Hourglass Nebula is one of six pieces taken from my album "The Veil". The Veil is available to download as a Bandcamp subscriber exclusive release.
https://adamfielding.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Artwork: The Engraved Hourglass Nebula; Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA/ESA

The Veil

Hourglass Nebula

Another collaboration with my good friend Tom Pritchard, this time featuring the lovely vocals of Holly Nelson aka A Million Tiny Architects (along with me and Tom as well... just for good measure). I'd like to extend a huge "thank you" to Holly for lending her brilliant vocal stylings to this song.
https://soundcloud.com/amilliontinyarchitects

Both Tom & Holly worked on the original song structure and vocals before sending it my way, where I fleshed out the ending, tinkered with the mix and arrangement and added some more vocals & guitar parts.

Download the song in MP3 format here: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fx84wk9j76sg5oa/Take%20My%20Hand.mp3?dl=1

...or WAV format here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/69fhq0iaoebu3cs/Adam%20Fielding%20%26%20Tom%20Pritchard%20-%20Take%20My%20Hand%20feat.%20Holly%20Nelson.wav?dl=1

Update: so, nine years after this was written, apparently it was the subject of an online hunt - I genuinely love that for a brief moment it was "lost media" of a sort :) I've updated the download links above so it should work again.

Adam Fielding & Tom Pritchard - Take My Hand feat. Holly Nelson

Someday Soon

Falter was first written in early 2017. It was during a time when I was having a huge crisis of confidence in both the quality of my music and my ability to continue working on musical endeavours full-time, and I felt like I was in a place where I was constantly failing and having to pick myself up over and over again.

Lyrically it's a pretty straight-forward "shit happens, overcome it, deal with it" theme mixed with a bit of a sense of "I'm trying my hardest and it's not enough, and I'm tired of other people making this look easy". During the busier moments I'd initially planned to write something resembling (shock!) an actual chorus, but I just couldn't get it to work and, in frustration, ended up recording something very similar to what ended up in the final song. In hindsight, I feel like it captured that sense of pent-up frustration quite nicely!

I've always had a particular fondness for modern prog metal, and this song was a bit of an attempt to jam my 2017 cinematic/trailer production-work stylings and that more metal-y leaning together and see what pops out. For the longest time I thought it was disjointed, and it was only after I posted an early demo to Soundcloud that I realised "yeah, but I actually quite like that about it". It's a track of contrasts, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Lyrics:
We falter,
And overcome.

Still we stand tall,
As embers fall.

Rise to the call.

You crossed the line.
Now answer, why?

You had your turn,
Now watch it burn.
Come take your place,
Let’s raise the stakes.

Face your fears,
Don’t lose your grip.

Don’t falter now,
Don’t fail me now.
 
Don't fail me now.

Falter

Moments was the first song I finished in 2021, and - despite the actual tone of the song - I originally wrote it as a bit of a personal "fuck you, world" to the general circumstance and feeling of the time. I'd just spent the past December in quite an odd COVID/lockdown/2020-y fashion, and wanted to write something with a bit of a positive feel that (both lyrically and stylistically) represented how I at least try to view situations like that nowadays.

The song itself is based on a sentiment that I've found myself coming back to time and time again over the last few years in particular, and one which really came to the fore in 2020. When things seem particularly grim I have to remind myself that, yes, this will pass, and if I ever doubt myself in that regard I like to look back on earlier memories or events and remind myself "those times will come again". It's not a lament on times past or something like that - just a reminder that even when things look bleak, it'll pass... But wallowing in memories for too long can be a dangerous place, as well.

Stylistically I'd spent a lot of 2020 listening to music that I found comforting rather than listening to anything particularly challenging (something I've since rectified!), and that definitely rubbed off on how this tune came together in a big way. I wanted something that felt like a bit of a call back to the kind of vocal tunes I used to write back when I first started recording vocals, but with a bit of an extra production and mixing "sheen" that comes as a natural consequence of having learned more about that kind of stuff since I first started out. I had a blast putting this one together, and I hope that comes through a bit in the final track.

Lyrics:
Another place, another time.
Find your way inside,
Place yourself there.

