Field Work / フィールドワーク” is inspired by the Ryuichi Sakamoto/Thomas Dolby track of the same name. This album features… well… a great deal of songs that never had a place until now I suppose. Many of these tracks were written for games that were never released, commissions that never panned out, album concepts that were scratched, various competitions, single performances, and just for fun.

In preparation for this album, my Field Work had me searching through every single scrap, idea, concept, and forgotten melody to discover just the right mix of old and new. In my frenzy, tons of emotion stirred up; there were very personal tracks that were simply abandoned or written as almost a private stream of consciousness - I hadn’t heard them in years.

That said, I refreshed and applied a new point of view to all the tracks and then picked the most meaningful of the bunch. I can’t even begin to describe the utter chaos of this whole process - files everywhere, terrible version control, tracks hidden in emails, etc - and even after all this combing and sifting, many great tracks hit the floor because they simply couldn’t be finished or, in some cases, there was no clear copy of the final version.

Luckily, this effort undoubtedly paid off as the result is this heartfelt mix of “found” material - born from depths of the mazes of my tracker folders and excavated for display in this museum of old thoughts, terrifying emotions, long lost dreams, and suppressed creativity.

I hope you enjoy my Field Work / フィールドワーク.