TRACKLIST

1. Air Song (8 AM Version). . . . .16:39 2. No Answer . . . . . . . . . . . .9:34 3. Station 5. . . . . . . . . . . .10:31 4. Winter Sun. . . . . . . . . . . .8:33 5. Combinations . . . . . . . . . .16:01 6. A Place To Think. . . . . . . . .5:59 7. Detection (Far And Extended) . .12:37

[ Extended ] is the atmospheric extension of the album [ Leaving Home ].
Released as a limited edition, this album stands as a space music labyrinth, playing with memories and echoes of climatic and cinematic sounds.
Three pieces were successfully presented in 2004 at the Trabekel exhibition (Sandviken - Sweden), encounter between painter Antonio Sognasoldi and Magnus Birgersson.
The concept behind the installation was to create a shift of perceptions, as music evolved through the gallery following the public footsteps.This work was the starting key for the other 4 tracks.
An album of stretched rhythms, floating pads and pure tranquillity.

Solar Fields is constantly reassessing his relationship with the Electronic Music of the past. His album Extended (79'59") seeks to remake Spacemusic in a more modern context. Rather than simply referencing the cold interstellar soundscapes of the classics, Solar Fields creates a unique sonic environment of serene beauty. His additions to the genre retain the expansive nature of what has survived and makes for an embracing vision of a present constantly slipping into the past. The energy level of this album ranges from slowly shifting harmonic forms across a lush otherworldly panorama to warm, round skipping rhythms which rise and fall in tempo and intensity above and below the bordering domain of dance music. For a deep chill album, Extended is quite warm and embracing. Were this album to materialize into a place one could walk through, it would be a green and growing twilight paradise. ~ by Chuck van Zyl

While "Leaving Home" acted as the soundtrack to a futuristic city on some other planet, "Extended" would serve well as the sountrack to floating above the planet in space... slowly drifting and watching.
This CD is clearly space ambience and is a much more slow and mellow version of Leaving Home. I really enjoy this album, sometimes even more then Leaving Home - my only complaint is that these 2 albums should have been released in a double album set instead of separate/same date releases.
They really do compliment eachother and if you like his Leaving Home album then this limited edition extension of it is a MUST. ~ by Reticulum_Flux

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