Why, as everything becomes undone,
Do I find hope within these moments?
I find hope within the moments in my mind.

This too shall pass.
Try to recollect the scene,
And you will find yourself there again-

Right as everything becomes undone,
I find hope within these moments.
I find hope within the moments in my mind.

How long can we wrap ourselves in memories,
Before we lose ourselves?
How far would you go?

How far?

Why, as everything becomes undone,
Do I find hope within these moments?
I find hope within the moments.
Right as everything becomes undone,
I found hope within these moments. 
I found hope within the moments in my mind.

We found hope within the moments.

Moments

Long Climb Home is the first track from the Bandcamp exclusive release Fluid Dynamics.

https://adamfielding.bandcamp.com/album/fluid-dynamics

Long Climb Home

Entoptic Recall is one of ten tracks taken from my Bandcamp subscriber/Patreon exclusive release "Selected Tracker Works" written using the Polyend Tracker.

Selected Tracker Works

Entoptic Recall

Can You See was originally started in 2020, but it wasn't until 2021 that I found the impetus to really dig into it properly. It was originally started as a bit of a change of direction from most of the more electronic/synth-oriented tracks I was writing at the time, though there's certainly plenty of that in there as well.

The original message behind the song was the idea of wanting desperately to be reunited with someone you know you're never going to see again - whether literally or more in terms of who a person used to be. I hit a total stumbling block after writing about 80% of the track in 2020, and it was only after experiencing a loss of my own in 2021 that I found the necessary drive to finish it properly and give it the ending it deserved. To be honest, it was a hard process and I was feeling particularly raw at the time, but in a weird sort of way it gave me a real sense of closure in letting go & saying goodbye to a friend who I still miss dearly to this day. I still ended up re-visiting the track again in 2022 to flesh out the end of the track and to give it a little extra punch.

This is a bit of a mixture of my more poppy/rocky sensibilities that I'd been exploring with my past couple of singles combined with some of my more usual production sensibilities - so it's a nice mixture of live instrumentation, strings, acoustic drums, and deep synths/pads. I guess you could say there's an element of nu-prog (I still kind of hate that term but I guess it applies) in there as well, and although I wouldn't describe it as a heavy track tonally it deals with some pretty heavy subject matter and I thought it was nice to get some heavier instrumentation in there towards the tail end of the track.

Can You See was a real journey in terms of how it all came together in stages over an extended period of time. In the past, that sort of approach has often killed my enthusiasm for music that's either been "overcooked" or dragged out, but Can You See serves as an exception to that - to me it stands as one of my personal favourite solo tracks that I've worked on in a long time.

Lyrics:
All we've seen is all we've known.
Deny your sight - reach through.

I'll find you there.

So can you see what I see?
What will be, what we'll be.
Can you see what I see?
What will be, endlessly.
 
Do you see?
All that we are is written in the stars.
Where are you?
Come on home,
Just come on home to me.

So can you see what I see?
What will be, what we'll be.
Can you see what I see?
You and me, endlessly.

Can you see
All I see?
All we were
All we'll be

Am I not strong enough to let you go?
But there really is no other way.

Can you see now?

Can You See

Recorded live using a Lyra-8, Keyscapes, and my voice.

As Dawn Burns

Blindsight

Ice Cycles is taken from my album Sketches. Sketches is an instrumental album written in late 2023 - early 2024.

As has been my modus operandi of late, I had no intention of releasing these tracks when I started writing them - it was an outpouring of ideas, all of which I realised held a deep and personal meaning to me. It was only when I stopped and came back after a month or two that I realised that, yes, this is something people might want to hear. For me, it is the sound of autumn & winter condensed. Almost every track was created using original sound sources, and every track captures a very precise moment in my life.

Written during the winter months of 2023/2024, each "sketch" encapsulates a particular moment in time. Each track was born from an idea or a sound that piqued my interest - crunching leaves. The silence after snowfall. Children running home after school. Gentle rain. A ticking clock.

Sketches

Ice Cycles

I've been a fan of Andrew Sega's music in all of its many guises for a long time. I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that his earlier tracker works released as Necros were hugely influential to me, which is a trend that continued with his solo releases as The Alpha Conspiracy and, later on, his work with Reagan Jones as Iris. Even now, his work as XYZZY and as part of Hallowed Hearts continue to inspire me greatly.

