Artist description The solo work of Nick Webb: manager of FARFIELD record label - with occasional input from other musicians and DJs.

Music Style Ambient, film music, soundscapes

Musical Influences Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Hector Zazou, Biosphere, Bowie, Morton Subotnick, Squarepusher, Pierre Henry, Steve Reich, FSOL (Future Sound of London), Cocteau twins, Funci Porcini, Ninja Tunes, Bootsy Collins

Similar Artists Harold Budd, Biosphere, Laraaji, Brian Eno

Artist History FARFIELD have been creating intense atmospheres and textures since 1997

Group Members Nick Webb

Instruments synthesiser, 'found sounds', scanner etc

Albums The edges of everything (1999) Dust and Glass (2001)

Press Reviews "THE EDGES OF EVERYTHING - FARFIELD (AKA MUSIC PRODUCER AND WRITER NICK WEBB - FARCD01) "This is the first ambient album I've heard in a long time that seems to return to something of the simplicity of Brian Eno's Another Green World and Discrete Music. It is a CD to put on in the early hours of the morning when the world is quiet and still; its quality of gentle insistence invariably gets you focusing inside the texture to tease out the progress of a particular sound or instrument." "Alongside sampled instruments and synthetic sounds the sonic preoccupations are disembodied voices from shortwave radio and the kind of noises and atmospherics of the natural world that play serious games with conventional perceptions of the aural landscape, much in the same way that Trevor Wishart achieves brilliantly in the Vox series. In this category the outstanding tracks are 'walking through...' and particularly 'stealing fire'. The latter places the listener in a virtual forest of wind and the creaking of trees. Beside these excellent and beautiful sounds sythesiser textures burb and bleep, a solo piano utters a plaintive refrain and dark toned strings (on a visit from Goreki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs*) wander into the mix." REVIEW FROM DIFFUSION MAGAZINE, SONIC ARTS NETWORK, MARCH 2000

Location Southampton, Hamshire - United Kingdom

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