26.3.2013
Swiss Psych Fest - we be there

SWISS PSYCH FEST 2013 / LINE UP from SWISS PSYCH FEST on Vimeo.

27.1.2012
Field Studies Remix
I did a remix of the Field Studies song Falling Asleep. It comes in a toothpaste tube and you can get it from the people at Monavale

2.7.2011
Watch Some Ditty a Mountain II

Thanks Mike. Notoriously little audience at TiK but still big times.

2.7.2011
A new song

Thanks Mike.

2.12.2010
Some Ditty, A Mountain II
the 12" vinyl with gate fold sleeve will be out in december. I'm thrilled to say that kevin shea plays drums on this 30 minute ditty. cover artwork includes the illustrations of EddiE fucking HaRA! You can order it from the A Tree In A Field Records website www.atreeinafieldrecords.com mp3/flac downloadcode comes with every copy.

Listen:

Upcoming shows:

20.04.2013
Record Store Day | Plattfon Records |ÊBasel |ÊCH

17.05.2013
Swiss Psych Fest | L'Amalgame | Yverdon | CH
w/ Forks | Fai Baba |ÊAll Ship Shape | Meril Wubslin | Hubeskyla | Widdershins | Combineharvester

Past shows:

18.01.2013
Lit Lounge / Fuse Gallery | New York | USA
w/ Mons Meg | Alien Whale

05.01.2013
Goodbye Blue Monday | New York | USA
w/ Dirty Churches | Avo | The Mystic Circus Sideshow | City Walls Autumn Falls

03.01.2013
Cake Shop |ÊNew York | USA
w/ Ala Muerte

19.05.2012
A Tree in a Field & Voodoo Rhythm Records Night | Dachstock | Bern | CH
w/ Roy and the Devil's Motorcycle | Flimmer | Papiro | Fai Baba | Heart Attack Alley | Papiro | MIR

30.03.2012
Abart | Zürich | CH
Some Ditty a Mountain II Tour
w/ Leech | Kid Ikarus

03.03.2012
Sonic Records | Zürich | CH
w/ Fai Baba

27.02.2012
Sedel Pop Is Not Dead Remixed Release Party | Luzern | CH
Some Ditty a Mountain II Tour

22.02.2012
Le Bourg | Lausanne | CH
Some Ditty a Mountain II Tour

04.02.2012
Hirscheneck | Basel | CH
Some Ditty a Mountain II Tour
w/ Klanklinik

15.10.2011
Palace | St Gallen | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Skeletons

16.10.2011
Le Romandie | Lausanne | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Dirty Beaches

19.10.2011
Werk 21 | Zürich | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour

01.11.2011
Sa Tante | Bruxelles | BE
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour

03.11.2011
Sub 071 | Leiden | NL
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ And then comes the Flood

04.11.2011
Scheld'apen | Antwerpen | BE
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour

08.09.2011
Villa Rosenau | Basel | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Les Trucs | Flimmer

20.08.2011
Klingenmühle | Märstetten | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Metronome Man | Insomnia Utopia | Tim und Pumamimi

17.06.2011
Atlantis | München | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Talibam!

12.06.2011
Schüür | Lucerne | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Amplifier

04.06.2011
AZ Conni | Dresden | D
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Jagoda | Future Fluxus

03.06.2001
K2 | Ceské Budêjovice | CZ
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Unitra Diora

02.06.2011
Fluc | Vienna | AT
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Sonic Annihilation

01.06.2011
Knochenbox | Berlin | D
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Hatz

30.05.2011
Elchkeller | Hannover | D
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Schnaak

29.05.2011
TiK | Dornbirn | AT
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Pantoffelheld

28.05.2011
Bad Bonn Kilbi | Düdingen | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ The Ex | Battles | Anna Aaron | etc

21.05.2011
OFF | Basel | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Colonus

21.04.2011
Kaserne | Basel | CH
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
w/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums

26.02.2011
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
HQ | Basel | CH
w/ Colonus | Algen

25.02.2011
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
Woodstock Recordstore | Erfurt | D

