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Solar Fields - Leaving Home

Label:
Catalog#:
INRE 017
Format:
CD, Album, Mixed, Digipak
Country:
France
Released:
Oct 2005
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Experimental, Ambient

Tracklist

1   Home 4:41 X
    Vocals, Percussion - Magnus Birgersson
2   Time Slide 5:01 X
    Vocals, Veena, Sitar, Percussion - Magnus Birgersson
3   Insum 8:23 X
    Performer [Harmonical Acoustic Instruments] - Magnus Birgersson
4   Star Fruit 1:05 X
5   Magnetosphere (Star Fruit Part 2) 2:44 X
6   Stereo Hypnosis (Magnetosphere Part 2) 4:08 X
7   Air Song 12:21 X
    Guitar, Vocals - Magnus Birgersson
8   Cocoon Moon (Glastonbury Festival 2005 Mix) 10:36 X
9   Monogram 15:44 X
10   Times Are Good 7:41 X
    Guitar - Magnus Birgersson
11   Leaving Home 7:27 X

Credits

Artwork By [Concept], Photography - Magnus Birgersson , Vincent Villuis
Artwork By [Making Up] - Mat Da Kat
Mastered By - Huby Sea
Photography - Andreas Ulvdell
Producer, Written-By - Magnus Birgersson

Notes

All tracks recorded at Studio Jupiter - Göteborg - Sweden.
Distribution By: [Ultimae.com/network] - Arabesque - Topplers - Chaos Unlimited - Farfield - Saiko Sounds - Karbon Distribution - Wirikuta - Psyshop - Backroads...

Matrix info: 0509019 www.gedm.com 02242AA2
Barcode: 3760121020055

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Rated 5/5
Review by kingwiltsu Jul 03, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
Solar Fields has matured a great deal since his last release Blue Moon Station in 2003. This album is full of fantastic mildly experimental floating chillout tracks. It's not really ambient in the true meaning of the word, but I guess you can call this ambient if you want.
I enjoy every moment of this album and this really states that nothing bad can come out from Ultimae.
Just wonderful fairytale-like album that should be found on every downtempo fans collection.
Review by Reticulum_Flux May 30, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
A pretty amazing album. Nothing else out there quite sounds like Solar Fields' style. Spacey ambience with guitar strings often added in and occasionally even distant vocals. The end result is very pleasing and I can't think of any other chill album that recreates the images this one provokes.

Some favorites of mine are Home, Time Slide and Insum. Great stuff. Make sure you check out his Extended album if you like Leaving Home.. its the sister album to it so to speak.
Rated 5/5
Review by DeathPosture Nov 23, 2005 (edited over 3 years ago)
Sonic chromatographies and equal differences…

Magnus Birgersson from Gøteborg, Sweden is one of the living chill-legends... Yeah, pretty much everything he has released has been solid gold – the previous two SL albums + the H.U.V.A. Network album + all the amazing compilation tracks… This guy is the ambient armadillo! And who else than Solar Fields could pull off a stunt like releasing two full length albums simultaneously!? Yeah – this is the ‘regular’ album whereas Extended is more of a concept thing (review to follow shortly!)… As mentioned above, Solar Fields has yet to let me down, and I’ve been looking forward to this album for a long time… Released on my fav’e chill-label Ultimae, this *has* to be good… Let’s find out…

Unique is the keyword here – this album is totally unique… The level of experimentation is unparalleled and style wise, this crosses back and forth between more genres than I care to count… But it’s still unmistakable Solar Fields down to the very last second… You wanna know what it really is? … It’s talent! The vast composing talents of Mr. Magnus Birgersson – the ambient armadillo! This is by far his most mature album – it’s definitely not as easily accessible as some of his previous instalments, but what is lacks in ‘easy listening’ it makes up for in fertility… This album is ripe of the bone, and will serve the listeners for light years to come… Give the extrovert parts some time to grow on you, and I’m sure they’ll come around… Most of them have for me!

As always with Ultimae, everything is top-drawer material here. From the beautiful artwork, down to the very last well-mastered second of audio-bliss… A safe buy for any fan of experimental ambient seasoned with nonconformist musical warps, twists and turns… Audio anarchy! Now stop reading, and go order this album… It’s amazing! … Enjoy!

Favourites: 2, 3(!!), 7(!), 9, 10(!!), 11(!)
Rated 3/5
Review by veers Nov 11, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)
Here Magnus Birgersson has changed his style.
Much more simplicity and acoustics than complex digital programming like in the former two albums (obviously two jewels of trance/ambient fairy).
It sounds easy listening.
Too much if you ask me.
Speaking from my spot, it lacks of depth and I dislike.

But the "Extended album" which goes along is quite a big revelation of sweetness and magics in sound design!!!
Check it!!!!!