‘Gesammelte Werke: 3rd Edition’ provides another fine collection of diverse sounds from Germany’s Field Rotation…

Track List:

P Jorgensen – Palimpsest (For Strings), Second Variation
Dmitri Shostakovich – Largo (From Chamber Symphony Op. 110a)
Christoph Berg – Buildings At Night
Marcus Fjellstrom – Uncanny Valleys
Solo Andata – Chorale (Look For Me Here) (Remix By Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Traces
Taylor Deupree – A Fading Found
Wolfgang Voigt – Tal 90 (Version)
Simon Scott – Spring Stars

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The third Off Key instalment presents a collection of piano based compositions heavily influenced by my recent travels to Ireland and time spent on Omey Island in the evening storm. The track list contains mainly unreleased material of which the majority is forthcoming on Fluid Audio and Facture.

The artist Hummingbird has recently put together a mix selection for Fluid Radio entitled ‘Thinking Outside’. The mix comes in perfect time as a ‘heads up’ to let you know about the new remix album that is just around the corner on Fluid Audio’s new sub-label. Full info coming very soon…

HUMMINGBIRD REMIXES

The recent release on Fluid Audio of Hummingbird’s “Our Fearful Symmetry” not only resulted in the lightning sell out of its limited copy run, but also produced a flurry of speculation on the web over the identity of the artist responsible for it. For those unlucky enough to have missed out on the initial run (and also for those looking for clues as to who the artist may in fact be), news that the album has been remixed and is soon to be released on Fluid Audio’s new sub-label will be both a blessing and curse.

A blessing, as those who didn’t get to own their own copy will now have the opportunity to hear for themselves what all the fuss was about.

A curse, as the subtle re-workings offer up further hints but no clear answers as to who it could have been.

You could speculate endlessly.

What is not speculative is the quality on offer in the eight tracks, an emphasis on timbre, tone, implied melody and hints at glitch drones. The live instrumentation is still present in places, but in most cases the “mood” of the piece has been drawn out alone, and presented in a complimentary but distinctly different light. Hints of additional instrumentation creep in at points and slip away again – almost impossible to tell if they were even there to begin with, or if they were present on the original. It feels like a rare privilege to hear, a life’s work lost and then found at a dusty antique store decades later.

It has been remarked that our culture USED to be a reflective one. If someone needed to make an important decision, they would take time over it. Someone from a previous generation would climb a mountain and take in the surroundings whilst mulling it over. Pause. Consider. Most now are made in hushed whispers over linoleum floors in emergency wards, or impulsive decisions in banks or real estate agencies. Tracks like “Sketch of the Mythology (Interval at the Station Mix)” seem to capture the melancholy fact that the luxury of reflection is no longer available to us, like overhearing an intimate and private conversation in a crowded world. The collection has a timeless quality to it, despite occasional electronic tones and high quality modern production.

What others have said about the original “Our Fearful Symmetry” -

“The listener is never overwhelmed, and instead, is given space to breathe and absorb, before returning to soak in the ever-expanding sea of sounds.” – Michael Vitrano

“Our Fearful Symmetry is a deeply nostalgic disc, filled with echoes, static and decay, laden with seemingly-ancient instrumentation and far-away sounds. Myriad crackles, melodic snippets and field recordings are hidden in the mix like dust between the cracks of an old floorboard. Snippets of conversation, music boxes, tape loops and light drones pop up their heads like little prairie dogs. The cumulative effect of listening to such a release is that of encountering something elusive, an unidentified sound in the night or a whispering, receding memory. 8/10” – Richard Allen – thesilentballet.com

“The material is by turns portentous, brooding, pensive, soothing, turbulent, and unsettling, not to mention atmospheric in the extreme, with all sounds, whether they’re piano, electronics, speaking voices, static, white noise, nature-based field recordings, or strings, steeped in reverb and rendered faded by the imagined passage of time.” – textura.org

“Hummingbird’s marriage of restrained classicism and contemporary electronic atmospheric manipulation means that “Our Fearful Symmetry” is very much a record of the moment – the ambient/electro-acoustic scene abounds with artists mining the same vein of inspiration – however, while many acts aspire to the creation of reminiscence-evoking beauty it is an uncommon achievement. The artist behind Hummingbird accomplishes a startling ubiquity of grace throughout this album and though it is a debut outing for the project, the strength of the material and its connotative power betray the unmistakable hand of a master at work.” – John McCaffrey