24.02.2011
Some Ditty A Mountain II Tour
MS Stubnitz | Hamburg | D
w/ Tötkolben | Le Grand Predateur | Confus

19.09.2010
Solo Songs
White Rabbit | Freiburg | D

17.09.2010
Playing in Klangklinik
Carambolage | Basel | CH

28.08.2010
Houseparty | Zetzwil | CH

26.08.2010
Playing in Klangklinik
Météo Jazz Festival | Mulhouse | F

16.07.2010
Solo Songs
Raumerweiterungshalle | Berlin | D
w/ Doomenfels | My Sister Grenadine

15.07.2010
Solo Songs
Trilke | Hildesheim | D
w/ Doomenfels | My Sister Grenadine

14.07.2010
Solo Songs
Mobile Blues Club | Hamburg | D
w/ Doomenfels | My Sister Grenadine

13.07.2010
Solo Songs
Mme Claude | Berlin | D
w/ Doomenfels

11.07.2010
Solo Songs
Waldfrieden | Leipzig | D
w/ Doomenfels

10.07.2010
Solo Songs
Aaltra | Chemnitz | D
w/ Doomenfels

09.07.2010
Solo Songs
Hasenschaukel | Hamburg | D
w/ Doomenfels

08.07.2010
Solo Songs
Prinz Willy | Kiel | D
w/ Doomenfels

06.07.2010
Solo Songs
Denklerblock | Würzburg | D
w/ Doomenfels | Karo

05.07.2010
Solo Songs
Echt Optimal Plattenladen | München | D
w/ Doomenfels | The Dead Western

04.07.2010
Solo Songs
Cöxpon Ambient Café | Budapest | HU
w/ Doomenfels

03.07.2010
Solo Songs
Atelier 52 | Wien | Austria
w/ Doomenfels

01.07.2010
Solo Songs
Rhiz | Wien | Austria
w/ Doomenfels | Zea

05.06.2010
Solo Songs
Coq D'Or | Olten | CH
w/ Doomenfels, My Sister Grenadine

02.06.2010
Solo Songs
Friends Bar | Basel | CH

10.05.2010
Solo Songs | A Tree In A Field Records Label Night
Bosch Bar | Zürich | CH
w/ Papiro | Antenna Tony Monorail | Flimmer | Eve and the t-shirts

05.02.2010
performing Some Ditty, a Mountain
Kraftwerk Winterthur | CH
w/ John Sars

