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This is a joint release between Not Yet Remembered Records and the Move Quiet Records imprint out of Long Island, NY (movequiet.bandcamp.com). Should physical copies sell out here, head to movequiet.bandcamp.com for a chance at additional copies. And check out the rest of their discography while you’re at it, as it is excellent.
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Teichopsia finds Precenphix returning to NYR as well as debuting on Long Island, NY imprint, Move Quiet Records, with the fruit of a nearly two-year labor through poor health. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Seefeel, Richard D James, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jack Dangers, Björk, Coil, Scorn, Monolake and Autechre, it is an amalgam of influence steeped in electronic music’s resurgence and prominence into the sonic landscape of the 1990s through the 2000s and beyond.

The recording is a concept album, in abstract. In terms of its composition, the layout is melodic but also has deep roots in both electronic and acoustic sound design. It’s sound ranges from IDM / braindance, glitch, ambient, dub, breakbeat, downtempo, industrial, modern classical, musique concrète and even score work.

In terms of the what the album means to me, I would prefer to remain more abstract rather than project my own narrative or even fully reveal the theme, allowing the listener the capability to insert their own interpretation of this record – which is meant to be taken in as a whole rather than by isolating things song by song.

There are little to no ‘singles’ on the album. Rather, it is meant to be experienced in a single sitting, which is a big ask anymore considering everyone’s attention span (including my own) has been reduced to that of a fruit fly with the proliferation of quickly digestible social media clips. But if attempted, the ebb and flow of its continuity becomes apparent and makes for a complete, compelling story.

I’m asking the listener to come on a turbulent journey with me, where respite seldom presents itself, but ultimately the protagonist comes through in the end with hopeful resilience and a newfound perspective on the grand scheme of things. A silver lining is mostly obscured, but it exists if you’re open enough to be willing to let it present itself to you.