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Nick Zanca is a record producer, songwriter, composer and writer currently based in Queens, New York. His sonic work spans the idioms of songcraft, synthesis, sound collage and electroacoustic improvisation. He began releasing work under the alias Mister Lies in 2012, a production project he began as a student in Chicago which reached a conscious conclusion after three full-length albums and several singles. He was an editor at Reverb and a contributor to Tone Glow. As a performer and producer, he has collaborated with Wendy Eisenberg, Lucy Liyou, PARTYNEXTDOOR, More Eaze, Knower, Amirtha Kidambi, Jordan Reyes, and the members of ONO. His work as a producer has been featured in Pitchfork, NPR, The Wire, Vogue, VICE, The FADER, The Quietus, and Tiny Mix Tapes.
(Photo Credit: Jordan Reyes)

Nick Zanca

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Wendy Eisenberg and Nick Zanca Like Shooting the Shit

New York-based producer, composer and sound artist Nick Zanca has been releasing music under the name Mister Lies since 2012. The project began in a Chicago dorm room with the release of a four-track EP, Hidden Neighbors — over the years, his sounds have inhabited a specific intersection between intimacy and atmosphere through a maximalist mosaic of field recordings, sample-based textures, glitchy soundscapes, and nocturnal pop songs.
After a five-year personal hiatus, Zanca returns to his project’s roots with a home-recorded, self-titled and self-released third LP. Realized over the course of a year and explicitly designed as a start-to-finish listen, Mister Lies is a study of capturing the present and a celebration of the art of recording itself. Field recordings and found sounds are intertwined with electroacoustic improvisations and lyrics lifted from journal entries to form a half-hour genre-agnostic montage of memory. Bells sound, birds gossip, trains pass and boats rev their engines — this is kinetic, fluid music that promotes deep listening and headphone time travel.
(Photo Credit: Brian Vu)

Mister Lies

Hear First: Mister Lies’s Mister Lies