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[PF034] Saito Koji - Good Morning (2013)

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:16:00 +0400

Artist: Saito Koji
Album: Good Morning
Label: Pocket Fields
Format: CDr
Catalogue N°: PF034
Release date: May 2013

01. Saito Koji - Good Morning (60:00)

Saito Koji - is a master of of melodic minimalist drone ambient from Japanese Fakusima. Saito is always welcome-resident at respected labels such as taâlem, Ritural Colours, SEM, Resting Bell and Somehow Recordings.
PF034 - this is the first album of a double releas series of Saito Koji, specially written for the Pocket Fields. Material of the album is very characteristic of Saito’s music creation. This is repeated cycles of guitar loops placed in a viscous, covering texture of the background sounds. During the hearing, musical moving changes so harmonious that it’s hard to notice.
Ths album is the first part of series and devoted to morning awakening.. going out of sleeping warmth right to the ocean of warm morning sun.
“Good Morning” and have a nice day..

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Coming soon..

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:59:00 +0400

Pocket Fields presents new spring gig

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:53:00 +0400

First time together in Russia:
29 March 2013 - “Would you like to know more?”

:: Pleq
:: Celer
:: Christoph Heemann
:: Hollywood Dream Trip
:: Fabio Orsi & Valentina Besegher
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Впервые в России! Легенды мировой эмбиент-сцены Celer (США) и Christoph Heemann (Германия) представляют совместный проект Hollywood Dream Trip. Выступление пройдет в рамках европейского турне в поддержку их первого совместного альбома “Would you like to know more?”. Помимо выступления дуэта, а также сольных сетов от Celer и Химанна, вас будут ждать Pleq (Польша) и Fabio Orsi (Италия) — успевшие завоевать широкую популярность музыканты. За видеосопровождение отвечает Valentina Besegher (Германия). Не пропустите одно из самых знаковых музыкальных событий этой весны!
Pleq (Poland)
http://pleq.bandcamp.com
Celer (USA)
http://celer.bandcamp.com
Christoph Heemann (Germany)
http://christophheemann.de
Fabio Orsi (Italy) & Valentina Besegher (Germany)
http://fabioorsi.bandcamp.com
http://vimeo.com/besegher

[PF033] the Picturesque Episodes - Singularity

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:44:47 +0400

Artist: the Picturesque Episodes
Album: Singularity
Label: Pocket Fields
Format: Digital
Catalogue N°: PF033
Release date: January 2013

01. the Picturesque Episodes - Nothing Ever Changes (03:33)
02. the Picturesque Episodes - Void Angels I (04:05)
03. the Picturesque Episodes - Void Angels II (05:34)
04. the Picturesque Episodes - It’s Exhausting Being A Black Hole (02:24)
05. the Picturesque Episodes - Fields Of Gold (04:44)
06. the Picturesque Episodes - Lifemachine (06:02)
07. the Picturesque Episodes - Flower From The Asteroids (05:11)
08. the Picturesque Episodes - Singularity (03:26)

“Singularity” is new EP by the Picturesque Episodes. Pure winter atmosphere by young ambient master from Lithuania - Darius Gerulis. This might be the last the Picturesque Episodes album before a longer break because main author focus is now on his another project, the organic electronica - “King Sleep”. 100% filled with love and peace.

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He Can Jog -"Pocket Suite" on Vuzh Music.

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:41:00 +0400

He Can Jog’s “Pocket Suite” album was listed & reviewed on “Vuzh Music” blog in post about authers favorite netlabel releases of the year.
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Soundtrack by Jacob Kirkegaard for The Golden Beetle (Le...

