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The Chilling Fields
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Hi.
I'm new here, and you you can find out all about my music at:
http://www.wonderport.com/TCF/index.htm
There are links to some free (full-length) downloads, including recent releases, work-in-progress and some archive rarities (so rare that I've lost the masters in some instances...).
After starting out a long time back on guitar, I'm now exploring the ambient/electronic zone, using a combination of instruments, samples and sound-shaping software. Mood and atmosphere are the important things, but I like to experiment by juxtaposing elements that don't usually get found in bed together: cocktail jazz beats with drifting orchestral synth soundscapes would be an example.
Let me know what you think.
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Welcome Mr. Fields! Nice music!
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| elektro80 wrote: | | Welcome Mr. Fields! Nice music! |
Thank-you!
Gracie and W.C. were delighted you enjoyed it.
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 Gerald.
You have a very nice site. I see you have been at this for a while. I can tell from the music. Very fine stuff. I like the timbres and the textures you use. Your stuff has a nice controlled and laid back sound. Quite enjoyable. |
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| mosc wrote: | | : I see you have been at this for a while. |
Sure have.
In the Seventies I was hanging out with Amon Duul, Ash Ra and Klaus Schulze, as well as working on the early days of the Virgin label. I just played guitar at home for fun. I joined a band in '77 and played punk/pop/electro stuff around London for a few years before releasing an album ('Elevator To Eden' on Fire Records) as Lives of Angels in 1985. It was guitar-based but influenced by '80s synth-pop and '60s San Francisco psychedelia. I got sick of the music business and began painting and drawing instead:
http://www.gacoc.demon.co.uk
(so at least my Disparate releases have nice covers!) - the strange thing about getting Elevator To Eden out was that I enjoyed doing the cover artwork more than doing the music. That's what happens when there's a worry about 'who's going to like this?' at the back of your mind while composing, playing and recording. Now I just do it.
Back when I was hanging out with people like Klaus Schulze I had wanted to do that kind of music, but didn't have the resources. I would compose hour-long pieces in my imagination, but had no way of conveying a note of them to anybody else in an intelligible form. By the year 2000 things were different and I had a PC... Who says there's no such thing as progress?
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Schulze has kinda menitioned now and then that Virgin kept him under a lid or tightly secured in a box.. and he did not manage to release much on Virgin? Is that correct?
Amon Düül... great stuff.. I have their old lp´s somewhere.
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Yes, Klaus is aabsolutely right. They signed him because Tangerine Dream were profitable (Phaedra), but nobody on the label could get the plot with what he was doing, and it was a disaster. They really messed him around. Labels just should not do that kind of thing. As well as being bad for the artist's career, it is bad business: there is no point in failing to invest in an asset like that, and if you don't understand it you shouldn't acquire it.
I loathed the taste arbiters and cultural managers in A&R at Virgin 1974-6. They were incredibly snobbish about music. We soon parted company. Ironically, Branson subsequently imposed The Sex Pistols on his A&R people because he saw they were getting newspaper publicity on a scale that Virgin had never dreamed of... Two years prior to that I had been an object of ridicule because I enjoyed The New York Dolls!
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I think he stated once that Virgin signed him in order to keep him out of the way for TD.
Anyway.. Virgin released a lot of great music.. possibly by accident.. back in the 70s. Göttsching managed to get his "blackouts" out. Not bad at all.
Hmm... do you know David J. Park?
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Hmm... do you know David J. Park? |
Sorry, no.
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Right... back to the drawing board... hmm... I reckon there is no use in asking if ya know Attila the Hun?... No??
Hmm.. 
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