In The Wake Of The Dark Earth

D.A.R.F.D.H.S.

Record label
Field Records
Catalog Number
FIELD015
Release Date
March 30th 2015
Genres

Tracks

playpostitleartistsduration
A1When Ansgar, Plague Of The North Arrived At The Gates Of Birka
A2Offerings To Njord
A3Leaving Malaren, Across Austmarr
B1Drowned In Lake Ladoga
B2Ruriks Holmgard
B3Slave Merchants In Aldeigjubdorg
C1Down The River Volchov
C2White Sea - Black Sea
C3Byzantium Traders Sailing Over The Edge Of The World
D1Entering The Caspian Sea
D2Broken Arrows Hidden In The Sand
D3The Fallen City - Reduced To Loneliness

Now entering its seventh year, Dutch label Field Records continues to focus on great album projects. After a triple 12" compilation in 2014, and ahead of a third album in the coming months, now comes a 12 track opus, In The Wake Of The Dark Earth, by D.A.R.F.D.H.S. aka Swedish pair Michel Isorinne and Jonas Ronnberg. Between them, Isorinne and Ronnberg record under a number of different aliases and have done so for the last couple of years on labels like Opal Tapes and Northern Electronics. Their sound veers from foggy, experimental stuff to icy techno via deep acid, and produced a first album this time last year on Clan Destine Records. This new album is one for headphones or home listening, for lonely winter nights or long night time journeys. It's an absorbing ambient affair weighed down by a heavy sense of atmosphere. At times shadowy and eerie, at others cautiously optimistic, the perfectly crafted spaces within all invite you to get lost and completely forget the outside world. Arriving with enigmatic artwork in both digital and vinyl format, modern ambient never sounded better.