(amb) Aes Dana & Solar Fields on Echoes

[John Diliberto]

We just had an incursion from the folks at France's Ultimae label.  They've been putting out some great, down-tempo electronica for years now. 

I've got an amusing interview with Aes Dana and Solar Fields on Echoes Monday night, July 14, and some recommendations on the Echoes Blog. http://tinyurl.com/5ft88h

They produce a brand of ambient music that has its roots in the 1970s space music made by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Jean-Michel Jarre. Unlike many artists that fit that description, Aes Dana and Solar Fields aren’t making retro-space music that sounds like it could’ve been synthesized 30 years ago, about the time they were all toddlers. Instead, their music is suffused with contemporary electronica, laptop composing and glitch edges.




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[Alan Lockett]

I must say I don't go much on this whole post-TD sub-cosmic downtempo-ambient-chill thing purveyed by Ultimae Records, though they do do it better than just about anybody. And I *am* an admirer of the Solar Fields releases, especially the excellent Extended. I have to say, however, that his latest effort, Earthshine, is a tired re-heating of some genre-bound flabby psy-trance tosh that SF must have pulled out from the arse end of god knows what old hard disk of his to meet some kind of release schedule requirement. A definite blot on an otherwise distinguished copybook. In order not to end on a wholly derogatory note, I would add that I Awake's recent "The Core" was a decent exploratory effort.

alan

John Diliberto wrote:

We just had an incursion from the folks at France's Ultimae
label.  They've been putting out some great, down-tempo electronica
for years now.

I've got an amusing interview with Aes Dana and Solar Fields on
Echoes Monday night, July 14, and some recommendations on the Echoes
Blog. http://tinyurl.com/5ft88h

They produce a brand of ambient music that has its roots in the 1970s
space music made by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Jean-Michel
Jarre. Unlike many artists that fit that description, Aes Dana and
Solar Fields aren't making retro-space music that sounds like it
could've been synthesized 30 years ago, about the time they were all
toddlers. Instead, their music is suffused with contemporary
electronica, laptop composing and glitch edges.




John Diliberto
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[Jacob Newman]

geez, alan, i thought you tried to be all objective'n'stuff??? ;-)
*sigh*
and just so you know, you were wrong about "earthshine"...(it aint really my cup o tea, either, btw, but i have mad respect for that guy).

Q: With the release of Solar Fields’ "EarthShine," Ultimae saw the first full-length trance release. Is this a sign of what’s to come with Ultimae’s expanding sound or will the primary focus stay within the chill realm?

A: Once in a while we’ll release trance. But our main focus is on ambient and many of it forms. We released this album from Magnus because we love his music and so do a lot of people. It had been played at several festivals nad many people asked for the album. It took a few years for Magnus to do this leap and get this out of his system. We’re all happy about it. But for him as for us it doesn’t mean trance is the path we’ll be trading in the future.

http://www.gaian-mind.com/gmsf2008ultimae.htm

2 wonderful friends of mine are close with the ultimae camp (one just became a label dj for them)....and i can tell you they don't release stuff just to meet a schedule...

.jacob


--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Alan Lockett <Alan.R.Lockett@...> wrote:

From: Alan Lockett <Alan.R.Lockett@...>
Subject: Re: (amb) Aes Dana & Solar Fields on Echoes
To: ambient@...
Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 2:22 PM

I must say I don't go much on this whole post-TD sub-cosmic
downtempo-ambient-chill thing purveyed by Ultimae Records, though they do do
it better than just about anybody. And I *am* an admirer of the Solar Fields
releases, especially the excellent Extended. I have to say, however, that
his latest effort, Earthshine, is a tired re-heating of some genre-bound
flabby psy-trance tosh that SF must have pulled out from the arse end of god
knows what old hard disk of his to meet some kind of release schedule
requirement. A definite blot on an otherwise distinguished copybook. In
order not to end on a wholly derogatory note, I would add that I Awake's
recent "The Core" was a decent exploratory effort.

alan


John Diliberto wrote:

> 
> We just had an incursion from the folks at France's Ultimae 
> label.  They've been putting out some great, down-tempo electronica 
> for years
 now.
> 
> I've got an amusing interview with Aes Dana and Solar Fields on 
> Echoes Monday night, July 14, and some recommendations on the Echoes 
> Blog. http://tinyurl.com/5ft88h
> 
> They produce a brand of ambient music that has its roots in the 1970s 
> space music made by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Jean-Michel 
> Jarre. Unlike many artists that fit that description, Aes Dana and 
> Solar Fields aren't making retro-space music that sounds like it 
> could've been synthesized 30 years ago, about the time they were all 
> toddlers. Instead, their music is suffused with contemporary 
> electronica, laptop composing and glitch edges.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John Diliberto
> ((( (((echoes))) )))
> Producer/Host
> 1-610-827-9600
> 
> Read the Echoes Blog-Hear Echoes 24/7-Sign up for Echoes Interview 
> Podcast, Join us
 at www.myspace.com/echoesspace
> http://www.echoes.org
> 
> Mail To:
> Echoes
> P.O. Box 256
> Chester Springs, PA 19425
> Ship to:
> Echoes
> 1709 Art School Rd.
> Chester Springs, PA 19425
> 
> 

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[Alan Lockett]

Well, Jacob, to take you seriously for a moment (just for a moment, mind ;-)), not only do I not recognise the construct of 'objectivity' as a compelling aim in music writing, but I also see no reason - even where an artist has previously produced only the most fragrant of sweetmeats, so to speak - not to yell 'smelly!' when there is a cheese-y elephant of his in the room, as it were...
You may freely continue to indulge your 'mad respect', but I reserve my right to critical dissidence.

alan
 

Jacob Newman wrote:

geez, alan, i thought you tried to be all objective'n'stuff??? ;-)
*sigh*
and just so you know, you were wrong about "earthshine"...(it aint really my cup o tea, either, btw, but i have mad respect for that guy).

[Jacob Newman]

oh, alan....

i think you took me a little too seriously =)  of course you have every right to your opinion (i never said you didn't - that was not the point).  the point was, your shite-talking, however sincere, is bound to get some responses now and again...  and folks (like myself) might reserve the right to respond to you.  no?

c'mon alan...lets go out for beer.  i honestly hope we cross paths one of these days....no bitterness on my end....

pieces,

.jacob

--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Alan Lockett <Alan.R.Lockett@...> wrote:

From: Alan Lockett <Alan.R.Lockett@...>
Subject: Re: (amb) Aes Dana & Solar Fields on Echoes
To: ambient@...
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 5:35 PM

Well, Jacob, to take you seriously for a moment (just for a moment, mind
;-)), not only do I not recognise the construct of 'objectivity' as a
compelling aim in music writing, but I also see no reason - even where an
artist has previously produced only the most fragrant of sweetmeats, so to
speak - not to yell 'smelly!' when there is a cheese-y elephant of his
in
the room, as it were...
You may freely continue to indulge your 'mad respect', but I reserve my
right to critical dissidence.

alan
 

Jacob Newman wrote:
> 
> 
> geez, alan, i thought you tried to be all objective'n'stuff??? ;-)
> *sigh*
> and just so you know, you were wrong about "earthshine"...(it
aint really
> my cup o tea, either, btw, but i have mad respect for that guy).
> 
> 

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