Dronæment, Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf

*2025 stock. 50 copies limited edition* For more than two decades, Marcus Obst aka Dronæment and Mirko Uhlig aka Aalfang mit Pferdekopf have been gracing the international experimental music underground with harmonic drone ambient 'full of pure beauty', as it says on their first collaboration/split album 'Farewell Fields', released in 2007. After 17 years, the trilogy that began with ‘Farewell Fields’ is now completed with this new collaboration by Dronæment and Aalfang mit Pferdekopf, and attenuation circuit is honoured to release it. (Both 'Farewell Fields' and the second part of the trilogy, 'Hermit Haven', can be found on aalfangmitpferdekopf.bandcamp.com)
 
Stormy weather, towering clouds – the album cover with its foreboding clouds above a city hardly seen shows us a scenery which is beautiful and threatening at the same time. Similarly, the music on this album is full of harmonies at once lush and deeply melancholic, 'between low-hanging Moog clouds, lumpy guitar waves, and fibrous veil abstractions' (Mirko Uhlig). And, just when the listener has sunken to the deepest zones of these droning oceans, something unexpected startles them, like a beam of sunlight hundreds of metres under the surface of the sea. An acoustic guitar suddenly makes itself heard within the electronic dronescape. Mysterious, hard-to-place field recordings connect the listener back to reality while leaving it totally unclear which reality this may be. And, a trademark with Aalfang mit Pferdekopf at least, even the track titles are lovingly crafted. In the case of this album, they pay tribute to two pioneering female composers of electronic music, Laurie Spiegel ('… is My Field Guide') and Else Marie Pade (referenced in the Danish title of the track 'Opdag Else').