boomerang, by Carroll/Riggen/Stuessi

boomerang

by Carroll/Riggen/Stuessi

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1.	Abacus 05:07	info
2.	Mavericks 06:31	info
3.	Acrostic 05:21	info
4.	The Hidden Thing 05:04	info
5.	Proverbs of Ashes 09:11	info
6.	Crumpler 06:46	info

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100% OF CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE DONATED TO BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE IN CHICAGO

In the interest of transparency, here is the economic breakdown for making this record and Hungry Badger more generally:
1. hungry badger pays for production costs: mixing, mastering and producing CDs - $180
2. hungry badger recoups expenses, for boomerang this means selling 18 CDs
3. after expenses are recouped, musicians split, 90% of profits. Whatever is left goes to Hungry Badger
4. musicians can buy copies at cost ($1.80) until costs are recouped, after that they just pay 10% of cost per copy
5. hungry badger handles promo and shipping

Boomerang convened at a lazy Fourth of July jam session, cut its teeth as a vehicle for exploring the compositions of Paul Motian, and coalesced into an ensemble dwelling at the intersection of free jazz and experimental composition.

We agreed to meet again and before we knew it we were committed to rehearsing weekly—an intense arrangement we managed to stick to for almost a solid year. After a month we needed a gig and I had recently acquired a book of Paul Motian compositions. Motian’s music forces you to open up and communicate, and this gave us a strong musical trust and chemistry which we used to start digging into our own original compositions.
It also gave us the name Boomerang—an obscure tune off of one of Motian’s strangest albums.

Matt was the fire that kept us going. Louder, freer, more tunes…he always had ideas for the group. Brock made sure our energy was always channeled into something interesting. Sticking to head-solos-head forms? Blow as loud as we can as long as we can because Albert Ayler did it? Not going to happen. Brock always questioned our approach to composition and form and we were the better for it. As for me—I just tried to hold it all together and maintain some semblance of groove.

As we approached our one year mark, Brock announced he would be leaving to California for grad school. That’s why this record exists. It is a document—not of any final grand artistic statement—but of the completion of a journey we all took together. I think we all became better and more open players because of this group.

When you listen to this recording, you’re listening in on the conversation of three people who have been together for hundreds of hours. Matt speaks up, Brock interjects, I interrogate. I think you hear our varied influences interacting at every moment, and that’s what keeps the music interesting.

I was also hit by a car the day before the recording, so some of my frustration might leak through.
We hope you enjoy your experience.

--Tommy Carroll, 2020

credits

released June 2, 2020

Tommy Carroll (drums)
Brock Stuessi (bass)
Matt Riggen (trumpet)

Recorded at Experimental Sound Studio by Ralph Loza
June 28, 2019 in Chicago, IL

Track 1 © Yazgol Music, BMI. All Rights Reserved.
Track 2 © Tommy Carroll, BMI. All Rights Reserved.
Tracks 3, 5, 6 © Orange Hat Publishing, BMI. All Rights Reserved.
Mixed and mastered by Brock Stuessi.
Photographs by Brock Stuessi, package design by Matt Riggen, portrait by Ralph Loza.