Franzson / Adapter
a Guide for the Dead through the Underworld
November
2011
Alex Mincek
June
2011
evans/wooley
High Society
May
2011
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
Horpma
March
2011
evans/pluta/altieri
sum and difference
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2010
Yarn/Wire
Tone Builders
July
2010
Architeuthis Walks on Land
Natura Naturans
May
2010
Matthew Hough & In Hyun Kim
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2009
San Diego Composers Collective
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2009
Timetable Percussion
New Works for Percussion Ensemble
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2009
GBL
Drone Level Orange
January
2009
Wet Ink Ensemble
New Works for Small Ensemble
2011 evans/wooley
Trumpet: Peter Evans Trumpet: Nate Wooley
High Society
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Peter Evans and Nate Wooley. Trumpet duo improvisations. Ten years ago this could not have existed…maybe even five years ago it would have been difficult, but now, in the age in which the experimental music world seems to be teeming with people “pushing the boundaries” of the trumpet, we are confronted with this inviolable fact. Peter Evans and Nate Wooley. Evans and Wooley have made short but intense careers out of defying expectations, and this record is no exception. After five years of playing together, working with a semblance of historical jazz context, new music conceptualism, and a new brand of technical virtuosity, one would expect a freshman duo recording to be full of technical fireworks, subtletly of dynamics and timbre, and refreshing nods to the great jazz trumpet tradition. What you get is two of America’s leading lights on the instrument laying everything on the line in one of the rawest, loudest, and delightfully abstract free improvisation records of its time. Using guitar amplifiers and their trumpets to shape feedback squall, Evans and Wooley have proposed a new kind of timbral dialogue to an already percolating world improvisation scene.
The CD just got a great review in the August issue of the Wire. From the review: "In this day and age, improvised music CDs that spring a genuine surprise are rare...Their remarkable dexterous playing produces an extraordinary array of sounds that might well test the mettle of their usual audiences."
