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Passage Five

by Milieu

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    Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop! One white 5" recordable disc, printed and duplicated via an Imation D20 disc duplication machine, held inside a black or white die-cut paperboard jacket, with a 4x5" glossy photographic print insert visible on the front, and custom text sticker work on the back cover. Contained and protected by a clear plastic cast polypropylene sleeve, with a flap on the back side, to keep your sonic artifact dust and moisture-free.

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  • ACRM0033 / Mansfield Flares [5x7" Art Assemblage + Digital Album]
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    A ready to frame 5x7" handmade recycled art assemblage, created with photographic elements from Four Passages. This option is for collectors who are interested in art editions & digital audio only - no CD-R will be shipped with this option. For more info about the ACRM catalog: photofugues.tumblr.com

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  • Deluxe Edition CD-R + 5x7" Ashcan Readymade Set
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Supporters of this edition of MML140 will receive the standard CD-R release along with a very very limited and handmade 5x7" Ashcan Readymade recycled art assemblage. The piece is titled "Mansfield Flares" and bears the catalog number ACRM0033. It comes hand-numbered, titled, dated and signed by the artist with the Milieu Music PO box stamp (all on the reverse side), and ships ready to frame. For more information about this art assemblage & the ACRM catalog in general: photofugues.tumblr.com/post/188285765464/acrm0033

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about

When I returned from a harrowing trip to Cleveland and back in August, my physical and mental wellness were both severely lacking. I was desperately in need of some recuperative care on both accounts, and set about doing it one of the best ways I know how to - recording ambient music in my studio. The fruits of those efforts became the Transposition Gradients triple-album, The Synthesist's Alphorn Retreat and final touches on the Daughter sessions and Four Passages, which were four previously recorded ambient sessions unified on a single release. A lot of music, to be certain, but for the mindset I was in, and the immense need I had for it, it was not yet enough. I needed to be buried in the anesthetic vibration of sub-basslines and drifting analog delays, floating endlessly on sun-dappled soundwaves. So, in the spirit of that outlook, it should surprise you not at all to find that there was even more material laid to tape and held back from immediate release.

This piece, titled Passage Five, was one that only went to my bedside when it was completed, at the time. It is a transfiguration of tape source used on the Four Passages album, routed through copious FX chains of analog and digital profiles, layered and re-layered and melted down, with a monophonic analog synthesizer anchoring the exploration with a simple and hypnotic sub-bassline.

Specifically, it returns to and addresses the bereft feeling I was overtaken with, standing in pitch blackness on the roadside in the middle of the deep countryside, van wrecked, dead deer laid in the grass at my feet, highway patrol flares quickly dying out, as metal mammoths sped by, mere inches from my broken vehicle. Phone battery nearly dead, wife and child stranded alongside, no resolution in sight. In a state like that, you begin to wonder if you'll ever get out alive, and if you manage that, whether or not you'll be able to recover from it easily. It's a deep and depressing feeling to be that helpless and to have lost that much control over your situation, and that space in my mind is the hole I had to spend all of August and most of September crawling back out of. My slow return to the land of the living continues to yield strange fruits, and it is my sincere hope that they fill the world with that much more contentment and ease, and offset the liminal darknesses of the world we live in, because that world can be a frightening and unforgiving place.

credits

released October 12, 2019

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar, August 2019. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. This is Milieu Music number MML141.

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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