Scott Fields & Multiple Joyce Orchestra ‎– Moersbow / OZZO (2011)

…the large ensemble music of guitarist/composer Scott Fields (b. 1956) on Moersbow/OZZO expresses a more traditional, not to say conservative, contemporary classical demeanor. ...In “Moersbow,’” a tribute to the Japanese noise band Merzbow ironically intended to be “as quiet as the musicians can manage,” the sotto voce drones, glimmering and hovering pitched and unpitched tones dissolve into serpentine lines only to end without resolution. ...Throughout the four-part ”OZZO,” perhaps due to Fields’ modular formats or the nature of the material presented to the players, the effect is of sound masses in motion, congealed from isolated lines. ...The degree of composed to improvised music is uncertain, but the effect is of a process discovering its own form and concluding as a durable entity.