Coppice included my track “Just My Imagination” from Hallmark Cards in their new playlist hosted on By Measure. Stream the Coppice playlist here.
The playlist includes:
To Be Small in a Small Place - Jason Zeh You and I in the Formidable Fire - Quarry House Outside Ones - Gangi Roundel - John Kannenberg Untitled 3 - Giuseppe Ielasi Trio - Stephen Cornford nome - MKR Just My Imagination - Jeff Kolar Utopia Semi-Waltz - Jono El Grande I’m a Lonesome Cowboy - Berglind Tómasdóttir Overture from Heath (“All Weather Adheasion”) - Andrew Furse
By Measure is a blog that gives a behind-the-scenes look at where musicians work.
Search for images of the lads who comprise Coppice and you will find that they look remarkably like slightly better-scrubbed direct descendants of the squeezebox player on the cover ofKilling Capitalism With Kindness. Spin the 45, though, and a different picture emerges. They mine their squeezebox (shruti box, actually) for wheeze, whistle, and most of all clatter, not notes. The results are more like field recordings of debris being moved or surreptitious activities in a workshop than the blessedly begrimed tunes on that old Xpressway box. I suspect, though, that if this stuff were made in New Zealand in 1990 rather than Chicago in 2010, it would have stood an excellent chance of finding its way onto the box. If you need less obscure coordinates, Can made ethnographic forgeries – these guys craft fictional locations. Although Giuseppe Ielasi’s name appears nowhere on the record, it’s his label, and his attention to sonic detail is evidenced by sounds that seem to take shape in air after the stylus sucks them off the vinyl and passes them through the speakers. It comes in a lovely black and white sleeve in a numbered edition of 200. (http://www.senufoeditions.com)
(Bill Meyer)
Order your copy from the Coppice website (offering a special order that includes a limited edition print by Holly Murkerson) or via Senufo Editions.
In this special live performance by Coppice, the listener (maximum of two) is offered a chance to hear selections from their upcoming album “Holes/Tract” in an intimate recording session-type setting, resembling the context of how the compositions originated.
The performance promises to be among their most memorable, bestowing upon the listener an up-close experience of their quietest repertoire from 2009/2010.
“Holes/Tract” will be available in Spring 2012 on CD under the experimental label Consumer Waste (UK).
