ARTIST...: Rough Fields
TITLE....: High Time
YEAR.....: 2014
LABEL....: Bomb Shop
CAT.NO...: BMS039
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 22:33
SIZE.....: 51,67 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44,1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2014/07/27
WEBSITE..: http://www.bagpak.net
TRACKLIST
01) (05:45) High Time
02) (09:07) ZERO7411310518296
03) (07:41) Cascade
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Following the breakthrough success of his first album "Edge of the Firelight"
("Astonishing music", Gilles Peterson; "Tremendous", Lauren Laverne; "...the new
Robert Wyatt!", Nick Luscombe) James Birchall aka Rough Fields retreated to a disused
Soviet weather station just inside the arctic circle for sixteen hard months of
recording and editing. That's not true, it didn't happen. Maybe it did. Maybe he dug
a vast recess in the inhospitable peat of the Pennines and made a squalid home,
detectable only by the hum of a generator and thin plumes of pungent smoke emerging
from the entrance. Maybe he infiltrated a catalogue sales company. Maybe he got
married, had kids. Maybe he traded the instruments for an estate car and thought a
lot about composting, started to notice the variety of birds in the garden, sorted
the drains out. Maybe he started living in a 4x4 Mazda with weak brakes. Maybe he
still does.
Either way - these tracks represent milestones on a significant journey from that
last record. "High Time" splashes its lens-flared waves over the front of your
speedboat, whilst "ZERO7411310518296" channels soporific Genesis vibes and tranced-
out arpeggios into twelve and a half minutes of balearic bliss. Finally, "Cascade"
follows a Pyrenean water course, building in motion and noise as it crashes towards a
high altitude lake.
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