“Far from representing another predictable foray into the realms of Modern Classical, “Our Fearful Symmetry”, after all, combines the minimal melodicism and chambermusical settings of the genre with deep structures, dense textures and dreamy tonalities, intriguingly hinting at Drones, Ambient and Micronoise. It is a combination which clearly extends beyond tentative previous engagements of the genre with beats and Electronica and yet feels entirely natural and organic.” – tokafi.com
“A sun drenched day in a slightly underpopulated city suddenly becomes akin to being the last man on Earth. The skittish found sounds that fall into place behind the musical arrangements are the aural equivalent of something playing across the edge of your field of vision. Intriguing stuff indeed.” Adrian Carter

Mix Tracklist:

Danny Paul Grody – Night Blooms
Myrmyr – Silver Rooster
Pawn – The book that is never read
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek – Waltz (a lonely crowd)
Pjusk – Byge
On!Air!Library! – Bread
Valet – Fire
Alexandre Navarro – Mystical Lane
Solo Andata – Look for Me here (Giuseppe Ielasi remix)
Cheihei Hatakeyama – Landscape on a hill
Ian Hawgood – A Film by The Remote Viewer
Tape – Mystery Mutiny
Tape – Moth Wings (Edit)
Hummingbird – The Little Green Box (Landscape Mix)
Konntinent – White Horse Falls
Hummingbird – Seeds of Deception (This Life Mix)

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A few months back I put together a mix for Fluid Radio entitled Off Key. Over time we received many emails from listeners asking if a second edition could be created and so I set aside some time recently to do just that…

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From the label’s perspective the mix contains tracks from upcoming releases including Field Rotation’s ‘Acoustic Tales’, Hessien’s ‘Obelisk/Stelea’ and a track from Christoph Berg’s project yet to be titled. Also worth noting on the track selection is a sublime remix of ‘Uncertainty in Copenhagen’ by Hummingbird.

<em>”From my tattered walls, an infinite reflection corrupts me. The light striking my eye congeals into an opaque silence and, irremediably, I listen. All the words are falling, enveloped</em><em> by the astral noise of your eyes. In the inclination of your gaze, I see a white hole coming back at me: an interstice of light, a sound tattered by the tongues of the wind”</em>

<strong>Track List:</strong>

Antonymes – Endlessly
The Colossal Ithaca Trio &amp; The Deus Ex Machina Arkestra – My Mind To Your Mind
Hummingbird – Uncertainty in Copenhagen
Sophie Hutchings – Sunlight Zone
Christoph Berg – Poems Written By An Old (prepared) Piano
Ólafur Arnalds – Kjurrt
Gary Jules/Michael Andrews – Mad World
Machinefabriek and Peter Broderick  -  Extract from In Session
Anna Rose Carter – My Piano Is Broken
Peter Broderick – Intake Part 2
Max Richter – Journey 5
Max Richter – Journey 3
Louisville – Forest
Adam Williams and Leonardo Rosado – What Has Gone is Lost Forever
Fieldhead – Planks of Wood
Hummingbird – Uncertainty in Copenhagen (Unreleased Edit)
Hessien – A Letter from Engels (Japser TX Remix)
Foxes in Fiction – Basement Window
Male – House of Ride
Field Rotation – Never Build A Bridge Into Nothingness
Evan Caminiti – Westward Sun
Damian Valles – Ground Truth
Clem Leek – The Burnt Home
Nest – Trans Siberian
Mains de Givre – Un Choeur Dames en Detresse
Scott Tuma &amp; Mike Weis – Rubadub
Noveller – Fades
Aaron Martin – Kept Ashes
Field Rotation – Acoustic Tale 4

This is the Second Edition of my “Gesammelte Werke” instalment, exclusively mixed for Fluid Radio/Audio…

Thanks to all the artists for their wonderful pieces of music (and thanks for the permission to use them in this mix) – I think
it is a wonderful mixture of up and coming experimental classical works of electroacoustic nature. – Christoph (Field Rotation)

Track List:

