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Daughter [The Complete Sessions]

by Milieu

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  • Limited Edition 3xCD-R Reissue Set
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Assembled one copy at a time at the White Pillar Workshop. Three 5" white inkjet printable recordable discs, duplicated via an Imation D20, packaged in a sturdy triple-disc jewel case, with a brown cardstock insert bearing a 4x4" glossy photographic print cover and custom sticker work on the inside cover and back of the case.

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  • ACRM0023 / Silverbrom Sunshine [5x7" Art Assemblage + Digital Album]
    Poster/Print + Digital Album

    A ready to frame 5x7" handmade recycled art assemblage, created with photographic elements from Daughter. This option is for collectors who are interested in art editions & digital audio only - no CD-R will be shipped with this option. NOTE: Pricing reflects the nearly four-hour digital content that comes with this piece.

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  • Ultra-Deluxe Edition [3xCD-R Set, Outtakes CD-R, 5x7" Ashcan Readymade Art Assemblage]
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The absolutely complete Daughter experience, including the 3xCD-R reissue set, the bonus outtakes CD-R and a special 5x7" Ashcan Readymade recycled art assemblage, titled "Silverbrom Sunshine", bearing the catalog number ACRM0023. This art piece comes on thick white matboard, ready to frame, with the Milieu Music PO box stamp on the reverse side, along with the artist's signature and hand-numbering/title/date.

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  • Deluxe Edition 4xCD-R Set with Bonus Outtakes CD-R
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The standard 3xCD-R reissue of Daughter, plus a separate CD-R in a die-cut black paperboard sleeve with a glossy photographic 4x5" print insert, which contains three outtakes from the Daughter sessions, previously unreleased and unavailable anywhere else: Cloud Memory (10:59) / Slow Mutants (9:01) / Evapour (12:35). These tracks are not a part of the digital version of Daughter.

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about

Earlier this year, in March, the vibrant and varied analog label Illuminated Paths issued an album called Daughter, in a double-cassette edition. This original release was intended to be strictly limited, and although the four sides provided 2 hours of material, IP-354 (Daughter's catalog designate) represented only an abridged (and somewhat mutated) iteration of the original album. Having now gone out of print, I feel comfortable in issuing the full Daughter sessions as they were originally laid to tape.

As an album, Daughter was somewhat drafted as a namesake follow-up on Brother, from which I have grown a little estranged through the years. I wanted to reapproach the idea, topically at least, of an ambient session record that connected me to my family life, but in a current and sincere way. Having become a father 7 years ago, my outlook on a number of things has changed, and I have since looked back at that moment, many different times, as a line drawn in the sand of my memory, behind which my past self lay buried. If that sounds maudlin, it isn't - I am in fact happier here and now than I have ever been in my life. Living in this breezy Ohio valley with my family has brought me eloquently into a new era of creative work and domestic happiness.

And so, with Daughter, the second focus during these sessions was to do something entirely new and unheard of, at least within the Milieu side of the fence. How to accomplish something new, after hundreds of records, and even more hours of recordings? I looked to a longtime fascination of mine - FM synthesis - which was something I'd toyed with in the past, for things like basslines and a pad sound here or there, but mostly, I knew very little about it and had yet to really immerse myself in it for any length of time. The decision was made to set myself up with an FM synthesizer, one which was in fact portable enough to take with me everywhere I went, and generate enough material while I was out and about to build an album with when I brought it back to the Workshop. As you can see from the amount of music presented here, over four hours of music ended up being created, so the Illuminated Paths release was a good way to sift through it, at least at the time.

It was no coincidence either, that Daughter was initially issued on tape. The operative plan was to "soften" the digital sounds created via the FM synthesis with analog tape, although my final mixdown of Daughter's material, here in the studio, also saw me making regular use of analog filters (from Moog, Arturia, Akai and Korg) as well as analog reverb/delay boxes, further mutating the album into an amalgam of analog and digital that, in the end, just seems to sound like Milieu.

Hopefully, the filmic sheen and pitch-bent weirdness that I was chasing down with FM synthesis still comes through the ambient Milieu haze. To me, it does still have some very specific moments that, melodically, may not have otherwise happened on an analog synthesizer. Altogether, I think this collection of synthesis experiments makes for an engaging and longform volume of bedroom electronic music, and as it was being completed alongside other Milieu albums (such as Sun Cast), very personal locations, past events and people were very much on my mind. Daughter exists as an expansive soundtrack to no film at all, just the reels and reels of imagined time and space that I never grow tired of exploring.

**NOTE: An ultra-limited edition of the 3xCD set is being offered with a bonus 4th CD containing over half an hour of session outtakes. This extra disc is packaged separately from the main 3xCD set - the absolutely complete Daughter experience!

credits

released August 10, 2019

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar Workshop, 2018. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Design and text by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AD44, and 44th in the Arboreal Digest reissue catalog. 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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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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