engine idling, around 5am

spain

piles of books in a photo

going to be able

Engine Idling, Around 5am

Going To Be Able

Save Our Steel

Order

Spain

(Spain int)

The Palace From Here

She Came Around, Advised

Celebrating, Repeatedly

(The Palace int)

Machinefabriek's remix of 'Songs Well Known' from our debut album, 'They Shook Hands for Hours'.

Songs Well Known (Machinefabriek Remix)

Winter North Atlantic - Drifts and Panels (Fieldhead remix)

Back in January 2012, Western Front in Vancouver asked me to produce two hours of music to play at their 'Circle of Sleep' event over the weekend of January 20th - 21st 2012. I wasn't quite sure what to do, but ended up sat in a very dark room late in to the night on January 21st and played the slowest, most minimal piece of music I've ever played to a group of sleeping people.

This is an excerpt of that piece, and I've made it available for 'pay what you like' download over at Bandcamp - https://fieldhead.bandcamp.com/album/vancouver-21-01-12. It's meant to be played as a single two hour track, but it's impossible to upload a file that big, so it's been cut in to five tracks. Feel free to download for free, but if you'd like to pay anything that would be lovely.

We're currently working on the next studio album, which is (so far) proving to be the least 'ambient' thing we've done, so this felt like a nice time too share the other end of the spectrum.

Enjoy, and sleep well.

Paul.

**Details:**
'Vancouver 21-01-12'
Track listing:
1 [25:08]
2 [23:15]
3 [28:45]
4 [27:09]
5 [14:09]

Released 22/06/15.

Vancouver 21-01-12 (excerpt - 3)

The first track I ever did under the name 'Fieldhead', a remix of The Declining Winter's 'Yorkcitythree', released on the 'Rmxs' album in 2008.

The Declining Winter - Yorkcitythree (Fieldhead Remix)

Taken from 'we've all been swimming', our third album out on June 30th on Home Assembly Music. Pre-order athttps://homeassemblymusic.bandcamp.com/album/weve-all-been-swimming.

meet me somewhere central

Taken from the split EP 'Crest', released on Static Caravan records in 2010.

SOLD OUT

Iris to Hypnos - Hypodermic (Fieldhead remix)

From the debut self-released EP, 'Introductions'.

Almost Everything There is to Know

We’ve All Been Swimming

Meet Me Somewhere Central

They Shook Hands for Hours

Taken from the EP 'down the middle, belle vue'. Available on Bandcamp: https://fieldhead.bandcamp.com/album/down-the-middle-belle-vue.

down the middle, belle vue

sky peals

neon, ugly

Taken from the EP, '(photograph)'. Available on Bandcamp: https://fieldhead.bandcamp.com/album/photograph

distant

Fieldhead is Paul Elam, with Elaine Reynolds. Based in London and Manchester, UK, they produce electronic music that ranges from geography inspired tape loops to tense synth and violin led tracks. They have released three studio albums and a number of EPs (including 'Fury and Hecla', a collaborative release with Loscil). Their most recent album is ‘we’ve all been swimming’, released by Home Assembly Music on June 30th 2017.

The latest album marks something of a shift for Fieldhead. Previous releases have seen Elam take a detached view from the hillsides of West Yorkshire and Western Canada, but with his latest full length the subject matter is closer and more immediate. Tensely wound synths lead throughout the album, shifting from the breathless momentum of the opening track through to pulses reminiscent of Colin Stetson on ‘ton’. The unique violin playing of Elaine Reynolds glides sparingly across the record, tempering the constantly shifting arpeggios and accentuating the human elements within the record’s machine-like core. The haze found on previous records still hangs, but now it’s the haze of a crowded street or the last train home.

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