Benthic Ice Barrows, by Brian Grainger

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Workingman's Drone returns with Year Four, twelve more monthly installments of carefully crafted drone music to be issued from January to December of 2021.

For the twelfth and final volume, catalog entry WD48, the series terminates with an immensely layered chordal wall generated by a no-input configuration of a Yamaha KM-802 eight-channel analog mixer from 1986. The internal equalizer of the mixer was used to tune different lines of independently routed feedback, two at a time, and subsequently layered and individually filtered through a Moog MF-101 low-pass filter and a Tascam DP-008EX digital eight-track recorder. In post, subtle use of additional filtering, reverberation and modulated delay was employed within a DAW using mostly Arturia virtual processors, as well as copious shaping with multiple parametric equalizers.

The resultant recording is an exercise that illustrates many of the core concepts of the Workingman's Drone series, format and ethos - designed stillness achieved through sustained tone minimalism, self-oscillation and no-input asceticism providing a pure and distinct method of synthesis to explore, the study of singular sound sources for each individual piece and, hopefully, a reusable and accessible psychedelic state obtained via immersive, hypnotic and operatively endless listening that can be utilized for sleep, focused work or meditation.

The fourth year of Workingman's Drone has charted an observable path through these notions, and in so doing, has generated a considerable body of work that feels distinct from prior years of the series, and hopefully the wider landscape of drone music itself. In a world defined by chaos and unpredictability, filled with suffering and inhospitable situations, it is my sincere hope that these sessions can provide a reliable escape from the often claustrophobic overwhelming nature of our times.

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released December 3, 2021

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, November 2021 using a Yamaha KM-802 analog mixer in tandem with a Moog MF-101 low-pass filter, a Tascam DP-008EX eight-track digital recorder and a Peavey FX2 mixing console. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. Physical edition decals printed by DT Editions in beautiful Atlanta, GA. This is Milieu Music number WD48, 48th in Year Four of the Workingman's Drone series. www.milieu-music.com www.analogbotany.com www.17463.space

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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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