Crackleknob:
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Reuben Radding - bass
Nate Wooley - trumpet
The mad, scrambling lifestyle of the improvising musician tends to produce fleeting musical relationships, ad-hoc combinations which merely meet expectations, and then are seldom repeated. For four years, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley, and Mary Halvorson have cultivated a musical and personal friendship that goes way beyond this business-as-usual approach to free music-making. Their sound is a collision of angular melodies, noise, minimalist textures, and jazz-based interplay which mysteriously becomes much more than a sum of these parts due to the group’s willingness to dig deep below the surface. This performance at ISSUE Project Room celebrates their new, self-titled release on HatHut Records.