Fred Frith
Field Days (The Amanda Loops)
LabelFrederiksberg Records, ReR MegacorpGenreSound Art
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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, the Arte Sax quartet and Lotte Anker, the Arditti Quartet, Kiku Day, occasional shakuhachi, and violinist/nykelharpist Karla Kihlstedt. Hit from the show: Desert Sundown.
Format
All the music was made from older recordings of music for dance and other occasions.
De-constructed, re-constructed and otherwise re-assembled at Guerilla Recordings, Oakland in January 2011.
Final recomposition and mastering at Headless Buddha, December 2014.
Digipack with obi.
Cat# ReR/FRA 8 on sleeve and spine, ReR/FRA8 on obi and disc.
Release notes
All the music was made from older recordings of music for dance and other occasions. De-constructed, re-constructed and otherwise re-assembled at Guerilla Recordings, Oakland in January 2011. Final recomposition and mastering at Headless Buddha, December 2014. Digipack with obi. Cat# ReR/FRA 8 on sleeve and spine, ReR/FRA8 on obi and disc.
| 1 | Prologue | 2:56 | |
| 2 | Run Don't Walk | 1:17 | |
| 3 | One Road, Many Destinations | 4:04 | |
| 4 | Shimmer, Simmer | 3:31 | |
| 5 | Up Ahead | 2:50 | |
| 6 | Desert Sundown | 3:39 | |
| 7 | Ran Didn't Hide | 2:01 | |
| 8 | Hills Have Eyes | 2:01 | |
| 9 | Moving On Sideways | 1:45 | |
| 10 | Moving On Up | 3:09 | |
| 11 | Act Of Faith | 3:58 | |
| 12 | Home Stretch | 3:03 | |
| 13 | Jumped In | 1:49 | |
| 14 | Epilogue | 2:43 |
- Myles Boisen
- Engineer
- Carla Kihlstedt
- Nyckelharpa, Violin
- William Winant
- Percussion
- Daan Vandewalle
- Piano
- Fred Frith
- Producer, Instruments [All Except]
- Arte Sax Quartet
- Saxophone
- Lotte Anker
- Saxophone
- Kiku Day
- Shakuhachi
- Arditti Quartet
- Strings [String Quartet]
