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