Field Works - Maples, Ash, and Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals (Temporary Residence)

WHAT YOUR EARS SAY & THE COVER LOOKS LIKE

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WHAT WE SAY

Not content with basking in the glory of the stunning Cedars LP for Temporary Residence Ltd. (please check it as well), Field Works has de/reconstructed it from the ground up, replacing the poetic drama with gentle piano lines & the sounds of nature to accentuate its calming ambient qualities. Serene Sunday listening.

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WHAT THE RELEASE NOTES SAY

Maples, Ash, and Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals is a mesmerizing soundtrack for a long walk in the woods, made up of pedal steel, oud, guitar, hurdy-gurdy, and piano. Based on the original Field Works album Cedars, this new suite of instrumental music brings the listener even deeper into the forest. For this special limited-edition release, Stuart Hyatt deconstructed each track from Cedars and rebuilt them one layer at a time. He removed the narrators’ voices and invited Julien Marchal to introduce piano as the new protagonist. The 15 new tracks are named from each line of the new poem, Deciduous, by Cecily Parks. The musical frameworks are based on the Field Works album Cedars, created by Marisa Anderson, Fadi Tabbal, and Stuart Hyatt – and performed by Julien Marchal, Youmna Saba, Dena El Saffar, Danny Paul Grody, Bob Hoffnar, Stuart Hyatt, Tomás Lozano, Nathan Bowles, Alex Roldan, Fadi Tabbal, and Marisa Anderson. The forest soundscape was recorded by Harrison Ridley in the Welsh countryside.​

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