A Tree In A Field Recordsc/o Marlon McNeill / Oberalpstrasse 29 / CH-4054 Basel / Switzerland0041 78 741 89 88 / marlon@atreeinafieldrecords.com / www.atreeinafieldrecords.com

A Tree In A Field Records Presents:

Combineharvester «Mow Grass, Slit Throats, The Like»

Release date 5. May 2008

Album CD Digipack

CatN° TREE021 EAN 4260108231188LC 18318

Total Time: 39:27

Tracks:1. To The Uninspired 2:242. Despise You 1:473. Average Lifespan 1:314. Thank You 1:485. Don’t Move 2:546. The Sad Actress 2:167. Picking On You 2:138. Eat Up 2:209. Fishes 2:2210. The Day After 10:3811. Beautiful Day 2:0512. A Very Inapropriate Thing To Do 2:2413. You’ll Understand 4:50

Bonus:The Day AfterShort film by Bettina Hägeli

Musik writte, performed and recorded by Marlon Mc Neill

Mixing and Mastering:Thomas Baumgartner and Marlon Mc Neill @Schallhaus Music Studio, Oberwil, Switzerland

Illustration and Layout:Julie Zimmer www.maniaminza.com

This release is being supported byRockförderverein Basel

A couple of quotes:

«…a small and fine supergroup.»Urs Grether, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung

«Unknown, difficult and from from out of town. But very intersting, will book them.»Astra Stube, Hamburg

A Tree In A Field Recordsc/o Marlon McNeill / Oberalpstrasse 29 / CH-4054 Basel / Switzerland0041 78 741 89 88 / marlon@atreeinafieldrecords.com / www.atreeinafieldrecords.com

Combineharvester is Marlon Mc Neill. «I write all songs and usually play all instruments. The songwriting process happens during the recording. I don‘t see my songs as rock songs in the traditional sense, more like music and sounds wrapped around little poems. Poems that may be as short as one line. One does not need many words to say what has to be said. People would probably stuff me in the Singer/Songwriter drawer because I sing and write songs. This doesn‘t sound like the classic Singer/Songwriter music, though sometime it does. Combineharvester get‘s it‘s inspiration from all sorts of places in the music uni-verse. A song may end up being a 15 minute drone esca-pade or a 30 second almost acapella ditty. Everything is possible. One may see Combineharvester as a melting pot

of all or some projects I‘m involved in, or the other way round: the source and inspiration to participate in all kinds of musical oddities.»

Some fun moments, i.e. let‘s head for some name dropping: 1996-2008 Bass and vocals for Grindcore band Speck. Several releases and tours across Europe. 1998-2008 Combineharvester. Three releases. Some shows. Loads of songs. Many of them lost by accidently erasing a mini disc. 2004-2005 Organs, Keyboard and Guitar for live appearances for drone virtuoso Papiro. 2004-2005 Vocals for recordings and tour with london based casio-grind outfit Trencher. 2000-2004 Keyboards, sampling and vocals for grind improvisation collective Schorf. July 2006 Bass for Live appearances of Pop Band I Was A King, a one week tour of Norway. Nov 2005 Vocals for Trencher album «Lips...» released 10.2006 by Southern Records. Apr 2004 John Peel Session for BBC Radio One with Trencher. Okt 2004 Tour support for Fuck in Germany, Switzerland and Italy with Combineharvester. Dec 2004 John Peel Tribute at BBC studios with Trencher. Live broadcast worldwide via Internet. Jan 2003 Music and Sounddesign for play «I Never Liked You», conducted by Katharina Stur and inspired by Chester Brown – Luzerner Theater, Switzerland 2002 Birth of A Tree In A Field Records.

Releases so far:Speck · Furia { A Tree In A Field Records 2006 }Speck · Honest Words And Broken Knuckles { A Tree In A Field Records 2003 }Speck · Systematic Provocation Expands Cultural Knowledge { A Tree In A Field Records 2003 }Speck · Superdiscount { Eigenvertrieb 2001 }Speck · Maybe My Tattoos Are The Reason She Left Me { Eigenvertrieb 1999 }

Combineharvester · Jesus { Pottwal Platten #2 Compilation 2007 }Combineharvester · You‘ll Understand { Caff/Flick Compilation 2006 }Combineharvester · C4S { MiniCD A Tree In A Field Records 2003 }Combineharvester · Retrospection { Album A Tree In A Field Records 2002 }

Trencher · Lips… { Southern Records Oktober 2006 }

Schorf · 9 Songs And Free Improvisation { A Tree In A Field Records 2005 }

THE DAY AFTER film © 2008 bettina hägeli

Statement

Im folgenden Text ist versuchsweise formuliert, womit ich mich während der Arbeit auseinanderge-setzt und was ich mir beim Montieren der „Geschichte“ gedacht habe. Der Film basiert auf einem bewusst assoziativen Ansatz, da ich das Film-thema, das Erinnern an sich als assoziativ empfinde.

Am Tag Danach kann man/frau sich Gedanken machen über den Tag Zuvor, über Vergangenes also. Ich interpretiere Marlon McNeills Songtext so, dass es darin um eine bestimmte Erinnerung, um einen bestimmten Vorfall geht, während die genauen Umstände verschwiegen werden.

Mit dem Film habe ich mich mit der Frage auseinandergesetzt, inwieweit die Erinnerungswelt eines Menschen zu seiner Privatsphäre gehört:Anfänglich sehen wir eine Erinnerung an die Natur, um danach einige Zeit durch ein Haus zu irren. Das Gefühl, dass da jemand ist, stellt sich ein, und irgendwann treffen wir auf diesen Menschen, der in Erinnerungen weilend da sitzt. In seine Erinnerungs-welt hineinzuplatzen ist nicht ohne Konsequ-enzen. Er stellt sich uns, schaut uns an und sich selber zu, wie er rennt, um sich seine Erinnerungen zurückzuholen.

Mir war es wichtig, den Musiker Marlon McNeill als Darsteller zu gewinnen. Wir sehen ihn, der COMBINEHARVESTER als einzigen ausmacht, nicht als Musiker, sondern als einzigen Menschen im Film.

The Day After Songtext:

Shhhh.Don’t move.What is that?Is that blood on your lips.That trickle of blood explains everything.That trickle of blood.You haven’t been coughing again have you?

Bettina Hägeli, 7. Februar 2008