Album Notes

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Wingnut music, mostly instrumental, draws from jazz/rock/hip-hop/funk/soul/drum-'n-bass
and other genres. With high regard for dynamics, the trio's original compositions transform from deep Hammond B3 organ grooves to introspective melodic piano passages. The music is exploratory but maturely composed, balancing intense, aggressive improvisation with solid foundation and ambient structures. Wingnut's own record label, Ruff-Nut Music in conjunction with I-Town Records have released this new title, "Color".

"Color", Wingnut's 2nd album/release comes with an emphasis on diversity and contrast. Featuring special guests, vocalist Jennifer Middaugh, DJ MOP, MC Judith Burton, pedal harpist Elizabeth Fogarty, trumpeter Paul Merrill, and tenor saxophonist Joe Kaczorowski, the album boasts a broad sonic and stylistic spectrum, not to mention some intriguing production.

1 emerge > a heavy backbeat kicks the album into drive,

locking Walt Lorenzut's compelling bass against keyboard

wunderkind Michael Stark, who shifts gears between throaty

Hammond B3 organ, pacific Rhodes piano and humanoid

synthesizer 2 yellowbird > takes wing with dextrous guest

tenor saxophonist Joe Kaczorowski, who glides over a soul

rhythm section 3 galoshes > a vehicle for vocalist Jen

Middaugh, who dresses the intense tone poem with a

Sade-coolness 4 sugnim > an ode to bass legend Charles

Mingus- visiting trumpeter Paul Merrill quotes Miles Davis

circa 1960 while drummer Zaun Marshburn stars as a player

with lyricism and muscle 5 head toaster > jerks with a

funky, happy Herbie Hancock/Headhunter twang 6 tin can > if

John Bonham gigged with Weather Report, they might sound

like this- a short intense fuzztone condensation written by

Marshburn 7 three brothers from detroit > a somber and

introspective piano theme juxtaposed elegantly with a brisk

tempo post-bop break 8 wiggle waggle > wingnut interprets a

Herbie Hancock classic with guest DJ Mop on turntables 9

bag slap > rap poetry of Judith Burton leads into an urban

groove, a vision walk rippled by surreal samples and

sensuous singing by Jen Middaugh 10 four paths > s read by

a jagged organ and speedfreak rhythm section- a rush hour

break down on I-75 between merciless skyscrapers 11

windshield letters > a narrative piece that allows Stark to

work with everything in his pencilbox: expressive organ,

gorgeous piano and commanding stereo synthesizer

(excerpted from original press by Johnny J.Blair)