Friday, 5 September 2025

ODG222 : Gregory Paul Mineeff / amidst. interference

 


Cover art by Gregory Paul Mineeff


ODG222 : Gregory Paul Mineeff / amidst.  interference


Gregory Paul says:

“With ‘amidst.  Interference’ I wanted to explore the sounds between sounds, the melodies amongst the ever-present soft distortions. I wanted the album to be a marriage of my solo-piano work, ambient and drone tracks and electric guitar, using distorted guitar as an ambient tool to explore mood and texture. As inspiration, I had in mind Neil Young’s Deadman soundtrack sitting side-by-side with more modern classical, felt piano explorations and melodica melodies.  All tracks were recorded at Considered Into Atrophy Studios, utilising analog instruments and recording techniques, often embracing the noise produced.”

“The album also takes inspiration from the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem Ozymandias, with its imagery of sand as a million fallen voices, a society that has fallen and future when we explore the past as our present passes us by. It also explores the notions of life and loss and the often unfinished and unexpected nature of life, so unlike the neat and tidy endings often presented in films and popular culture. It is about the moments we let pass us by without appreciating them, the human nature of always seeking more and more and better and better. It is about taking a moment to appreciate our lives, to have a cup of coffee and savour it for a moment with a loved one. To just stop. To think. I hope this album presents you an opportunity to do this.” 

Gregory Paul Mineeff is a composer and artist from Wollongong, Australia. He has released his past 2 albums with Whitelabrecs (London). He has also released 9 albums with Greece’s Cosmic Leaf Records and a solo piano album with Yellow Rose Records, covering Australia and Europe. His extensive discography also includes numerous singles, collaborations, compilations, and remixes with labels such as NOOX (London) and Tempest Recordings (Melbourne). Mineeff composes styles of music that can be categorised as ambient, drone, modern classical and post-rock.

Digital release on the 5th of September 2025.

Track listing:

1: 1a. That peace we seek
2: To remove yourself and watch from afar
3: Come this way
4: Near them on the sand
5: Two Trunkless legs of stone
6: Lament for the hopes you loved
7: Years have passed, yet you mean so much to me
8: 1b. That peace we seek with head in hands
9: To stumble, mumble, crumble
10: The final farewell
11: The wind creeps and speaks
12: Too many goodbyes
13: This joyous life

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