Following the first two "sides" of Sembre - a monochromatic drone excursion - is this third iteration / configuration of the same idea. Recorded during a snowed-in Winter evening in December of 2017, using four synthesizers laid to four-track cassette, Sembre Side Three slowly approaches like a greyscale tide from a soft white dawn, swelling into round brushstrokes and thin, trailing lines. At times, almost translucent, and at others, incredibly dense with the weight of silence compacting around the soundwaves invisibly...plaintive chords resonate in slow motion, while the higher and lower octave registers serve as pointillist outlines of a shape in space. A sad structure, stripped bare of almost any of the usual reverbs and delays that are omnipresent in ambient music. Heavily influenced by the work of Eliane Radigue, Folke Rabe, Eleh and Alvin Lucier, among many others.
released May 17, 2018
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar Workshop using a Roland SH-32, Boss DS-33, Arturia Microbrute and Korg MS-20, in conjunction with a Tascam 414 cassette recorder and external filters such as the Moog LPF, Akai Variwah, Digitech Synth Wah and the internal FX processors of the Boss DR-880. Additional looping via a Boss RC-20, and EQ/mixing via a Mackie ProFX8 mixer. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Photograph by Rudolf Kremers, UK - used with permission. Crop & contrast processing, as well as text and design, by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MMD042.
Special thanks to all of the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon (
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