Rik Johnson
This is one of my favorite long-form Milieu recordings. Gently sustained with soft but satisfying swells. It makes me feel like it's the end of a perfect day.
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 windowed 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.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Synthesist's Alphorn Retreat
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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ACRM0021 / Five Horns In Gold [5x7" Art Assemblage + Digital Album]
Poster/Print + Digital Album
A ready to frame 5x7" handmade recycled art assemblage, created with photographic elements from The Synthesist's Alphorn Retreat. This option is for collectors who are interested in art editions & digital audio only - no CD-R will be shipped with this option.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Synthesist's Alphorn Retreat
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Deluxe Edition CD-R + 5x7" Ashcan Readymade Set
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Supporters of this edition of MML139 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 "Five Horns In Gold" and bears the catalog number ACRM0021. 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.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Synthesist's Alphorn Retreat
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
A quiet log cabin, perched atop a summit in the Black Mountains of Asheville, overlooking hundreds of miles of sun-kissed forest and stone. Summoning the voice of a synthesized drone, calling from the Matterhorn itself, your stillness, isolation and warm contentment rings out across the space. The wooden, hollow tones overlap with the subtlest hint of tape warble and heat-bent flange, forming chords that elevate you in their polyphony to a serene mass high in the clouds. For every pipe in this majestic dream-organ, a ray of sunlight beams down to the ripe green Earth. Birds chime from their perches with sweet approval, and the gusts of mountain breeze underscore the floating symphony with the deep breath of the valleys and rivers themselves.
This album has been created with the specific purpose of recovery from trauma, meditation in light of stress, a defiant escapist pasture of safety and contentment in the face of paranoia, worry and pain. The Synthesist's Alphorn Retreat exists forever, for all of us, whenever and wherever we may need to use it.
credits
released August 10, 2019
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded August 2019 at the White Pillar Workshop. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text, photography and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number MML139. 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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