Living Room Live featuring Lucas Field
Join us Friday 1/13/12 at 5:00pm and Saturday 1/14/12 at 7:00pm in the Living Room Bar to welcome Seattle musician Lucas Field.
More about Lucas Field:
Seattle based singer-songwriter, Lucas Field has transitioned from his former post as frontman of Los Angeles-based rock band, Low vs. Diamond into a completely new venture that highlights his musicianship to the fullest with "Conquest of Happiness".
Having bid farewell to all guitars and synthesizers, Field has discovered a more melodic core, creating a pure soul offering of electric piano, bass and drums. Texture comes courtesy of an ensemble of female vocalists, as well as his own multi-dimensional vocal range. He spent three years conceptualizing "Conquest of Happiness", and recorded the entire album in just three takes.
In what turned out to be more of a “working vacation” with longtime friend and lyricist, Brandon Murphy, the energy and spirit from their collaborative sessions aboard Field's Seattle houseboat can be heard on every track. The first line the two wrote together, “Strange how it feels when you’re alive again” evolved into “Let It All Begin”, and really set the tone for the rest of the record.
On tracks such as “Two Lovers” and “Sunday Morning”, Field weaves stories about love and loss, all experienced on the eternal search for personal happiness. “Giving It All You Got” and “The Dreaming” further explore the full spectrum - all the highs and lows - of blazing your own trail. The first single “Just How It Goes” needs no explanation - when something feels right, there's not much you can do about it. "Consequences went out the window when I started this record," Field explains. "Musically and personally...the only thing I considered was what I felt at any given moment.”
Wearing his emotions on his sleeve, there is an upfront quality to the recordings and openness to the songwriting on this album that makes you feel like you actually know Lucas by the end.
Fusing the melancholy with the upbeat, "Conquest of Happiness" is a record that aims to get you started, wind you down, or any moment in between.
