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KEN FIELD: Pictures Of Motion
1999 (CD, 43:08): sFz Recordings sFz 002
Style:  New music/ JIO(jazz in opposition)/Ambient jazz
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Total rating: 16 (A PERFECT SCORE!!!)

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E-mail: fieldk@att.net 
Website: http://fieldk.home.att.net/

     Ken Field has crafted thirteen sonic pictures of pure sax excellence.
They range from introspectively dark or airy ambience to peppy, bopping bounces.
This is a stroll down neon-lit alleyways of mod jazz hipness. Some pieces
are somber, solo, alto saxophone, sometimes layered or effects-altered and
others are amplified with drums, acoustic bass, fretless electric bass,
drums and percussion. Best references for what is happening here are adventurous
works by Dave Binney, Theo Travis, Gallery, Paul McCandless, and mellower Lost
Tribe. I should also say Field’s compositional stylings on ambient tracks
reminded me a great deal of Mark Isham’s writing for his new age trumpet works,
as on Isham’s Vapor Drawings.
     I admired and enjoyed every minute of this progressive jazz. Field
has the fiery Jessica Lurie guesting on alto sax. She is the leading reed
lady in the modern fusion jazz trio, Living Daylights. To close, I offer yet
more adverbs to corral Field’s music – minimalist, chamber acid-jazz, drunkenly
migrating geese being followed by interdimensional hornets offering tracts
on transcendental meditation. Dig it!
      ~ John W. Patterson






KEN FIELD, Katsui Yuji, Kido Natsuki & Shimizu Kazuto, Tokyo In
F (74:01)
Sublingual Records
P.O. Box 391516
Cambridge, MA 02139
E-mail: info@sublingual.com or fieldk@att.net
Cyberhome: www.sublingual.com or www.fieldk.home.att.net

This free improv record features the American alto
saxophonist/flutist/percussionist Ken Field in the company of three
Japanese musicians: Katsui Yuji on violin, Kido Natsuki on guitar,
and Shimizu Kazuto on piano. There are no "tunes" here. Track 1 is
labeled as "First Set," track 2 as "Second Set," and both run almost
the same exact length, 37 minutes. The foursome switches freely
between atmospheric effects, slow melodic passages, and insistent,
hypnotic riffing. There's never any stridency and generally there are
plenty of tonal reference points to hang one's hat on. The absence of
both bass and drums makes for a rhythmic open-endedness that serves
the players well and sets the effort well apart from "jam band"-style
noodling. But it's not the kind of album you just throw on. Once it
starts, you're either along for the whole ride or you shouldn't
bother. ~David R. Adler

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