Breath / Pulse by Peter Phippen (1993)

When the hallowed halls of the Glimmerlight fell to the Progbarians, Peter Phippen fled to Wisconsin, where he took refuge amongst the humans and played bass in a band called Airkraft. Yet the deeper pull of the Patchoulilight soon made itself known. Phippen found himself drawn not to circuitry or sequencers, but to the flute - the most breath-bound of instruments, poised between body and air. In the late 1980s and early ’90s he recorded three cassettes shaped by this choice, including 1993's EP Breath / Pulse.
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The authoritarian ways of the Progbarians left Phippen with a lifelong distrust of authority, and this resistance found quiet expression in his tapes. The Progbarians instructed those they subjugated to reject the evidence of their own eyes and ears - their final, most essential command. It was a directive Phippen refused. In Breath / Pulse, listening itself became an act of defiance: a reaffirmation that what is heard, felt, and breathed could not be overwritten.
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The Sagegazer knows that no power endures which demands the denial of one’s own perception.

0:00 Ode to Pan
11:15 I Saw a Deer
15:18 Great / Pulse