After eight years of performing, Wooden Cities’ first release in a trilogy of upcoming albums on Infrasonic Press grapples with work, labor, commodity, and justice. The record’s three pieces have sat lost to time and have been constructed and reconstructed through careful research, including dialogues with original performers, direct accounts, and other sources. This is WORK.
released April 19, 2019
Recorded July 23, 25-26, 2018 at the University at Buffalo
Engineered, edited, mixed, and mastered by Chris Jacobs
Co-edited by Ethan Hayden and Brendan Fitzgerald
Wooden Cities would like to thank:
Chris Jacobs, Mani Mehrvarz, Horace Cardew, Frederic Rzewski, and Jan Williams.
Performed by
Megan Kyle, oboe
Nelson Rivera*, tenor sax
Steve Baczkowski*, bari sax
Dylan Gechoff, trombone
Ethan Hayden, trombone/voice/score realizations
Ian Kerr-Mace, euphonium
Stephen Lattimore, John Smigielski, Stephen Solook, percussion
Nicholas Emmanuel, Michael McNeill*, pianos
Rebecca Marin, voice
Evan Courtin, violin
T.J. Borden, Katie Weissman, cellos
Megan McDevitt, contrabass
Brendan Fitzgerald, guitar/instrument builder/conductor
*soloists on Eastman
The Price of Oil score and texts available at
www.woodencities.org/priceofoil
Check out the trailer for the WORK documentary:
vimeo.com/333200015