Title: Autumn Fields
Artist: Dirk Geiger
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 14th September 2010
Label: Tympanik Audio
Album Review
DIRK GEIGER’s love for music brought him to DJing already at the age of 15 and with the urge becoming stronger he began producing own tracks. He’s also the founder of German label Raumklang Musik. His first album ‘Dondukov 15’ was released in 2008 and just got followed up with his Tympanik Audio debut ‘Autumn Fields’. Upon first listening through ‘Autumn Fields’, you can’t shake the feeling of listening to a sonic story told in several episodes, the first one of which being ‘Gewitterregen’ with a storm brewing off, sending streams of water down to earth, steeped in melancholy piano and you’re the observer, watching and hearing through an opened window in your apartment on an autumnal day. But now you’re feeling the urge to go out and that’s where the track ‘Autumnal Life’ kicks in, setting up the right ambiance with driving cars passing by on a rainy street. A subtle pad layer fades in then, bringing a low-key mood with a glitch beat in its wake while people walking past you.
You’re fed up with staying outside now and decide to return back home, listening to the radio a bit and getting warmed up again. But something doesn’t work out the way it should and only a certain ‘Noise Format’ can be heard from therein, random, sometimes static with a hint of melody or voices coming out. You keep on tuning and finally your efforts pay off with a rhythm peeling out of the noise, a rhythm coming with a disturbing howling in the background. At some point, you’re getting tired and go to bed. The next day brings a better weather and you decide to visit the ‘Botanic Garden’, teeming with all kinds of life and obviously with experimental rhythms. Of course not, but still it’s there and it even brings an element of dub into the music. Another day passed by and the next one is damn cold, waking your ‘Winter Senses’ and when the wind blows in your face, it’s like it’s carrying a wistful melody into your ears. A minimalist construction of beats mixes with its washes, sometimes taking over but giving away control eventually.
The odd-titled ‘Itch Glitch’ is the end of the story of a stranger that could be anyone and who now creates a beat box pattern himself while headed homewards, getting embraced by a warm ambience suddenly. Two remixes of album tracks by SVART1 and ACCESS TO ARASAKA wrap up this album completely, shifting the angle to another perspective on certain parts of the story’s episodes. The combination of field recordings with electronic sound creation, no matter if atmospheric or rhythmic, makes for a very special experience. From the first track on there’s this feeling of a story unfolding and you want to explore it further and sooner than you know you’re embarking on a beautiful journey with ‘Autumn Fields’.
Tracklist
01. Gewitterregen - 3:30
02. Autumn Life - 9:06
03. Noise Format - 8:24
04. Night In Haskovo - 6:34
05. Botanic Garden - 6:21
06. Minus10 - 6:28.
07. Winter Senses - 7:42
08. Overhead Projection - 6:29
09. Itch Glitch - 6:37
10. Night In Haskovo (Svart1 mix) - 5:26
11. Overhead Projection (Access To Arasaka remix) - 4:31
Line-Up
Dirk Geiger
Website
http://www.dirkgeiger.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/dirkgeiger
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 9
Extras: -
Total: 8.5 / 10
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