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Scott Fields Ensemble

Sand

Label: Relative Pitch Records

Format: CD

Genre: Jazz

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Sand is a Fields composition for 20 instrumentalists, three singers, and conductor. It combines three areas in which he has often worked: modularity, manipulation of text, and integration of composition and improvisation.

Like Fields’ previous modular works, Sand is constructed of units whose interrelationships vary from weak to strong. In performance a conductor spontaneously selects, combines, sequences, and layers modules. Sand also includes improvisational elements within structures and “organic cues,” in which characteristics of a musician’s natural performance, such as the duration of a single slow stroke of a bow or a single breath determines the timing of cues to other instrumentalists.

Sand, as with Fields’ most recent modular works, is constructed of a small number of melodies, phasing patterns, long tones, and organic cue sets that are fragmented according to a simple mathematical formula. The lyrics for the singers consist of short stories that Fields has written. Like the instrumental parts, the lyrics are fragmented into modules.

Details
Cat. number: RPR1156
Year: 2023
Notes:

violin — Axel Lindner
violin — Carolin Pook
viola — Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg
cello — Katharina Hoffmann
cello — Scott Roller
contrabass — Jonas Gerigk
contrabass — Miles Perkin
electric guitar — Tal Botvinik
electric guitar — Sergio Sorrentino
electric guitar — David Stackenäs
flute — Daniel Agi
flute — Norbert Rodenkirchen
clarinet — Frank Gratkowski
alto saxophone — Salim Javaid
tenor saxophone — Matthias Schubert
trumpet — Udo Moll
trombone — Matthias Muche
tuba — Melvyn Poore
percussion — Shiau-Shiuan Hung
percussion — Arturo Portugal
voice — Tamara Lukasheva
voice — Hanna Schörken
voice — Sophie Tassignon
conductor — Scott Fields

Recorded live at the Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, Germany, 20 February 2022.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Reinhard Kobialka of Topaz Studios.
Cover photo: Reuben Radding