Mutual Aid Music
Trumpeter and composer Nate Wooley releases Mutual Aid Music, a double-CD of eight ensemble concertos.
Mutual aid points to the concept of community action and the human drive to provide succor to our fellow humans. Mutual aid is the primary ethic of an anarchistic utopia in which each knows what they have, is honest about what they need, and is prepared to give and receive accordingly. Every human want is met by a commensurate surplus and all are lifted equally above suffering. Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music asks the musicians to take stock of their gifts and to ask themselves, in each moment, how their use of that gift will affect the community (ensemble) of which they are currently a member.
1. Mutual Aid Music I (10:21)
2. Mutual Aid Music II (9:12)
3. Mutual Aid Music III (9:56)
4. Mutual Aid Music IV (12:32)
5. Mutual Aid Music I-I (8:27)
6. Mutual Aid Music II-I (9:26)
7. Mutual Aid Music III-I (7:04)
8. Mutual Aid Music IV-I (14:41)
Nate Wooley, Trumpet
Ingrid Laubrock, Saxophone
Matt Moran, Vibraphone
Sylvie Courvoisier, Piano
Joshua Modney, Violin
Mariel Roberts, Cello
Russell Greenberg, Percussion
Cory Smythe, Piano