30.11.2009
Solo Drones
Mme Claude | Berlin | D
w/ Boat Sounds

06.11.2009
Sounds Like A Movie II | Sedel | Luzern | CH

02.11.2009
Solo Drones
Bosch Bar | Zürich | CH
w/ Action Beat

08.10.2009
Solo Songs
Plattfon/Stampa | Basel | CH
w/ Paper Hats

02.10.2009
Damo Suzuki-Combineharvester-Papiro-Klangklinik Supergroup | OXX | Zofingen | CH
w/ Antenna Tony Monorail

07.08.2009
Solo Acoustic
Capri Bar | Eröffnung Ausländer Cafe | Basel | CH

10.07.2009
Solo Srones
White Trash | Berlin | D
w/ TV Buddhas

09.07.2009
Solo songs
Schokoladen | Berlin | D
w/ Gray Bird, Sorry Gilberto

07.07.2009
Solo songs
Prinz Willy | Kiel | D

05.07.2009
Solo songs | Cafe Mono | Oslo | NOR
w/ Great Lakes

03.07.2009
Solo drones | Vise Festival | Egersund | NOR

28.06.2009
Solo drones
Hafenklang | Hamburg | D
w/ Ef

26.06.2009
Solo drones
Túzraktér | Budapest | HU

25.06.2009
Solo songs
House Party | Vienna | A

22.05.2009
Solo drones
Hohlstrasse | Zürich | CH
w/ Talibam!

10.04.2009
Solo acoustic
Off Bar | Basel | CH
w/ Antenna Tony Monorail | Papiro DJ-Set

22.03.2009
Solo acoustic
Cafe Hammer | Basel | CH
w/ Bombee+

13.03.2009
Live soundtrack to David Lynch short-films
Sedel | Luzern | CH

28.02.2009
Solo drones
Hirscheneck | Basel | CH
w/ Next Life

27.02.2009
Solo drones
Bad Bonn | Düdingen | CH
w/ Next Life

18.12.2008
La Catrina | Zürich | CH

15.11.2008
Plan B | Luzern | CH

03.10.2008
Fri-Son | Friburg | CH

27.09.2008
Pärkli Jam | Schützenmattpark | Basel | CH
«The Day After» video premiere

31.05.2008
Bad Bonn Kilbi | Düdingen | CH

03.05.2008
Kalki | Zürich | CH
w/ Baboon

26.04.2008
Hirscheneck | Basel | CH

11.04.2008
Ilvers Music Club | Erfurt | D

10.04.2008
MuK | Giessen | D
w/ A Whisper In The Noise | Köppernjugend

09.04.2008
Öttinger Villa | Darmstadt | D
w/ My Favorite Mixtape

08.04.2008
Noch Besser Leben | Leipzig | D

07.04.2008
Noch Besser Leben | Leipzig | D

06.04.2008
Astra Stube | Hamburg | D

05.04.2008
AK44 | Giessen | D
w/ Tephra | Dfens

04.04.2008
Cafe Exzess | Frankfurt | D

03.04.2008
White Rabbit | Freiburg | D

01.04.2008
Rote Fabrik | Zürich | CH
w/ 22 Pistepirko

01.03.2008
House Party | Laufen | CH

18.01.2008
Museumsnacht Kunstraum Riehen | Riehen | CH

31.10.2007
Bar 59 | Luzern | CH
w/ Marygold

07.10.2007
Noch Besser Leben | Leipzig | D
w/ Bombee+

06.10.2007
Delicate | Chemnitz | D
w/ Bombee+

05.10.2007
Alster | Jena | D
w/ Bombee+

01.10.2007
Mörsbergerstrasse | Basel | CH
w/ Bombee+

29.6.2007
Hill Chill Open Air | Riehen | CH

07.7.2007
In memory of San Fadyl
Rote Fabrik | Zürich | CH
w/ Disco Doom | Sports Guitar | Stella

25.8.2006
Oettinger Villa | Darmstadt | D
w/ Lisa Freieck

09.07.06
Cafe Mono | Oslo | NOR
w/ The Ladybug Transistor | Great Lakes

08.07.06
Visefestival | Egersund | NOR
w/ The Ladybug Transistor
Ya Ya Herman Düne
Professor Pez

04.07.06
Camelon | Bergen | NOR
w/ The Ladybug Transistor
Great Lakes
Professor Pez

03.07.06
Checkpoint Charlie | Stavager | NOR
w/ The Ladybug Transistor

04.06.06
Hasenschaukel | Hamburg | D
w/ The Rivulets

03.06.06
Cafe Post | Berlin | D
w/ Kitty Solaris
Chromatic Tuners

02.06.06
Supamolly | Berlin | D
w/ Bolz'n

01.06.06
Café Unplugged | Berlin | D

31.05.06
Schokoladen | Berlin | D
w/ Dufus

19.01.06
Ziegel Au Lac | Zürich | CH
w/ Biggles

14.01.06
Voltabar | Basel | CH
w/ Deane Hutton
Lem Phago

03.12.05
Werkstatt | Chur | CH
w/ Deane Hutton
Pets

02.12.05
La Capella | Genova | IT
w/ Deane Hutton

30.11.05
Covo | Bologna | IT
w/ Deane Hutton
Swearing At Motorists

12.03.05
Hirscheneck | Basel | CH
w/ Schorf

20.11.04
Freemuzik | Brescia | IT
w/ Fuck

19.11.04
Milk Club | Genova | IT
w/ Fuck
Denize

18.11.04
Dachstock | Bern | CH
w/ Fuck

17.11.04
Manufaktur | Schorndorf | D
w/ Fuck

16.11.04
Öttinger Villa | Darmstadt | D
w/ Fuck

26.03.04
Raumbar | Solothurn | CH
w/ And Me
Denner Clan

16.03.04
Bad Bonn | Düdingen | CH
w/ Fuck

15.03.04
Hirscheneck | Basel | CH
w/ Fuck

22.05.03
NT Areal | Basel | CH
w/ Guz and the Averells

02.12.02
Boa Bar | Luzern | CH
w/ Something Like Elvis

10.11.02
Parterre | Basel | CH
w/ Man

18.09.02
Bad Bonn | Düdingen | CH
w/ Mc Lusky

08.12.02
Hirscheneck | Basel | CH
w/ Honey Fro Petzi

30.04.02
Hirscheneck | Basel | CH
w/ Lois
Balders Ross

24.03.01
BScene | NTAreal | Basel | CH
w/ Plastix

20.05.00
JKF 2000 | Basel | CH

??.07.00
Tatty Bogles Club | London | UK

??.06.00
Antikaserne | Basel | CH
w/ Lois
Famara

??.??.99
Sprungbrett Sommercasino | Basel | CH

??.??.99
Paradieso | Reinach | CH

Albums & EPs

Some Ditty a Mountain II

A1. Some Ditty a Mountain II part one
B1. Some Ditty a Mountain II part two
A Tree In A Field Records TREE030 12" vinyl and Digital

Listen & buy vinyl or digital: www.atreeinafieldrecords.com

s/t

A1. Standard Emotions
A2. Picking On You
A3. Thin Ice
B1. Brothers & Sisters
B2. Drowning In The Rain
B3. Shallow Is Just Enough

