Description
the thinking person's guitar hero-Fred became a key component of the 80's NYC scene, playing w/ John Zorn's Naked City.
14 pieces originally written for dance and other practical situations, here reassigned and reconstructed for choreographer Amanda Miller and the Nederland Dans Theater. These are loop-based, textural, mood pieces, and invocations of spaces and landscapes, with some fine steel guitar playing. Mostly this is Fred multi-instrumenting, with pianist Daan Vanderwalle, percussionist Willie Wynant, saxophonist Lotte Anker, the Arte Sax and Arditti Quartets, Kiku Day (playing occasional shakuhachi), and violinist/nykelharpist Karla Kihlstedt. Hit from the show: Desert Sundown. Field Days is an exploration of the past--in this case Fred's past as a composer of music for dance. Using music originally composed for choreographer Amanda Miller, and working with her and long-time studio collaborator Myles Boisen, Fred created a vast number of loops of all shapes and sizes, and used them as the setting for additional material that was also largely drawn from pre-existing recordings of other works. Fred then added bottleneck guitar to some of the pieces to provide a certain sonic continuity.
Track Listing
- Prologue
- Run Don't Walk
- One Road, Many Destinations
- Shimmer, Simmer
- Up ahead
- Desert Sundown
- Ran Didn't Hide
- Hills Have Eyes
- Moving On Sideways
- Moving On Up
- Act of Faith
- Home stretch
- Jumped In
- Epilogue
Additional Details
Label: Fred Records / ReR Megacorp
Genre: Progressive Rock
Language: English
Run Time: 45 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 01/15/16
UPC: 752725902526
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