Venusian Canals, by Brian Grainger

Venusian Canals

by Brian Grainger

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Venusian Canals was recorded at White Pillar, three days after my 38th birthday in 2021, and stashed away like a secret until now. It consists of two disc-length sessions, both exploring sustained electric guitar fog alongside sub-bass lines, in a way that recalls my method of working around 2007-2009, where I would often sit down with a Boss RC-20 looper and RV-3 reverb, my Westone Concorde I electric guitar and my Lowrey Magic Genie organ's pedal bass, and roll the tape on my Tascam 414 four-track tape machine. In those days, the bass work was designed as a rhythmic anchor and a tonal center for the improvisations I'd bend out of my guitar, and the effect of combining those two elements always seemed to feel like more than the sum of its parts to my ears. There was some kind of coalescing in between them, where either the guitar's overtones or the bass vibrations pushed everything into a beautiful shimmering stasis. Here, on Venusian Canals, I sought to revisit that sound and feeling, though the bass for the sessions was sequenced on an Arturia Microbrute, rather than my Lowrey, which had to be left behind on a street corner in Columbia, when I moved to Ohio in 2016. Why I stashed these sessions away, I don't quite know. They may have been intended for someone else, or some other subsequent studio plan, or simply saved for a rainy day. With the somewhat quick onset of Autumn this year, they came calling back to me again, warm blankets of hazy dram to wrap myself up within, a counterpoint that allows me to enjoy the cool air rather than avoid it, and so I offer them to you for this purpose, or any other. They belong to both of us now, carrying us wherever their winding canals may reach in the surrealistic and ever-expanding landscape of my creative work.

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released October 7, 2022

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, May 20, 2021, using a Westone Concorde I electric guitar, a Moog LPF, a Boss RC-20, a Danelectro Reel Echo, a BBE Two-Timer delay, an Alesis Quadraverb, a Digitech Whammy 4, an Arturia Microbrute and a Vesta Fire MR-10B four track tape machine. Mastered Summer 2022 by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MML177. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2022. All nights preserved.

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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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