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Nate Wooley's Argonautica Record Release at Roulette
Courtesy of Kerry Santullo | Posted on May 11, 2016
When
Mon, May 30, 2016
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Nate Wooley
trumpetRon Miles
cornetAbout
The story of Jason and the Argonauts begins with a collection of warriors, each with different talents, viewpoints, and temperaments, coming together to create an imperfect mosaic that is suited to their task. On his new album, Argonautica, Nate Wooley takes the same stance as he gathers players from different aesthetics to tell an abstract musical story on a grand level.
Featuring a double trio with Wooley and underheard trumpet great Ron Miles on brass, Jozef Dumoulin and Cory Smythe playing electronics, keyboards, and piano, and Devin Gray and Rudy Royston providing the percussive propulsion, Argonautica combines elements of aleatoric and minimalist compositional aesthetics and forces them the prism of early fusion. The piece premiered at Roulette in 2014 and subsequently immortalized in an episode of Roulette TV, our ongoing video series dedicated to capturing the creative process of live performance. The full length work veers between the shattered dissonance of dodecaphony, a dream-like ambient music presence, and the insistent ecstatic quality of 70s minimalism. The result is a piece of music that reads like a story, unfolding section by section and page by page. Argonautica will be available this June on Firehouse 12 Records. ...