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Antony Milton is a New Zealand-born prolific experimental musician.
Sirens And Where The Coloured Planes Are Rafts (Last Visible Dog, 2005), recorded in 1997/98, was stuck in old stereotypes of lo-fi pop,
but
Near Far (Celebrate Psi Phenomena, 2002) showed a maturing intelligence,
intent in finding a common denominator to
industrial music, psychedelic music and droning music.
Seen Through's Extant (Pseudoarcana, 2003)
and
Street's School Of Religious Studies (Pink Skulls, 2004) revisited
Throbbing Gristle's noise-core.
Siren Performance (Pseudo Arcana, 2003) documents an installation with
Campbell Kneale on electronics.
Mccleod-ganj (Pseudo Arcana, 2003) used the computer to produce
melodic soundscapes inspired by glitch music.
The Stumps, featuring James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians) and Stephen Clover (Seht), recorded Split Fleet Dodge (Palindrone, 2006) in the vein of space-rock, and they stand as the only "rock" band that Milton played in.
Mrtyu instead focused on
hyper-distorted droning doom-metal:
Durga (Audiobot, 2005),
The Burning Ground (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, 2005),
Blood Tantra (20 Buck Spin, 2006).
The ethereal ambient droning music, recorded outdoors, of With Throats As Fine As Needles (Digitalis, 2006) was the result of a supergroup with Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel), Antony Milton (AM, Mrtyu, Nether Dawn), James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians) and Richard Francis (Eso Steel).
This more humane phase continued with other delicate works of droning music:
Nether Dawn's Outer Dark (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, 2006)
and
the organ-based Orla (Ikuisuus, 2007), credited to A.M..
He even returned to the song format with
The End Of This Short Road (Deserted Village, 2007), an album that
would have been more appropriate twenty years earlier at the time of
New Zealand's lo-fi boom.
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