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The Aestival Wind

from Divergent Paths [Volume Five] by Milieu

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2023.05.28

Every season, especially those I've experienced in the Midwest, consist of certain days that are defined by unseasonable weather. This could perhaps be the way it has always been, or it could be a darker implication of the climate changing, but either way, today is such a day. It is late May, the month of my birth, where for the majority of the 40 years I've lived on Earth, I have felt that May was a Summer month, despite its very firm definition as a Spring month. This was owed to the fact that the subtropics I grew up within had such a limited range of weather, that the entire calendar year may as well be Summer or some slight variation upon it. So when I relocated to Ohio in 2016, the seasons and their changes were instantly magical, and I felt as if I'd finally, for the very first time, experienced them. Today, the wind blows in the orange sunshine, and the sidewalks are warm and glowing offwhite next to the Bradburian green everywhere there is not pavement. The wind is ever so slightly warmer, arriving like a herald announcing that his Lord Summer is imminently fast approaching. Still, even such an uncharacteristic day for the Ohioan Spring, it would be considered nothing short of paradise for South Carolinians - a momentary respite from the oppressive browbeating of Green Hell. I have decided to think of these precognitive visions of the next season as entities of their own, and this warm blanket slipped in on the Spring breeze is The Aestival Wind. Perhaps, in the early world, when man could not survive without a deep acknowledgement of the natural world's ways, they had their own name for The Aestival Wind. Perhaps, it was a god or a non-corporeal being. Perhaps it was not noticed at all.

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from Divergent Paths [Volume Five], released March 1, 2024

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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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