Cepia - Dowry EP 12"
Cepia's Dowry EP is five brief excursions of glitch and beat, processed tones and fading memories, that scurry about like eddies of dust blown about by a whimsical breeze. Digitally scattered percussion flirts with a semblance of a tempo in "Dowry" while echoing chimes perform a capricious etude against a backdrop of whirs and clicks in the opener, "Countrytime," bringing to mind a time and place sepia-colored with idyllic innocence. "The Marina, The Bank, and The Eels" closes the record and Huntley Miller (the man responsible for Cepia's granular magic) brings in a swifter beat to propel the delicate crackles and pop of the preceding songs. Miller is a Minneapolis-based radio archivist and beyond the daily rigor of preserving and cataloguing what history thinks you should hear from the radio, he finds time to capture the sounds from the edges of the radio signal: the fading static and polyrhythmic heartbeat of decades past. Cepia's music plays to the strength and weakness of vinyl: simultaneously organic and warm in its youth and crackled and faded with age. As your 12" gets worn from play, the songs will only grow even richer with nostalgia than they already are.
Cepia
Ghostly International [2004]
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