Back in 2004 I came across the second Iris album "Awakening" and it absolutely blew me away. As a whole it just completely resonated with me, and I spent an awful lot of time during a very formative time in my life listening to that album. Vacant, in particular, stuck out with it's gorgeous atmosphere and existential lyrics. I had always wanted to try putting my own spin on it, and - finally - this year I decided to take the plunge and give it a go.

So, here it is - Vacant by Iris, remixed with a bit of a shoegaze/breaksy twist. I hope you enjoy it.

Iris - Vacant [Adam Fielding Remix]

Select Transmission is the second track from the album "Unrealism" by Adam Fielding.
Stream and download the entire album at https://adamfielding.bandcamp.com/album/unrealism

"Unrealism" is a jungle/DnB album by UK-based electronic musician Adam Fielding, written and recorded between 2020 - 2024 and released in May 2025.

"Unrealism" initially started out as a handful of jungle tunes written during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. I spent a lot of time during this lockdown looking back on the styles and artists that inspired me to write music as a teenager, which naturally led me to late 1990s/early 2000s jungle & dnb which was particularly prevalent in video game music at the time.

Despite starting out as a bit of enjoyable escapism during a not-particularly-enjoyable time, I found myself revisiting this style over the following years and broadening my scope to include whatever production techniques took my fancy. Early trackers, modern DAWs, vintage samples, and both era-appropriate and newer instruments all found a home in contributing to a singular aesthetic.

Select Transmission

You exist within a space
That no-one else will ever know
Your synapses firing
To make you whole

To pin our hopes and dreams on you
Is not our way
And we will welcome you with open arms

All we want for you is to be safe
All we want from you is to be kind

To exist as you choose is what we hope for you
To express who you are is all we want from you
And we will meet you any day now

All we hope for you is to be free
All we want for you is to be ours
If you'll let us

To exist as you choose is what we hope for you
To express who you are is all we want from you
And we will meet you any day now

Any Day Now

This is a track taken from my Bandcamp subscriber-exclusive release "Apparitions".

Apparitions is a series of instrumental ambient sketches written during January 2016, and is available exclusively to Bandcamp subscribers.

https://adamfielding.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Written, produced, performed, and mixed by Adam Fielding 
Artwork by Adam Fielding

That's Not Me

Midnight Trails

Track 8 from my ambient album "And All Is As It Should Be"

Find out more about the album here.
http://www.adamfielding.com/wordpress/?page_id=525

Where Is This Leading Me

You can hear a more recent revision of this track here:
https://soundcloud.com/adfielding/falter-1

we falter
and overcome

still we stand tall
as embers fall

rise to the call

(ahh)

you crossed the line
now answer, why

you had your turn
now watch it burn
come take your place
let’s raise the stakes

face your fears
don’t lose your grip

(ahh)

don’t falter now
don’t fail me now
 
(don’t fail me now)

Falter (2017 Demo)

Everything Felt New is taken from the album Mesmera, released on 8th August 2018.

Mesmera is an album of ambient/downtempo pieces by UK-based musician & producer Adam Fielding, written and recorded between 2016 - 2018.

Since the release of his first album, Adam Fielding has experimented with a wide variety of genres ranging from ambient to IDM, post-rock to synth-pop, and everything in-between. Mesmera sees Fielding taking on a renewed exploration of downtempo ambience, mixing organic and electronic instrumentation with a heavy focus on deep atmospheres and cinematic moods.

Mesmera is a representation of a daunting-yet-deeply rewarding journey, following themes of exploration, reflection, and imagination. Launching from the energetic expanse of Standing On The Precipice, the journey travels through celebrations of the unknown in Everything Felt New, deep introspection in the title track, through to freedom from the past in You Have To Let Go.

With Mesmera, Fielding playfully mixes the familiar with the unknown, crafting a unique album that is sure to be a rewarding listening for ambient & electronic music lovers.

