Patrick Grant
FIELDS AMAZE
and other sTRANGE music
www.strangemusic.com/famaze.html
20th Anniversary Edition: remixed + remastered + reimagined w/ bonus tracks
"Unexpected rhythms, outside of the box instrumentation, and a completely uncompromising barrage of artistic individuality. Innovative... exciting... mind-blowing... Patrick Grant's FIELDS AMAZE will leave you speechless." - Alternative Nation
"FIELDS AMAZE has a driving and rather harsh energy redolent of rock, as well as a clean sense of melodicism ... the music's momentum and intricate cross-rhythms rarely let up, making the occasional infectious tunes that emerge all the more beautiful for surprise." - The Village Voice (RIP)
"Created for percussion and tuned instruments, it’s a varied collection of instrumentals that – to my ears, anyway – owes more to Steve Reich and/or Edgard Varèse. It also (at least some of the time) sounds a bit like a more conventionally tuneful answer to Frank Zappa’s Jazz From Hell.” - Musoscribe: Bill Kopp’s Music Blog
“‘FIELDS AMAZE' (the track) has this X-Files urgency to it as electric keys rush through with the darkness of the piano...it reminds me of the soundtrack to a John Carpenter movie...” - Raised By Gypsies
"With a mixture of homages to 60s and 70s cinema and the traditional piano overtures, Grant excels at arranging all of these tracks into more than a remake, but rather a collection of new tracks.” - The Music Court
"'FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music' contains a hodgepodge of intricate rhythms played in unconventional and experimental ways using a variety of instruments and methods.” - Know More Music
“This music is soul warming and at times so strange that the world surrounding us acts as if its changing.” - Metal Centre
"It is quite strange...I’m left wondering what I just listened to.” - The Weekly Spoon
1. KEEPING STILL (3:50)
percussion quintet
2. FIELDS AMAZE (8:31)
homemade gamelan & microtonal keyboard
3. A VISIBLE TRACK OF TURBULENCE I (5:01)
flute, clarinet, & piano
4. EVERYTHING DISTINCT: EVERYTHING THE SAME (11:17)
three keyboards in Gb just intonation & three percussion
5. A VISIBLE TRACK OF TURBULENCE II (4:06)
flute, clarinet, & piano
6. IMAGINARY HORROR FILM - Part 1 (8:37)
electric chamber ensemble
The Accident - Hospital - Nine Months Later
Daily Living (Gnossienne) - Baiting the Trap - Going for a Drive
7. THE WEIGHTS OF NUMBERS (8:36)
a.k.a. Fractured Fictions
three electronic keyboards & drum kit
8. IMAGINARY HORROR FILM - Part 2 (7:27)
electric chamber ensemble
Cemetery - Hitchhiker No. 3 - Unsuspecting Victim
Under the Knife - Evening Prayer - New Day to Face - End Title
9. IF ONE SHOULD HAPPEN TO FALL (3:38)
singer vs. thesaurus
Total Running Time (61:12)
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