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See the Forest, See the Trees

by Kazyak

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1.
Pieces of My Map 06:14
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2.
To the Manner Born 04:44
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3.
Tar Baby 03:23
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4.
Part I (Rabbiting Fox) 04:20
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Part II (Pitch Thick) 04:02
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6.
Disposition 03:58
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about

Minneapolis band Kazyak is the indie craft vehicle of frontman, songwriter, guitarist Peter Frey who takes us into the thick of the woods. Having made the festival circuit rounds, the new album See the Forest, See the Trees finds the group stirring up a selection of rich, heartfelt string arrangements with electric guitars, violins, banjos and strummed percussion sentiments that stretch out like the urban forest branches that embrace downtown Minneapolis. Peter's approach to song construction is to utilize every breath and instrument as a foundational musical tree trunk for budding leaves, flowers and fruits to spring from with a searching spirit for life's lost fragments.

Frey makes up a compass of his own creation with the elaborate and lush array of stringed instruments. The album title encourages you to See the Forest, See the Trees, to survey the proverbial gestalt of all things for the details that comprises the sum of the dense grouped foliage. In the 6 minute plus outing of "Pieces", every guitar strum, every percussive drum machine tick reverberates like a naturally occurring counterpart. The electric guitar progressions move like the wave and way treetops sway in the wind, the banjo plunks can be heard like the trickling movement of a nearby brook, the drum machine's clinks move like steps over the underbrush, while a violin gives an inner glance of emotion and provides a choral comfort.

Further entertaining of the forest-for-the-trees perspective cliché; Frey lays out the pieces of the scattered map as littered Hansel & Gretel-like breadcrumbs to find a way home. "Disturbing the forest / Took a while to decide / What type of failure I want to be / Left with pieces of my map". This central lyric spins around the song's harmonizing "ohhs" where the moment's hesitation along a deciduous trail provides pause to think of which cartographical fragment will grant the best directional safe and sound passage. As the song closes, the stringed instruments emanate sunbeams of hope atop leaved canopies giving a certain guidance, assurance and granting a better understanding and observance of both the forest and the trees.

The album marks a fundamental shift in both mindset and lineup for the group: Kazyak has morphed into a mature art project with alternative indie-folk ilk. The music is a nostalgic revival and See the Forest, See the Trees is a solid statement that the lineup and mindset adjustments arenʼt the end for Kazyak. Instead, See the Forest, See the Trees is a new beginning: It is Kazyak, born into color.

-Sjimon Gompers

credits

released July 15, 2014

Peter Frey: guitars, piano, vocals, and sequencing
Bret Bullion: drums
Jeff Sundquist: bass
Justin Lansing: banjo
Becky Gaunt: violin
Greg Byers: cello

All songs written by Peter Frey

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