Everything Felt New

This is an earlier version of track 6 from my album "Unforgotten". You can listen to and check out the rest of the album here-
https://adamfielding.bandcamp.com/album/unforgotten

Original text:
"I recently upgraded my ageing copy of Komplete 7 to Komplete 11, and started playing with Polyplex. Before I knew it, something was taking form so I decided to run with it. There's a healthy amount of Komplete in there, along with Cinematic Studio Strings for the orchestral string parts. Most of the synths are Europa with a dash of Poly6. Written, produced & mixed entirely in Reason, because of course it is."

Look Beyond The Past

You Have To Let Go is taken from the album Mesmera, released on 8th August 2018.

Mesmera is an album of ambient/downtempo pieces by UK-based musician & producer Adam Fielding, written and recorded between 2016 - 2018.

Since the release of his first album, Adam Fielding has experimented with a wide variety of genres ranging from ambient to IDM, post-rock to synth-pop, and everything in-between. Mesmera sees Fielding taking on a renewed exploration of downtempo ambience, mixing organic and electronic instrumentation with a heavy focus on deep atmospheres and cinematic moods.

Mesmera is a representation of a daunting-yet-deeply rewarding journey, following themes of exploration, reflection, and imagination. Launching from the energetic expanse of Standing On The Precipice, the journey travels through celebrations of the unknown in Everything Felt New, deep introspection in the title track, through to freedom from the past in You Have To Let Go.

With Mesmera, Fielding playfully mixes the familiar with the unknown, crafting a unique album that is sure to be a rewarding listening for ambient & electronic music lovers.

Mesmera

You Have To Let Go

Dreamy, glitchy, downtempo instrumental production tune with a light cinematic flavour.

Light And Shadow

A collaboration between myself and Tom Pritchard. All synths and the main song structure are by Tom Pritchard, with additional arrangement, drums & percussion, guitars, vocals and atmosphere by myself.

I'd been put off of collaborations for a while as I always ended up getting stalled when working on something, either through lethargy or just not feeling where the idea was going. I figured it was about time I had another crack at it, and last year asked Tom if he'd be interested in working on something together. He already had a rough song idea to work with, so he sent that over and I did my thing with it and we bounced it back and forth a few times until we ended up with this.

Download link is in WAV format, if you'd prefer an MP3 then please use this link.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9860948/CollabMP3/Contrails.mp3

Adam Fielding & Tom Pritchard - Contrails

This is the opening track from my album "Unforgotten". You can listen to and download the rest of the album for free here-

https://adamfielding.bandcamp.com/album/unforgotten

We Will Find Our Way

This is track 13 from my album Unforgotten. You can listen to and download the rest of the album for free here:
https://adamfielding.bandcamp.com/album/unforgotten

Satellite Retreat

This is a song that was recorded & produced live during a two hour live-stream recorded on the 13th August 2020 using Reason 11. You can check out an archived version of the stream here.
https://youtu.be/ibm3bbJAMhc

Contains samples from Wave Alchemy:
www.wavealchemy.co.uk

Artwork by sirius-sdz:
http://sirius-sdz.deviantart.com

Storm Approach

This is a song that was recorded & produced live during a two hour live-stream recorded on the 17th September 2020. You can check out an archived version of the stream here.
https://youtu.be/gQ3cD8tTS6M

Artwork by sirius-sdz:
http://sirius-sdz.deviantart.com

Liminal Sequence

This is a song that was recorded & produced live during a two hour live-stream recorded on the 1st October 2020. You can check out an archived version of the stream here.
https://youtu.be/J_gLITvDsYQ

Artwork by sirius-sdz:
http://sirius-sdz.deviantart.com

Pulling The Thread

This is a track taken from my album "Nocturnal Transmission", available now on Bandcamp and most major streaming platforms.

Nocturnal Transmission

Recollection

Test Flight

I recently picked up a Polyend Tracker. This is the first tune I've written using it as a standalone unit - it's nothing fancy, but I figured it'd make sense to acquaint myself with it by writing some jungle. I bloody love it! This is the direct export from the machine, no additional processing. Fun fact: the project file is just under 1mb in size.

Solstice

I tend to use this page as a spot for posting one-off tracks or ideas. For a more comprehensive selection of released works, check out my Bandcamp page.
http://adamfielding.bandcamp.com

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