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Cody Drasser / Origins PWD29

by peacockwindowrecordings

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Origins I 04:08
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Origins II 07:16
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Origins III 08:20
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Origins IV 08:10
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Origins V 05:45
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Origins I-V (Full Sequence) 33:41

about

Everything has its beginning somewhere...

In 2012, Cody Drasser released his debut dark ambient isolationist album, "The Fate Of Things". An unfathomably deep collection of sounds that is designed to accompany your travels to the farthest edges of unknowing (and beyond).

Initially, the recording sessions for that album had taken place a decade or more earlier. These tracks were just fun, random and not-so-serious sessions with sound and different equipment which enabled Cody to experiment with making music that was outside of his normal death metal guitarist purview. He still used guitar in some of these tracks you are now listening to (he thinks), but there were other things too, like: recordings of the environment around him, computer programs he had never encountered before and even homespun pieces of electronic equipment that captured some truly bizarre sounds for him. It was all a glorious and youthful hodgepodge of anti-music soup that tasted just fine to him.

Like a lot of material from that turn-of-the-century time period, Cody had big ideas and plans to put them out into the world somehow, but it didn't materialize on the imagined timeline in Cody's head. Things just weren't as easy and simple then, and contact and money were scarce, so there were lots of dead ends and frustrated days/nights when attempting to maneuver through that terrain. So, these tracks sat and sat and sat, not to be utilized until the stars had aligned.

When Cody finally did unearth those tracks once again, he felt that they weren't fit for public consumption. A real the-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-the-good scenario if there ever was one. So he began the work of fashioning them into something he felt was better suited for release into the great wide world. While extremely satisfied with the end results and the entire "The Fate Of Things" album, the raw tracks that were the basis for the album still continued to gnaw at him. It was almost as if they were speaking to him, urging him to not forget them. "Please, do something with us! WHAT ABOUT US?!"

Over the long years, Cody tinkered with these tracks in some ways, but it was only until recently that he realized that they were just as perfect and precious as could be in their original state. These early, nascent sounds reflect a phase of life and way of thinking that could never be captured now. They are, for lack of a better term, "of their time". They represent something special to Cody and are the definitive zeitgeist of Cody's first foray into the world of ambient music.

Aside from some auditory post-production tweaking and mastering in order to clean up some unwanted sounds, these tracks are completely untouched. Presented to you as they were originally recorded. 100%, Grade A Pure. Dark ambient isolationist music without the preservatives, additives or genetically modified hormones.

Though there are going to be some obvious auditory parallels between the "Origin" tracks and "The Fate Of Things" album to listeners who choose to delve deep into their inner recesses and crevices, the tracks presented here are unfettered and embryonic versions of what you would later here on his debut. They come at you from a more intimate and un-contrived space, not concerned with appearances of what type of impression they might have upon the listener. They exist in a pure state, untouched by ego. Intimate and unafraid of the world and its viewpoints.

Basically, there is enough difference and variation here to put these sounds out into the world now that it doesn't feel like a cheap money grab or cry for attention to something that came before it. "Origins" is an album that has wanted to stand on its own two feet for a long time now. It is the debut before the debut even happened. It is the sound and movement of a baby taking its first few breaths of life. The attempts of a naive, young man to make something out of nothing, to bring meaning and sense into the nonsensical. It is time to return to the start of it all.

-Cody, February 2023, Long Island, New York

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released February 24, 2023

All sounds by Cody Drasser.

Created 2000-2001 in Queens & Brooklyn, NY.

Mastered by Grant Richardson 2023

Original photography by unknown. Digital manipulation by Cody Drasser.

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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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