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Milieu [Remastered]

by Milieu

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 242 Milieu releases available on Bandcamp and save 90%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Across the Surface of the Water, Mural Hex, Divergent Paths [Volume Five], Focussed Light, Aeolian Yellow, Snow Maps, Snow Maps, Winter Displacement, and 234 more. , and , .

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

    Packaged in a white cardboard jacket with a custom 3x3" matte photo sticker (printed by David Tagg), a custom blue text sticker and a printed white disc. Also includes a hand-cut photograph print insert of Luke Hazard's original Milieu cover painting.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Milieu [Remastered] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Second Edition CD-R Reissue
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Packaged in a windowed black cardboard jacket with a hand-cut photographic insert of Luke Hazard's original painting for the release, with custom text sticker work and an in-house duplicated/printed white disc.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Milieu [Remastered] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Ultra-Rare Promo Edition [Alt. Photo Artwork / 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 three copies of the original promo edition of the Milieu album. This one was the first ever print edition, after the digital-only release at Experimedia. It was only available with the first 50 copies of Of The Apple, released at SSR in 2007. These three are extras from my personal stash, and do not have the painting image on the disc faces - rather, these are plain white CD-Rs with the Milieu Music PO Box stamp on them. Likely, these were my personal copies to keep as they were "overs" that were not a part of the main 50-copy print run. In any case, these are all that now remain of that promo run, ten years ago...

    **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

The Milieu self-titled album holds the rare uniqueness of being the only album out of the (literally) hundreds I've produced to simply be named Milieu. Not only is it one of the most important recordings on a personal level, but it represents a shift in thought, in how I approached writing music to begin with. In 2006, I hit some kind of critical mass with computer produced electronic music, and I longed for a more organic change that didn't have me hunched over a keyboard and screen for hours on end. I wanted my music to be made more immediately, more honestly even, and I was willing to make sacrifices to do it. Sometime that Summer, I turned the computer off, and sat down with only a guitar, some effects pedals, my Lowrey organ, a four-track tape recorder and an open window. From there, I played and played until something felt special, and that's what this album is. Milieu is a collection of twenty-two pieces, some short, some long, that depict a more pastoral ambient kind of personality, and they do so with a minimum of overdubbing and processing. A gentle hand is employed with a lot of patience and softness, deliberation, and seemingly abstracted pieces are in fact more composed than one would expect. Milieu is truly a dreamlike fantasist work of ambient instrumentation, and hopefully deserving of the title.

It was originally planned as a CD release at Jeremy Bible's Experimedia imprint, but the physical release was abandoned and it ended up being released for free there instead. After that, it was given a brief physical lifespan as a bonus disc for Of The Apple at SSR, but once again went off the map fairly fast. Now, finally, it has been remastered from the original tapes, and given a new cover from my collection of Holga photography, with nothing but respect given to Luke Hazard's original painted cover and his photographic cover that followed. Ironically, it is the first installment of the Arboreal Digest reissue catalog, but it has taken me such a long time to remaster that it is only now coming out.

credits

released November 19, 2014

Written and produced by Brian Grainger. Recorded at 114RKD, Summer 2006. Remastered by The Analog Botanist at Botany Bay, Spring-Autumn 2014. This is Milieu Music number AD1, the first issue of the Arboreal Digest reissue catalog. Cover photo by Brian Grainger.

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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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