Commissioned by the Festival of New Trumpet Music some five years ago, Nate Wooley's Seven Storey Mountain certainly has developed over time.
To wit, the forever restless ISSUE Project Room is pleased to present Seven Storey Mountain IV, for ecstatic instruments and tape, this Thursday, June 6 at 8 p.m. in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill.
The most recent iteration of Wooley's seven-part song cycle, the concert will bring together all sections of the work--in their entirety--for the very first time.
Joining Wooley's trumpet and amp will be avant all-stars Chris Corsano and Ryan Sawyer on drums, Matt Moran and Chris Dingman on vibraphones, violinist C. Spencer Yeh, the TILT Brass Sextet and Classicalite friend Ben Vida handling the tape.
Seven Storey I and II were released to critical acclaim on Important Records; Seven Storey III (with David Grubbs, Paul Lytton, Corsano and Yeh) will be released later this year on Wooley's own Pleasure of the Text imprint.
Last year, during ISSUE Project Room's Philip Glass Series, several fragments of Seven Storey IV were performed. This time, while some of the rougher edges have indeed been smoothed out, Wooley's intentions remain: "the fluent expression of a certain abandon found in religious practice, within the confines of a composed work for instrumentalists."
Finally, speaking of previous ISSUE Project gigs, here's a clip from a performance there two years ago now, featuring the trumped up tag team of Wooley and Peter Evans.
Tickets to hear ALL of Nate Wooley's Seven Storey Mountain are a mere $10...$8, if you're an ISSUE Project member.
