Solar Fields

 Ambient / electronic - Sweden

Swedish based electronic music composer Magnus Birgersson aka Solar Fields built a unique sonic universe with a constant shifting from high tech ambient flow into broken beats, powerful sequences and fragmented loops.

As a natural born multi-instrumentalist, Magnus plays the Veena, sitar, drums and guitar and is also deeply connected to any sound processing machine. Constantly exploring new musical horizons in his famous high-tech station called Studio Jupiter, Solar Fields likes to develop an evolving dream (“unfinished” as he likes to mention) and offers an intense listening experience.

The productive discography of Magnus Birgersson should be considered like a following of drifting masterpieces : 7 solo albums, one collaboration album with French composer Aes Dana under the name H.U.V.A. Network and more than 35 compilations features for various labels. Often classified as ambient downtempo. Solar Fields music in fact goes further than these boundaries propulsed by his talent for sculpting hypnotic harmonics and layering sounds.

Vincent Villuis, Ultimae Records. France

STUDIO JUPITER
Studio Jupiter, the mothership of  Solar Fields,  is located in Gothenburg Sweden, and is build from the ground by Magnus Birgersson.

Synthesizers:

Analog
Alesis Andromeda A6
Yamaha CS-15
Syntecno TeeBee MK II
Korg MS-20
Elektron SIDstation
Korg Polysix

Digital
Symbolic Sound KYMA
Roland V-Synth XT
Hartmann Neuron VS
Clavia Nord Modular Exp
Clavia Nord Modular G2 engine
Yamaha EX5
Roland JD-990 (vintage exp)
Access Virus C
Kawai k5000r
Casio VL-Tone 1
Yamaha VL70-M

F/x and stuff
Yamaha promix 02rV2
T.C Electronic Fireworx
T.C Electronic M-one
Alesis Air-FX
Pioneer efx-500
Prosonic pb48
Beringer px 2000
Alaric GE-106
Sherman Filterbank MK I
Gate 201 by RA
Midisport 4*4 *2
Motu mtpav
AKai Me30P
Evolution mk-425c

Listening
Dynaudio BM15A
Sennheiser HD 650
Beyerdynamic DT770

Computers and stuff
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3GHz
Intel p4 2.53GHz
Apple powerbook
Dell inspiron 5100
RME Fireface 800
M-audio delta 1010LT
M-audio fw-410
Echo indigo DJ
Universal Audio UAD-1

Accoustic stuff
Sitar
Fisken (custom built guitar)
Yamaha FG-411C-BL
Saraswati Veena
Russian Balalajka