Ryan Zak
Album

Rest

Ryan Zak · 2023 · 34 tracks

Out of silence, these songs emerged as a sort of salvation. This music attempts to express the unspeakable softness of the world. Here there is no high drama, no great conflict. Life is slowly, gracefully played out from birth to death, from silence to silence, separated by intervals of growth. This is music to rest to, to nap to, to relax to, to love to, to live to.

Tracks

  • 1
    An Invitation
    5:58
  • 2
    There Is Love
    5:33
  • 3
    Joy
    3:40
  • 4
    Eight Birds in a Cherry Blossom Tree
    3:39
  • 5
    There Is Love (Reprise)
    3:14
  • 6
    The Moth
    3:52
  • 7
    A Smile
    2:38
  • 8
    Mother
    6:12
  • 9
    A Prayer Intro
    0:48
  • 10
    A Prayer
    3:12
  • 11
    For Chris
    3:59
  • 12
    Mother (Reprise)
    2:47
  • 13
    For Chris (Reprise)
    2:59
  • 14
    The Dancer Weeps (For Ashli)
    6:08
  • 15
    Day Twelve
    4:35
  • 16
    There Is Love (Reprise 2)
    1:28
  • 17
    Glockenspiel
    4:02
  • 18
    Eight Birds in a Cherry Blossom Tree (Reprise)
    1:53
  • 19
    Summer Afternoon
    1:46
  • 20
    A Smile (Reprise)
    2:04
  • 21
    Sleeping Cat
    2:56
  • 22
    Spring Morning
    1:28
  • 23
    Glockenspiel (Reprise)
    2:42
  • 24
    Fainting
    4:18
  • 25
    Summer Afternoon (Reprise)
    1:39
  • 26
    For Ben
    4:03
  • 27
    Sleeping Cat (Reprise)
    2:34
  • 28
    The Birth and Death of Thought
    5:25
  • 29
    Day Eleven
    2:50
  • 30
    The Moth (Reprise)
    2:43
  • 31
    Quietly, in the Dark
    3:22
  • 32
    Ocean Interlude
    3:29
  • 33
    The Injured Bee
    1:32
  • 34
    The Birth and Death of Thought (Reprise)
    2:05

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