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Biorhexistasis

by Coppice Halifax

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Two extended pieces recorded to four-track cassette tape as far back as 2011, then forgotten, lost and found after unpacking from a near-600 mile studio relocation. With this much time passed from the point of genesis, it is impossible to discern the true intent of these recordings. Instead, I am focusing on what they seem to functionally do, here in the present.

The first piece is a minimal and slowly coalescing drone piece with a peculiar wobbly rhythm, which gives way to blooming sine tones and bass across the 20+ minute length. It resembles an ambient techno retake of the Milieu album Leaves Painted Purple, which was created only two years prior to these sessions.

The second piece is a more textured and spacious affair, clocking in at just under 50 minutes, which moves incredibly slowly through an exposition of guitar drone loops, as a KPR-77 drum machine emerges like lights barely seen through fog. By the halfway point, a majestic Lowrey organ motif is unfurled, and a dubbed out pedal bass anchors the track's bottom end, not unlike the three dense tracks on Pacific Opal Hex.

Both of these unearthed pieces recall a very specific time in the Halifaxian oeuvre, where long runtimes were still being dabbled with and the vaguely shoegaze influence, heard on records like High Hawaiian Fog, Pacific Opal Hex and the unreleased Coastal Reveries, was still very much in vogue. The title chosen for this album, Biorhexistasis, implies two phases of an elemental process, one which erodes and another that renews and restores. These recordings exist like a fossil retrieved from an epoch long since passed, frozen in time between seasons of change.

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released October 5, 2017

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at Botany Bay, 2011. Mastered by The Analog Botanist at the White Pillar Workshop, Summer-Autumn 2017. Photography by Brian, somewhere between South Carolina and Ohio, Summer 2016. This is Milieu Music number ABX72.

Special thanks to the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club, for helping make this recording possible: David T / Devin H / Mathieu L / Francois H / Andy B / Joe U / Benoit P / Jonathan W / Jose S / Rik J / Dave W / Levi G / Chris S / Justin T / Burton T.

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Coppice Halifax Dayton, Ohio

Analog Botany, since 2005.12.08. Impressionist techno and bedroom fantasist electronics. Compost instead of composition.

I also release music as Milieu: milieumusic.bandcamp.com

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