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By this I mean I’ve never stumbled across a massive stash, or lucked-out buying a huge run for practically nothing – I say this as that’s the kind of thing that used to happen in the 1990s and the early noughties if you were out there looking hard for library music. But I did get about 25 in one hit about 20 years ago when the BBC shut down their “TV Training Department” near Lime Grove and a box of Brutons ended up being dumped at a hospital radio, and they didn’t want the records, so I got a call.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the years I’ve been buying any Bruton LPs as and when they pop up. There are lots of them about – over 330 LPs in the vinyl catalogue, issued between 1978 and 1985. I have to say that they do look really good on a shelf, simply because of their colour coded spines. 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Finally in wax, it’s Lukas De Clerck’s musical vehicle for his explorations with the aulos, that ancient reed instrument that mainly satyrs and archeological enthusiasts found beguiling. Equipped with his handmade pipes and the artful sense of devotion of a true modern-day aulete, De Clerck has dug deep into the technical and cultural peculiarities of this long-silenced instrument, paying it the kind of attention and mindfulness that Marsyas the satyr so lacked when he challenged Apollo and his lyre to that ill-fated musical match. But beyond merely resuscitating an ancient cult, De Clerck as Bloedneus gives the aulos a different kind of renaissance where its penetrating qualities are expanded and expounded to effects worth every nosebleed, paving new grounds in these practices of old.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMILLI MILLE hints at mysteries universal to humans of yore, present and morrow, like a Joseph Campbellesque recounting of transcendental journeys through drones and extra reverb. Elegiac modes encounter pastoral vibes that are punctuated by sly baroque flourishes, all pointing to the timelessness of the aulos’s sound - one can easily imagine its power of enlightenment through many ages. Yet in MILLI MILLE, an insistence on the fickleness of the instrument surfaces through disorienting, perception-shifting blasts and a compulsion to push the aulos to its fullest and most destabilizing potential. 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