About Personal Elegy, Chris Field says, "This album is a collection of songs I wrote and recorded over the past ten years. Living in Los Angeles, in the Valley, which is close to Topanga Canyon and the Pacific Ocean, there's so much nature and history all in the same area. Influence wise, I was remembering some music that was going on around here, back in the sixties and seventies. Lyrically, I was just writing about things around me. I really got into writing lyrics for this and was trying to find my own point of view. On Personal Elegy, I'm singing, using my own voice, unlike the instrumental works I usually do for film."

Field continues, "The title track for the album, "Personal Elegy", is about things and people that have passed. It's, for me, watching the Valley change. Family and friends passing. Movie stars have their time as well. Heath Ledger had just passed away when I wrote this. The whole city of Los Angeles stopped for a moment - maybe the whole country. Really great actors make you feel that you know them and their passing feels immediate and personal. Definitely, in our family, my wife and niece were very upset, there was a reaction against this sudden loss, the ultimate reminder of change. This song seems to tie the album together in some way."

It is everyone's journey along the arc of time, beginning with death in "Personal Elegy" and through heaven in the piece "A Safe Place to Hide". The theme of sexual love in "Computer Girl", turns to hopeful love in "Since You Were My Baby" and "Autumn Moon", developing into the never ending love of "You Make My Life Better".

Within this arc of experience comes fame, in the glittery world of the movies, fans clamoring for an "Autograph". (Field's orchestral writing abilities shine in this piece.) "Start Again" comes after a fall. The ambiguous story of the sad abused girl "Nola" and "Had It Comin'" look directly into the ever present life dangers of abuse, and when called for, retribution.

"How Did We Get Here", "Live Another Day", and "All I Do Is Think About You" deal with past experience, the wonderment of how and why things have unfolded as they did. "New Tomorrow" and "Movin" promise that we've still got some time.

We still have the hope of a better tomorrow, but only by moving on from things that have changed. But really, do things change? On the sand and beach, the eternal stars shining in the sky, the writer asks, was this "Just A Dream"? Only the listener can decide that for themselves - but Field's music can certainly put one in the mood to wonder. A great find.

***Five bonus instrumental tracks are included on the Magnatune version.

1. Personal Elegy
2. Personal Elegy (instrumental)
3. A Safe Place to Hide
4. Computer Girl
5. Since You Were My Baby
6. Since You Were My Baby (instrumental)
7. You Make My Life Better
8. Autumn Moon
9. Autumn Moon (instrumental)
10. Autograph
11. Autograph (instrumental)
12. Start Again
13. Nola
14. How Did We Get Here
15. Live Another Day
16. All I Do Is Think About You
17. New Tomorrow
18. Had It Comin
19. Movin'
20. Movin (instrumental)
21. Just a Dream

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 08/23/2016
Chris Field lives in California USA

Tagged as: Electro Rock, Pop, Vocal, Bass, Classic rock, Electro Rock, Keyboard

1. Music of Fernando Sor by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
2. Daydream by Robin Stine: jazzy, bluesy numbers that immediately sound like comfortable standards
3. Meditative Guitar by Jeff Wahl: acoustic new age and jazz guitar.
4. Sabbath Day's Journey by Lydia McCauley: intriguing piano compositions with dynamic accompaniment
5. The Depths of a Year by Ehren Starks: piano and cello/jazzy new age
6. CD2 - Bach - The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Lara St John: Bach violin concertos
7. The Airs of Wales by Cheryl Ann Fulton: World-class performer and teacher of Medieval, Baroque, Welsh triple, Celtic and Concert harps.
8. Hidden Sky by Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
9. The Parisian Delight by Richard MacKenzie: Virtuoso English Lutenist and Guitarist
10. Pastourelle by Fortune's Wheel: a spirited rediscovery of the riches of medieval musical traditions
11. Christmas Music by Magnatune Compilation: the best music from Magnatune
12. Holiday Frost by Cari Live: thoughtful expressions through intelligent new age
13. A Harper's Holiday in Wales by Cheryl Ann Fulton: World-class performer and teacher of Medieval, Baroque, Welsh triple, Celtic and Concert harps.
14. Tombeaux - A secular requiem by Richard MacKenzie: Virtuoso English Lutenist and Guitarist
15. Patrons of the Lute by Daniel Shoskes: A feast of Baroque lute
16. Dowland on 8 String Guitar by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
17. Nun Komm by The Bach Players: baroque instrumental and vocal gems
18. SL Weiss on 11 Strings by Paul Berget: renaissance lute, modernized.
19. Holburns Passion by Jacob Heringman: renaissance lute
20. JS Bach Six Motets BWV 225-230 by Bach Collegium San Diego: Bach, historically informed, vibrantly performed

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