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Blue Wheatfield

by Brian Grainger

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FROM THE LABEL, 2014: "Blue Wheatfield is an ambient blues album, where guitar improvisation blurs the lines between drone music, psychedelia and pure modal sadness. Intended to be a specific part of an as-yet-unnamed canon within the Brian Grainger oeuvre, Wheatfield most resembles its Attacknine cousin from 2007, Eight Thousander. Looping passages of chords and tangled textures give slowly in to huge catacombs of spacious sound, and bedroom loneliness hangs over the impressionist creator like a black umbrella. In truth, the artist's imposed listening order would be Eight Thousander, Nine Billion Names, (the yet to be released) Summer's Parting Ways and finally Blue Wheatfield, meaning that what we're hearing is the end of something...unless yet another link in the chain exists in an unseen destination ahead. The pondering of this possibility or the perceived connection Wheatfield bears to any of Grainger's other works is ultimately pointless - Blue Wheatfield stands alone, swaying slowly beneath a full southern moon and a black oil sky, pricked with the wounds of nine billion names of God. One by one, the stars go out..."

FROM THE CASSETTE JACKET, 2014:

"It was a humid night like any other
Whip-poor-wills, late in Summer
The young man arrived on dusty heel
Dismounted horse beside the field
Wheatgrass swayed beneath the wind
That blew through his dark bearded chin
'O cold bones, I call for thee!'
He shouted off into the trees
But no one came and no one answered
No sound of steps or even laughter
Turned around and reaching toward
A bent guitar just like a sword
Or some exotic talisman
From a dream of far off lands
A simple strum, the wheat responded
A silent bow, as if departed
Then his eyes raised, stopped his breath
And now the young man greeted Death"

credits

released May 17, 2014

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at Rolling Knoll, 2009-2010 and Botany Bay, 2014. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Art direction and design by Eric Adrian Lee. Intended listening order: Eight Thousander > Nine Billion Names > Summer's Parting Ways > Blue Wheatfield. This is Wil-Ru Records number WR048.

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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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