Sun Trails [2006-2011], by Brian Grainger

Sun Trails [2006-2011]

by Brian Grainger

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Bill Merrill Epochal, monumental drones that are sometimes as big as the universe. This is the soundtrack for deep space exploration.

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Packaged in a clear hard-plastic lidded box with custom labels, with eight in-house duplicated/printed white discs housed in individual black or clear plastic cases, each with their own custom labels as well. A faceplate insert made of hand-cut recycled paperstock with ink stamping, hand-numbering and a signature sits at the top, beneath the clear lid.

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	1.	In A Silver Marsh 20:47
	2.	Deserted Lifeboats 20:58
	3.	Raindrop Organ 20:28
	4.	One Four Nine 20:34
	5.	Chrominance 20:55
	6.	Milk Plus 20:56
	7.	Sun Trails 20:50
	8.	Guided By Leaves 20:52
	9.	Kerguelen Plateau 20:48
	10.	Painted Green 20:48
	11.	Tenth Glowing Arch 20:48
	12.	Wind Speech 20:48
	13.	Winter Triptych 20:07
	14.	Sunken Swamp Wisdoms 20:45
	15.	Millions Of Glowing Eyes White With Devotion 20:57
	16.	Swept 20:55
	17.	Puncturing Sacred Cloth 20:53
	18.	O Cold Bones Of Lucifer 20:46
	19.	Slow Wave Sleep 20:47
	20.	Smoke Yard Reagent 19:59
	21.	Offwhite Cascade 20:48
	22.	Apophenic Composting 20:44
	23.	Powdered Constructs 20:34
	24.	The Slow Boredom Of God's Breath 20:53

about

In 2006, David Tagg and I formed a band called VCV, a project focused on ambient improvisations played on live instruments, and obsessed with symmetry and spaces of many different kinds. By 2007, we'd recorded enough that the project continued to expand beyond its own boundaries, and so we created a vessel project called The 21MG Series, an extension of VCV by way of David and I taking turns recording and releasing an EP each month, for four years. Although never prominently stated, The 21MG material was engineered as a collaboration, so that curious listeners could experiment and find wondrous results in combining our singular pieces. As such, all twenty-four of these pieces were constructed with great care and effort, in order to make them stand alone as solo works, or resonate together with other pieces.

Concepts aside, these twenty-four pieces represent five-plus years of improvisational work on my behalf, work that I am still today very proud of. Oddly, perhaps because of the super-limited nature of everything David and I produced in our collaborating, this material has seemed to remain well under the radar of even the most stalwart followers. So here, for the first time, I'm happy to reissue these pieces as a landmark Milieu Music eight-disc box set. This material has all been quite scarce on any physical format (and only ever issued on 3" CD-Rs), and off the map for quite some time. Anyone who enjoys my ambient records as Milieu would find a lot to explore here - over eight hours of sedate night-mood atmospherics, coaxed gently out of guitars, organ, bass, feedback and even the human voice.

In closing, I'd like to humbly thank David for giving this reissue his blessing - after all, without the talented Mr. Tagg, none of these pieces, and I mean none of them, would even exist.

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released March 12, 2015

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at 114RKD, 2006-2011. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. This is Milieu Music number MMD033.

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Brian Grainger Dayton, Ohio

Drone music, warm atmosphere and textural ephemera for the working man.

I also release music as Milieu milieumusic.bandcamp.com and Coppice Halifax coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com

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