SOLAR FIELDS - Echo

Solar Fields is the stage name of Swedish electronic music artist Magnus Birgersson. He has released twelve albums, and has also scored all interactive in-game music for the Electronic Arts game Mirror's Edge. Biography In the late 90s, Göteborg based Swedish composer Magnus Birgersson created Solar Fields, a project considered like one of the most productive and creative in the Scandinavian electronic music scene. As a high-tech sound designer and multi-instrumentalist, Magnus Birgersson developed Studio Jupiter, a living museum of machines in which he builds his unique sound universe, poles apart from current trends in the genre; with Solar Fields he explores the wide possibilities of electronic music from depth to floating atmospheres, cultivating contrasts and subtlety with brio. In an interview Magnus recalls: "Music happened to me the day I was born. Been having music and instruments around me in the family from the very beginning. I started to play piano in the 70's. During this period I also got introduced to synthesizers. In the mid 80's I started to hook up synthesizers to computers and I've been doing that since then. I have also been involved in all kind of different projects, from guitar player in rock bands to pianist in jazz funk bands, and keyboard player in drum & bass bands." He currently collaborates with Vincent Villuis aka AES Dana on H.U.V.A. Network and T.S.R. in the company of Daniel Segerstad and Johannes Hedberg from Carbon Based Lifeforms. Under moniker Solar Fields, he composed 12 albums and appeared on over 60 various compilations. The first solo release, Reflective Frequencies, signed on Ultimae in 2001 presented an ambient music patchwork with a constant yet ever-changing structure, at times cold and mechanic, at others warm and soothing. A very promising debut which set the pace for Blue Moon Station two years later, where the artist explored the high tech downtempo and trance energies and focused on the notion of a long fluid story in a futuristic environment. In late 2005, Solar Fields composed Leaving Home and Extended, the later being a limited edition. These two albums received excellent comments from the media and industry professionals, opening new horizons for Magnus Birgersson and his true visionary work. His 5th album EarthShine, launched in 2007, offered an excursion into upbeat soundscapes blending blasting morning trance, progressive, original psychadelic, tribal and ambient realms; sculpting his own style with outstanding mastery. This up-tempo opus was warmly welcomed by the progressive and psytrance scenes and playlisted by top DJs. This led to Electronic Arts (EA) and DICE commissioning Solar Fields for the in-game score for Mirror's Edge, a first-person action adventure video game released worldwide on November 14, 2008. The soundtrack hit the VGC's "Top 20 Original Soundtracks in Gaming". The following year, Solar Fields composed Movements to relate the changes in his artistic life. The album was ranked in the top 10 of best albums by Echoes listeners and received excellent press. The album Movements was also used as the soundtrack for the indie game Capsized from the small Canadian studio Alientrap in 2011. In 2010, as in the reminiscence of a dream, he subtly recalled the Movements harmonies and melodies with an immersive remix album Altered - Second Movements and started the Origin series, four albums which aim to present archives and unreleased songs. Until We Meet the Sky and Random Friday, two orphic albums composed in parallel, confirm his ability to switch and explore new musical genres. In 2013, he released the second chapter in the Origin series, Origin #02. Discography Studio albums 2001: Reflective Frequencies 2003: Blue Moon Station 2005: Extended 2005: Leaving Home 2007: EarthShine 2009: Movements 2009: Mirror's Edge OST 2010: Altered -- Second Movements 2010: Origin #01 2011: Until We Meet the Sky 2012: Random Friday 2013: Origin #02 Soundtrack 2011: Superkär 2011: Capsized 2009: Mirror's Edge 2006: Vaniljtigern 2005: Universeum - To live in space 2005: Second chance 2004: Borderline