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Marrying extra-musical studio techniques and meticulous arrangements to Coates’ fascination with early electronic synthesis (especially the work of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurie Spiegel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e), the result offers an ultra-sensory take on classical string instrumentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCoates has released a handful of solo records under his own name, including the acclaimed 2016 album \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eUpstepping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, 2017’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRemain Calm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, a collaboration with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMica Levi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and most recently, 2018’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eShelley’s On Zenn-La\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, his debut album for RVNG. 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Open ears can peer down hidden aux channel corridors, while melodic patterns present two-way mirrors to rooms of other retinal colors. An endless euphoria is just beneath the dance floorboards of \u003cem\u003eShelley’s\u003c\/em\u003e, and an inquisitiveness unencumbered by the institution of knowledge surrounding its frame and inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelley’s on Zenn-La\u003c\/em\u003e was made between the Elephant and Castle neighborhood of London and a future dreamscape. In this realm out of time and space, Shelley’s (Laserdome) - a once-legendary late 80s \/ early 90s nightclub in the industrial town of Stoke-on-Trent in the north of England - can simultaneously exist on the fictional planet of Zenn-La, and can house a devotional, alien ritual of early UK rave culture, pioneering IDM, and deep minimalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of the album’s construction extends from specific, self-imposed ambitions; particular palettes applied to individual creative ideas. These limitations become limitless manifestations of theme: two bass lines running in parallel (one cello, one synth), synthesized waveforms phasing with bowed acoustic drones and chords, synth sequences in nonstandard tuning sitting against folk melody in standard tuning. Coates made a lot of the music for \u003cem\u003eShelley’s\u003c\/em\u003e in Renoise, composing drum sequences in hexadecimal numbers and pencil drawn waveforms and cementing specificity in the intricate, intelligent dance machinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of \u003cem\u003eShelley’s\u003c\/em\u003e tracks veer into and across FM synthesis. “I like hearing how one tone is enriched by another tone modulating the first, resulting in gleaming sets of new harmonics,” says Coates, “I started thinking about placing live cello playing into a chain of antagonism resulting in sounds I found beautiful.\" This instinct to poetically process sounds in real life (“sitting on the tube, thinking: I'd remove the low end on that, compress that, add reverb to that”) give \u003cem\u003eShelley’s\u003c\/em\u003e an exploratory feel, both guided and unbound, autodidactic by undoing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelley’s\u003c\/em\u003e opens with “Faraday Monument,” matching the enigmatic precedent of the Brutalist box in London the track is named after. \u003cstrong\u003echrysanthemum bear’s\u003c\/strong\u003e vocals oscillate over “A Church” singing lyrics to melt metal and minds. Large spaces adjacent to small enclosed ones house the voice of \u003cstrong\u003eMalibu\u003c\/strong\u003e reading poetry within “Norrin Radd Dreaming.” “Cello Renoise” is built upon the image of two drummers playing to one click track as if in different booths. The great flautist, \u003cstrong\u003eKathryn Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e, recreated midi parts to end \u003cem\u003eShelley’s\u003c\/em\u003e as a “Perfect Apple With Silver Mark.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCellist, composer, and producer Oliver Coates has been an artist in residency at London’s Southbank Centre, and received the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award. Coates has contributed to the recordings of \u003cstrong\u003eRadiohead\u003c\/strong\u003e, and collaborated with \u003cstrong\u003eLaurie Spiegel\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Luther Adams\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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This melting of rich layers seeps through a chain of two digital loopers, distortion and chorus, which modulate the cello’s strings into a metallic sheen. Like structural pillars, the loopers’ automation triggers and reverses musical phrases at predetermined moments, refreshing the audio buffer with unexpected gliding steps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCaregiver parts 1-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e suite is a purge of invisible sacrifice and spirit encounters as experienced through a deep harmonic dissonance. “Caregiver part 2 (4am)”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eand “Caregiver part 5 (money)” are smeared with heavy distortion, caught in the aching, breathless growth spurts of crescendo. In his emotional outpouring, Coates mutates string into something overdriven and saturated, like past afflictions glowing hazily out of reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eskins n slime’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eiridescent contrast of light and dark continues through tender, individual moments of pure cello beside decaying drone. The plaintive strokes of “Philomela Mutation,” from the soundtrack of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarianna Simnett’s \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eshort film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Bird Game\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, lead into the lucid string soliloquy of “Butoh baby” and the blistering “Reunification 2018.” The latter is the notable storm of metal organum which Coates played to close his performances supporting an extensive international \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eThom Yorke \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003etour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe melodic murmurs of “Still Life,” and the soaring planes of “Honey,” appear through shifting focus like the flare of burning embers. In the soothing final piece, “Soaring X,” Coates is accompanied once again by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalibu’s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e spoken word and auto-tuned voice, her message holding up poetic transparencies of earthly origin against glittering, ethereal strings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eOliver Coates’ \u003cem\u003eskins n slime\u003c\/em\u003e is available October 16, 2020 on LP and digital formats. A limited artist edition, designed by \u003cstrong\u003eWill Work For Good\u003c\/strong\u003e, will accompany the vinyl release. 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