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A Warm Wooden Hollow, by Milieu (CD on Infraction)

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Review date: 17 April 2008

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Rating: happy This record left our Phil feeling happy.

We've had a lot of records in by Milieu this year. Some we've reviewed and the majority we've not reviewed. Mainly cos there's been so many we'd have to employ someone especially to do that and that, put simply, would be nuts. So here we are with another Milieu album and this time it's a proper release album on the Infraction label rather than one of the many CDR's which have arrived. The packaging is all lovely and pastoral which gives you a clue of what you're getting on the inside. The 12 tracks of 'A Warm Wooden Hollow' are quite a change in direction for Milieu as there's much more piano being used. Yes it's still pretty much ambience but the piano adds a different feeling to the music. It's much more spooky and eerie sounding than the usual lush warmth you get from his ambient albums. Float off and tune in for the duration of the album and you'll be sucked into a world of total beauty though. This guy makes some of the best ambient music money can buy and here's another fine example of his work. I'm totally loving the piano on this. I guess it's somewhere between Yellow 6 and William Basinski if you must know (or like a decaying Harold Budd - Ant x) Worra fantastic album!! Ltd to 300 copies in digipack... be quick!!

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It's appropriate to consider 'A Warm Wooden Hollow' to be the counterpoint to ˜Beyond the Sea…' Song titles are a bit darker, the feel of the music is evening dusk heading into night rather than a bright hopeful light. The soundtrack for a lonely weary traveler. It's the music of sitting next to the fire on a one man island – strings strummed and carried out to the sea, drones in the distance. A piano played in slow motion - a sonata for underwater listening. Released in an edition of 300 copies in a digipak.  [INFX 029]

 

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