HARMONIE FIELDS Drink From the Bowl

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Andres Barlesi and Richie Setford (from Argentina and New Zealand respectively) met in Berlin in 2015. Two musicians carving out a living as best they could in a foreign city, hungry for collaboration and eager to find a community within the local music scene. Over the next few years they shared concert stages and played on sessions together, but it wasn't until 2019 while they worked on a collection of Richie's solo work, that the concept of Harmonie Fields began to take shape. Andres was engineering those particular sessions and during the downtime he would play some of his archived sketches or demos; Richie has since described hearing these compositions as "like unearthing a collection of precious sound recordings - timeless, unpolished gemstones". The touchpaper was lit. The beautiful, delicate and dusty sound aesthetic of those initial demos have defined how the duo want to work sonically. They pay homage to vintage records and recording techniques and their music calls to mind artists like Scott Walker and Arthur Russell. For their debut album, Harmonie Fields have assembled a collection of low-lit, melancholic songs that deal in the human condition. This is emotionally resonant music, overflowing with thoughts on human nature, mythology, free will, mortality and consciousness. The debut album is somewhat of a subterranean experience, as if these songs had been secreted away to lie forgotten for years, only now unearthed and brought into the light, wrapped in aged gauze and dripping with cave water. Handle it delicately and you'll be rewarded with a rich and layered musical experience. A low-lit and dusty sound aesthetic permeates across these 8 melancholic compositions that deal in the human condition. This is emotionally resonant music, overflowing with thoughts on human nature, mythology, free will, mortality and consciousness. Violins scratch out melodies that surface and fill their lungs, pianos echo through flooded ballrooms, harmonium's churn in currents that carry us from song to song as through the rooms of some beautiful, sunken ship

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Track Listings

1 DIVING
2 AN IRRELEVANT FATE
3 SOME THOUGHTS
4 RITUAL MOON
5 VIENTRE
6 AURORA
7 CHANT ETERNAL
8 DRINK FROM THE BOWL