Packaged in a clear plastic sleeve with a hand-cut cardstock insert, 4x4" glossy photo print and an in-house duplicated/printed white disc. Identical to the first edition version, except this version uses a cardstock backing for the photograph instead of the ultra-thick matboard.
Includes unlimited streaming of Ocean Lion III, Part Three
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Packaged in a clear plastic sleeve with a hand-cut ultra-thick matboard insert, a 4x4" glossy photo print, custom text sticker work and an in-house duplicated/printed white disc.
Includes unlimited streaming of Ocean Lion III, Part Three
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
It's been six years since you left the island you found, and sailed back to civilization from there. You've almost forgotten what it was like, with all this time passing by, weathering the memory like wind and water. Yet, when you close your eyes, and lie down, you can begin to feel the sun on your cheeks and watch the phosphenes shift inside your mind's eye. It feels good, but it's still only pretend. So you make your mind up to take the time off, pack up your essentials and push off into the blue waves again, seeking that drifting sensation. You navigate there without a map, by feeling alone, and the closer you get the less you feel uncertain about it. After months of chasing down mirages, the scent of a bronze perfume fills the air. On the wavering horizon line, you can make out a thin dark crop of something. Is it a ship? Is it your imagination? Is it the island you have worked so hard to find again? As you ebb closer, you can clearly see it - a lone rocky beach lined with palm trees, leading up to a dense swath of forestation. An indescribable feeling of happiness fills you from head to toe - the warmth of contentment, greeting an old friend. returning home. The salty waves crash softly against your bow as you disembark, thrusting the metal anchor into the wet sand. As you stumble ashore, you can hardly believe what you see - your hammock hanging in front of your little cabin made of bamboo and driftwood, the body of your original lifeboat overturned and fashioned into a rooftop. Everything just as you left it, and how you hardly expected to ever return. Certainly, by the time you set out on your trek, you imagined the isle would have been consumed by the sea...and yet, here it is, and here we are. Both of us, all smiles and warm glow, happy to be together again. Let's stay a little while, rest and listen to the things we found in the ocean.
credits
released November 12, 2016
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at Botany Bay, 2016. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. This is Milieu Music number MMD035. Photography by Rudolf Kremers, edited/processed by Brian Grainger, used with gracious permission.
A spacious 2.5 hour soundtrack for Eufloria, an ambient strategy game currently available on Steam, Nintendo Switch and the Playstation Network. Coppice Halifax
A triple-album "beginner's guide" with 50 tracks selected from the first 10 years of Milieu releases. As apt a starting point as you're likely to find. Coppice Halifax
supported by 37 fans who also own “Ocean Lion III, Part Three”
As always, I am in utter awe at the vastness of our musical universe, comprised of beautiful stars for our ever-listening ears. Let the gorgeous waves of this incredible album wash over you, perhaps taking you to another realm, out of space & time. One of the most pleasurable experiences I have had in a long while. Pip From The Forge
supported by 28 fans who also own “Ocean Lion III, Part Three”
As I drift away from the Earth and all its chaos, its gleam reduces to a speck in the vast cosmos surrounding me. I close my eyes and take my solace among the ocean of stars. Christopher Nolan