Cylinders (2014)
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Our current edition. First verified copy: the 9-track Free Music Archive mirror, item total byte-verified on the box. Read the transfer report.
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The Record
If you have watched a video essay, a documentary short or a science channel in the last decade you have heard Chris Zabriskie; his Attribution-licensed catalog is the unofficial house band of the free internet, and Cylinders is the record where the piano pieces got serious. Nine numbered tracks, each built from a few figures that repeat and shift the way Riley and Glass do, patient and unhurried, thirty-seven minutes that were designed to sit under other people's pictures and turn out to hold up perfectly well on their own. Cylinder Two and Cylinder Five are the ones you will recognize.
Released free in January 2014 through the Free Music Archive, which is where the Internet Archive's copy comes from.
Release details
- Release
- Album / curated collection
- Genre
- Ambient / Minimal piano
- Released
- 2014-01-02
- Source license
- CC BY 4.0 (music)
- Running time
- 37:00
Tracklist
- Cylinder One
- Cylinder Two
- Cylinder Three
- Cylinder Four
- Cylinder Five
- Cylinder Six
- Cylinder Seven
- Cylinder Eight
- Cylinder Nine
The copy we chose
Transfer Report
Chosen copy: Internet Archive item Cylinders-15736, the Free Music Archive's mirror — 9 MP3 files, contiguously numbered (Chris_Zabriskie_-_01_-_Cylinder_One.mp3 … …_09_-_Cylinder_Nine.mp3), 91 MB, 37 min, with the cover art.
Checked: nine tracks, no gaps. A lossy mirror; the artist's own site sells lossless files of the same album.
The Archive.org item carries no license field of its own; the receipt is the artist's site, quoted below.
Creative Commons
Why It's Free
One layer, the artist's license:
- The license. Chris Zabriskie releases his whole catalog under the Creative Commons Attribution license — his own site states that the songs are "available for free use in creative projects" under it, with full-quality files on Bandcamp (chriszabriskie.com/aboutme, read 2026-08-26); Creative Commons' #cc10 feature and the Free Music Archive's listing say the same. Yours to download, keep, seed, share, rework and sell, with credit to Chris Zabriskie.
- Provenance. The Free Music Archive's mirror, from the artist's own upload there.
Chris Zabriskie, Cylinders (2014), released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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