Brian Grainger - Venus Wall

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4...according to our Phil on Tue 22 Nov, 2011.

Mr Grainger is the lord of all things ambient or melodic electronica. That's his shctick and his releases go one way or the other and this goes the more ambient droney path. Organ, guitar, synth, FX devices and multi-track tape are utilized to make lovely fluffy walls of intense drone to sooth your life battered mind. It's bleaker than some of his other releases which tend to have a certain warmth about 'em. This one doesn't and that's replaced by odd sound effects cropping up here and there. But then reading the press release the concept is a reasonably bleak one about an abandoned ship and a missing crew. Now I wanna know what happens... I'm thinking aliens came aboard the ship via one crew member who ingested one and then it bursts out of his stomach and grows into a 7 foot basketball player sized alien which picks the rest of the crew off one by one. Ooh I've got an idea for a fillum...

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W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at Botany Bay, Spring 2011, with organ, guitar, synth, FX devices and multitrack tape. Thanks to Tetsuo, David, Shinobu, Sophia.
Somewhere in the blackness, between you and a strange blue point in the sky, drifts a single, lonesome craft. It lies empty and abandoned, its crew jettisoned long ago in vain hopes for shelter or rescue. What made them leave is unknown and unimportant. The silvery ship’s pristine structure remains perfect and preserved, gleaming silently in bluish sadness. These three recordings are the documentation of a signal being broadcast at this vessel, where someday, its internal computer systems might intercept and respond, returning home with an answer. Until then, it shall know no breath, no movement, no interruption, no sound and no soil. Earth is an invisible echo, buried beneath an aching, eternal night.

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