four and a half

Best known for his guitar work as Remora & electro-acoustic drones in Small Life Form, we’re pleased to present the reissue of Brian John Mitchell’s first release under his own name, four and a half. It’s a drone piece 4.5 hour long that he recorded from 2006-2012 revisited & remastered in 2026. Somewhere between the soothing sounds of the medical machinery keeping you alive & the industrial sounds of the first half of a shift at a factory, the piece is about the way we experience sound today & the musicality of noise. Originally inspired by Mitchell’s routine of taping down keyboard notes to make drones to fall asleep to & a time constraint of the music software of the era, this is a piece of sound more than a piece of music. Fall asleep with us to enter a world of deadly decaying dreams.