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Every year, I always have lots of new ideas for holiday-appropriate recordings, and most years, I simply run out of time to complete them. This year, I resolved to work on some of these ideas once and for all, and Blue Vale is one such recording.
Picking up where Ferrolog leaves off, with a Yamaha RX21L drum machine (processed into a mutant techno pulse) anchoring an exploration vessel in a frozen sea of white noise, cold blue chords and empty Winter spaces. Aside from the aforementioned drum machine, the only other source of sound on Blue Vale is an LP of Christmas music played via music boxes, elongated/processed through a Gemini PDT-6000 turntable and the White Pillar hardware rig, including three Moog FX units, Alesis Quadraverb, Pioneer spring reverb, multiple analog filters (Steiner-Parker, MS-20, Digitech, Akai Variwah, in different successions as well as blended) and multiple analog/digital delays from Danelectro, BBE and Boss. The texture-rich final mix was channeled through the vintage circuits and signal paths of a JVC KD-A11 cassette deck, with tasteful software cleanup in post.
Not completely a "Christmas record" by any definition of the term, but rather, a psychedelic meditation on Winter snowfall, filling up the valley behind my studio. Submarine scanner pings in the cold darkness, marking hints of a massive landscape like distant flares intermittently falling, while a lost crew of naval explorers begin to part with reality from exposure and isolation, beating a warm drum to keep the blood flowing...
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released December 12, 2017
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded live at White Pillar Workshop using only a Gemini PDT-6000 with one side of vinyl holiday music box sounds, and a Yamaha RX21L drum machine, in conjunction with the WPW hardware processing rig. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Photograph by Brian at Botany Bay, 2014. This is Milieu Music number MMC007.
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