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Sembre [Side Three]

by Brian Grainger

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    Both CD-R reissues of Sembre [Side One] and [Side Two], as well as the brand new Sembre [Side Three], together in a discounted bundle. The list price of all three would be $36, making this set a savings of $6, plus the convenience of the automatically combined shipping cost.

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about

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.

credits

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 (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: Justin T, Burton T, William C, Brian C, Chris S, Levi G, Rich A, Jonathan W, Joel B, Matthew D, Peter B, Rik J, Jose S, Tony S, Alex G, Seth B, Jim P, David T, Devin H, Mathieu L, Andy B, Francois H, Benoit P, Daniel F, Gordon C, Alex K, Peter B, Sean W, Alex B.

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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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