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Title:  Baltic Flour Mills Artist:  Baltic Flour Mills Label:  Autarkeia Format:  CD + mcd-video Price:  € 12.00   Mp3 samples:   1   2

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Album "Baltic Flour Mills" lasts for 60 minutes. It's packed in a special dark DVD box set. In album complex there is a CD video-postcard, a 24-page inlay and a rare Autarkeia label's postcard. We recommend you to listen to "Baltic Flour Mills" only on Hi-fi stereo.ÊLimited edition ofÊ250 copies.

Now "Baltic Flour Mills" is a well known and modern art gallery in London. But it wasn't in 1997 when Darius ?iuta, the member of legendary Lithuanian noise project NAJ and Art?ras Raila, a well known video artist, a present gallery "Baltic Flour Mills" was a forgotten and old mill. Millions of rats ruled the place. In order to get into mill premises, visitors had to sign a pact, which declared non-responsibility for possible accidents. So, in 1997 two artists equipped with special recording devices went to an dangerous trip through the mill in order to record strange air waves and sounds of huge mechanisms. Later in a radio studio, from the collected samples from the mill, "Baltic Flour Mills" record was created. It consists of two long tracks. In those tracks listeners can hear cold and urban "ambient" that sometimes is enriched with special "noise" elements. Music construction methods remind of NAJ album "Resituation" from the PURE series - incoming city sounds, filtrated through mill concrete walls and metal mechanisms can be heard. The background is fulfilled with children, which were never in that mill, cries and sounds of opening the doors, which were locked for years. Album mood towards the end of it is getting more and more worried. Recordings create a grey and paleness sense of the surrounding world. It reminds us that one day, now the fine gallery, will become what it was a long before - a pale ghost in a dark London and instead of the slogan on the walls - "Baltic Flour Mills", only "Alt Our Ills" will remain.

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