Coffin Prick

***Loose Enchantment consists of eleven new pieces, a mix of music conceived of in a different frame of mind for humans living in a world nearly-disenchanted with itself. Recorded with great collaborative assistance from a sometimes-silent and shadowy partner, Pancho, along with a host of harmonically sympathetic luminaries, including Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), Alejandro Salazar-Dyer (Rincs), Kathy Lea (Soft Location), John Herndon (Tortoise), and Aaron Fernandez Olson (LA Takedown), these musical endeavors implement elements of the technologically advanced and the undeniably broken. Odes to self-delusion, the mysteries of creation, cleanliness, and the secrets in other people’s lives.

Over and through the hot cement of North East L.A., an almost-dry riverbed winds like a snake through the city. Coyotes lap at its trickling stream by moonlight, as pedestrians rush past it by day without a second glance, their thoughts tangled up in the distractions of life in a sprawling metropolis. Here, amongst the many avenues and gentle hills, we find Coffin Prick (alias: Ryan Weinstein).

Loose Enchantment, this latest Coffin Prick record, is music conceived of in a different frame of mind for humans living in a world nearly-disenchanted with itself. The album consists of eleven new pieces of music recorded by Coffin Prick himself at his home in Los Angeles, a great city of quicksand-like commitments and those who love them enough to uphold the ends of their collective bargains. A record as much about the confusion of modern life as it is endeavored to expose the lusts in the very loins of creation. Sounds enchanting enough for you? Let’s look a little more closely…

A little Loose Enchantment for everyone, basically.