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:45:00 +0400

Soundtrack by Jacob Kirkegaard for The Golden Beetle (Le scarabée d’or) silent film from 1907. Director Segundo de Chomón. Commissioned by Touch and the BFI, 2012

Pocket Fields presents SIMON WHETHAM @ GEZ-21 [Saint-Petersburg, 13 October]

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:33:00 +0400

Monochrome Vision, Pocket Fields presents:
13 October __ Saint-Petersburg __ GEZ-21

SIMON WHETHAM
• Field Recordings, Soundscapes
• info: www.simonwhetham.co.uk

FERNANDO PERALES
• Experimental, Ambient
• info: http://fernandoperales.wordpress.com

KLUGE
• Experimental, Ambient, Drone
• info: http://kluge.bandcamp.com

[PF031] Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest - Somewhere In Between

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:37:00 +0400

Artist: Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest
Album: Somewhere In Between
Label: Pocket Fields
Format: CDr
Catalogue N°: PF031
Release date: October 2012

01. Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest - Newt (04:17)
02. Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest - A Dream (07:44)
03. Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest - Somewhere In Between (06:42)
04. Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest - Alleviation (02:34)
05. Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest - Zephyrus (04:04)
06. Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest - Tyranny (06:38)
07. Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest - Closure (01:57)

So..finally and again we glad to present Gimu and Emily and their Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest. Their second album called “Somewhere In Between”. Emily wrote and record the poetry and Gimu creates the sound around the music. The idea of the album is to place poetry in a wall of sound. Sometimes you can hear the poems, sometimes they are built in as a part of the music. They both wanted to work together as soon as meeting through the internet. In hopes that they could create something different together. Second album is full of details and some inner emotions. The sound became denser and more saturated. Poetic monologue appear from nowhere and are dissolved in the waves of sound as in the sea. Music reflects the mood of the poet as well as personal experiences of a musician. Filing of space, isolation and loneliness impact in the visualization and design the album. Iceland.. Amazing place with stunning scenery, black beaches and hot geysers.
Inside you can find grass and mosses collected in different parts of Iceland.

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Somewhere In Between CDr review

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:35:00 +0400

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[PF032] the Picturesque Episodes - Young Galaxy

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:27:00 +0400

Artist: the Picturesque Episodes
Album: Young Galaxy
Label: Pocket Fields
Format: Digital
Catalogue N°: PF032
Release date: June 2012

01. the Picturesque Episodes - Young Galaxy (04:20)
02. the Picturesque Episodes - Escape Your Rhodes Heart (03:05)
03. the Picturesque Episodes - Movement (02:49)
04. the Picturesque Episodes - With You (04:26)
05. the Picturesque Episodes - Mothership (02:44)
06. the Picturesque Episodes - Magic Void (03:41)
07. the Picturesque Episodes - Collisions (04:42)
08. the Picturesque Episodes - Old Static (03:39)
09. the Picturesque Episodes - Nothing Beyond (05:34)

“Young Galaxy” is second album by the Picturesque Episodes released on Pocket Fields. Ranging from lullaby-like string ambiance to noisy repetitive breakdowns and accidental noise records; from distortion driven post-rock to glitch minimal; from obscure noise to polished pop songs - THE PICTURESQUE EPISODES covers much musical ground and include many diverse music genres with exceptional attention to the narrative structure of music.
It does serve as a part of the Picturesque Episodes’s sci-fi story. This story already now includes 4 albums - “Constellations”, “Cosmogenesis”, “Endless Lullabies” and “Lonesome Sky In H Minor”. It’s a collection of memories and a story of losing your loved one without ever being able to say ‘goodbye’.

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Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest 2nd album coming soon on CD-R

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:11:00 +0400

Alleviation

hidden across stagnant trees
old souls howl
against the panes of winter
waiting to be enveloped
gathering an underground death
where the touch of torrential rains
and tears shed
relieve the comfort of confinement

"Reag" @ Indie Rock Mag

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:50:00 +0400

Review about Bardoseneticcube - “Reag” @ Indie Rock Mag
http://www.indierockmag.com/article19461.html

Great upGrade..

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:37:43 +0400

We are glad to inform you that Pasha Semenov (one of our Pocket Fields family - P.S.) has upgrate his web page - Artestonia..

