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Playfield: Stepping Out
ByPlayfield, as this particular congregate of players from downtown NY is dubbed, brings it all to the foreground on Stepping Out. These harsh yet restive urban tone poems push, plunge, and manipulate their own. They abandon the old playbook and choose not to replace it with another set of rules, of coinage, of equilibrium. Vocalist Luisa Muhr's urging exclamations and proclamations serve as the human cry and chatter of myth encountered on any street while venturing the shadows of New York Cityespecially a city slowly opening up to itself and the world after a plague tried to kill it.
Recording for the first time in a studio in Brooklyn (Carter prefers the sounds of the city to be included in his music, so he records outdoors) Playfield set about creating a sonic cityscape which is never easy to define because it is always in the act of transpiring, looping around itself, subject to the next sound of piston and gear, gunshot and siren. So pianist Eric Plaks, bassist Zachary Swanson, drummer Jon Panikkar, fellow sax man Ayumi Ishito, willfully conspire with Carter and guitarists Aron Namenwirth and Yutaka Takahashi to create a sound and a moment in sound that no other city in the world can claim. It is crystalline and muddy, spiritual and secular. It is human and therefore beautiful.
Track Listing
.Tree House; Ice Cream Mountain; Loves Electric Touch
Personnel
Daniel Carter
saxophoneLuisa Muhr
vocalsAyumi Ishito
saxophoneZachary Swanson
bassEric Plaks
pianoYutaka Takahashi
guitarAron Namenwirth
guitarJon Panikkar
drumsAdditional Instrumentation
Ayumi Ishito - Electronics; Yutaka Takahashi - Electronics; Aron Namenwirth - Electronics.
Album information
Title: Stepping Out | Year Released: 2022 | Record Label: 577 Records
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