RED trio + Nate Wooley - STEM (2012)

RED trio’s latest free improvised collaboration is with Nate Wooley. Wooley returns from the lush drawn out soliloquy of The Almond back to the noise and jazz of his earlier recordings.

Stem is mostly a continuation of the RED trio’s previous collaboration with John Butcher the year before on Empire with Wooley floating above the civilizations and wastelands the trio pour out of their bag. “Flapping Flight” begins in the normal uncouth fashion of contemporary free jazz then takes flight into “Phase” and reverses course in “Weight Slice”.

The free non-jazz of “Ellipse” expands on the equation of “Pachiderm” as Wooley blows to an even greater deafening silence than Butcher that becomes almost pure silence on “Tides”, pushing normal and spastic “organized” sound over the edge and back around to the beginning where John Cage’s 4’33” meets the ubermensch; a state of refined primitivism ensues, a nihilistic nirvana, antiquating any notion of modernity.

Tracklist:

1. Flapping Flight [16:31]
2. Phase [08:12]
3. Ellipse [19:15]
4. Weight Slice [10:05]
5. Tides [12:25]

Personnel:

Nate Wooley (trumpet)
Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano)
Hernani Faustino (double bass)
Gabriel Ferrandini (drums & percussion)