Please visit: www.artestonia.info

[PF030] Item Caligo - Go away, I Want To Sleep

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:17:00 +0400

Artist: Item Caligo
Album: Go away, I Want To Sleep
Label: Pocket Fields
Format: Digital
Catalogue N°: PF030
Release date: July 2012

01. Item Caligo - Intro (05:18)
02. Item Caligo - A Monster Without A Name (11:09)
03. Item Caligo - Yuki (07:25)
04. Item Caligo - no sense (06:33)
05. Item Caligo - Johann (08:20)
06. Item Caligo - Die, Make Others Happy (12:19)

The album continues the theme of escape from reality, inherent in the second “The nigth of escapism”. The source of inspiration getting from works of Urasava Naoki and Nagar Tanigawa. Artwork: Gomzikov I.

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[PF029] Bardoseneticcube - Reag

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:10:00 +0400

Artist: Bardoseneticcube
Album: Reag
Label: Pocket Fields
Format: Digital
Catalogue N°: PF029
Release date: June 2012

01. Bardoseneticcube - Reag Part 01 (20:28)
02. Bardoseneticcube - Reag Part 02 (14:19)
03. Bardoseneticcube - Reag Part 03 (15:10)
04. Bardoseneticcube - Reag Part 04 (14:39)
05. Bardoseneticcube - Reag Part 05 (10:45)

Bardoseneticcube was formed in summer 1998. The most precise definition of their music is surrealism: “pure psychic automatism willing to express the real functioning of the reflection either orally or written, or in any other form. Dictation of mind without any control from the intellect, outside of any aesthetic of moral considerations”. During it’s lifetime the project has released more than 20 albums in Russia and abroad, took part in various compilations and festivals. Bardoseneticcube was involved in several sound installations. The project’s live shows are usually supported by video which is considered the integral part of the performance. This is always improvisation in which both listeners and acoustic characteristics of the space are involved. The live sound stylistically varies from techno-shamanic trance to the baffling harsh-noise and electro-acoustic experiments. Application of the original sonic “system” and psychoacoustic apparatus allows the band to achieve the unbelievably wide frequency range, from infralow to ultrahigh. The project members professionally and with dilettantish persistence extract sounds from everything that can sound: computers and contact mics, ethnic instruments and electronic processing, water and field recordings, all this happens during conducting pseudo-magickal rituals and materializes in surreal sonic pictures which don’t have any relation to music, both in ordinary and “not ordinary” meaning of this term. Or maybe they are just pulling your legs..

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PS and Kluge - a small new thing..

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:12:00 +0400

P S and Kluge - The Summertime Evening by Post Scr_ptum

Very soon!

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:02:00 +0400

In near future on Pocket Fields:
Bardoseneticcube “REAG”

bsc.radionoise.ru

Ekca Liena's last album review at HFIS

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:17:00 +0400

Daniel W J Mackenzie, perhaps best known through his nickname Ekca Liena, has gradually made a name in the English underground music. Light Procession is his 9th album approved by the Pocket Field label based in St. Petersburg.

2 weeks to wait for the jewel. More than 2,000 km as the crow flies to transport the package. I press the play button, having a vague idea of the result thanks to the preview that you can listen on the label website. This album is a true thermal shock in a (almost) sunny June like that, it seems like striking of depth. The six tracks which make up this Light Procession form a purely dreamlike cocktail of styles.

Channel, the opening track, is simply brilliant: the layers merge with our neurons and transport us to an electric, thick and buzzing drone/noise.

Like a Nakamal with its introduction strangely frightening and ambience recorded as thousands of kilometers offshore, Ekca Liena’s music sometimes move on tribal sounds through the songs, also taking as an example Stratos Fire, which pitches us all of a sudden a totally wild and transcendent drum. Icy drones and jovial rhythmics crashes, with a quite surprising result.

With the first part of the diptych Aileron, the English man shows a real talent for beautifully delicate and uncluttered ambient. The closing track is to me the best, thanks to the omnipresence of strings and the surrounding suspense which prevails until the end of Ember Shimmer’s 10 minutes.

The CD is produced in limited edition to 100 copies, with at stake a nice hand-made fabrication. I suggest you listening to the preview linked higher, and why not get a copy

Have Faith!

