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UHLIG, MIRKO / DRONAEMENT - Farewell Fields

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Nextera ERA 2048-2 Release Year: 2007 Note: two long tracks each by Drone Rec-artists MIRKO UHLIG (before known as AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPF) and MARCUS OBST aka DRONAEMENT Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Zwei lange ruhige Solostücke von MIRKO UHLIG (vormals auch bekannt als AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPF) und DRONAEMENT, entspannte Meditationen zum Thema "Weggehen" und "Ankommen". PARA PURI ist eine traumhafte Melange aus sanften Gitarren-Drones, Harmonien / Obertönen und field recordings, FIELDS (LIVE) ist elektronischer, Sequenzen-hafter..."Ambient mit grossem A", mit sehr eigener & persönlicher Note... "There are various kinds of flowers in the farewell fields but what they have in common is not complaining when it's time for valediction. A scarcely audible "goodbye". Then wounded veterans on its soil. Scavengers and their own way of a farewell performance. Starry-eyed limbs and forget-me-nots. We tried to cull the more beautiful ones of both kinds. Fields of clouds come and go like Spanish veterans and young mothers, queens and accessories and the one big misapprehension that is the ocean for every well crafted ship. The utero for this two-headed baby was butt-joined after the Ex Ovo Orchestra performance that took place at the AZ Conni venue, Dresden February 2007. Mirko had caught some moaning itinerary fish para Puri a few weeks earlier while Marcus was fishing for it at that particular night. One is about leaving, the other about the destination. And Nextera is a very nice orphanage. Go and get orphaned in the fields of parting." [label description] "A brave move here from Nextera. None of these three artists have a big name yet, and in this day and age to release them on a real CD is a brave move, me thinks. All three artists have some reputation in the field of ambient and drone, mostly due to limited releases on CDR, tape or vinyl. All three are always 'promising' in my book, especially Mirko Uhlig. He has made some great, much overlooked releases, and here returns with a piece that is great. Much reverb is used on the piano, and below deck there is a synthesizer or two lurking and the voices could be the announcement of a train station, but reminds the listener of Bryars 'Sinking Of The Titanic'. Uhlig seems to be heavily inspired - more than before - by Brian Eno's ambient music, especially the first one 'Music For Films' springs to mind. Maybe a bit too much in the direction of new age but still on the right side of ambient music. Dronaement is Marcus Obst from Germany, who offers a live piece here, called 'Fields'. It's not, as the title may suggest, a pure field recording piece, but at the foundation of it, there is some highly obscured field recording, which sounds like a boat or so and on top Obst plays organ/drone sounds, not unlike Palestine (which lead me to think these boys know their classics), but as the piece evolves arpeggio keyboards come in and things land in cosmic land - with soft noise underneath. Quite a nice piece, both of them." [FdW / Vital Weekly] label-website: www.nextera.cz