Brian Grainger

@milieu.bsky.social

Milieu, Coppice Halifax, Limestone Ziggurat, et al. 1/2 of Extra with Howard Stelzer. Owner/operator of Milieu Music, Psoma Psi Phi & Recycled Plastics. Hopeless Cleveland baseball lifer. milieu-music.com milieu.bandcamp.com patreon.com/analogbotany

Pleasantly baked, about to pass out reading Borges again. Bummed about baseball, but enjoying beer and frozen custard in my first Cleveland summer. Haven't been online much, haven't wanted to be, although I genuinely love and miss all of you here.

I may or may not have bought a Pasquantino jersey following Italy's stellar WBC game today. I feel like even though I'm a Cleveland lifer and my grandpa was a Yankees guy from upstate NY, the two of us would be rooting for this fantastic team together, if he could've been around for these games.

A lot of people are going to be listening to "Trilogie" around the world today. We lost our queen. For me, the way I experience sound at the deepest fundamental level can be divided into "Before I heard Eliane Radigue" and after.

Warm enough day in the basement to finally rig up the Juno, Poly 800 and TX81Z with the big Peavey board and MIDI arranged via the Kawai. It's grand to be able to integrate these old machines with my modular system, and to be able to sequence on them via several different key beds too.

A fabled collection of John Coltrane live recordings captured at jazz clubs in New York and Philadelphia between 1961 and 1965 are set to get their first official release this year You can watch a a new video for ‘Acknowledgement’, from A Love Supreme, here: buff.ly/CwrUOhF

John Coltrane, black and white photograph by Francis Wolff.

As usual, a sincere thanks is owed to all of the brilliant artists and good friends on Bandcamp who have spoiled me by offering me reams of quality music for a beyond reasonable cost. I wish every day celebrated your work like Bandcamp Friday does. Thank you all.

I know Cleveland is the right place for me to have moved to when two realtors, our home inspector and now today our electrician are vocal geeks about the baseball team here. I have found my people, and it feels wonderful.

Staying in a very quiet rental house and reading Brian Evenson might be something I regret doing, given the content of his work and my general dread about buildings that I am unfamiliar with, but at the same time, moving and packing has sucked so bad that just having nothing to do but read is divine