Flow and Sigh: Slow Cine-Themes by Ian Grey

A city between three rivers in a spring south. Regenerating St Vincent guitar through regenerating delays/modulations.

Lyon Reflected (flow)

When the medication kicks in and you just drift away. A moment of surpassing relief.

Annecy Mirror (calm)

Layers and layers of reverberant, hyper-processed guitar = a sigh of monks at the angelic wall.

The Glassine Wall (temple reflection)

Analog synth, digital samples and hyper-processed St Vincent=ethereal choir +no real voices!+. Tuck in, lay back, wonder?

Pure Anodyne M2

Massive, serene, intimate, blue, blue, electric blue as the spaceman said. The space between recovery and recollection of breakage.

Les cages à mémoire

In ancient French folklore Mélusine is a female water spirit usually depicted as a serpent or fish woman from the waist down. Except very unlike theoretically inert mermaid, Mélusine's two tails make her a siren of sexual possibility and erotic chaos in place of patriarchal order, a goddess of duality, exquisite chaos and enlightenment. 

Coming from a place of pain I considered the Seine and wondered if I use the controlled chaotic, of a process of creating sound meant to soothe by distracting me from the process of making sound to soothe even as listening to the results was only a temporary ‘yes’ of relief? Is there such a thing as 'only', ever?

Anyway, using the syntax of ambient to craft a regenerating pastoral viva new protocols, "La Chanson De Mélusine" seeks to dab a brisk but salving antiseptic on treatable wounds

La Chanson De Mélusine

I often dream of moments when I'm not in pain. Usually by the sea, usually in France for some reason. And so this jewel dream of precious moments.

L'esprit Dans L'eau

Clara wakes at the beach near Callis, France, unsure of anything except the truth in the waves' crashing, recreated here with fifty deeply processed six strings creating a cloud expanse caress.

Clara and the Pure Black Sea

My palace of mirrors and a small antidote to our overwhelming anxiety.

Le palais des miroirs

Slowly Past Loss

Held by Sea

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See Me in the Darkness

I mesh ambient, film, electronic and pop methods to evoke the dramas of extreme experience ranging from chromic pain and trauma to the joys of transcendence. All compositions copyright 2024-2025 Ian Grey