![THE SECOND DAY OF HOMETAPES…
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Shannon Fields of Stars Like Fleas (featuring the Canizares family) “I’ll Be Home For Christmas (If Only In My Dreams)”
“I liked the idea that this could sound a bit like eavesdropping on a discarded cassette tape from someone’s family Christmas. I always wanted to have the sort of family that would sit around a piano during holidays and sing together jovially drinking eggnog or something.”
“This photo is me (second from left, with trusty pipe) during the making of a video for The Silent League. The cardboard photo figures are by Noah Kalina, this photo taken by Alexandra Marvar.”
Shannon’s Favorite Records to Listen to Consistently in 2009:
Records released in 2009:
These Are Powers - All Aboard FutureEchoes Still Singing Limbs - S/TGlass Ghost - Idol OmenDesire - IIJensen Sportag - Jackie EPAriel Pink - Can’t Hear My Eyes singleNite Jewel - Good EveningHelado Negro - Awe OweBear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth MouthHonne Wells - “What the lead told or said? The home recordings of Henri Honne Wells [2005-2007]”Duane Pitre - Origin (well, not yet released, i think)
Records made in a time that was not 2009:
ABC - Lexicon of LoveDaryl Hall & Robert Fripp - Sacred SongsOrchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - S/TOrchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture and MoralityGary Numan - DanceJohn Maus - Love is RealLansing-Dreiden - The Dividing IslandMicrodisney - 82-84: Love Your EnemiesThe Psychedelic Furs - All Of This & NothingPeter & The Wolf - LightnessCocteau Twins - ‘Love’s Easy Tears’ and ‘Tiny Dynamine’ EP’sHall & Oates - Ultimate Daryl Hall & John OatesScritti Politti - ProvisionSawako - Yours GrayMiranda July - Binet-Simon TestA whole heaping lot of cosmic/italo disco tracks downloaded from American Athlete and Bumrocks.com.
Shannon’s Favorite Movie of 2009:
This year I enjoyed but did not care about movies. Also, this year, I thought a bit about why I’ve maybe always enjoyed but perhaps never cared about movies. Fascinating (for me, not you). How about books? Kelly Link - Magic For Beginners. There you go (May not be 2009 though…damn, it’s not. oh well). But I don’t mind admitting that I caught myself crying during the first 15 minutes of “Up” on the plane back from Stars Like Fleas tour in Europe.
Shannon’s Favorite Discovery of 2009:
My favorite discovery of 2009 is narcissistic..you don’t get to hear it (but you might next year).
Shannon’s Favorite Show of 2009 (Played or Attended):
Attended
In February of 2009 I curated John Zorn’s new music space, The Stone, in NYC. I booked 2 different shows each night for a month. I can confidently claim to have produced the world’s first and largest festival ever devoted entirely to whatever the fuck shannon fields would like to hear. I went to every one. What else can i say? It was unreal. You can see the listing here: http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=-10
The MOST memorable shows outside of that include These Are Powers at SXSW, Light Asylum at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Glass Ghost at the Sycamore, Jason Ajemian with the High Life at some restaurant back room in Harlem that I forget, Tristan Perich at Issue Project Room, Luluc at the Sycamore, and Corridors/Byron Westbrook in some room next to Glasslands that I forget the name of, Nick Keupfer at Cagibi (Montreal, QC).
Played
* These all have stories but it would take too long to tell them so I’ll stick with physical inventory. I’ve hardly been home this year but it has been an awfully rewarding year spent traveling and playing music with my friends.
/with Stars Like Fleas at: The Attic (houseparty in Guelph, Ontario, with Echoes Still Singing Limbs), MoMA (NYC), P.S.1. Contemporary Art Museum, Centre George Pompidou (Paris), Salle Paul Fortes (Nantes, France), Cafe Credenza (Faenza, Italy)
/with Helado Negro: Knitting Factory (NYC), Lyndon Street Artworks (Greensboro, NC), houseparty at William Tyler’s place in Nashville, TN.
/with Duane Pitre ensemble: Roulette and at Issue Project Room…both a thrill for me.
/with Chris Schlarb ensemble at The Stone.
/with The Silent League: Music Hall of Williamsburg, and Wildfire (Ithaca, NYC), and at Union Pool with the calendar boys of Bear in Heaven.
Shannon’s Favorite Moment of 2009:
My favorite moments of 2009 are too numerous to mention. Spending the day lazing around the ancestral farmhome of Merriweather Lewis (Lewis & Clark), drinking and watching my Helado Negro comrades hit the zip line…that’s up there. As was playing in a storewindow on a small square in Faenza, Italy. As was hanging around Union Pool and catching up one by one with friends who live near me but whom i haven’t really spent time with in ages. As was a recent, indescribably meaningful and inspiring trip to Montreal to kick off one of several new projects. But my favorite moments of the year were probably the little stretches of time spent alone: in the early morning, waking up in a new town, walking around with my thoughts in search of coffee; walking around in an old town latenight coming down from whatever sensory overload i put myself through the day; or in the car, driving alone from one place to the next, a little anxiety and a little anticipation and a whole lot of singing along with Simple Minds or something. It’s a sappy self-absorbed rom-com I’ve just told you, and altogether true.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kujogwSJqT1qzqm26o1_500.png)
THE SECOND DAY OF HOMETAPES…
DOWNLOAD:
“I liked the idea that this could sound a bit like eavesdropping on a discarded cassette tape from someone’s family Christmas. I always wanted to have the sort of family that would sit around a piano during holidays and sing together jovially drinking eggnog or something.”
