Larry Goldings, mai ban sha'awa na Grammy, kuma Melinda Sullivan, mai ban sha'awa mai ban sha'awa, suna bangaskiya don samar Big Foot, mai ban sha'awa, mai ban sha'awa na Colorfield Records.

Kai Goldings da Sullivan ya samu a kowace kafin COVID pandemic, su ba su iya san yadda yaushe zai zama domin su biyu. A cikin 2021, suka fara girmama a gaskiya na Goldings don wasa tare da kuma saita bidiyo na su jam sesiyoyin a kan social media. The aikin aka saita da masu zane-zane da masu zaman kansu da masu zaman kansu wanda ya sani a cikin hadin gwiwa na tap dancing da jazz, wani ƙaunar ƙaunar 100 shekaru.

Yana da mahimmanci cewa duo za su karshe ta shirye-shirye daga cikin social da kuma a studio. Tare da farko, sun san cewa za su bukatar ci gaba da wani musamman sonic al'amari don rubutu. Wannan ya tafi su zuwa injiniyoyi-tallacewa Pete Min, wani mutum da aka sha'awa don samar da artistic al'amari da ke duba yanki tsakanin improvisation da shirye-shirye, haɗari da kuma kudin, aikace-aikace da bincike.

Sana daya daga cikin kwarewa na saita tare da wani tap dancer, Goldings da Sullivan ya samu, shi ne cewa music ya kamata a zama dacewa - a matsayin music - ba tare da tsari na yadda ya samu. Big Foot yana samun daidaito tsakanin yin daidaito na musically mai ban sha'awa ba tare da over-manipulating na sonic yanki, da ya yiwuwa da Sullivan a matsayin ban mamaki dancer. “My main thing,” ya ce Goldings, "sa cewa na so mutane duba abin da Melinda yana yi."  

A lokacin da aka saukewa, Goldings ya shigar da shi a cikin analog synthesis da ya yi amfani da wani katalog na keyboards wanda zai sa kowace wani electronics ma'aikata. Sullivan dances a tsokoki, sand da sneakers a cikin mafi yawan album, don damar da ya rami na al'amari zuwa ga. A ƙauna, ƙauna, slide, da kuma taps da ya koyar da shi ne m, a lokacin da suka yi amfani da kewaye a kan shawara tambayoyi, a lokacin da wasu tablas ko frame tambayoyi, da kuma a lokacin da wasu suna da wani analog tambayoyi inji ko beat box.

Other contributors to the record include Sam Gendel on saxophone and effects, CJ Camerieri on trumpet and flugelhorn, Daphne Chen on violin and viola, and bassist Karl McComas-Reichl. Each of them brings their personal sound to an already unusual party.  And Goldings’ daughter Anna sings a particularly haunting melody on “Do You Like,'' a song that opens with the voice of another luminary, drummer Steve Gadd.  It is Gadd’s voice asking the question “Do you like…?” before he begins to tap out a gently grooving pattern with his hands on a box.

Many of the compositions on Big Foot evoke film cues, in part because of their unraveling structure. They begin, they develop, they end somewhere unexpected. Larry admits that, “Film scores are an influence on this music. So is Björk, and Joe Zawinul.”  

But whatever the journey and the influences may have been, simply put Big Foot is great music that is extremely difficult to execute but very easy to listen to.

About Colorfield Records:

Colorfield Records is a new label based out of Pete Min's Lucy's Meat Market Studio in LA. Colorfield artists are encouraged to compose in the studio, often playing instruments that they're not accustomed to and relying as heavily on sound as on musicianship and composition. The process is designed to emphasize getting outside of comfort zones in order to increase spontaneity and exploration.