a r t i s t : Milieu
t i t l e : Pillowtone Poems
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Unlabel (un52006/45)
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : Jun/2007
t r a c k s : 56
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 35,2 MB
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*Ripper's note: In addition to the 8 tracks listed on the back
sleeve and the unlabel website, there are 3 untitled tracks
(numbers 19, 50, 56) and 45 short tracks of silence. I used
the tracklisting on discogs.com as a guide
(http://e.discogs.com/release/940485)
Welcome to unlabel series52! This is number 45, released on
November 6, 2006.
Artist Info:
Milieu - Milieu is the recorded effort of Brian Grainger, who
has been making many different sounds under that and various
other monikers since 1997.
His music has seen releases at U-Cover, Infraction Records,
EED, Boltfish, Earstroke, Benbecula and now Unlabel, with a
catalog that spans over thirty releases in the last two years.
When Brian isn't making music, he likes collecting vinyl,
reading vintage sci-fi, and enjoys fine food and wine. He
lives in a cosy home in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife
Sophia and their pets, and currently attends college in hopes
of teaching music to children.
The series52 Concept:
While chatting on the phone back in September 2005 the two
people who run Unlabel decided to do this...
During 2006 Unlabel is releasing a series of 52 CD albums -
one every week of the year, all by people who aren't connected
with us (i.e. none of our regular artists), to include all
genres that we cover from the usual guitar based music -
acoustic and alt. country to post-rock / math-rock, hardcore
and beyond, piano, electronica / idm through to ambient,
glitch, microsound, gabber, industrial / noise, soundscapes
and anything else that takes our fancy, each in a strictly
limited edition of just 100 copies.
We decided to do something slightly different - instead of
focusing on local artists, as has been traditional with
Unlabel, we opened this project up to submissions from all
over the world. It is entirely separate from the usual
catalogue of releases and will run as a new offshoot of the
unlabel family.
The idea is to release work by unknown artists who may not
otherwise be recognised at all alongside a handful of
carefully selected guests, including a few names which may be
familiar due to their other releases elsewhere. We receive
quite a few demos these days from all over the world and it
will be good to work with some of these people and to document
music (albeit in a small way) that may not otherwise be
noticed at all...
Each 'album' in this project includes at least 8 tracks OR at
least 30 minutes of material and obviously quality control is
being kept to a high standard.
All releases are packaged in distinctive matching artwork with
the musical artists' own image on the front and two images
from Unlabel on the back - including one of a landscape
photographed every week over the 12 months of 2006 and all
pictures are professionally printed on high gloss photo paper.
Each sleeve is hand numbered and every CD includes a diary
page insert for the relevant week of the year, which can be
filled in and returned to Unlabel to win a unique prize. There
are also inserts from the artists and Unlabel making each one
of these fine discs a collector's item.
http://www.unlabel.net/series52.htm
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01-Angela Sunrise [04:02]
02-Angela Blush [02:18]
03-Angela Dream Sequence [01:43]
04-Angela Beachyhead [03:54]
05-Angela Piano [04:55]
06-Angela Night Lite [02:24]
07-Angela Starpillow [03:01]
08-Angela Looks at the Moon [05:04]
09-(silence) [00:06]
10-(silence) [00:06]
11-(silence) [00:06]
12-(silence) [00:06]
13-(silence) [00:06]
14-(silence) [00:06]
15-(silence) [00:06]
16-(silence) [00:06]
17-(silence) [00:06]
18-(silence) [00:06]
19-Untitled [01:55]
20-(silence) [00:06]
21-(silence) [00:06]
22-(silence) [00:06]
23-(silence) [00:06]
24-(silence) [00:06]
25-(silence) [00:06]
26-(silence) [00:06]
27-(silence) [00:06]
28-(silence) [00:06]
29-(silence) [00:06]
30-(silence) [00:06]
31-(silence) [00:06]
32-(silence) [00:06]
33-(silence) [00:06]
34-(silence) [00:06]
35-(silence) [00:06]
36-(silence) [00:06]
37-(silence) [00:06]
38-(silence) [00:06]
39-(silence) [00:06]
40-(silence) [00:06]
41-(silence) [00:06]
42-(silence) [00:06]
43-(silence) [00:06]
44-(silence) [00:06]
45-(silence) [00:06]
46-(silence) [00:06]
47-(silence) [00:06]
48-(silence) [00:06]
49-(silence) [00:06]
50-Untitled [00:20]
51-(silence) [00:06]
52-(silence) [00:06]
53-(silence) [00:06]
54-(silence) [00:06]
55-(silence) [00:06]
56-Untitled [04:05]
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38:11 min