needles in a haystack
recordings

Music for the radio program This American Life
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ] [ SF…electric guitar, Sebastian Gramss…contrabass, João Lobo…drums, Scott Roller…cello ] [ Neos Music NEOS40806 ] [ 2008 ]

Drawings
[ Scott Fields ] [ SF…electric guitar, Arno Oehri…video ] [ Creative Sources CS130 ] [ 2008 ]

Scharfefelder
[ Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields ] [ SF…steel-string guitar, Elliott Sharp…steel-string guitar ] [ Clean Feed Records CFG003 ] [ 2008 ]

Bitter Love Songs
[ Scott Fields Freetet ] [ SF…electric guitar, Sebastian Gramss…contrabass, João Lobo…drums ] [ Clean Feed Records CF102 ] [ 2008 ]

We Were The Phliks
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ] [ SF…electric guitar, Thomas Lehn…analog synthesizer, Matthias Schubert…tenor saxophone, Xu Fengxia…guzheng ] [ Rogue Art Records ROG0007 ] [ 2007 ]

Beckett
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ] [ SF…electric guitar, John Hollenbeck…percussion, Scott Roller…cello, Matthias Schubert…tenor saxophone ] [ Clean Feed Records CF069 ] [ 2006 ]

Song Songs Song
[ Jeff Parker and Scott Fields ] [ SF…electric guitar, Jeff Parker…electric guitar ] [ Delmark Records DE558 ] [ 2004 ]

christangelfox
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ] [ SF…nylon-string guitar, Guillermo Gregorio…clarinet, Matt Turner…cello ] [ 482 Music 482-1029 ] [ 2004 ]

From the Diary of Dog Drexel
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ] [ Carrie Biolo…vibraphone, marimba, crotales, and unpitched percussion, Kyle Bruckmann…oboe and English horn, Guillermo Gregorio…alto saxophone and clarinet, Greg Kelley…trumpet, SF…electric guitar and nylon-string guitar, Stephen Dembski…conductor (tracks one through four), Gregory Taylor…constructor (track five) ] [ Rossbin RS008 ] [ 2002 ]

15=15 Plunderplunderfonics
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ] [ SF…CD duplicator ] [ This is an end-to-end sampling of Negativeland’s release of John Oswald’s double CD “69 Plunderphonics 96” ] [ Theode THO010101 ] [ double CD ] [ 2001 ]

Mamet
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ] [ SF…electric guitar, Michael Formanek…contrabass, Michael Zerang…percussion ] [ Delmark Records DE527 ] [ 2001 ]

96 Gestures
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ][ Carrie Biolo…vibraphone, Stephen Dembski…conduction, SF…electric guitar, François Houle…clarinet, Robbie Hunsinger…oboe, Joseph Jarman…saxophone, Rob Mazurek…trumpet, Myra Melford…piano, Jason Roebke…contrabass, Damon Short…percussion, Hans Sturm…contrabass, Matt Turner…violoncello, Dylan van der Schyff…percussion ][ triple CD ] [ CRI CD2001 ] [ 2001 ]

this that
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ][ SF…electric guitar, Peggy Lee…violoncello, Dylan van der Schyff…percussion ] [ Accretions CDALP024 ] [ 2001 ]

Hornets Collage
[ Fields-Houle-Roebke ][ SF…acoustic guitars, François Houle…clarinet, Jason Lee Roebke…contrabass ] [ Nuscope CD1005 ] [ 2000 ]

dénouement
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ][ Hamid Drake…percussion, SF…electric guitar, Jeff Parker…electric guitar, Jason Roebke…contrabass, Hans Sturm…contrabass, Michael Zerang…percussion ] [ Clean Feed Records CF088 ] [ 1999, reissued 2007 ]

Maze
[ Heinz Geisser-Guerino Mazzola Quartet ][ SF…electric guitar, Heinz Geisser…percussion and valiha, Guerino Mazzola…piano, Matt Turner…violoncello ][ Quixotic Records CD5002 ][ 1999 ]

Stephen Dembski’s Sonotropism
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ][ Marilyn Crispell…piano, SF…electric guitar, Larry Ochs…tenor and sopranino saxophones, Matt Turner…violoncello ] [ Music and Arts CD1007 ] [ 1997 ]

