Maples, Ash, and Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals is a mesmerizing soundtrack for a long walk in the woods, made up of pedal steel, oud, guitar, hurdy-gurdy, and piano. Based on the original Field Works album Cedars, this new suite of instrumental music brings the listener even deeper into the forest. For this special limited-edition release, Stuart Hyatt deconstructed each track from Cedars and rebuilt them one layer at a time. He removed the narrators' voices and invited Julien Marchal to introduce piano as the new protagonist. The 15 new tracks are named from each line of the new poem, Deciduous, by Cecily Parks. The musical frameworks are based on the Field Works album Cedars, created by Marisa Anderson, Fadi Tabbal, and Stuart Hyatt - and performed by Julien Marchal, Youmna Saba, Dena El Saffar, Danny Paul Grody, Bob Hoffnar, Stuart Hyatt, TomÃ¡s Lozano, Nathan Bowles, Alex Roldan, Fadi Tabbal, and Marisa Anderson. The forest soundscape was recorded by Harrison Ridley in the Welsh countryside.

Tracklist:

The Morning Bends Down
To Meet the Canopy
That We Walk Under
We Know the Moss, Forget-Me-Nots
And Blue-Green Spruce
But We Want to Be Known
By the Woods. We Say
Without Saying, Forget Me Not
We Listen to Maples, Ash, and Oaks
Without Hearing, But Not Hearing
Doesn't Mean That We Aren't
Being Spoken to
What Was That? Leaves Rustle
As If to Say, You Forget
We Forgot

UPC: 656605335223
Label: Temporary Residence
Release Date: 8.27.21
Format: CD

Field Works - Maples Ash & Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals (CD)