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[PF028] He Can Jog - Pocket Suite

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:46:00 +0400

Artist: He Can Jog
Album: Pocket Suite
Label: Pocket Fields
Format: Digital
Catalogue N°: PF028
Release date: June 2012

01. He Can Jog - Sending Dreams to She Downstream (08:37)
02. He Can Jog - Goat Formants (16:50)

“Pocket Suite” is EP composed by He Can Jog - american computer musician Erik Schoster. In 25 minutes of “Pocket Suite” we find all features of modern electronica: digital glitch textures, dronescapes, bitstream ambience, mention of melodic, microsound. This music is generated with a system that Erik Schoster`s worked on in the python programming language called ‘fabric’. Fabric is a work in progress, and this music was written during a pretty early stage of its life.
‘Sending dreams to she downstream’ takes its title from a poem by WC Tank. Erik was interested in messing around with rhythm and seeing what was possible with the synthesis routines he’m working on in fabric, so this one has things in it that resemble rhythm from time to time.
‘Goat formants’ is for william the goat and is mostly manipulations of a recording of his goat voice.

A collection of python scores for the Pocket Fields label.
Fall 2011 - Winter 2012

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Quiet Correlations review at eartickles.com

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:59:40 +0400

Andrew Lahiff – Quiet Correlations

Andrew Lahiff, a composer of ambient, space and electronic music, started to make his music available via the web in 2002. This is his nineteenth release, and his first to be issued on the Pocket Fields netlabel.

Andrew opens the album with “An Image of the Earth”, which glides in and pins the listener into a space between bass and high treble. Liquid notes flow across the room, burbling and gurgling gorgeously as the track opens out. Little high notes dance elegantly above huge organic pads, evoking the beauty of the earth’s globe balanced perfectly in space. Next, “Oak, Snow and Ice” finds us in winter, but with a warm glow from the sun, even in this cold. The use of the stereo soundfield here is vibrant and engaging. Gentle metallic coils suspend themselves above reverb-laden pads, which become notes, which become pads again.

Track three, “The Dream Lives Forever”, is the album’s longest, running to eleven minutes. It’s very enigmatic. Moving slowly, and almost with hesitation, it shifts across long spans of scintillating synth chords in a soft ambient swathe. This is truly ethereal and sublime music. In “Alpine Glaciers”, gentle drips of melting iceflows tap away at the surface below, as we observe the endless conversion of ice to water. Cold, yet with an ever-beating heart of warmth inside.

“Stones and Ornaments” places us among both forgotten and remembered objects. A sense of nostalgia is ever present, but it’s almost as though we’re not sure what it is that we’re trying to remember. Stones and ornaments can be one and the same, but there is internal conflict in the music about which of those we see. In “Cliffs at the Edge of Time”, there’s a sense of unease and foreboding. This piece isn’t dark, but it seems to be full of questions about the future. Crackles ripple off to the left and right, and the structured centre tries to halt that fragmentation with a long, shifting pad which appears and recedes again, and is gone.

The final third of “Quiet Correlations” starts with “New Beginnings”, a tender piece which has just the right amount of yearning for the birth of something new. Never cloying, never over-seasoned, it’s life-affirming in a subtle, positive way. Something new is definitely upon us. “Luminous Approaches” begins as the edgiest piece on the album, heralding imminent changes which bring with them a degree of internal conflict. The instrumentation here is wonderful; everything is in exactly the right place. The highest notes of the music hang over us like a thin, gently moving canopy.

The penultimate track “Follow the Mountains” is somewhat mysterious. Long ambient pads stretch out, as far as we can know. The planet turns slowly, and distant creatures cry out in the night. There’s a sense of everything moving back into the right place – into correct, new-yet-familiar spaces. It’s disquieting, but not foreboding. The track closes with a repetitive synth trill which fades into silence.

For “Night on the Plateau”, we are left feeling chilly and bereft of shelter. Cold pads draw out in long voices. The noises of the unsettled night creatures continue; periodically, a bell rings as if to draw them ever closer. The album draws to a close with a seemingly unanswered question.

Andrew recently joined the roster of the wonderful Relaxed Machinery label, and his first release there is highly anticipated, both by the label and by this reviewer.

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