The name is literal: Blain, in the musical scale of C. Two lifetimes of craft meet in it - one spent listening, one spent looking - and both belong to Blain Crellin of Melbourne, Australia.
For thirty years he was the photographer architects called when a building deserved to be seen properly: large-format film, patient light, cities across Australia, China and India. The music never left - it waited. Since 2022 it has all come out at once: electronic soul and progressive songs, written and sung by a man who spent three decades learning exactly where to stand.
Classical pianoforte and theory. The scale of C, learned by hand, long before it became a name.
Studio years in metal - the first electronics, the first love of a machine that holds a note forever.
Country and lightning blues, played in studios - learning the groove from the bottom end up.
A commercial photography career begins: architecture, interiors, landscapes and portraits for architects, designers and hotels across Austral-Asia.
Ten years photographing a country building itself at full speed - stadiums, towers, hotels - including an artist residency in Beijing in 2002.
The songbook opens at Beat Tank Studios, Melbourne, co-composed with engineer Benjamin Hense: the EPs and LPs Street Walker, Gravity in Motion and Water World, and the singles that followed.
The single 'I'm Home (The sky it falls)', the Interstellar Travellers project with Robodop Snei - and, because curiosity never retires, university studies in sociology and psychology.
