Anthelion [Complete 2019-2020 Seasonal Sessions]

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After a decade-plus pause, I resumed work within the ANTHELION concept in Spring of 2019, intent on producing two full-length recordings for each of the four seasons as they came to pass - two perspectives on and interpretations of the environmental changes during these elemental quarters.

The ethos of ANTHELION has always been driven by a sound-design and synthesis-minded approach of processing non-musical content into something stimulating on musical terms, and vice versa. Transfiguring layer upon layer of field recordings into a swirling wall of texture and mass, where individual places and times washed together to produce an entirely new time and space to explore. Reducing musical instruments or even pre-recorded compositions down to their molecular abstracts, distilling strains of temperature and color-coded DNA out of them to plant like seeds inside the new atmosphere I was mapping out.

ANTHELION not only studies the sounds and reference points that we associate with seasonal changes, but also recalls other associations to these specific calendar months, like holidays or color palettes or religious/familial traditions. It coagulates all of what a word like "Summer" conjures in the mind and alchemically redrafts it into the shape of a repeatable listening experience.

So, as the Spring equinox once again approaches, I have compiled all eight recording sessions that were undertaken within the ANTHELION methodology. Totaling almost nine hours of immersive audio, this collection offers something like a weather-indexed library of works, that you may pull recordings from in the same way you might pick out a coat from a coat closet. Conversely, it also proposes a method of escapism - the sound of a snow-coated Winter in the hateful heat of Summer, the green pastures and birdsong of Spring when Autumn has laid all such things to rot and memory - ANTHELION is therapeutic meditation for the seasonally affected.

From this moment forward, recordings drafted under the ANTHELION banner will continue, but this time they will be exploring specific elements, natural phenomena and proposing designs for specific events and locations, whether they are truly within human reach or not. Until these recordings come to pass, these nine hours of material will no doubt continue to yield rich dividends for those willing to invest some time and patience into their deep tangents...

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released May 1, 2020

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar Workshop, 2019-2020. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Cover design and text by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AD52, and 52nd in the Arboreal Digest reissue catalog. Many humble thanks to the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club and to the subscribers of the Deep Earth series - without their/your continued support, public releases such as these may cease to exist!

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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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