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Calgary based jazz guitarist and trumpeter, David Lavoie, has been hot on the local jazz scene playing shows multiple nights a week and honing the sound of his jazz compositions. "If I Were Me" features New Jersey jazz great Pat Van Dyke on the drums and the soaring trumpet melodies from Lavoie. With a degree in jazz composition from North Vancouver University, Lavoie is just stretching his legs and getting started with his jazz tunes. Part of the "Colour Theory" jazz compilation out on Inner Ocean!

Artwork by MC Blue Matter
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Colour Theory

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David Lavoie - If I Were Me

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Another infectious joint from Axian, Sobe, and David Chief that you won't be able to resist for long.

Axian, David Chief x SoBe - Won't Be Long

Leaf

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Dominic Pierce - Leaf

No Mountains x Just Big Hills - Mountain Sounds

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Dokkodo Sounds - Wait Less

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CRFT x Ahntow - elvish

tiny.blips - rally and return

BROCKBEAT, Ahntow - opioid

zakè and dotlights met in early 2023, although both artists found that they shared affinities towards each other's works for years. Through conversations, there was one album that both artists equally cherished, ‘Stay With Me’ released in the summer of 2022 with zakè’s good friend T.R. Jordan. The album also featured a special appearance by the lovely marine eyes.

Deeply drawn by the sounds and story behind the album, dotlights commenced working with the original stems to create a very special collection of reimagined tracks with his unique lofi beatmaking and beautifully composed guitar aesthetics he’s become known for. With the assistance and this newly collaborative approach, zakè worked with both old and new stems, in addition to adding new synth production, field recordings, and tape manipulations to these remixed tracks.

Release July 12, 2024
Artwork By: Lela Amparo

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dotlights is a guitarist / beatmaker from the Netherlands and a frequent contributor to Chillhop Records and Memoir Music. Working from a small home studio in a quiet town near the German border, he blends his guitar aesthetics with downtempo electronica vibes and lofi beats.

zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) is the founder and head of Indianapolis-based Past Inside the Present, which has become a standard bearer for modern ambient and experimental artistry since its creation in 2018. In addition to PITP, he runs the collaboration-focused Zakè Drone Recordings, and has released for Azure Vista Records, Dunk!Records, Polar Seas Recordings and others.

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Stay With Me [remixes], 2024

Remixed and produced using the original stems from 'Stay With Me, ZD-020 (2022) by zakè & dotlights
Mastered at Statinski Mastering by Ivo Statinski.

Guitars, synths, piano, and beat programming by dotlights
Synths, field recordings, and tape manipulation by zakè

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Stay With Me, 2022

Originally written, recorded and produced by zakè & T.R. Jordan
Vocal accompaniment on 'Stay With Me' by marine eyes
Field recordings and cover photo captured off the coast of Lake Erie, 41°25'25.9"N 82°36'27.4"W

Photography and design by zakè

zakè, Dotlights - Shoreline [Dotlights Remix]

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eevee - summertime

SoBe - Vernal

Lemonade (Feat. Pope)

KOHEI YOSHII - Everytime

eevee - gaze

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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;)