Fielded’s music focuses on the voice and develops from there
Listening to Los Angeles-based musician Fielded is an invitation to experience the essential intensity of the voice.
Fielded is the stage name of Lindsay Anne Powell, formerly of Ga’an. She is currently a member of the band Skyblazer, along with two members of JEFF the Brotherhood, whom she backed up on a David Letterman show in July.
Here in Texarkana with her solo project, Powell performs tonight at Hopkins Icehouse on a bill with Josh McGill of Dallas and Clifton Smeltzer of Shreveport. The show starts at 9 p.m.
Out on tour, Fielded is sharing her own entrancing sonic weave of music, focusing on material from her latest, yet-to-be-released album “Ninety-Thirty-Thirty,” a fulllength follow up to “Terrageist” two years ago.
“The new record is a little more pop influenced, a little more glam influenced,” Powell said, mention- ing acts like Roxy Music and early Depeche Mode that have informed her sound for the new work.
Her voice, so arresting and incantatory, is still a central, main factor. But surrounding that, she said, is more thought about what is possible beyond the voice.
Speaking of influences, Powell recalls how her interest in the voice began. She listened to medieval rounds and scales, Gregorian chants, even a cappella music. Even with metal, she paid attention to the voice.
“I was always paying attention to vocals,” Powell said. Eventually, that bled into the sound she created in her own music.
She’s a musician who appreciates talking music with her audience after a show, and she sees a whole spectrum of ways in which her music is influenced, drawing from a “multi-dimensional palette.”
Trauma, love and all aspects of life serve as inspiration for her music, even if they’re non-musical.
“Those are the things I take and they become musical,” she said. That’s the way it is with artists. “Everything goes into that area of their life because they can’t help it.”
When she sits down to pen lyrics, it’s a flowing process that involves a lot of “listening back,” as she put it.
“It’s very free, I don’t restrict myself,” Powell said. “I don’t have any rules when I write lyrics.”
She just moved to Los Angeles, which she believes has helped her musically, focusing on aspects of a live show like the costume or her performance. She’s inspired by the newness and freshness of L.A. It’s transfixing and sexy.
“I feel inspired by the history of L.A.,” she said.
During a live show, Powell senses a connection to her audience, noting “the energy, I like to think, is high, very high.”
“I love my relationship with the audience on stage,” she said. “They give me so much.”
Prior to her swing through Arkansas, her shows included Midwest dates this past week, and from here she heads to Austin and then on to New Mexico.
“I think people will be seeing something they haven’t seen before, hopefully,” Powell said.
(Cover: $5. Hopkins Icehouse is located at 301 E. 3rd St. More info: 870-774-3333.)