.”
rife frequencies have come back as a form of new-age healing. like astrology, i’m fascinated as a zeitgeist observer and pluralist of how people use modern evolutions of information to create meaning and healing in their lives.
credits
released June 25, 2021
credits |
jeff alvarez - drums (2-4, 6-8)
jonathan pease - bass (2-8)
jess kim - banshee crooner (2, 6, 8) + maracas (4) + tambo (8)
mike sampson - drums (5)
zach frimmel - songs, guitars, spocals
all music property of zach frimmel (riife)
recorded by jak mckool @ whalehouse studio cooperative
mixed + produced by jak mckool and zach frimmel
mastered by rachel field at resonant mastering