Unknown Rivers, by Luke Stewart

Unknown Rivers

by Luke Stewart

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1.	Seek Whence 05:33	buy track
2.	Baba Doo Way 05:41	buy track
3.	You See? 07:49	buy track
4.	The Slip 04:41	buy track
5.	Amilcar 08:21	buy track
6.	Dudu 12:50	buy track
7.	Unknown Rivers 04:30	buy track

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Unknown Rivers is bassist Luke Stewart’s debut for Pi Recordings. An omnipresent and galvanizing force on the music scene, Stewart is a leader or co-leader of such bands as Irreversible Entanglements, Exposure Quintet, Blacks’ Myths, Heart of the Ghost, and Remembrance Quintet. He is also among the most in-demand collaborators, having performed with the likes of David Murray, Nicole Mitchell, Moor Mother, Jaimie Branch, Nate Wooley, Ken Vandermark and countless others. Stewart is also a curator and presenter of multiple concert series in New York and Washington, D.C., a writer, activist, producer and D.J.

Featuring his long-running Silt Trio, with Brian Settles on tenor sax, and drummers Trae Crudup on four studio tracks and Chad Taylor on three live ones, Unknown Rivers sees the band pushing towards greater emphasis on rhythmic acuity, highlighting the different approaches to the music of the two drummers. Settles – a stalwart of the fertile Washington DC jazz scene – plays with a quiet intensity, possessing a sound that reminds of players from a distant past set against a modernist’s vocabulary. Stewart is the master of a deep, wide groove that cushions and propels, making every musical situation he finds himself in sound good. The Quietus has called the band “gripping… relies on subtlety and insinuation to register its uncanny power.” The Silt Trio is that magical juxtaposition of playing with raw spontaneity while maintaining the music’s intent and purpose.

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released May 3, 2024

Luke Stewart, bass, compositions
Brian Settles, tenor saxophone
Trae Crudup, drums (tracks 1-4)
Chad Taylor, drums (tracks 5-7)

Tracks 1-4 Recorded at Tempo House, Baltimore, MD by Craig Bowen
Tracks 5-7 Recorded Live at Trinosophes, Detroit, MI by Joel Peterson

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Luke Stewart Brooklyn, New York

NYC/DC-based musician and organizer.

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May 13

Solar Myth (presented By Ars Nova Workshop)

Philadelphia, PA

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