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Autopsy: Volume III PWD22 House Of The Lie x Nonconnah x Cody Drasser

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House Of The Lie - Ossuary 05:04
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Nonconnah - Hiroshima Shadows 03:28
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Cody Drasser - Nocturnalia 08:20

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Autopsy: Volume II is a split release containing the artists House Of The Lie, Nonconnah and Cody Drasser. It is the third split release in a planned series of releases featuring new and previously unheard tracks from musicians affiliated with other PW projects. Autopsy III continues its exploration of ambient, dark ambient, shoegaze and guitar-driven soundscapes. A more somber and laid back affair, this volume is less aggressive and noisy on the surface, but contains some of the most evocative pieces yet featured in the series.

As has been the case with the last two volumes, House Of The Lie (Ben Roe Jr. of Caulbearer) returns with a sickly sweet track titled "Ossuary." Warped and off-kilter, a series of deep, slow motion swells and backwards-sounding scrapes and bleeps dance around a background din of broken, mechanized drums. The beat rings out and keeps pace like a failing metronome fitfully winding down in a cold and lonely room on the border of the apocalypse. Something that might be a human voice, or the ghost of what once was a human voice, calls out from amongst the clattering racket, adding a comforting but somehow ominous note to the track. A familiar but haunting sense of unease courses through your veins. Turn back now. You should never have come here.

For the second track in this series, we welcome the mighty talents of ambient, guitar-based experimentalists Nonconnah. PWR has been a longtime admirer of this wonderful unit, going all the way back to their Lost Trail incarnation. Indeed, Zachary Corsa even collaborated with Cody Drasser on the Influencing Machine album "Empty Forever Empty" we released digitally in 2015. On their Autopsy offering, Nonconnah deliver a sparsely powerful 6-stringed elegy evoking the horrors of nuclear annihilation and the exponential human loss that results. "Hiroshima Shadows" is many things all at once: majestic, humble, incurably sad and yet impossibly optimistic. Although its run-time is chronologically brief, it's one of Nonconnah's uncanny natural abilities that they are able to make their music seemingly extend forever out into the future, (as well as into the past), making the track feel eternal and constant.

Cody Drasser returns to volume III with "Nocturnalia." A bizarre and lively ambient drone track that has the palpable sense it is actually a field recording from some off-planet alien habitat. While no actual animals were recorded to create these sounds, the track gives an impression of being deep within a hive of otherworldly animal activity; frog-like creatures emit their mating calls, bioluminescent insects scritch, scratch and fly deliriously about in the dark, while small, furry 6-legged mammals rummage about in the undergrowth for a nighttime meal. Loosely based around Jeff VanDermeer's novel "Borne", the purpose of the track is to evoke the qualities of an exhausted environment, depleted of its resources by a greedy and extinct humanity, eventually being returned to homeostasis by the animal population, the earth they belong to and its natural cycles of birth, life, death and the seasons.

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released February 5, 2021

House Of The Lie - Ossuary
Nonconnah - Hiroshima Shadows
Cody Drasser - Nocturnalia

Mastered by Thierry Arnal

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Peacock Window Recordings. Long Island, NY.

Weird, dark, spacey, experimental, ominous and beautiful sounds. Interested in experimental music that strays from the usual scripts and stereotypes.

Predominantly digital releases with the occasional physical edition.

Main home to Caulbearer (Cody Drasser & Ben Roe, Jr.). ... more

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