Cepia - Natura Morta

Press Release:

Minneapolis' Huntley Miller has thus far carved out a niche in modern electronic music with a pair of EPs and a well received series of remixes for the likes of Dosh (Anticon) and Fog (Lex); their utter
beauty notwithstanding, these experiments in tension & release and melody & mechanics are a mere prelude to his proper debut Natura Morta.

Recorded in seclusion throughout 2005 and early 2006, Miller characterizes Natura Morta as a "highly personal response" to the events and circumstances of his life at that time; one gets this sense in spades from an uncannily unique pairing of lilting melodies with beats arranged to an astonishing degree of detail. Like looking at a fractal, Natura is infinitely deep while remaining a singular aesthetic experience even on the surface. Tracks like "The Undeniable Bend" coast on grainy, minor-key synth stabs and erratic melodies while layers of digital disjecta burst and crackle across the stereo field; never has computer-based music approximated the environ of the outdoors in late afternoon so effectively, and clearly this conjuring of the natural
via the synthetic is Miller's gift to music.

Not only is Natura Morta a concise, confident statement from a unique musician at the top of his game, it's a re-imagining of the principles of complex electronic music, trained on the heart & awaiting the ears of those who long for the human element.

1. Braille Wounds
2. Opening Parade
3. The Undeniable Bend
4. Clay Face
5. Dot.
6. Hoarse
7. Untitled
8. Wavebnc
9. Tape
10. Natura Morta
11. Untitled II

Ghostly International

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Cepia: Natura Morta (CD/Digital)
Ghostly International 2007

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Cepia: Brown (Digital)
Ghostly International 2007

Cepia: Atlantic Blood (CD/Digital)
Sublight 2006

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Cepia: Pearl EP (Digital)
Ghostly International 2006

Cepia: Dowry EP (12"/Digital)
Ghostly International 2004

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"Hoarse"
Ghostly Essentials: SMM One (CD/DIGITAL)
Ghostly International

"Algiers"
Unusual Animals (CD/digital)
Asthmatic Kitty

"Ithaca"
Ghostly Swim (digital)
Ghostly International/Adult Swim 2008

"Opening Parade"
Break-A-Way Planets (CD)
Ghostly International 2007

"Ramp" and "Hoarse"
Idol Tryouts Two: Ghostly International Vol. Two (2xCD/3xLP/digital)
Ghostly International 2006

"Ncoin Arrange"
Aurora 2 (CD)
Merck 2005

"Wavebnc1"
Cottage Industries 4 : Meadow (CD)
Neo Ouija 2005

"The Marina, The Bank, and The Eels"
Ghostly International : Avant-Pop (CD)
Ghostly International 2004

"Sqr Exp" and "Ramp"
SMM Vol. 2 (12")
Ghostly International 2004

"Sqr Exp"
Crossfaded Vol. 2 (CD)
Firetrunk 2004

"Flat (Cepia Remix)"
Podgelism (CD)
Ghostly International 2007

"X To M (Cepia Remix)"
Fragments (CD)
Merck 2007

"I've Already Forgotten (Cepia Remix)"
Hazardous Materials (CD)
Consumers Research & Development Label 2005

"You Need (Cepia Remix)"
Mr. Projectile - Sinking Remixes (12")
Semisexual 2004

"Naoise (Cepia Remix)"
Dosh - Naoise EP (CD/12")
Anticon 2004

"Cepia Remix"
Tiki Obmar - Seasons (CD)
Merck 2004

"Flat (Cepia Remix)"
Lusine - Flat Remixes (12")
Ghostly International 2004

Forthcoming

M.I.A. - XXXO (Cepia Remix)
XL Recordings/Interscope

Maximum Balloon - Groove Me (Cepia Remix)
DGC/Interscope

Cepia - Cepia (CD/LP/Digital)