Under duress from the USM (Unified Society of Milkmen), Joe Daley, Blair Douglass, Paul Foreman and Nick Rocchio shut down their independent milk delivery service in 1929. A smattering of unsuccessful business endeavors followed, until they discovered an undeniable chemistry blending raw fuzz guitars with lutes and clarinets. Although initially less lucrative than the milk delivery service, the band, who settled on the name Sanftsprecher (trans. “Soft Speaker”), were championed by Austria’s Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1932 and subsequently enjoyed a period of massive popularity in their newly-adopted home country. The band split following Dollfuss’s assassination in 1934. Their only official recording, the 78rpm single,“I’ll Tend Your Garden,” is highly sought after by record collectors. In 2008, enthusiasts of the band purchased sheet music for a number of unrecorded Sanftsprecher songs that were discovered in Rocchio’s safe deposit box in UniCredit Bankengruppe. Five of these songs have been recorded by the Austrian Orchestra, The Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, and will be released in early 2010.

The Field Auxiliary is a Chicago-based recording/performance ensemble initiated by the kinetic release of potential energy wave particles via the limb tips of principle musician/tryer Dan Smart, as well as via those of collaborators Rob Jensen, Jon Ozaksut, and Josh Kalvelage and others (as determined by Heisenberg's {QP - PQ = [{ih}/{2•}]}). Gaining in both gravity and, it follows, orbital rotation since 2008, The Field Auxiliary exhibits, both in performance and on record, a layered and multi-conversational experimental pop music that exists continuously (with regard to conservation of angular momentum, defined as {L = r x p}) and in tenuous accordance with various hopelessly irreconcilable catechisms.

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