zachari berns: ltwlbl011
Francisco Espregueira
Last friday Zachary Berns dropped LTDWLBL011 via Limited White Label. Everything about this one feels confident — but in a subtle, understated way. A moment of quiet command. Class. Having long woven through New York’s jazz and underground circles — whether under his alias zbeeez or with the poetry‑inflected poetic thrust collective — he turns here to a fuller statement under his own name. Limited White Label, the Berlin imprint known for curating a “jazz‑house” space between club and improvisation, gives him a platform to let the record breathe. The vinyl is capped at just 300 hand‑stamped copies, and every spin seems to carry the weight of that scarcity and preciousness.
As you move deeper into LTDWLBL011, tracks like “Nocturnes” (featuring Vesa Beats) and “Flights” (with Agho, Yoh, and Luke McCrosson) reveal how fluid Berns’ musical language is. Limited White Label+1 One moment he floats in ambient half‑light, the next he drags you into a syncopated groove you didn’t see coming. The production is raw yet polished, intimate yet expansive. And because it comes from a label rooted in bridging jazz and house aesthetics, the release feels right at home there — a bridge itself between worlds. Available on vinyl.