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Olan Mill have contributed the track  ’Country’ from our debut album ‘Pine’ to the Martin Scorsese produced feature documentary ‘Surviving Progress‘.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running the 21st century’s software — our know-how — on the ancient hardware of our primate brain which hasn’t been upgraded in 50,000 years. With rich imagery and immersive soundtrack, filmmakers Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks launch us on journey to contemplate our evolution from cave-dwellers to space explorers.

Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired this film, reveals how civilizations are repeatedly destroyed by “progress traps” — alluring technologies serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. With intersecting stories from a Chinese car-driving club, a Wall Street insider who exposes an out-of-control, environmentally rapacious financial elite, and eco-cops defending a scorched Amazon, the film lays stark evidence before us. In the past, we could use up a region’s resources and move on. But if today’s global civilization collapses from over-consumption, that’s it. We have no back-up planet.

Surviving Progress brings us thinkers who have probed our primate past, our brains, and our societies. Some amplify Wright’s urgent warning, while others have faith that the very progress which has put us in jeopardy is also the key to our salvation. Cosmologist Stephen Hawking looks to homes on other planets. Biologist Craig Venter, whose team decoded the human genome, designs synthetic organisms he hopes will create artificial food and fuel for all.

Distinguished Professor of Environment Vaclav Smil counters that five billion “have-nots” aspire to our affluent lifestyle and, without limits on the energy and resource-consumption of the “haves”, we face certain catastrophe. Others — including primatologist Jane Goodall, author Margaret Atwood, and activists from the Congo, Canada, and USA — place their hope in our ingenuity and moral evolution.

Surviving Progress leaves us with a challenge: To prove that making apes smarter was not an evolutionary dead-end.

Pausal have just released a Tape on Students Of Decay, ”Autumnal” is comprised of two long-form drone compositions which aim to be as dynamic in form and structure as they are peaceful in effect. They were created primarily using guitar and processed vinyl recordings, later supplemented with the violin of Svitlana Samoylenko (of Olan Mill) and arranged/edited on computer.

Elements of these tracks have existed for several years – even back to improvised sessions in 2007 that resulted in our debut self-titled EP. On completion of our first album “Lapses”; we were able once again to focus on this material.

“Autumnal” is available as a limited pro-dubbed cassette on the Students of Decay label in an edition of 100 copies and on mp3 from our Bandcamp page.

Serein have just released a new Nest record. Titled ‘Body Pilot’ it is the third addition to their seasonal 10″ series. The four tracks are stunning and  I have recently finished a video for the final track ‘The Ultimate Horizon’. For more information on the release and to watch the video click here.

Daniel Crossley from Facture Records has included two new Olan Mill tracks in a mix at Fluid Radio, it can be heard here.

The Pausal track ‘Afar’ has been contributed to the final ever Highpoint Lowlife release ‘Physic or Surgery’. We have followed this label for years and will miss it’s output greatly, it has been an honour to work with them and now be included in their final release. ‘Physic or Surgery’ is a compilation of all the different artists who have been involved with the label over the years, it also comes with a PDF comic created by the label owner Thorsten SidebOard. Be sure to follow his work in the future here.

‘Lend Me Your Ears’ has done a feature on Pausal and some of our other projects, it can be found here.

I have created a video for Simon Bainton’s debut release ‘Sun Settlings’ for Hibernate Records. Read some reviews at Headphone Community and Textura and to listen or purchase please click here.

Video for a track from the debut Album ‘Pine’ by Olan Mill.