Pat Murano & Tom Carter

Recorded March 17 2012.

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Pat Murano / Tom Carter

We could talk about an improviser’s ability to listen to the other players around them and how important it is to crossing the line between jamming and spontaneous composition… But instead, we should dwell for 49 minutes on the idea of a person being at the top of their game. It is not an expression used in music very much, but it applies here. A musician can have many peaks at various points in their relationship to sound. At these moments, they are masters… wizards… conjuring other worlds almost immediately. This session documents a moment when two such musicians crossed paths… 

Mastered by Patrick Klem, April 2012.

Aaron Moore & Carter Thornton.

Recorded February 22 - 23 2012.

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Aaron Moore / Carter Thornton

Fearlessness. It is there in all great music, whether it springs from oblivion, conceit, phantasm or distraction. Paired with a personal and razor-sharp aesthetic, it can be the ember that ignites both darling and derision. It would be easy to assume that all improvisation is fearless, which would not be true. Falling into patterns is as easy as playing the middle eight the exact same way every time. Likewise it would seem that re-recording a song would be a safe move in a studio. But deconstructing a composition to its core elements can be as revealing as a lysergic glance in a mirror. It’s all about the approach, the step taken… is it hesitant, or does the foot fall with a thunderous crash? This session rumbles with the aftershocks of the later…

Josef & Ituk

Beyonce

Clarence

Father Time

David

Mastered by Patrick Klem, April 2012.

Dave Nuss, Rahdunes, Stellar Om Source & Aswara.

Recorded September 6 2007.

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Dave Nuss / Rahdunes / Stellar Om Source / Aswara

The Prequel…

Ahhhh… A time machine entry into the Natch cannon. An amazing document of four separate and unique entities gathering together for a day of improvisation. Something magical happens when a group of musicians leave their thing at the door and simultaneously bring their thing, hardcore, into a session in a way that gels together with the other folks in the room. The unconscious connection these people had was a treat to hear unfold over the course of a day & night and, in a way, planted one of the earliest seeds that spawned the idea for the Natch series. They showed up, they played, and they went their separate ways, like musical desperados into the late summer morn…

Many thanks to Mr. Nuss for setting up the session all those years back.

Mastered by Patrick Klem, March 2012.

Dave Shuford, Margot Bianca & Pigeons

Recorded February 13 - 14 2012.

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Dave Shuford / Margot Bianca / Wednesday Knudsen / Clark Griffin

There is an aspect of music that creates an invisible map, plotting points along the vapors we make tangible as memory. Where the moments which we can recall intersect there are revelatory connections. More often than not, time spent exploring shared sonic remembrances is fleeting. The capture of a capture… the reinvention of a capture in a communal setting… and the creation of something totally new from nothing more than an unspoken understanding of a path shared are things to behold… The music in these recordings touches on all of these possibilities.

Mastered by Patrick Klem, March 2012.

Black Twig Pickers & Steve Gunn.

Recorded January 14 - 15 2012.

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Mike Gangloff / Isak Howell / Nathan Bowles / Steve Gunn

There’s a vibration like a current running under the crust… You can feel it bubbling under your toes when you walk around and hear it dancing in your ears in the dead of night. You can fight it or let it wash over you… droning… buzzing. There are particular people who have special access to it. The instruments they pick up resonate in a certain way, just a little different from other players. A touch more timeless, a bit unfathomable, a tad frightening / exciting / stirred by the inexplicable. These recordings are the answer to the question - “What would happen when you put four of these people knee to knee and let them do their thing?”

Mastered by Patrick Klem, February 2012.