Enhasa is veteran producer Zack Mitchell's sophomore album under his Blackbird Belle alias, and it methodically paints a portrait of a musician obsessed with tonality and detail. From the crackling static and saturated analog warmth of the titular opening track, all the way through to the final moments of the soulful, triumphantly receding closer, Enhasa is permeated with lushly imagined sounds and rich, evocative timbres.

The title of the record is lifted from a mythical kingdom, built many millennia ago amidst a series of monolithic, floating mountains, all chained together and anchored to the sky during a golden age of wonder. As a record, Enhasa lives up to its namesake. The album is imbued with that very same magic, juxtaposing a mystical sense of air, space, and melodic resonance within each beat with the weight and impact of near-liquid percussion and a diverse array of punctuated grooves.

Put simply, Enhasa is an album tailored for the headphone cosmonauts and the deep divers - eight beats that are all at once inviting and enveloping, that gradually unfurl and reveal new layers with each dedicated listen. Enhasa will be released on August 14th, 2020 through Inner Ocean Records (@inneroceanrecords).

Enhasa

Parallelism

"You talkin' to me?"

Just a cab driver tryin' to find good music.

Atra Aeterna is the alternative alias of Zack Mitchell, a born and raised Kingstonian who has been programming and releasing haunting, cinematic pieces of electronically unsettled noise for over a decade. 

Influenced by film composers and electronic producers alike, Mitchell seamlessly melds subtle fields of static warmth, emotive piano harmonies, and dark atmospherics into lushly imagined tapestries of instrumental sound. Recent years have seen Mitchell's work gravitate towards a more aggressively synthetic nature, building upon ethereal soundscapes and introducing pounding rhythmic elements and bright, jagged synth-lines that throw off light like undulating live-wires. 

Mitchell has released all Atra Aeterna music independently, and has designed all artwork associated with each release himself.

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Inner Ocean Records is a platform and collective for emerging artists to release music and visual art. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the label was conceptualized in 2012 as a vehicle for artists to have their music heard and seen, to build a community of passionate people.  We designed the label to be what we would have loved to have as artists ourselves, redefining the rules in an ebb and flow to the changing landscape of music. We have made a conscious commitment to be transparent, adaptable and always for the people.

We are a label for artists, by artists. 

We’ve built the backbone of this label around great sound and feeling; laid back, honest and forever chill. We have released a lot of different sounds; Ambient, Lofi Hip Hop, RnB, Modern Funk, Future Soul and Indie. Since our inception, we have prioritized natural evolution and organic growth in the music – we value the process and accept change.  Expect the unexpected; we want to delightfully surprise you;)