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Mercury Coast

Ssaliva

Mercury Coast

Not Not Fun
MC $6.75

08/19/2016  

NNF 325 


MP3 $5.99

08/19/2016 642610486500 

 


FLAC $6.99

08/19/2016 642610486500 

 


Belgian shapeshifter Francois Boulanger has traversed several spheres of liquid electronics and mutated beat music across his half-decade of activity as Ssaliva, but in the winter of 2010 he holed up in an old historic house in the town where he grew up, Chaudfontaine, with a partially broken Tascam 4-track to pursue a different muse, on a different wavelength: “The place was super cold. Everything was recorded straight to tape. I was bored using a laptop so these tracks were a reaction to that, I guess.” The 22 grainy guitar instrumentals comprising Mercury Coast slide through a fractured prism of moods, reveries, daydreams, and deliriums, from paranoid surf (“Borys,” “Health”) to opiate lullaby (“Cloud Gap,” “Hyperreal,” “Weav”) to smeared haze (“School Rave,” “Trave”) and beyond. There’s a naked, intuitive feel to the songs, like sketches born from smoke and sleeplessness, tracked at strange hours. The frayed fidelity further enhances the album’s aura of cloaked emotion, altered states, and raw truth. Shortly after the sessions Boulanger and two Brussels associates, Dynoo and Nosedrip, launched a label (Surf Kill) to release the recordings but for unremembered reasons nothing materialized. NNF is honored to finally share this overlooked outlier to a wider world. Artwork and design by Dieter Durinck. Mastered by Alter Echo.

Tracklist

  1. #1 A Few Mistakes

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  2. #2 Borys

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  3. #3 Cloud Gap

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  4. #4 Deep Stare

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  5. #5 Filigree Funk

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  6. #6 Health

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  7. #7 Hyperreal

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  8. #8 Laps

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  9. #9 Lesbian Chic

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  10. #10 Mace

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  11. #11 Netwind

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  12. #12 Outline Magic

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  13. #13 Owl Cave

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  14. #14 Red Sky & White Floor

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  15. #15 Regress

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  16. #16 Riggs

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  17. #17 School Rave

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  18. #18 Shored

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  19. #19 Sight Slide

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  20. #20 Trave

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  21. #21 Weav

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  22. #22 Witchrack

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