Serge Geyzel :: Stay. EP (Self Released)

Rather than simply calling out for someone to remain, Geyzel uses these five tracks to explore what happens when you finally stop holding everything in. Its hidden strength is found in that openness: a willingness to wander through uncertainty, sit with absence, and ultimately let it all out.

Stay. opens into a more vulnerable space

Five tracks make up Serge Geyzel’s Stay. EP, revealing a different side of the multi-talented Saratov, Russia and Berlin, Germany-based sound sculptor. While analog gear and synthesizer production remain firmly at its core, this release opens into a more vulnerable space, where emotion slowly rises through ambient passages and drifting acoustic waves, as heard on the opening title track.

Geyzel’s sleek electronic instincts are still present, but Stay. takes a looser, more exploratory route, moving through downtrodden jazz, hip-hop breaks, and fractured rhythms. “Some of It I Am Not” seems to unravel in fragments, gathering scattered thoughts and feelings along the way. As the EP unfolds, “But Then I Met You (for SF)” carries that wandering, Teebs-like sensibility into more uncertain territory, its searching quality sounding almost like a message sent toward someone, something, or perhaps life and love itself. Closer “Let’s Continue from the Beginning” feels like a long-lost sibling to that sentiment, bringing the journey full circle without quite resolving it.

The penultimate “Pseudonostalgia” is perhaps the EP’s quietest revelation. Cruising under the radar, it evokes the strange sensation of remembering ​an event you never actually experienced—something unfolding somewhere deep in the background, half-formed and difficult to place. Acoustic instruments, samples, and distant voices gradually shed layers of melancholy, giving the piece a ghostly sense of memory.

The liner notes describe the emotional distortion of time that comes with missing someone, particularly when longing for their return. That feeling sits at the heart of Stay. Rather than simply calling out for someone to remain, Geyzel uses these five tracks to explore what happens when you finally stop holding everything in. Its hidden strength is found in that openness: a willingness to wander through uncertainty, sit with absence, and ultimately let it all out.

Stay. is available on Bandcamp.