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Foundry Field Recordings

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Billy Schuh shared with me that his breakfast cereal of choice would be anything Kashi.  “Really good stuff and apparently good for you,” he expounds.  Back atcha, man.  Schuh’s pop-folk project, the Foundry Field Recordings, makes fine-boned melodies which he describes as “rooted in the organic nature of the song.” 

THE FOUNDRY FIELD RECORDINGS

Schuh, guitar, vocals, songsmith, and founder of The Foundry, tells me that he began FFR “to find sustainability and balance in my life with music.  What a new age answer,” he goes on, and laughs: “Haha, but it is true.”  This blend of honesty and irony is one of his leading characteristics and splattered all over his music.  “Lyrically speaking I paint strokes with dark topics and match them with upbeat pop tempos.  I like the juxtaposition,” Schuh explains, “I would like to think that we are approaching music the right way, substance over style.”  

Schuh started making music in college and it was at that advanced age that he discovered that he done struck talent.  Ironic?  Yes, indeed.  After reallocations and convergences amid the usual evolution, the current members fell into place and the FFR of today (Justin Nardy, bass, Danny Matteson, lead guitar, and Justin McCrady on drums and backing vocals) swooped into the panorama of 2005.  It fits that FFR’s magnificent productions are peppered the same vein and discuss the ironies of current issues like technology, the corrosion of society, the deterioration of an individual person, to sounds that thrum like the warm, thick textured air of a summer afternoon by the creek.  Amid the tenuous strumming, light percussion dotting the background, and the vocals that swing like a hammock, the lyrics (to completely drain that metaphor) are the jolt that your little sister gives the hammock to wake you up. 

Totally organic and swarming with nutrients, FFR will give your day a bright and earnest start and bring those “electric harmonies” of life to light, to quote a phrase of FFR’s song Transistor Kids.  Ummmm, apparently, it’s good for you.

COMING TO MOSCOW - HEAR THE FOUNDRY FIELD RECORDINGS (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=4488088) with JOHANNA KUNIN.

Friday night, 6 March 2009, 8:00 p.m., The American Legion Cabin (317 S. Howard St., 83843),     brought to you by Stereopathic Records.  Be there.

Molly is a freelance journalist and a senior at New St. Andrew’s College with a special interest in postcards and goldfish.  She writes for The Loop 21 and keeps the blog A New Amsterdam.

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