Larry Goldings, olokiki ati olokiki ti o ni Grammy, ati Melinda Sullivan, olokiki ati olokiki ti o ni iyanu lati fi Big Foot, ọpọlọpọ awọn aworan ti o dara julọ lori Colorfield Records.

Kẹsẹ Goldings ati Sullivan ti o ba tẹsiwaju ṣaaju ki o to awọn COVID pandemic, wọn ti ko ba ni anfani lati mọ nikan bi o yoo jẹ ipa fun wọn mejeeji. Nipa 2021, wọn ti bẹrẹ gbigbe ni Goldings' backyard lati ṣiṣẹ pẹlu wọn ki o si fi awọn fidio ti wọn jam session si awọn ọna asopọ si awọn ọna asopọ. Awọn ọna ti a tun mọ nipasẹ awọn musicists ati awọn ọjọgbọn ti o ti ri ninu awọn asopọ ti tap dansi ati jazz, a gbọdọ kan ti o wa siwaju sii ju 100 ọdun.

O ni ailewu pe awọn duo yoo ni akọkọ gba awọn ọja lati awọn sosia ati si awọn ile-iṣẹ. Lati akọkọ, wọn mọ pe wọn yoo nilo lati ṣeto kan akọsilẹ akọsilẹ akọsilẹ akọsilẹ fun awọn akọsilẹ. Eyi ṣe wọn si oniru-iṣowo Pete Min, ọkunrin ti o gbọdọ lati ṣe awọn akọsilẹ akọsilẹ ti o gbọdọ awọn agbegbe laarin improvisation ati composition, iyanu ati iṣakoso, iṣoro ati iwadi.

One of the challenges of recording with a tap dancer, Goldings and Sullivan found, was that the music had to remain listenable – as music – without dwelling on the process of how it was made.</pfseg> Big Foot tẹsiwaju iṣeduro laarin ṣiṣe awọn gbigbe musically gbigbe laisi awọn gbigbe awọn iṣeduro iṣeduro, ṣiṣe Sullivan gẹgẹ bi a percussive dancer. “My main thing,” o npe ni Goldings, “bi ti mo ti fẹ awọn eniyan lati wo ohun ti Melinda n ṣe.”  

During the recording sessions, Goldings immersed himself in analog synthesis and employed a catalog of keyboards that would make any electronic enthusiast envious. Sullivan dances in socks, sand and sneakers for the majority of the album, allowing her rhythmic nuance to come forward. The toe, heel, slide, and taps that she coaxes are complex, sometimes evoking brushes on a snare drum, other times tablas or frame drums, and still other times the sound of an analog drum machine or 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.