James Reich’s latest piece for SPIN Magazine concerns the posthumous release of music by Zack Rosen, a talented musician whose life and work were affected by schizophrenia. Rosen. From the article: “I think your friend is schizophrenic.” That’s how Connor Grant recalls Sean Ono Lennon’s reaction, in 2016, to hearing the delicate sprawl of Zack Rosen’s music for the first time. The photograph on my desktop of Rosen is appropriately and fractionally out of focus. It is the photograph of a young man who would drop to his death from the roof of a high rise building in 2019. With the posthumous release of Rosen’s album SYZYGY this past March on Lennon’s Chimera Music label, SPIN spoke with Lennon and Grant about the troubled and poignant legacy of a unique artist.
