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Artist: TRANSIT [JEFF ARNAL/NATE WOOLEY/REUBEN RADDING/SETH MISTERKA] Title: Transit Label: Clean Feed 55 Country: Portugal Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $16.00
Description: This fine quartet of downtowners features Jeff Arnal on drums, Seth Misterka on alto sax, Reuben Radding on double bass and Nate Wooley on trumpet. Over the past six years, Jeff Arnal, has become one of the most consistently creative drummers to emerge and has co-founded the important Improvised & Otherwise annual festival in Brooklyn, which brings together any interesting international cast of characters every year. Jeff's two duo discs on Leo & Sachimay and two trio sics on Generate and Cadence, are all fine specimens of his percussive talents. His trio Rara Avis with Seth Misterka, once played here at DMG and blew me away. Those in the know should recognize Seth Misterka from his collaborations with Anthony Braxton, as well as his fine, most diverse Newsonic label. What I love most about (contrabassist) Reuben Radding and (trumpeter) Nate Wooley, is that they both appear in so many different settings playing in a wealth of styles, dynamics and unusual situations.
Which brings us to 'Transit', their first disc as a quartet, who have been playing together since 2001. Right from the gitgo, this music is spirited, intense and often over the top. Nice to hear my man Nate Wooley, more often known for his quieter, lower-case improv excursions, really going for it and turning those notes inside-out. By the second track, "Van Brunt", they turn down the flame to a more minimal, spacious piece with sizzling muted trumpet, immensely haunting alto sax and sublime, skeletal double bass and hushed mallet work. Each piece deals with another area of dynamics, textures and/or structures. There are times when it if difficult to tell who is doing what, since both Seth and Nate excel on extended technique horn playing, creating strange sounds that are not that horn-like. There is often a number of different inter-connected dialogues going on at the same time, free-flowing yet intricately woven. There are some incredible quieter moments here, like when Reuben is tapping on those strings and getting harmonics as Jeff knits patterns on the cymbals while Seth's alto plays telegraph-like notes weaving around Nate's spirited circles. I found this disc to completely captivating throughout, edge-of-your-seat done at its best! - BLG
| Artist: TRANSIT [JEFF ARNAL/NATE WOOLEY/REUBEN RADDING/SETH MISTERKA] |
| Title: Transit |
| Label: Clean Feed 55 Country: Portugal |
| Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $16.00 |
| Description: This fine quartet of downtowners features Jeff Arnal on drums, Seth Misterka on alto sax, Reuben Radding on double bass and Nate Wooley on trumpet. Over the past six years, Jeff Arnal, has become one of the most consistently creative drummers to emerge and has co-founded the important Improvised & Otherwise annual festival in Brooklyn, which brings together any interesting international cast of characters every year. Jeff's two duo discs on Leo & Sachimay and two trio sics on Generate and Cadence, are all fine specimens of his percussive talents. His trio Rara Avis with Seth Misterka, once played here at DMG and blew me away. Those in the know should recognize Seth Misterka from his collaborations with Anthony Braxton, as well as his fine, most diverse Newsonic label. What I love most about (contrabassist) Reuben Radding and (trumpeter) Nate Wooley, is that they both appear in so many different settings playing in a wealth of styles, dynamics and unusual situations. Which brings us to 'Transit', their first disc as a quartet, who have been playing together since 2001. Right from the gitgo, this music is spirited, intense and often over the top. Nice to hear my man Nate Wooley, more often known for his quieter, lower-case improv excursions, really going for it and turning those notes inside-out. By the second track, "Van Brunt", they turn down the flame to a more minimal, spacious piece with sizzling muted trumpet, immensely haunting alto sax and sublime, skeletal double bass and hushed mallet work. Each piece deals with another area of dynamics, textures and/or structures. There are times when it if difficult to tell who is doing what, since both Seth and Nate excel on extended technique horn playing, creating strange sounds that are not that horn-like. There is often a number of different inter-connected dialogues going on at the same time, free-flowing yet intricately woven. There are some incredible quieter moments here, like when Reuben is tapping on those strings and getting harmonics as Jeff knits patterns on the cymbals while Seth's alto plays telegraph-like notes weaving around Nate's spirited circles. I found this disc to completely captivating throughout, edge-of-your-seat done at its best! - BLG |