Interview with Rough Fields
We’ve been very impressed with the EPs released by James Birchall, who records under the pseudonym Rough Fields. The music is intriguing on a number of levels, not least because of James’ background and musical journey from classical to electronica via techno, so we thought it would be well worth the effort putting a few [...]
Rough Fields – The Harbour Wall (Bomb Shop)
Another lush EP from Rough Fields (who is known to his Mum as James Birchall) following on from ‘You As You’. Lots of gentle layered sounds, fragile vocals and ‘found sounds’, these tracks demand your attention and patience – there are some slow but effective intros used, and some of the tracks, such as ‘Waller’ [...]
Rough Fields – You As You EP (Bomb Shop)
A lovely couple of atmospheric tracks from Manchester’s James Birchall, aka Rough Fields. James’s background is actually through techno, but he studied modern composition at Huddersfield, and this classical structure combined with influences of electronica, minimilism and folk provide a very pleasing result indeed. ‘You As You’ is available in a handmade cassette version or [...]
