The Grove of Lustral Waters at Dusk

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Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop! Two white 5" recordable discs, duplicated and printed via the Imation D20, held securely inside a clear cast-polypropylene sleeve with a flap and a cloth membrane separating/cushioning the discs, bearing two hand-cut recycled cardstock inserts with a 4x4" glossy photographic print on the front, and a smaller glossy print and custom white text sticker on the back. Ships securely inside a bubblemailer to keep your new sonic artifact dust and moisture-free.

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One year ago, almost to the day, I published The Grove of Lustral Waters as one of my first recordings exploring the Buchla oscillators in the models 258t and 281t. A variation on the patch, which changed the rate of the sequencing and a few other details, was recorded later that evening, and the first session was mastered and released alone. This second session is a little longer than the first, and despite being the same patch, compositionally and melodically, it manages to sound quite different, much in the same way a physical space can completely change given the right differences in weather, barometric pressure and time of day.

Listening to both sessions, back to back, a year after they were recorded, I feel a wondrous sense of disconnection from the work - remembering the sensations I felt when the session happened, but not really recalling specifics about the sound itself beyond that. Materially, the music feels very pensive, which I suppose is apt considering that then and now, I am fast approaching my birthday, and that brings with it all the usual appraisals of where we are in our lives, relative to where we feel we perhaps ought to be. This is an appropriate notion to apply to The Grove of Lustral Waters, which is offered as a pastorale, a painterly sound-atmosphere that drifts in and out of focus, feeling assertively composed in one moment, and meandering in the next - a perspective that is held between the near and the far, half acknowledging the present moment, and half wondering what the next moment might bring - and those two things, I've found, can complement each other beautifully.

Both sessions have been collected into a special limited edition 2xCD-R set, having never before seen a physical release until now. All purchases of this 2xCD-R set will come with a Bandcamp download code for the first Lustral Waters release, sent to the email account connected to the purchase.

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released May 5, 2023

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, April 23, 2022 using the R-EW Audioholistics generative system and modular processing path. Mastered by The Analog Botanist, 2022-2023. Text by Brian. Design by ABM&D using visual sampling of 'The Summer's Day' by Arnold Böcklin, 1881. This is Milieu Music Distributed number 68B. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2023. All nights preserved.

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Milieu Dayton, Ohio

Psychedelic electronic music, sun-warmed analog ambient and sci-fi braindance, for cats, aliens and epicureans alike.

I also release music as Coppice Halifax: coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com

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