Riversound Studio vol VII Cassette and Digital

Listen & buy casette or digital: www.riversoundstudio.com

Mow Grass, Slit Throats, The Like
1. To The Uninspired
2. Despise You ↓
3. Average Lifespan
4. Thank You
5. Don't Move
6. The Sad Actress
7. Picking On You
8. Eat Up
9. Fishes
10. The Day After
11. Beautiful Day
12. A Very Inapropriate Thing To Do
13. You'll Understand

Bonus: The Day After Shortfilm by Bettina Hägeli

A Tree In A Field Records TREE021 Enhanced CD

Listen & buy CD or digital: www.atreeinafieldrecords.com

Retrospection
1 Everything is nice
2 Get up
3 I think i'm being watched ↓
4 See clear now
5 Sleepwalker
6 Headache
7 My girl
8 The Man ↓
9 Grow up
10 Weird Feelings ↓
11 Good bye

Bonus: Weird Feelings Video Clip by H.P. Giuliani

A Tree In A Field Records TREE001 Enhanced CD

Listen & buy CD or digital: www.atreeinafieldrecords.com

C4S
1 Blue sky↓
2 For ever↓
3 Thank you ↓
4 I.W.K.Y.C.Y.N.E.W.T.Y.F.B. ↓

Download all tracks as .zip file ↓. This is a free release.

A Tree In A Field Records TREE003 Mini CD-R

Summer Hits Compilation
A1. Yuri Member - The Revenge Of The Lawn
A2. Zigitros - Wondering White
A3. Galopp - Waver
A4. Doomenfels - Mushroom Visions
A5. Mr. Soul - Yes You're Right
A6. Zumaboost - Burning Cars
B1. The Legendary Lightness - Down At River Sound
B2. Yakari - Beach, Beach
B3. Teen Majestic - Stacking Rocks
B4. Combineharvester - That's How It Goes
B5. Fai Baba - Ocean's Child

River Sound Studio Vol VIII Cassette & Digital

Listen & buy casette or digital: www.riversoundstudio.com

18.- SFR incl. p+p
12.- EURO incl. p+p

Does Your Cat Know My Dog - Bad Bonn Compilation
A1 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Love Comes To Me (live)
A2 Your Fault - I'm Washing Your Feet...
A3 Pierre Omer - Lullaby
A4 Joe Galen - Gold Smatter
A5 Carla Bozulich and Ches Smith - Elements Ascending
B1 Sunn O))) - Isengard (Chopped & Screwed)
B2 Sum Of R - Not Every Chamber Has A Door
B3 Bulbul + Boris Hauf - [ab]end
B4 combineharvester - Shallow Is Just Enough
B5 Sonic Youth - No Way (power cut version)

Three:Four Records TFR004 Vinyl 12"

Combineharvester - I Was A King Split
Combineharvester-side: Knifes To Nipples
I Was A King-side: Step Aside

A Tree In A Field Records TREE023 Vinyl 7"

Listen & buy CD or digital: www.atreeinafieldrecords.com

Lofi Dogma # 25
Some Ditty, A Mountain

LofiDogma # 25 Webstream

12.- SFR incl. p+p
7.- EURO incl p+p

Caff/Flic # 1
1 FTSE100 - Hail Hegemony (Midi)
2 Moat - Earth On Fire
3 Munch Munch - Grrrrrrrrl
4 Cleckhuddersfax - Kiss The Tide
5 Woman - Vexed
6 Combineharvester - You'll Understand
7 Lucky Dragons - Katy Did
8 Yeborobo - Awkward Station Awkward Circus
9 Knowth - Forever Here
10 Leopard Leg - Hunter! Hunter!
11 Petrified - Walls Of Terrorism
12 Shimmy Rivers And And Canal - Fear Of Smell (Trad)
13 Tap Tap - Here Cometh
14 Jesus Licks - Eternally Lonely
15 Minifer - Wafwafwaf
16 Luftkluster / Luftfluks - We Pulled The Roots
17 Lucky Dragons - Katie

