Three Fields - Wild Blue Yonder (Installed Worlds Label)

Its a strange coincidence that I spent this whole Sunday morning listening to Birmingham producer Three Fields’ back-catalogue, before he dropped, unannounced, a new two-track release, ‘Waiting’ on his Sound cloud page. Its a sound with which I’m becoming obsessed, lonely, 4am electronic music built from the distant sounds of industrialisation, equal parts earthly and Eno-esque as the depths of unimaginable space. Cold like the raw, barren, industrialised heathland of the Midlands, associated at least in my head with the night-time mystique of crop circles, fields and the shrubs and bushes of rural British or Eastern European agriculture.

I find it difficult to avoid contradiction in describing Three Fields sounds; ‘Waiting’ procures a degenerative and acidic mist out of which a striking melancholy seeps and trickles. ‘The High Clouds’ has a slower decay, surrounded by a ghoulish web of chordal patterns, by which it is never quite engulfed.

Three Fields has two EPs to date, ‘Irregular Verbs’ (2010), and ‘Promenade’ (2011). His third, ‘Wild Blue Yonder’ will be released November 21st 2011. I’ve posted ‘Like Vortices’ already, from the release. See below for today’s offerings.

Stream, in full, the Wild Blue Yonder EP here.

Waiting by Three Fields

The High Clouds by Three Fields

Three Fields - Like Vortices (MP3)

From Birmingham, UK, a song reminiscent of all of the following: cold winters, night-time skies, and the eery depths of space. At the core ‘Like Vortices’ is rooted in a mathematical repetition; polyrhythmicised by an explorative surge of distant chords which seep slowly into the forefront of the mix. As the song builds a careful thud thickens, and scintillating frequencies fill the furthest corners of the cosmos. There’s currently 26 equally absorbing trips streaming over at the Three Fields sound cloud, including their three month old, Wild Blue Yonder EP, as streaming below.

Wild Blue Yonder by Three Fields