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Leaves Painted Purple [Expanded]

by Milieu

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    Packaged in a sturdy brown 100% recycled cardboard digipak, with a 3x3" matte cover photo sticker printed by David Tagg, inner and back cover text stickers, hand-cut purple cardstock inserts and two printed white discs.

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  • Ultra-Rare First Edition CD-R [Patterned Cardstock Inserts / Archive Copy]
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    After unpacking from the move a year ago, I've managed to surprisingly find more copies of things tucked into boxes they didn't belong in. In such a box, I found TWO copies of the original first edition of Leaves Painted Purple. Issued in 2009, this initial 50 copy run of the album contained two tracks (Part One, Part Two) housed in a purple plastic sleeve with hand-cut patterned cardstock inserts and a plain white disc with the Milieu Music PO Box stamp on the face. Unlikely ever to be seen again, after these two have gone.

    **NOTE: The items listed in the back catalog sale have all been found while unpacking. Some of them have been packed away for years in storage, and may have small imperfections. These are being sold as is, as the artifacts they are, to raise money for implementing the new studio. No refunds will be given.

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about

2009's ambient album Leaves Painted Purple came and went fairly quickly, as many Milieu releases go, but it always left a positive mark in my mind. I recorded it live during a very hot summer, between sessions for Analog Botany material. Coppice Halifax was fast becoming my main project, but Leaves was a nice reminder that Milieu was still around for serious consideration. After both a CD-R and cassette version of Leaves went out of print, I always knew I would someday revisit the material again, so here it is now. Remastered from the original fourtrack tapes, and augmented with a few like-minded pieces to really form a nice expansion on the original idea. The "Appendage" track was a cassette-only exclusive piece for the tape version of Leaves, while "Delphine" and "Battle Hymn" were previously issued on the incredibly limited (and also out of print) split album with Turquoise Turtles. "Translucent Forestation" was released as its own single that same year, and "The Space Between" and "Sedentary Lifestyles" both appeared much later on the Bedroom Waves split cassette with Solitary Nature, although they fit perfectly with the rest of the content here.
As I sit here now, in the midst of 2013's beautiful Autumn season, four years later...this album still resonates with me, as do the accompanying pieces. There's a strain of sadness in the very pretty organ melodies, layered deep beneath the warm guitar tones, and I think this material will be well met during the colder months approaching.

credits

released December 30, 2013

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at 114RKD (#1/3/4/5/7/8) and Botany Bay (#2/6) various dates, 2009-2011. Remastered from the original master tapes at Botany Bay by The Analog Botanist, Fall 2013. Cover photo by Brian. This is Milieu Music number AD12, and Issue #12 in the Arboreal Digest reissue catalog.

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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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