Bands & Performers

Little Wings

Little Wings is a diverse musical palette Kyle Field uses to paint stories with sound. The personnel in Little Wings has always been in flux, through the Wonder and Light Green Leaves trilogies and last years Harvest Joy album. Says Kyle, “Magic Wand is about trusting to get it right the first time (pointing your magic wand with total faith and projection and focus, sending light in this way). Magic Wand attempts a refined high realism, lyrically and musically, that I have never attempted with the voice.” He adds, “I am drawing a lot”, as evidenced by the cover illustrations for Magic Wand, an extension of the work in Kyle’s latest gallery show. With this album Kyle worked with producer Calvin Johnson at Dub Narcotic studio in Olympia, Wa., recruiting a wide variety of other artists (musical and visual: Phil Elverum, Bobby Birdman, Lee Baggett, Genevieve Elverum, Miggy Littleton and others) who come and go throughout the week Magic Wand is recorded. They stay for days and nights, or for just one song. This results in the Child Artist deep inside Kyle emerging, picking up his pen again with his original devotion and purpose. In his hands “Magic Wand” becomes a synonym for pen (writing and drawing), microphone, peace pipe, cigarette, an actual magicians wand, crystal shard, etc. This is the sixth album from Kyle Field funneling his wood grain/crystal shards through the latest wave of Big Sur revivalism.