Violet Anthelion, by Brian Grainger

Violet Anthelion

by Brian Grainger

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Tiefer Graben I found myself listening to this in the early hours of the morning, that liminal time just before dawn when the darkness feels strangely translucent. There's a drifting, diaphanous quality to the sounds here that feel very soothing and organic - like a lullaby of sorts. I keep returning to its mysteries--and have now succumbed to regular Violet Anthelion immersion sessions. For all the drifters and dreamers out there, this one comes highly recommended!

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"...the sunburned hands I used to hold..."

With the weather once again turning, new Anthelion recordings have been underway, rumbling the walls of the basement Workshop, surrounded by cold wet dirt and dead leaves. For Autumn's captivating months, I opted to assemble a number of different aspects of the season for inclusion here, as if I were designing a perfume or blending a paint. Composting together several different recordings of leaves, wind, early afternoon days of muted sunshine and chilly hints of Winter approaching, and calm purple nights under skeletal valley trees as we stand next to a metal windchime on the back porch, remembering Spring. Buried beneath all of these things is a heavily processed recording of an old standard that always comes to mind during this time, reduced to a ghost of a vibration, echoing out some long forgotten horn fanfare from a browning Appalachian forest. All of this coalesces together within the lines of the Anthelion recording discipline - to take full advantage of FX processing, multitrack recording, lossy recording formats and generative systems, in order to generate sound that is melodic from atonal provenance, and to transfigure any melodious sound sources into considered texture and tone. Both Umber and Violet Anthelion live up to this ethos beautifully, and could be just the thing you need to put you in the right seasonal mindset, aware of the present moment, and artificially suspending it before the weather turns once more...

These recordings in particular would be recommended to fans of albums such as Silver Horns Heard Over Green Hills and the Naked Sound series. Umber was particularly inspired by the GAS recordings Konigsforst and Oktember, and Violet was inspired by both Irv Teibel's Tintinnabulation (in three speeds) and Richard Chartier's work.

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released November 28, 2019

W/P by Brian Grainger. Processed and generated at White Pillar Workshop, October-November 2019, using hardware and software including (but not limited to) a Boss RC-20 & RV-3, Moog MF-101, the external signal processor of a Korg MS-20, a Korg KP-2 & ES-1, Akai S2800, Roberts 450A, BBE Two Timer, Danelectro Reel Echo, Alesis Quadraverb, Pioneer SR202W, Vesta Fire MR-10B, Mackie ProFX8, Tascam DP-008EX, Optimus SSM-1750, Gemini PDT-6000, Synthrotek PT2399, Digitech WH-4 and a Zoom 506, with field recordings captured in Columbia, SC and Dayton, OH using various digital and piezoelectric microphones. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MML142B. 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 / 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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