For guitarist Ike Sturm and bassist Jesse Lewis, who comprise the New York-based acoustic duo Endless Field, the beauty and mystery of the music heard on Alive in the Wilderness, their beguiling new album on the Biophilia label, is directly connected to the circumstances under which it was made — on location in the wilds of
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Utah fit the bill perfectly, and while getting to the most inspirational spots was sometimes practically an athletic feat, their resulting exhaustion had its advantages. “We would sometimes be physically destroyed by hiking into places, and in some ways that would take the edge off, and the mental game that happens in a recording was eased,” Sturm says. “You wouldn’t have that nervous energy — but definitely some energy when it looked like the bass might slide off the cliff we were standing on.”