Susan Alcorn

18 Jul

[ July the 29th, 2022 release on Pyroclastic: Nate Wooley & Columbia Icefield’s – Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes ]

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Trumpeter/Composer Nate Wooley releases breathtaking second album by his singular quartet Columbia Icefield – Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes, due out July 29, 2022 via Pyroclastic Records, features Mary Halvorson, Susan Alcorn and Ryan Sawyer

“Columbia Icefield [feels like] a mixture of quiet exaltation, wild exaltation, melancholy, fear, curiosity, struggle to keep warm… the prettiest (if most progressive) campfire music ever written.” – Zachary Woolfe, New York Times

“Columbia Icefield, with its long stretches of atmosphere interrupted by jarring dissonances, [is] something weird, haunting, lonely, and endlessly fascinating.” – Michael J. West, JazzTimes

Album Release Concert Monday, July 25 at TV Eye, Brooklyn, NY

11 Oct

[ October the 16, 2020 release via Pyroclastic Records: Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain VI ]

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release date: 16.10.2020 via Pyroclastic Records

“Wooley’s investment [is] in the imaginative and emotional side of an experience that’s both physical and not.” — Justin Cober-Lake, PopMatters

“The prettiest, most progressive campfire music ever.” — Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times

Genre-defiant trumpet player and composer Nate Wooley brings together artists from seemingly disparate musical communities with the release of Seven Storey Mountain VI on Pyroclastic Records, the sixth iteration of his ecstatic song-cycle.