Endless Field perform in Slot Canyon. (Photo by Christopher Georgia)
The Endless Deep duo will perform 2024's last show in SUNY Oswego's Ke-nekt' Chamber Music Series at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4, in Sheldon Hall ballroom.
Drawing on inspiration from nature, the guitarist Jesse Lewis and bassist Ike Sturm perform original songs with intricate finger-style lines, improvisation and ambient textures to outdoor spaces. Encouraging audiences to explore their own frontiers, Endless Field “both captures the beauty of America’s wild landscapes and serves as a call to help keep them healthy,” according to JazzTimes.
“It’s that sensation of awe-inspired tranquility that guides the music on this disc, one of distant horizons and airy, windswept melodies," Downbeat wrote in a review, "The duo harness a palette of sounds that are refreshingly organic in this age of industrialization.”
Endless Field has toured internationally in Europe and across the U.S., performing at Lincoln Center, the United Nations and live on NPR's "Echoes Radio."
Endless Field released "Alive in the Wilderness" in summer 2020 on Biophilia Records. The album was recorded live in the Utah wilderness using a solar battery-powered mobile recording studio. National Geographic photographers and videographers documented their epic adventure and all album proceeds are being donated to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Their most recent adventure in summer 2023 brought them to Denali National Park in the Alaskan wilderness to record an album created live on mountains and glaciers, with a 2024 scheduled release.
Volunteer activities have involved Riverkeeper sweeps, Habitat for Humanity, university residencies and river cleanup projects. Visit their website, EndlessFieldBand.com, for more information on the duo.
A pre-concert talk will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The Ke-nekt' Chamber Music Series is a collaboration between the ARTSwego Performing Arts Series and SUNY Oswego Music Department.
Tickets –- available via tickets.oswego.edu –- are free for SUNY Oswego students; $12 for faculty/staff/alumni; $15 for the general public and $5 for non-SUNY Oswego students.
Persons needing accommodations to attend this event should contact the box office at 315-312-3703 or tickets@oswego.edu at least 48 hours in advance of curtain.
For more information on this performance and other performing arts events, visit oswego.edu/artswego.