Drink From The Bowl, the debut album from Harmonie Fields, 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.

We're held fast by Andres Barlesi (instrumentation) and Richie Setford (vocals and lyrics), experienced guides who pay homage to vintage records and recording techniques and call to mind music from artists like Scott Walker, Ted Lucas, Moondog, Burt Bacharach and Arthur Russell.

Drink From The Bowl was written in Berlin between 2019-21 (mostly remotely due to the Covid-19 Pandemic) in a collaborative process where Andres would email Richie ideas to consider and work through. Once satisfied with their selection, they came together in an Ostkreuz studio to finish crafting and shaping the material and to record vocal parts, violins and any other additional instrumentation.

TRACKLIST

01./A1. Diving
02./A2. An Irrelevant Fate
03./A3. Some Thoughts
04./A4. Ritual Moon

05./B1. Vientre
06./B2. Aurora
07./B3. Chant Eternal
10./B4. Drink From the Bowl

Songwriting – Harmonie Fields
Additional Compositional Input – Lorentzen Bente Kristine Vocals – Richie Setford
Violin/Backing Vocals - Manon Parent
All other instrumentation/Production/Engineering – Andres Barlesi
Mixing – Andres Barlesi
Additional Mixing - Dave Terry
Mastering - Gonzales Rainoldi Photography/Design - Tabita Hub

(c) & (p) 2022, Harmonie Fieldsunder exclusive license to BB*ISLAND
* LC 52171 * All rights reserved * Made in the EU *

LP: cat# BBI 0491, barcode: 4260064994912
CD: cat# BBI 0492, barcode: 4260064994929