Folk Music is the new trio from Nate Wooley. After years of conceptual and compositional projects, Wooley put together a trio dedicated simply to free music without boundaries. Why “Folk Music?” The name stems from the idea of making some thing from scratch using the full life-experience and creativity of the musicians, a story that changes with each re-telling, that progresses each time the musicians come together to tell it again. It is music as legend or myth. Folk songs, strange, but true.

Folk Music is:
Nate Wooley: Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet, Voice, Electronics, Feedback
Chris Corsano: Drumset, Electronics, Handmade Instruments, Feedback
Ches Smith: Drum set, vibraphone, orchestral bells, sampler, drum machine

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Folk music is the perfect setting to invite a guest for a special performance. Please get in touch with ideas or requests.

The Elephant released their first album: In the Room (original cultures)

Gabriele Mitelli (trumpet, voice, electronics), Pasquale Mirra (vibraphone, percussion, synthesizer), Cristiano Calcagnile (drums, percussion). 

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(the Elephant) deliver a dense, gripping, multi-layered, wonderfully grooving, hour-long concert full of interlocking sound ideas on the large stage at the Broletto. Catchy structures combined with sound experiments always work coherently and convincingly with this band. (Christoph Giese, JazzWise)

Ever intriguing and complex, the multitudes of layers and ideas all combined into a harmonious and tight album is a work of wonder. The jazzy delight that is In The Room is the perfect introduction for the powerhouse trio that is The Elephant. (Neil P. Gregorio)

the proverbial elephant has many inspired, poetic qualities. (Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts)

(the Elephant) have offered a spectacular and explosive set, cracking music built on a structured percussion floor full of color, powered by generous inserts of electronica, voices and trumpet. A balanced sonic cocktail that has charted mesmerizing trajectories, a game of sonic interference and experimental forays naturally inserted into the melodic and rhythmic context, giving us a perfect snapshot of the expressiveness and potential of contemporary jazz… (James Cook)

Mariam Rezaei (turntables), Mette Rasmussen (alto sax), Gabriele Mitelli (piccolo trumpet, electronics), Lukas Koenig (drums)

Forged in the crucible of turntablist Mariam Rezaei’s November 2023 residency at London’s Café Oto, The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters is an incendiary new quartet. Their punk approach to free improvisation draws on elements of jazz, noise, hip-hop, techno and new music to create a thrilling sonic maelstrom that is beyond category or convention. 

Playing Rewire Festival The Hague, ao.

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Tour period December 9-15, 2024, but we can look for other dates as well

The David Murray Quartet has been nominated for the German Jazz Prize 2024, in the category Ensemble of the Year International.
The award ceremony takes place in Cologne, on April 18

Also watch Necktar, Switchin’ in the Kitchen, Metouka Sheli.
Filmed at Porgy & Bess Vienna, November 2023

After a break of a few years I am back working with Fire! Orchestra again.

The present, 17-piece version consists of Mats Gustafsson (baritone sax and flute), Delphine Joussein (flute and electronics), Susana Santos Silva (trumpet), Goran Kajfes (trumpet), Mats Äleklint (trombone and sousaphone), Heida Karine Johannesdottir (tuba), Fredrik Ljungkvist (clarinet, tenor sax), Mette Rasmussen (alto sax), Anna Högberg (alto sax), Josefin Runsteen (violin),Julien Desprez (guitar), Martin Hederos (fender rhodes and organ), Alexander Zethson (keyboards), Johan Berthling (bass), Juan Romero (percussion), David Sandström (vocals and drums), Blanche Lafuente (drums and electronics), Mikael Werliin (sound).

Listen to their latest album Echoes 

Available for (summer) festivals!