Tidewater Petrol (10th Anniversary Expanded Remaster)

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	1.	Up Late in the Upstate 07:21
	2.	My Bike 04:26
	3.	Seventeen-Oh-One 05:57
	4.	Flying M 07:10
	5.	Drysummer 06:00
	6.	Veedol 02:56
	7.	Petrol in Pink 07:11
	8.	Tydol 07:37
	9.	Neon 9000 05:57
	10.	Rabbit Hills 08:38
	11.	Eagle Nebula 08:36
	12.	Sleepy Explorers 07:41

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Tidewater Petrol celebrates ten years, although this is a bit of a misnomer, as the recordings themselves were already in excess of two years old by the time it was published on a limited CD-R edition in 2012.

Musically, this places Tidewater as the liminal bridge between Swaying Palms and H is for Hologram, and the album could be appropriately described as being fully informed by aspects of both of those albums, with spacious and humid reverberated melodies and pad chords washing like colorful waves over more dancefloor-friendly rhythmic arrangements, peppered with science-fiction references and more topical associations with defunct petroleum companies (which have seemed to be completely overlooked and/or misunderstood by everyone listening for the last decade, understandably).

The Tidewater sessions were also notable at the time for being my first truly devoted experiments with polymetric composition, with a track like 'Eagle Nebula' feeling like a surrealistic outlier at the time, only now lining up more evenly against things like 'Sets U Free' from Sun Cast, or the majority of material on The Flower to Disappear. Tidewater illustrates a moment of Milieu in flux - many of the voices used to convey basslines, lead flourishes and even the drums were digital things like FM synthesizers and Karplus Strong engines, abandoning the sample-heavy nature of earlier efforts, replacing drum breaks with a Korg ER-1 and Boss DR-660, and filling the studio sandbox with deprecated VSTs from Cakewalk and Jeskola Buzz - already outmoded software in 2009.

A well-hidden Mick Travis quote, spoken by Malcolm McDowell in 1968, provides a small echo of the psychedelic shorelines of Swaying Palms - 'There's only one thing you can do with a girl like this - walk naked into the sea together as the sun sets, make love once, then die' - a deliberate and tongue-in-cheek implication from the Brian of twelve years ago that Tidewater was very much meant to be a vessel of progress and transition at the time of its creation. Also audibly present are aspects of parallel developments, such as the Euflorian strains of sound design and melodicism in 'Sleepy Explorers' or the drifting tape ambience weaving through the backdrop of 'Petrol in Pink', which recalls Ocean Lion II. A lot of music was being drafted in 2008-2009, and pieces of all of these sessions are observable in the three EP Reverb Microcoma set, which attempted to organize most of the material overflow.

On a technical level, a number of these tracks were mixed rather badly, as the momentum of the project's exploration of new territory seems to have outpaced my ability to properly organize the wealth of often obtuse and unorthodox sound design. As a result, twelve years after the fact, I've had to dig deeper than usual into my archives for session files, discontinued sound fonts, effects processors that have long since been removed from modern device support, and so a significant portion of the remastering had to be completed in defunct builds of software, sometimes even rebuilding aspects of the tracks themselves where something did not load with its original settings - the utterly ridiculous fallout of using software tools that no longer exist - so I ask for a bit of patience and understanding, perhaps even forgiveness, for any unavoidable differences from the original mixes of Tidewater. Every effort has been made to retain the shape and sound of the original album, although due to my longtime use of randomizers in arpeggiation, modulation envelopes and filter behaviors, the differences between this remaster and the original takes are a fundamental part of the process. For this reason, I will continue to make the original mix of Tidewater available digitally - this remaster does not seek to overwrite or invalidate what came before, but instead, offer a different perspective on the fidelity of the recordings, with some minor (and in my view, inconsequential) changes.

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released October 27, 2022

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at Rolling Knoll, 2008-2009. Remastered at White Pillar, Summer 2022, by The Analog Botanist. Text by ABM&D. Illustrations by Greg Lawhun. Design and layout by Atoll Intercom Systems & ABM&D. Inner gatefold photography/video source by Brian, captured at Rolling Knoll, 2013. Printing and duplication by Atomic Disc. Previously issued as MMD023 & MML061. This is Milieu Music number AD32, 32nd in the Arboreal Digest reissue catalog. Tidewater Petrol is dedicated to the memory of PSC. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2022. All nights preserved.

Special thanks to the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon, and the subscribers at Deep Earth and Vibratelepathos. Without their continued support, expanded reissues such as this one may not have been possible.

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Deep Earth - malfokusita.bandcamp.com
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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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