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Slow Eons Of Sun Bleached Pillars

by Brian Grainger

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Nine years ago, I began the Workingman's Drone series, a serialized EP catalog issuing one 20-minute drone recording each month. The series issued 12 EPs in 2010 and another 12 in 2012, and has been on hiatus since. Now, seven years later, I am finally ready to offer a third exploration of these surreal sonic forests, and for the first time in the Workingman's template, each month's edition will be a full-length recording, instead of a 20-minute piece.

For Workingman's third, I have also opted to implement some basic rules for the way these recordings are allowed to manifest, the first being that each month's installment will be created using only a single synthesizer, and the second rule being that each month must use a different synthesizer than the last. In the seven years since I've carved paths through these tall trees, I have relocated to a new home 600 miles away, and expanded my studio considerably. As such, these recordings are intended as intimate and focused studies of the machines that are generating them, isolated and given full command of the frequency spectrum and stereo field.

The ninth volume of Workingman's third was constructed using a Boss DR-880 digital drum machine (playing a lengthy sequence using a 16-voice kit of independently tuned acoustic bell samples), in tandem with the following reverberation and delay units: Pioneer SR202W spring reverb, Boss RV-3 digital reverb, BBE Two Timer analog delay, Alesis Quadraverb digital reverb/delay and two onboard custom DSP FX built into my Peavey FX2 24-channel mixing board.

Due to the intense level of calm induced by the constant vibrations present in these sessions, the runtimes of these recordings can sometimes run well past the length of a CD-R's 80 minutes. The digital edition of each release will be the unedited full session recording, while the CD-R editions will contain edits or composites that accurately represent the work while still being able to fit on a single disc. In the case of WD33, the complete session manages to fit without an edit.

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released September 17, 2019

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded live at the White Pillar Workshop, 2019. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. Cover decals printed by David Tagg in Atlanta GA. This is Milieu Music number WD33, and 33rd in the Workingman's Drone series. 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

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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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