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Opulent ambience...
"Opal" by Coppice Halifax. Taken from the album 'Pacific Opal Hex', released on the Wil-Ru imprint [WR021]. Oct 2011.
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Limited Edition physical copies are available here: http://wil-ru.com/releases/wr/coppice-halifax-pacific-opal-hex-cd
and digital copies are available here: http://wil-ru.bandcamp.com/album/pacific-opal-hex

Coppice Halifax (AKA Milieu AKA Brian Grainger):
started making music somewhere after his parents' divorce in 1997. He played multiple instruments in a number of different bands and projects, teaching himself how to play guitar, drums, bass and keyboard without the aid of classical training. In 2001,
Brian began dabbling in psychedelic and ambient music, and by 2002 he became interested in writing computer-produced (but still organic) songs.
His music has seen releases at Attacknine Records, Awkward Silence, U-Cover, Boltfish Recordings, Infraction Records, a number of weblabels and his own Milieu Music imprint, adding to an already extensive catalogue of works. Additionally, he is involved in several collaborations, notably Free Festival (with Brian Ellis) and VCV (with David Tagg), and he records under several different monikers, including Coppice Halifax, Vhom, Teenager, Pink Space and his own name.

In 2006, Brian co-founded the Second Sun Recordings boutique label with David Tagg, and a year later the two artists started Install as well. Together they manage these two labels in addition to Brian's Milieu Music imprint and David's Expanding Electronic Diversity imprint, which started in 2004. Most recently Brian has contributed music and sound to the independent video game Dyson, and continues to release a steady stream of his work in handmade, limited editions via his website.
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Wil-Ru:
is a small independent record label based in Portland, Oregon, USA hosting a number of artistes including Coppice Halifax, Brian Grainger, The Swedish Movements, Horsemachine, Panda Beach and Davis Hooker. For more info, see Related Links section below.


Album Review:
Following in the wake of the oceanic surreal fantasy LP High Hawaiian Fog, Coppice Halifax has returned with an encore, of sorts, to HHF: Pacific Opal Hex. Taking its name from the vinyl-only track on High Hawaiian Fog, this album continues where HHF's closing piece "Amstar Paradise" leaves off. Starting with sparse washes of low-tide textures, glittering white noise and pillowy chords that swell and subside like silvery waves wiping the shore. Delay trails begin to accumulate and the textures become more humidified, covered in glistening tropical precipitation. A fullness of harmony emerges, and just when it feels as if the crescendo has finally hit its apex, a slow, warm bassline enters like a sun-bleached cruise liner sailing across a tranquil purple horizon line. A pulsing, erotic rhythm subtly forms and suddenly that far-off woodblock sound you thought was a rope tapping on a mast turns into a simple, stately beat. Five minutes turn into ten, and ten to twenty, as this endless orgasmic cloud continues to surf along in slo-mo on a psychedelic plateau of blue water and breeze. If seawater, nostalgia and endorphins could be distilled into a drug, it would bear the name Pacific Opal Hex, and be served in a snifter with a balloon of nitrous oxide on the side.
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All Videographics, Imagery and Morphology composed by Frobbz.


Related Links:

http://halifax.milieu-music.com
http://www.milieu-music.com
http://www.milieu-music.com/shop
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Milieu/54581686492
http://slowlid.blogspot.com
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Coppice+Halifax
http://www.youtube.com/user/Slowlid
http://wil-ru.bandcamp.com
http://www.myspace.com/coppicehalifax
http://www.myspace.com/milieu
http://www.myspace.com/brianeightythree
http://www.myspace.com/secondsunrecordings
http://www.myspace.com/wil-ru
http://www.second-sun.net
http://installsound.net
http://wil-ru.com