Vaporized Forest Index, by Coppice Halifax

Vaporized Forest Index

by Coppice Halifax

supported by

orbitalforest Not even halfway through this album yet but it is absolutely epic ! Favorite track: Valerian.

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$25 USD or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Packaged in a triple-disc jewel case with a factory printed 6-panel insert, and three in-house duplicated/printed white discs. The definitive beginner's guide to Coppice Halifax!

Includes unlimited streaming of Vaporized Forest Index via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 10 days

edition of 50 1 remaining

Purchasable with gift card

$30 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

493

releases

Get all 493 Coppice Halifax releases available on Bandcamp and save 90%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Shades of Night in Green Minor, Raft and River [Tenth Anniversary Compleat], Deep Earth: Year Six Compleat, Deep Earth: Year Five Compleat, Leaf Cloak [Tenth Anniversary Compleat], Cmx [Volumes VIII-XV], Sunworn, Cmx XV, and 485 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$565.68 USD or more (90% OFF)
SUPPORT MORE HALIFAXIAN FORESTS LIKE THESE AT MY PATREON PAGE

	1.	Vapor Dub 04:48
	2.	Royal Purple Pageant 06:59
	3.	Braid 03:51
	4.	Forest 06:33
	5.	Sno Dreem 06:05
	6.	Dayglo Daze 05:53
	7.	Summer Park 04:55
	8.	Blue Nettles 06:27
	9.	Ovals 06:59
	10.	Orange Acre 05:21
	11.	Sun Version 05:31
	12.	Pacific Opal Hex 03:10
	13.	Barefoot Stargazer 06:07
	14.	Sandbar 04:05
	15.	Pharma C 07:44
	16.	Leaf Cloak 07:29
	17.	Unending 08:36
	18.	Splendour 07:38
	19.	Valerian 09:49
	20.	Sub 05:30
	21.	Eroded Visage 06:10
	22.	Ovals II 07:34
	23.	D.Y.B. 11:33
	24.	Coastliner 07:36
	25.	8000 MBSF 08:36
	26.	Hex 10:17
	27.	Ovals III 06:49
	28.	Whitehope 09:15
	29.	Memory Wave 10:15
	30.	Raft (Mutated) 07:05
	31.	Verdant Acre 4 #6 14:00
	32.	Winter 05:00
	33.	Lake Busbee 07:28

about

Coppice Halifax, originally a Milieu side-project, has now aged a decade. After a full year of painstaking selection, editing, sequencing and mastering, VAPORIZED FOREST INDEX is finally complete. A beginner's guide to the dense subtropical forests and the sprawling Atlantic seaside. Writing and assembling this collection has felt surreal and almost predetermined, as the track selection ended up numbering 33, while I am in my 33rd year. Three discs, as well - themselves grouped according to the general peaks and valleys of the Halifaxian oeuvre - spanning four hours of material from 2006 to 2016.

The first Cide, subtitled CARPET, contains fourteen tracks that orbit the earlier Coppice Halifax core of melodic techno. These are tracks inspired by Warp's Artificial Intelligence series, early Rephlex vinyl like Cylobian Sunset, Desktop Robotics and Wasted Sunday, as well as early RDJ like SAW 85-92 and Surfing On Sine Waves. These are the pieces that most easily blur the lines between Milieu and CH, and establish a provenance that spirals further outward into deeper and more textured acres.

The second Cide, subtitled CONTOUR, highlights the dub techno phase of CH, with tracks from the Analog Botany and Static Pharming series, Ocean Lion and Pawleys Island. This material is mostly inspired by Rod Modell's early Deepchord vinyl, labels like Chain Reaction, Mille Plateaux and early Kompakt, such as Dettinger or Jonas Bering. These pieces maintain a balance of techno rhythms and warm minimalistic basslines, anchored below layer upon layer of humid chords and restrained melodies - the sum of which often floats in a shallow pool of field recordings and tape hiss.

The third and final Cide, subtitled COMPOST, contains the summation of those years lost in the Halifaxian overgrowth. Heavily textured works filled with mammoth drones, orchestral tape loops, guitar feedback walls, modular synthesizer constructs and a truly Impressionistic presentation of ambient music, deep techno and bedroom experimentalism. These pieces have been inspired by GAS, Aleksi Perala's Colundi series, Ourson's Warming Plant album, Mika Vainio's Ø alias, early Vladislav Delay recordings and Steve Hitchell's sprawling Variant, Echospace and cv313 projects.

As a whole, these 33 tracks present a cohesive and guided trip through the Halifaxian ten year acre, while also hopefully providing a carefully considered tableaux of works for even the most ardent listener to appreciate. Where Milieu has always been a far more deliberate and composed project, Coppice Halifax eschews traditional forms of songwriting in favor of sonic mining and map making. Compost as composition, synthesis as song.

For most of these past ten years, I've not been the creator of these woods and oceans - only a cultivator of analog botany, riding a wave thick with seratonin and surrealism. I've never been a builder, but a draftsman, providing the means for possible realities to enter into existence. Like Michaelangelo digging out the statue from inside the stone, and Monet repainting the Rouen Cathedral dozens of times in different grades of sunlight, I have accepted that there are greater forms in the universe than those I can conjure on my own, and they are far richer things to excavate and frame with so many miles of rippling cassette tape. Shapes in the vapour, phosphenes in the darkness, vibrations and radio frequencies in dimly lit machines, nudged to and fro by a sleep-deprived hand.

credits

released December 16, 2016

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at Rolling Knoll and Botany Bay, 2006-2016, in beautiful South Carolina. Mastered by The Analog Botanist at White Pillar Workshop, Autumn 2016. Photo taken by Brian in Columbia, SC, Spring 2016. This is Recycled Plastics number RPCHX. (C) + (P) Coppice Halifax 2016. All rights reserved.

license

about

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

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact Coppice Halifax

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Coppice Halifax recommends:

Eufloria
by Milieu

A spacious 2.5 hour soundtrack for Eufloria, an ambient strategy game currently available on Steam, Nintendo Switch and the Playstation Network. Coppice Halifax
go to album
Watch the Head
by Milieu

A colorful trip through polymetric psychedelia, possibly my strongest compositional statement to date. Coppice Halifax
go to album
Butcher Block Andromeda
by Milieu

A triple-album "beginner's guide" with 50 tracks selected from the first 10 years of Milieu releases. As apt a starting point as you're likely to find. Coppice Halifax
go to album

If you like Coppice Halifax, you may also like:

Sun Cast
by Milieu & Coppice Halifax

supported by 46 fans who also own “Vaporized Forest Index”

As always, I am in utter awe at the vastness of our musical universe, comprised of beautiful stars for our ever-listening ears. Let the gorgeous waves of this incredible album wash over you, perhaps taking you to another realm, out of space & time. One of the most pleasurable experiences I have had in a long while. Pip From The Forge
go to album
Urceolatmospherion
by Coppice Halifax

supported by 34 fans who also own “Vaporized Forest Index”

Coppice Halifax makes awesome music. Patrick Ozzy Lauzier
go to album
Goran Geto - Aтмосфера Два
by Tehnofonika Records

Peaceful chillout music from Serbia to help you drift away on a pillow of keys and gentle rhythms. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2020
go to album

Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now