00:00 – 07:40
“Recuerdos” by Murcof
07:41 – 12:30
“Far From Land” by Nest
12:31 – 20:05
“Oraison” by Olivier Messiaen
20:06 – 24:17
“Heaven is violent” by Tanner Menard
24:18 – 31:37
“Poems written by an old (prepared) Piano” by Christoph Berg
31:38 – 35:30
“A Film by Danny Norbury” by Ian Hawgood
35:31 – 40:07
“Gayane” by Aram Khatchaturian
40:08 – 44:44
“Acoustic Tale 9 (dedicated to Sergei Rachmaninoff) by Field Rotation
44:45 – 53:54
“Gossan” by Clouwbeck
53:55 – 58:33
“For” by Tomasz Bednarczyk & Nejmano
58:34 – 1:03:33
“Bevegende Rytmer” by Biosphere
1:03:34 – 1:10:32
“Tides of gravity” by Tanner Menard
1:10:33 – 1:13:50
“La Fin De Tout” by Antonymes

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A short mix focusing on tracks from various projects that will be released through Fluid Audio over the coming months…

Field Rotation presents a mix installation focusing on classical and experimental compositions from artists such as Jacaszek, Nils Frahm and Mico Nonet…

Gesammelte Werke

“Gesammelte Werke” (collected works) combines music of the modern classical era of the early 20th century with the experimental classical music of the 21st century.

Track List:

JACASZEK | VIII
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH | concert for piano f-major (2nd movement)
NILS FRAHM | tristana
JOHN TAVERNER | the lamb
KLIMEK | true enemies and false friends
SVARTE GREINER | final sleep
SERGEI RACHMANINOV | concert for piano no. 2 (2nd movement excerpt)
ALEXANDER BORODIN | quartet no. 2 – notturno: andante
JACASZEK | taniec
SLOW SIX | this is your last chance (before i sleep)
MICO NONET | kaika

About the artist:

Field Rotation was founded in 2008 by the electronic music composer and producer Christoph Berg in Kiel, northern Germany.

Experimenting with electronic and classical elements this project combines floating soundscapes with electroacoustic colours to create minimalistic soundtracks renouncing of visualisation, but interacting with the listeners emotions and feelings.

As a violinist and pianist Christoph combines the synthetic sound engineering with natural sounds to communicate his short acoustic tales and impressions…

www.fieldrotation.de

Hessien are without doubt one of the most exciting new artist projects we have had the privilege of mentioning on here of late and it gives me great pleasure to announce an exclusive mix instalment from the two guys…

Track List:

Tobis Lilja – Days Pass Faster
Spinform – Yppersta Utposten
On! Air! Library! – 195
Hessien – Monsoon
Tarantel – When We Almost Killed Ourselves
Library Tapes – VIII
People Press Play – Studio
Tobias Lilja – My Teacher Died
Goddamn Electric Bill – Clouds and A Bee
Maps and Diagrams – T’horbed Earth
Mogwai – Wake Up and Go Berserk
Hessien – Gazed and Pale Reflections
Dictaphone – K2
Opitope – A Quiet Morning Arriving to the Valley
Tunng – Tale from the Black
Zelienople – Little Little Eye-Full
Hessien – Neroli Orange Blossom
Dirac – Bantu

About Hessien:

Hessien usually occurs somewhere between the UK and Australia, somewhere between the hours of 11pm and 6am (Southern Hemisphere) & 9am and 8pm (Northern Hemisphere) Hessien is made up of acoustic noise artist Charles Sage (Australia) and Tim Diagram (UK). They collided through a coincidence and were pleased to note that the collision has produced an EP – ‘Skurjn’, which was released on 29th January. ‘Skurjn’ is the first EP from Hessien, and is limited to 100 copies (worldwide) and housed in hand-stitched cork sleeves (from a sustainable source)

The musical content is acoustically-challenged, inverted and lo-fi, an amalgamation of tanglible styles, pedal-work and mangled, modern conversions that combine the audible landscapes into one bigger image. Each song has been constructed from live workings and sketches of sound and field recordings, stitched together with fine acoustic thread and broken down into less accessible fragments to be built up again into mutual timings and compositions.

Also make sure to grab yourself five wonderful tracks from the new project (for free) as they are a delicious appetizer to the new release.

Download the tracks from here

www.hessien.net
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