“This photo is me (second from left, with trusty pipe) during the making of a video for The Silent League. The cardboard photo figures are by Noah Kalina, this photo taken by Alexandra Marvar.”
Shannon’s Favorite Records to Listen to Consistently in 2009:
Records released in 2009:
These Are Powers - All Aboard Future
Echoes Still Singing Limbs - S/T
Glass Ghost - Idol Omen
Desire - II
Jensen Sportag - Jackie EP
Ariel Pink - Can’t Hear My Eyes single
Nite Jewel - Good Evening
Helado Negro - Awe Owe
Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Honne Wells - “What the lead told or said? The home recordings of Henri Honne Wells [2005-2007]”
Duane Pitre - Origin (well, not yet released, i think)
Records made in a time that was not 2009:
ABC - Lexicon of Love
Daryl Hall & Robert Fripp - Sacred Songs
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - S/T
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture and Morality
Gary Numan - Dance
John Maus - Love is Real
Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island
Microdisney - 82-84: Love Your Enemies
The Psychedelic Furs - All Of This & Nothing
Peter & The Wolf - Lightness
Cocteau Twins - ‘Love’s Easy Tears’ and ‘Tiny Dynamine’ EP’s
Hall & Oates - Ultimate Daryl Hall & John Oates
Scritti Politti - Provision
Sawako - Yours Gray
Miranda July - Binet-Simon Test
A whole heaping lot of cosmic/italo disco tracks downloaded from American Athlete and Bumrocks.com.
Shannon’s Favorite Movie of 2009:
This year I enjoyed but did not care about movies. Also, this year, I thought a bit about why I’ve maybe always enjoyed but perhaps never cared about movies. Fascinating (for me, not you). How about books? Kelly Link - Magic For Beginners. There you go (May not be 2009 though…damn, it’s not. oh well). But I don’t mind admitting that I caught myself crying during the first 15 minutes of “Up” on the plane back from Stars Like Fleas tour in Europe.
Shannon’s Favorite Discovery of 2009:
My favorite discovery of 2009 is narcissistic..you don’t get to hear it (but you might next year).
Shannon’s Favorite Show of 2009 (Played or Attended):
Attended
In February of 2009 I curated John Zorn’s new music space, The Stone, in NYC. I booked 2 different shows each night for a month. I can confidently claim to have produced the world’s first and largest festival ever devoted entirely to whatever the fuck shannon fields would like to hear. I went to every one. What else can i say? It was unreal. You can see the listing here: http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=-10
The MOST memorable shows outside of that include These Are Powers at SXSW, Light Asylum at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Glass Ghost at the Sycamore, Jason Ajemian with the High Life at some restaurant back room in Harlem that I forget, Tristan Perich at Issue Project Room, Luluc at the Sycamore, and Corridors/Byron Westbrook in some room next to Glasslands that I forget the name of, Nick Keupfer at Cagibi (Montreal, QC).
Played
* These all have stories but it would take too long to tell them so I’ll stick with physical inventory. I’ve hardly been home this year but it has been an awfully rewarding year spent traveling and playing music with my friends.
/with Stars Like Fleas at: The Attic (houseparty in Guelph, Ontario, with Echoes Still Singing Limbs), MoMA (NYC), P.S.1. Contemporary Art Museum, Centre George Pompidou (Paris), Salle Paul Fortes (Nantes, France), Cafe Credenza (Faenza, Italy)
/with Helado Negro: Knitting Factory (NYC), Lyndon Street Artworks (Greensboro, NC), houseparty at William Tyler’s place in Nashville, TN.
/with Duane Pitre ensemble: Roulette and at Issue Project Room…both a thrill for me.
/with Chris Schlarb ensemble at The Stone.
/with The Silent League: Music Hall of Williamsburg, and Wildfire (Ithaca, NYC), and at Union Pool with the calendar boys of Bear in Heaven.
Shannon’s Favorite Moment of 2009:
My favorite moments of 2009 are too numerous to mention. Spending the day lazing around the ancestral farmhome of Merriweather Lewis (Lewis & Clark), drinking and watching my Helado Negro comrades hit the zip line…that’s up there. As was playing in a storewindow on a small square in Faenza, Italy. As was hanging around Union Pool and catching up one by one with friends who live near me but whom i haven’t really spent time with in ages. As was a recent, indescribably meaningful and inspiring trip to Montreal to kick off one of several new projects. But my favorite moments of the year were probably the little stretches of time spent alone: in the early morning, waking up in a new town, walking around with my thoughts in search of coffee; walking around in an old town latenight coming down from whatever sensory overload i put myself through the day; or in the car, driving alone from one place to the next, a little anxiety and a little anticipation and a whole lot of singing along with Simple Minds or something. It’s a sappy self-absorbed rom-com I’ve just told you, and altogether true.
