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Track List
Harrington & Wollesen - Investigate & Enjoy
Harrington & Wollesen - It’s Too Late to Look at the Blossoms
Dave Harrington - guitar, electronics
Kenny Wollesen - drums
Produced & mixed by Dave Harrington
Description
Pique-nique Recordings is proud to present “Investigate & Enjoy”, a deep musical conversation between two of New York City’s most prolific musicians, Dave Harrington and Kenny Wollesen. Harrington (Darkside) and Wollesen (Sex Mob) use a shared language of texture, groove, and space to craft intricate, free-formed, and inventive experimental music.
Wollesen’s forceful percussion opens up side A, which grooves heavily underneath Harrington’s skittering electronics. The flip side features sparse yet rich guitar tones on what Harrington and Wollesen refer to as an “improvised ballad.” Both pieces resonate with a powerful mood as hints of late-Talk Talk and Battles permeate these unique recordings.
This release is part of an ongoing series that aims to capture the New York City jazz scene in its current, always evolving form.
Bios
Dave Harrington
Dave Harrington is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer. A native New Yorker, Harrington has worked across many genres and musical communities including the downtown improvised scene, Brooklyn indie rock, various substrates of the jam band world, and the city’s burgeoning electronic milieu. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with Nicolas Jaar in the duo DARKSIDE, since the band's dissolution in 2014 Harrington has run with the spirit of synthesis and collaboration that drove the project and carved out a unique and eclectic solo career. Improvisation is central to all that he does, a freewheeling and psychedelic approach that is applied to everything from jazz to techno. He has released two LPs with the Dave Harrington Group, “Become Alive” (2016) and “Pure Imagination, No Country” (2019), and has toured internationally performing headlining shows across Europe and the US, as well as appearing at festivals ranging from Pitch Festival in Amsterdam to We Love Green in Paris and the Gent Jazz Festival.
As a collaborator, Harrington has recorded or performed with artists including Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions, Innov Gnawa, Nels Cline, Miho Hatori, Nick Murphy (aka Chet Faker), Yuka Honda, Joe Russo, Ian Chang, Mauro Refosco, Lars Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Kimbra, Sophia Brous, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Marshall Allen & The Sun Ra Arkestra, Angel Deradoorian, and many more.
Kenny Wollesen
Percussionist Kenny Wolleson performed on over 30 recordings during the 1990s and, as the decade progressed, gained increasing renown as a musician of astonishing versatility, skill, and ingenuity. He has recorded and toured with all kinds of musicians, from Tom Waits (Wolleson performs on Waits' 1993 collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Black Rider), to Sean Lennon, to Ron Sexsmith (Wolleson performs on his second album, Other Songs). A founding member of the New Klezmer Trio, Wolleson is also all over N.Y.C.'s downtown jazz and avant-garde musicians' recordings, and has been so active as to tour with Bill Frisell and Myra Melford in the same month.
