Acoustic Horizons

“Honestly, at first I was a little worried about it coming off as trite,” says Ike Sturm, bassist for the acoustic duo Endless Field, about recording their new album, , live in the dramatic outdoor setting of Utah’s Escalante National Monument. “Y’know: ‘Oh, wow, there are sounds! Listen—rushing water!’” However, when Sturm and his Endless Field partner, guitarist Jesse Lewis, finally began tracking both audio and video in the park, those concerns became moot points. “We let all those worries go,”