paintings of windows is the name of a project by aotearoa/new zealand musician antony milton. paintings of windows is a project based in field recordings with releases capturing time spent in india, south america and at various places in new zealand.
pororari river mouth was originally released in 2013 as a lathe cut limited to maybe 60 copies on pseudoarcana and marked a shift in the paintings of windows approach. previous paintings of windows releases featured a skilful melding of raw and treated field records with occasional instrumentation, pororari river mouth is far more musical than what came before.
notes from the time of the original release include:
“the location this time is punakaiki, a small settlement on the wild west coast of the south island of aotearoa/new zealand, a place where crystalline limestone rivers drop from the mountains through rainforest to a ferocious rocky ocean. milton spent a week here in april 2013 recording improvised chants and instrumental passages using battery operated synthesiser and sampler, these recordings were typically made at dusk as this seemed the time when the inspiration of the land/sea-scapes were at their most intense. the rush and whisper of ocean waves is perhaps the most dominant of voices here.”
released in a edition of 100 lps, august 2026
