Every Still Day

by Rob TheakstonIf there's one artistic crime Taylor Deupree can't be found guilty of, it's stagnation. Through recent collaborations with labelmates Kenneth Kirschner and Christopher Willits, he's managed to shift away from the callous sine waves that were the hallmark of a music he helped to champion, microsound, and begin to incorporate more organic instrumentation into his works. He's also managed to move the fold away from the process and into more melodic territory, as evidenced by his return to his dancefloor roots on various Audio.NL releases and his shoegaze-inspired January release on the Spekk imprint. These movements, among others, are what have set Deupree up for one of the biggest artistic challenges of his career: reinterpreting and reconstructing an album's worth of material from a live band. The obscure band in question is the somber, Japanese kindred spirit of Mazzy Star, Eisi. The tracks