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Beyond Me..

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an extended play released 2024 April 25.

tracklist

1: Come Around, Again
2:   halfway
3:   hard to believe
4:   floating
5: Where has my heart gone?

about

The title of Abijah’s new EP, ‘Beyond Me. .’ is a play on words. The phrase “beyond me” is often used to describe something that is impossible to understand or know the reason for. Something that is outside of the self. The lyric “sometimes, I find it hard to believe that there’s anything beyond me” (from the track ‘hard to believe’) envelops this idea quite succinctly. The realization that it is impossible to understand everything is balanced delicately against the feeling that there is still limitless potential to know more things. The inability to get out of one’s own head and rely only on the self pulls against the knowledge that there must be something greater “beyond me”.
‘Beyond Me. .’ carefully places these existential questions against a dreamy “bedroom folk” backdrop. With a mix of acoustic warmth, analog rawness, and digital textures, Abijah creates a sonic world that defies genre and pulls the listener simultaneously inwards and outwards.

credits

all written, performed, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Abijah Zwiers
cover art by Abijah Zwiers

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hard to believe

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a single released in 2023.

tracklist

1: hard to believe

credits

all written, performed, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Abijah Zwiers
cover art by Abijah Zwiers

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the 3rd track on ‘Beyond me. .’. released as a single on 26 Aug 2023, it was the second single from ‘Beyond me. .’ to be put out to the public.

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floating

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a single released in 2022.

tracklist

1: floating

credits

all written, performed, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Abijah Zwiers
cover art by Abijah Zwiers

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the 4th and penultimate track on ‘Beyond me. .’. released as a single on 1 Sep 2022, it was the first single from ‘Beyond me. .’ to be put out to the public.

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boston

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a single released in 2022.

tracklist

1: boston

credits

written, performed, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Abijah Zwiers
cover art by Abijah Zwiers and Cameron Presseault

about

‘boston’ was released as a standalone single on 22 April 2022. The song is a piano ballad that explores the complexities of emotional and physical distance. It features unique production that incorporares experimental elements including distant harmonized and distorted guitars, intimate felt piano, spacey drums, and ambient pads and electronic synths.

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8:54

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an extended play released in 2021.

tracklist

1: a.m.
2: On Superficiality - Acoustic Version
3: Maybe
4: I’m Not The World
5: p.m.

credits

all written, performed, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Abijah Zwiers
cover art by Abijah Zwiers

about

‘8:54’ is an EP that acts as a musical reflection on the process of growing up. Conceptually, the project is bookended by ‘a.m.’ and ‘p.m.’, which frame the time-related concept of the EP in a very direct way. This collection of lo-fi songs were written over 2020 and early 2021, in the depths of lockdown, and their incomplete and imperfect nature reflects the beginnings of Abijah’s exploration into making music. ‘8:54’ was released on 25 Jun 2021, the day after Abijah’s high school graduation.