Four Passages For Faun, Tin Bell & Lyre

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	1.	Faun & Tin Bell 21:30
	2.	Shimmer In Two Pitches 11:01
	3.	Belle Under Blue Light 19:01
	4.	Sun Plinth Aboiteaux 17:10

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From four different sessions held in the pregnant space between Winter and Spring, comes a Milieu album that I was writing without even being aware I was doing it. As the snow melted under sunny warmth earlier in the 2019 year, and the green sprouts and flowers began to appear silently around the valley, I recorded four separate pieces, each as its own session, with four different pieces of hardware.

The first, "Faun & Tin Bell", was performed using only the Korg Volca Keys polyphonic analog synthesizer, through a number of analog and digital reverberation units. "Shimmer In Two Pitches" was created similarly using the Korg Volca Modular analog synthesizer, layering itself using a Digitech WH-4 and some well-placed analog delays. "Belle Under Blue Light" was created using a Korg Volca Sample, playing back several different variants and sequences of a struck metal bowl I sampled, again through copious amounts of reverberation and some tape dubbing. The final piece, "Sun Plinth Aboiteaux" is a Boss RC-20 looper meditation on a carefully selected section of a Satie piece, sampled from vinyl and slowly brought into the fullness of the sunlight by way of nearly every reverb, delay, filter and pitch shifter I possess. All tracks were bounced to cassette tape in the end, allowing them to congeal that much further on this collected release.

Musically, I felt that these four pieces held a commonality between them, some kind of abstracted expectation of a bountiful green Spring season, filled with visions of rolling hills, gentle rains, white stone columns and olive groves. An idyllic mythology that itself held a longing for ships on the sea, or candle-lit warmth in a forest cabin. In each passage, you can hear some aspect of Milieu as you have possibly heard it before, on some other album, in some other past life. Passages may have began as a collection of four disparate recordings, but assembled here, in this way, it feels much more like a successor to things like Beyond The Sea Lies The Stars, Phosphene Weather and some of the Sun-Day albums.

Now that Spring has passed, and Summer itself begins to wane, I felt these four pieces were owed a place in my catalog, ready for the cool Summer evenings and even cooler Autumn days, soon to come.

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released August 10, 2019

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar Workshop, Winter-Spring 2019. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Photography and text by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MMD048. 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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