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Mirko Uhlig & Dronæment - Farewell Fields Cat.#.: ERA 2048-2 Price: 13,00 € Order via email to info@exovo.org (
Press info: 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.
Reviews: “[...] To make a long story short, the first fruits of this collaboration are presented to you by the Czech label Nextera, who you might recognize from releases by Lustmord, The Hafler Trio or Klaus Wiese. Yes, we have entered the realm of true sound artists. The two artists who wrote "Farewell Fields" each already earned more than an ocassional liner-note. Mirko has been active for several years already as Aalfang Mit Pferdkopf and, under his own name, he released on amongst other labels Ex Ovo, Field Muzick and Drone Records. Marcus from Dronæment started his project on the border between two centuries and since then some twenty releases have seen the light of day on labels just as impressive as the ones who featured Mirko's work.Yes, we are talking about a new generation of soundartists and the natural question that follows is "What can we expect musically?" An hour's worth of minimal drone-influenced ambience. In "Para Puri" a theme of no more then four notes played on a guitar, mixed and intermitted through voices of unknown origin. "Fields (live)" forms the second half of the CD and, in contrast to the first track, it makes more use of different notes and the harmony created by the combination of them.[...]” Bauke van der Waal, Connexion Bizarre. To read the full review: www.connexionbizarre.net “[...] By all means, this is music to drift away to and to get lost to in a sensual spark of associations. With all of its differences, though, both tracks have something very important in common. They deal with rest and balance and proceed at their own pace. Even more importantly, they are emotional in a way usually reserved exclusively to Rock or Dance music, far away from cool intelectualisms or abstract philosphies: These picture postcards from a personal Woodstock are always aimed straight at the heart.” Tobias Fischer, Tokafi. To read the full review: www.tokafi.com “A brave move here from Nextera. None of these [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] They [...] do a great job, producing some excellent music, the best you can get these days. That alone justifies the release of their music on CD and before you know, we have our own new stars.” Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly #607. To read the full review: www.vitalweekly.net “Music as drops of dew falling gently on blooming flowers. This is how “Para Puri” by MirkoUhlig sounds like on this Farewell Fields CD. The guitar strings are touched softly. The sweet vibration of the string is sultry and breath taking by its sensitivity. The lonely guitar tones are drifting over the fields with dandelions heavy by the morning dew while the sky turns orange by the rising sun. Dronaement continues this CD with a live recording of “Fields” and has the same calming effect as the Mirko Uhlig track. The music is as an idyllic landscape with a brooklet slowly finding its way in a blossoming valley. You may compare this track with Stars of the Lid. The music is slow and serene like the babbling of water, still ice cold but warmed by the sun of spring. Languid we follow the stream as we pass a crackling mill peacefully doing its work while the sun increases in strength. Slowly this track evolves itself as there is more happening in the surrounding. It even gets melodic to the end with watery pulses and loops. [...]” Remco, Gothtronic. To read the full review: www.gothtronic.com “[...] Perfekt! [...]” Hellmuth Neidhardt, Unruhr. To read the full review: www.unruhr.de “[...] Dieses Gesamtobjekt "Farewell Fields" von Mirko Uhlig und Marcus Obst (Dronaement) muss den Stempel "hochwertvoll" erhalten. Wer Genuss ohne Reue will und Drones mag, sollte sich diese Publikation besorgen. In meinen Augen besteht Kaufpflicht!!! Die zwei Herrschaften sind definitiv auf einem gemeinsamen Weg, nämlich auf dem zum Drone Olymp.” Raphael Feldmann, Feindesland. To read the full review: www.feindesland.de
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