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Winter is nearly over, and as the calendar once again brings us into a new Spring, it's always fruitful to look slightly over your shoulder to see where you've been. With the comfort of basement walls fortifying the White Pillar Workshop against the bitter cold of the season, I've delved deeply once again into extensive synaesthetic wandering/wondering to fashion two Winter installments in the Anthelion series.
Silver and Gold, in this instance, represent a summation of many different aspects and ideas, culminating in Anthelion recordings: advancement of age, metals buried deep beneath the Earth's crust, Winter holiday traditionalism, cool tones gradually giving way to warm tones, a frozen lake slowly melted in a golden bath of sunrise.
Silver Anthelion is a deification of the bleak and isolated core of Winter - snowfall, snowstorms, blasts of freezing wind through crackling dead branches in Ohio woods, ice crusted on every open surface and far below the surface, an alchemical transfiguration of Vivaldi's "Winter" reduced to nothing more than a vibration that sleeps beneath the layers and layers of cold, echoing a land frozen in submission until the senile and brazen Old Man releases his clutches like a vampire burning up in the sunlight.
Golden Anthelion brings back a wall of warmth in spite of the inhospitalities of the outdoors. Gusts of cold air are heard distantly from the vantage point of a chimney, filled with the defiant glow of a log fire. Space heaters of all kinds hum and buzz in the unison of a drone that deifies comfort and calm. Distantly, the overtones of a happy Christmas morning are woven into the fabric of the collage like a blanket. Sunshine begins the slow melt of icicles hanging above windows, as metallic heat dissolves Winter in a pleasant haze.
With the completion of Silver and Golden Anthelion, the four-cycle year of recordings is now over. Following these two recordings will be the associated Silver and Golden Compost reconstitutions by Coppice Halifax, and respective multi-disc sets collecting all eight Anthelion/Compost recordings from Spring 2019-Winter 2020.
credits
released February 27, 2020
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, January-February 2020, using various hard/software samplers, equalizers, multitrack tape machines, filters and other transfigurative processes. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. This is Milieu Music number MML143A. (C) + (P) Milieu Music 2020. All lights observed. www.milieu-music.com / www.analogbotany.com
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