Five Frozen Eggs
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ][ Marilyn Crispell…piano, Hamid Drake…percussion, SF…guitars, Hans Sturm…contrabass ] [ Music and Arts CD987 ] [ 1997 ]

Disaster at Sea, an Opera Seria
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ][ Vincent Davis…drum set, bongos, SF…electric guitar, dobro Matt Turner…violoncello, mandocello ] [ Music and Arts CD961 ] [ 1996 ]

48 Motives
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ][ Geoff Brady…percussion, Marilyn Crispell…piano, Vincent Davis…percussion, Stephen Dembski…conductor, SF…nylon-string guitar, Joseph Jarman…alto saxophone, John Padden…contrabass, Hans Sturm…contrabass, Matt Turner…violoncello ] [ Cadence Jazz Records CJR1064 ] [ 1996 ]

Fugu
[ Scott Fields Ensemble ][ Geoff Brady…percussion, SF…nylon-string guitar, John Padden…contrabass, Robert Stright…vibraphone, Matt Turner…violoncello ] [ Geode GEO9501 ] [ 1995 ]

Running with Scissors
[ Scott Fields Quintet ] [ Geoff Brady…percussion, SF…guitars, Derek James…trombone, John Padden…contrabass, Robert Stright…vibraphone ] [ Geode GEO9301 ] [ 1993 ]

Etiloation
[ Silt Loam Ensemble ][ Geoff Brady…percussion, SF…electric guitar, Derek James…trombone, Tom Lachmund…bass clarinet, alto and soprano saxophones, John Padden…contrabass ][ Geode Records GEO9101 ][ 1991 ][ cassette ]

Silt Loam Ensemble
[ Silt Loam Ensemble ][ Paul Baker…percussion, SF…guitars, Tom Lachmund…alto and soprano saxophones, Carl Michel…electric guitar, John Padden…contrabass ][ MMC Records MMC9100 ][ 1990 ][ cassette ]



Live at Musik Triennale Köln
[ The James Choice Orchestra ] [ Leo Records CDLR513 ] [ 2006 ]

Live At Moers
[ The James Choice Orchestra ] [ Moers Records CD3010 ] [ 2006 ]

Chronotomy
[ Heinz Geisser-Guerino Mazzola Quartet ] [ SF…electric guitar, Heinz Geisser…percussion, Mat Maneri…violin, viola, Guerino Mazzola…piano ] [ Black Saint 120173-2 ] [ 2004 ]

Heliopolis
[ Heinz Geisser-Guerino Mazzola Quartet ][ SF…electric guitar, Heinz Geisser…percussion, Mat Maneri…violin, viola, Guerino Mazzola…piano ] [ Cadence Jazz Records CJR1122 ] [ 2000 ]

Deluxe Improvisation Series, volume 2
[ Compilation ][ also on recording: Gene Coleman, Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Kazuo Imai, Ko Ishikawa, Kang Tae Hwan, Utah Kawasaki, Stefan Keune, Brett Larner, Sachiko M, Toshi Makihara, Aya Motohashi, Yuko Nexus6, Masahiko Okura, Yoshihide Otomo, John Russell, Elliott Sharp, Carl Stone, Taku Sugimoto, Richard Teitelbaum, Ami Yoshida ][ ASE 03 ][ 2001 ][ one track: untitled improvised duet with Yoshiko Kanda, percussion ]

Live at Eyedrum
[ Compilation ][ Fields-Houle-Roebke ][ SF…nylon-string guitar, François Houle…clarinet, Jason Roebke…contrabass  ][ Eyedrum V2 ][ 2000 ][ one track: The Instruments of Darkness ]

Gathering
[ Compilation ][ Geoff Brady…percussion, SF…electric guitar, Matt Turner…violoncello ][ MMC Records MMC CD 002 ][ 1996 ][ one track: Contemporary Raga Number Nine ]

Cool at the Union
[ Bill O’Brien ][ Bill O’Brien…guitar, vocal, SF…electric guitar, Clyde Stubblefield (The Funky Drummer)…percussion, Gary Zappa…electric bass ] [ Raven Records RR 80033 ] [ 1980 ] [ two tracks: Students, Cool at the Union ]



















recording Five Frozen Eggs