Aerial Ship of Flowers gives its fifth album a title that suggests a landscape with something concealed beneath its surface. Secret Fields, released October 9 through Xenophone International, brings Karl Gasleben and Peter Davidson together across thirteen instrumental pieces. The supplied campaign places ambient electronics, folk-inflected guitar strings, drones and minimalist melodic writing inside the same creative space.
The project’s stated themes reach toward the less visible rooms between life and death, love, dreams and creativity. Those ideas give the album a frame without prescribing one literal narrative. Instrumental music can leave such meanings unresolved; here, the release materials present that openness as part of the duo’s artistic territory.
A journey suggested by the tracklist
The opening and closing pieces share a name: “The Air part one” and “The Air part two.” Between them, titles including “Below the Rain,” “Across the Ice,” “Heather and Stone” and “In the Orchard” establish a vocabulary of weather, movement and place. That sequence offers a way into the project before a listener settles on a personal interpretation.
Other titles shift the scale: “Freeway” and “Short Ride” suggest transit, while “The Third Pond” points toward a smaller, more contained setting. Read together, the track names move between broad passages and intimate locations. The published tracklist makes that movement between scales part of the album’s introduction.
Two composers keeping the process close
The release credits name Gasleben and Davidson as composers, with production and mastering credited to Aerial Ship of Flowers. That concentration of roles makes the collaboration itself central to the story. The same project is responsible for the writing, the assembly and the final presentation, keeping the album’s identity attached to its creators throughout the process.
Xenophone’s description emphasizes the interaction of electronic atmosphere and guitar-based texture. The combination provides a useful statement of intent: the record is built around more than one kind of material, and its minimalist approach can accommodate both. The supplied official video for the opening track offers a public introduction to that world.
The fifth album as an invitation
A fifth record carries a history, but Secret Fields is introduced as a deeper exploration of unfamiliar territory. Its thirteen-part format leaves space for the idea to develop beyond a single track. The album is available on CD and streaming services, with the label supplying both release information and the original band photograph used for this feature.
For a first encounter, begin with “The Air part one,” then explore the full tracklist and the duo’s EV profile. The most compelling element of this introduction is its invitation to enter an instrumental world without demanding that its hidden rooms immediately reveal themselves.
Watch the official video
Photo supplied by Xenophone International.
