"Every now and then I think, while I have of course seen them every day of my life, I never really saw the skies before."
-Walt Whitman, excerpt from 'The Daytime Sky'
The third free release of longform ambient music, following November's 'Creation' and January's 'A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods' (both of which run about twelve hours apiece) is 'Cirrus' - a more "modest" recording of only four and one-half hours, excerpted from a much longer overnight broadcast from October 29th-30th, 2022.
'Cirrus' differs slightly from prior recordings in this vein, due to it manifesting in a minor key, although to my ears it has never felt "sad" so much as "isolated," bringing to my mind visions of primordial Earth, perhaps during the Carboniferous period, filled with forests of enormous trees and dense swampland covering the globe, lush and alive, but absent of anyone like you or I to be able to appreciate the view. A reverberant intonation of stillness beneath a shifting sea of clouds and sunshine.
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, October 29-30 2022, using the R-EW Audioholistics modular system. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D, using visual sampling of 'Hindu Motif, or Graduated Red' by Frantisek Kupka, c. 1921. Poem excerpt by Walt Whitman. This is Milieu Music number MMD073. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2023. All nights preserved.
Woah, what comp! Every track on here is deserving of attention. But this one track stood out to me the most. The Lying Children seem to have a unique sound, its very intriguing! It was also nice hearing vocals on a ambient track! Defiantly going to look more into these guys! I Walked Bob Dylan On Stage!
A longform drone piece from New Zealand sound sculptor Mo H. Zareel plays subtly with listeners' perceptions as its layers unfold. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 21, 2020