Caff/Flick CAFF001 CD

12.- SFR incl. p+p
7.- EURO incl p+p

Pottwal Platten # 2
1 Mosaic - Simon Shoot
2 The Come n' Go - The Fight
3 Thee Irma & Louise - Wasp in a Jar
4 Marygold - Nothing Else
5 Beautiful Leopard - Same Old Things
6 Dirk Dollar - Der Dolch im Fusse des Kapitals
7 James Légère - The Warrior
8 Combineharvester - Jesus
9 Zatokrev - Bury the Ashes
10 Ad' Absurdum - Small Stone
11 Preef - Western Saloon
12 Duara - Skeletor Loves Battlecat
13 Fort Wendy - Hi Jack
14 Berserk for Tea Time - Spark
15 Heidi Happy - Back Together
16 Overdrive Amp Explosion - Home
17 Lysergic Sunshine - The Mirror
18 The Big Bang Boogie - Golden Days
19 Psychotron II - I Know Where The Evil Lies
20 Roy And The Devils Motorcycle - Blue House

Pottwal Platten POTT002 CD

Reviews

Some Ditty a Mountain II

Organart, Thing of the Day:

All rhythmically dramatic and building and building in a manner that goes almost unnoticed until you suddenly find yourself caught up in the subtle rush of it all – «Cor! This is good!».
Full article here

Gonzo Circus:

Episch, opbouwend, drums die pas echt loskomen halverwege, maar overal is net dat hoekje af om wat Combineharvester maakt, te onderscheiden van het peloton.

Rokko's Adventures:

Ein halbstündiges, mantraartiges Stück, das genau ein paar Zentimeter über dem Boden schwebt.

FreiStil:

Alles treibt nach vorn. Die voluminöse Basedrum bounced. Die Saiten folgen gehorsam, und Elfen ringen sich durch.

Mow Grass Slit Throats The Like

Vice:

*******

Loop, Nino Kühnis:

… legt McNeill ein Dutzend kurzweilig-bizarre Skizzen an die in der Mehrzahl an knorriges Baumgeäst im Winter erinnern. «Am I confusing you?», haucht McNeill im letzten Song der Platte. Ja. Und aber auch: Nein. Denn wer in dieser Platte einen freund findet, findet einen Freund fürs Leben.

Weltwoche, Albert Kuhn:

«Mow Grass, Slit Throats, The Like» — mäh den Rasen, schlitz Kehlen auf, so Sachen: nach üblichen Massstäben ein schwieriges Album zwischen Rock, Folk, Noise und Elektronik. Nach psychologischen oder Gefühlsmassstäben aber eine völlig plausible Sache.

Auf Abwegen, Zippo:

Combineharvester kombiniert in seiner Musik Elemente aus Wave, Math-Rock, Experimentalkram und Indie. Nie ist der Verlauf eines Lieds vorherzusehen, immer kann sich um einen sehr kurzen Text ein langes Musikstück herum gruppieren oder eine kleine Lesung eingefangen werden.

Kieler Nachrichten, Jörg Meyer;

«Fishes are good at swimming upstream.» So gegen den Strom bewegen sich alle Songs von Combineharvester. Manche sind gerade mal 30 Sekunden kurz — musikalische Haikus als «Hülle» für Texte, die als miniaturisierte Einfälle wie ein fernes Wetterleuchten aufblitzen.

Trespass, Monthy:

Combineharvester's «Mow Grass, Slit Throats, The Like» ist eindeutig etwas für musikalische Borderliner.

Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, Urs Grether:

Eine kleine, feine Superband

Bio & press-pics etc

Combineharvester is Marlon McNeill. Musically he has reached out to various different styles as a member or guest in: Speck (Bass), Trencher (Vocals), I Was A King (Bass), Schorf (Samples, Vocals), Papiro (Electrical Organ), Klangklinik (Guitar), Acid Mother's Temple SWR (Bass), Aie ça Gicle (Guitar).

Under the moniker of Combineharvester (consistently misspelled) he staged his first appearance in 1998 by releasing the cassette « … trees in a field». Followed by «Retrospection» (2001, A Tree In A Field Records), «Mow Grass, Slit Throats, The Like» (2008, A Tree In A Field Records), the River Sound Studio VII Kassette (2010 Six songs played on the acoustic guitar and recorded in an empty room) and recently the 12" «Some Ditty A Mountain II». Besides some compilations and a split single with I Was A King.

Part time members and past members

Miro Widmer - Drums
Daniel Buess - Drums
Kevin Shea - Drums
David Pfluger - Drums
Dominic Oppliger - Drums
Gabriele De Mario - Drums & Guitar
San Fadyl - Drums
Roman Blumental - Drums
Chris Specker - Drums
Andi Döbele - Bass
Anita Ruefer - Bass, Guitar & Synths
Papiro - Synths & Violin

Connect

Combineharvester on: Facebook | Soundcloud LastFM | Youtube

Touch!

For booking and all other matters please write to: coha99 \ at \ hotmail.com