David Prescott
This release is particularly irresistible. Layers and layers of field recordings from all over human experience, including distant voices. I own the complete Brian Grainger catalog, and this might be the one I come back to the most (at least as of now)
Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop! A white 5" recordable disc, printed and duplicated via an Imation D20, held inside a clear plastic CPP sleeve with a printed orange cardstock insert bearing the Milieu Music PO Box stamp on the reverse side.
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Once again, the seasons change, and from the thick of Summer heat comes two more iterations of the elementally-infused ANTHELION series. The second of the pair, ORANGE ANTHELION, unfurling the hot afternoon's descent into a glowing-ember evening like a giant cloudy cloak that lays across the sky. Sounds of open-air texture, room recordings drafted in the heat and humidity of the season, and many other Summer evening sonics have all been blasted and baked through amp speakers, piezoelectric microphones, vintage compressors and fuzz pedals. Various FX chains and generative/recurrent/self-oscillating processing configurations have been employed to take the incoming source sounds of field recordings and other Summer textures, and transfigure them into a wider array of audio that takes full advantage of higher and lower realms of the frequency spectrum. The result is one equally Earthen and alien, a swirling surrealistic mindscape of sonic paint that moves and breathes as if it were the Summer itself, taking influences from field recordists such as Chris Watson, Irv Teibel, David Burraston, Dan Gibson and Kiyoshi Mizutani, as well as pioneers like Wendy Carlos, Mika Vainio, Richard Chartier and Francisco Lopez. A headtrip that will appeal to ambient bedroom listeners as well as hi-fi experimentalists and weather/texture seekers.
Additionally, two Coppice Halifax excavations of each Anthelion will be soon issued as YELLOW COMPOST and ORANGE COMPOST. A link will be posted here when these recordings become available.
credits
released August 9, 2019
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded June-August 2019 at the White Pillar Workshop using various portable microphones, digital recorders and tape machines, in conjunction with several dozen FX units and software processors. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MML138B. www.milieu-music.com / www.analogbotany.com
Special thanks to all of the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon (www.patreon.com/analogbotany). With their continued support, more music like this release can happen! At the present moment, the members of the Fan Club are: Burt T / Brian S / Jake P / Christ S / Damian H / Levi G / Brian C / Arthur W / Joel B / Peter H-B / Rik J / Jose S / David P / Helge J / Peter C / Alan A / Alex G / Seth B / David T / Devin H / Mathieu L / Andy B / Francois H / Benoit P / J.C. Bastos
Many humble thanks to the subscribers of the Deep Earth series. Without them, this music might not exist, and if it did, you might not be able to hear it. Support deep electronic mining initiatives today: malfokusita.bandcamp.com
My DEEP EARTH series, comprised of darkroom improvisations recorded without computers, live on analog and digital equipment. Time pulses out of focus. Brian Grainger
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A six-hour ambient tapestry, with subtle dub techno undercurrents. Created for the exact length of time my newborn daughter was finally sleeping through the night at the time. Brian Grainger
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Tigress effortlessly gliding between the stoned, dusty grooves with that instantly identifiable "just behind the beat" bass line - one of my all time favourites amongst many from Brian's myriad milieu of mazey marvels. da5idh
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