FSTFF 🎼

I am a multi instrumentalist. FSTFF stands for Fair Stand The Fields of France, which is the name of my recording project, side project, band, whatever you prefer to call it. It’s the title of a poem written by Charles Bukowski that I read in his collection “Play The Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until The Fingers Begin To Bleed a Little” it was a title that I picked out in 2007 when looking for a name to release the first 2 tracks that I recorded by myself in my bedroom, and it seemed like a super abstract and cool name. I tried to change it a few years later*, but it was too late. So I kept it, and just made it simply FSTFF. There have not been many live shows with FSTFF, due to the fact that multiple musicians are needed to make it happen, I prefer. And also, it’s simply because this has been more of a recording project. A lot of stuff has been captured recordings of collaborations I’ve had with other artists where, after what you hear happened, we went our separate ways. This has caused a little bit of confusion as I have forgotten names. Especially on recordings that are before I got sober. Many of those I don’t remember happening at all. I’m not bragging about that.
Genre is experimental, which is a definition of the creative process and approach, and all of the tracks that are released under FSTFF are all experiments in creativity through instrumentation, programming, composition, field recordings, effects processing, sampling, improvisation, recording and mixing through the lenses of Post Rock, Trip Hop, Avant-Jazz, Noisecore, Sound Art, Ambient Electronica, Pop, Spoken Word and Metal. I don’t like to take it all apart like I have here. However, I’ve got to say a little something somewhere about it.
*Bass Shaker Presley on SoundCloud