Long wire tendrils sway between the steel overhangs, quiet metal bending in a burned-out breeze, swooning as if remembering a slow dance on a sinking ship. The sweetness of sleeping death seems so far away now that it is hard to remember how much of a relief it was. All the fire, molten green and alien, only now a distant thought, reduced to a layer of sediment on the surfaces of powerless machines. Blood-oranges and lemon-yellows, inert, suspended, unfathomably bursting into a beautiful purple, dragons of infernal smoke and black heat unfurling across the stone littered landscape, a quick breath, a flash of blindness, then so much vapor. The needles all frozen in the red, sentinels until the very end, rational and chittering and static, all rotting polymer and peeling paint and dead battery now. Barriers blasted open with the fervor of a thousand desperate souls throwing wide the obstinate doors of heaven itself, cracks running through the firmament, swine and bull and every weeping number wailing at the cloud-soft ivory walls, cast backward, downward, into a scorched Urth, now so deeply cradled on the rim of Hell that only these sulfuric breezes need whisper one last moment to brush the whole pustulent orb down into his shivering maw, doomed, damned, hanging on the precipice of the Last Great Orgasm as the Old Mother descends.
N.B. 2022: Originally issued digitally at CTRL BURN on December 4, 2020 as catalog designate BRN102. 'Arc' and 'Leaden' are two mostly hands-free live remixes of COAL's 'Scorched Earth', using that album's parts as singular sound source in conjunction with the R-EW Audioholistics generative system and modular processing path. With the closure of CTRL BURN in 2022, Black Grass is republished here.
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released December 4, 2020
Generated and recorded live at White Pillar, Summer 2020, using only elements from COAL's Scorched Earth as provenance sound, in conjunction with the R-EW modular processing path. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Photography & Text by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AD61, 61st in the Arboreal Digest reissue catalog. (C) + (P) Oscillog ASCAP 2022. All blights deserved.
I love the whole theme going on with this album, like it was a film made in another world with animals or cats with human characteristics. For me its nostalgic as most of the cartoons I liked when I was younger had characters like that. The album is very fun, funky and upbeat with good energetic vibes! Most of the tracks are quick with nice synths, basses and complex beats. What I also enjoy about the album is that it has a bit of a disco flavour! Wuzzy Raccoon
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
There have always been some works that sound like they have a bit of surrealism, but for some reason it feels a bit more pronounced in these NW Age releases (maybe bordering surreal and non-euclidean vibes) which is pretty exciting to think about. I'm sure new discoveries will be made! Anyways. It's always great to see a new release from Brian. Keep painting those landscapes in my mind! Symbolism
Emotionally stirring avant-techno from Surgeons Girl, offering a field of percolating analog synths to get lost in. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 18, 2022