Milieu - A Warm Wooden Hollow (Infraction, 2008)

1 Mirage (2:50)
2 Rope Nest (6:43)
3 Sieve (4:11)
4 Written On Driftwood (11:08)
5 Pollen Cabin Poetry (5:22)
6 Winter Decay (3:15)
7 The Decomposition Of Memory (5:41)
8 A Night Walk Clearing (3:54)
9 Muted Travels (3:49)
10 Burnt Rust (2:13)
11 A Warm Wooden Hollow (6:55)
12 Inside The Sun (18:14)

Un autre superbe album d'ambient par Brian Grainger, avec un petit accent mis sur le piano....

We've had a lot of records in by Milieu this year. Some we've reviewed and the majority we've not reviewed. Mainly cos there's been so many we'd have to employ someone especially to do that and that, put simply, would be nuts. So here we are with another Milieu album and this time it's a proper release album on the Infraction label rather than one of the many CDR's which have arrived. The packaging is all lovely and pastoral which gives you a clue of what you're getting on the inside. The 12 tracks of 'A Warm Wooden Hollow' are quite a change in direction for Milieu as there's much more piano being used. Yes it's still pretty much ambience but the piano adds a different feeling to the music. It's much more spooky and eerie sounding than the usual lush warmth you get from his ambient albums. Float off and tune in for the duration of the album and you'll be sucked into a world of total beauty though. This guy makes some of the best ambient music money can buy and here's another fine example of his work. I'm totally loving the piano on this. I guess it's somewhere between Yellow 6 and William Basinski if you must know (or like a decaying Harold Budd - Ant x) Worra fantastic album!! Ltd to 300 copies in digipack... be quick!!
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Adam Pacione - A Still Life (Infraction, 2007)

1 A Still Life

CDr inclus avec les deux cent premiers exemplaires de From Stills to Motions... Drone tout en pulsations...

Bonus CDr with the first 200 copies of From Stills to Motion... Pulstaing drone...

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Northern - Jessa (Infraction, 2007)

1 December
2 Gray's
3 Aviate
4 David
5 Jessa
6 Patrol

CDr bonus accompagnant les 150 premières copies de Drawn, orchestration minimaliste, profonde, dense au goût de drones...

The first 150 copies come bountifully endowed with a bonus cd-r, Jessa (INFX 025), a collection
which signals the next phase in Northern development, though the seeds of Jessa’s future-indicative are retievable from Drawn’s present-past. It evidences a deeper denser dronier zone-out music, minimizing digital intervention and renouncing microsonic patter. The gestures here are towards a half-light almost-orchestralism, moving from the likes of Marsen Jules and the secular sacral of Eluvium, shoulder-to-shoulder with the submersible slowcore starriness of The Lid (whose time of greatest influence and recognition has finally now come). Sidenote: Northern bid their myspace visitors: “be quiet with us.” More resonances of SotL, and their “Be Little with Me”? Sshhh. It’s Northern. It’s the New Quiet."
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