The vitality and focus of improvised music can suffer under the weight of so many voices-the old “too many cooks in the kitchen” syndrome-but among the reasons that Bow Shoulder succeeds so well is that the guest players expertly maintained their own personal identities while utterly subscribing to the percolating strain of ambient drift, textural interplay, and dusky melodicism that Huntsville had developed over the years.
In the studio Huntsville’s Ivar Grydeland, Ingar Zach, and Tonny Kluften were joined at the Loft by Cline, Kotche, Gray and keyboardist Yuka Honda (co-founder of Cibo Matto and an accomplished composer) for a fully improvised session. That evening Cline and Kotche joined Huntsville for the final part of its set. The recording was made in Chicago at the Loft-the studio and rehearsal space of Wilco, the exploratory rock combo, whose members Nels Cline (guitar) and Glenn Kotche (percussion) contributed to this album-the day after Huntsville performed in the city’s Millennium Park, sharing a bill with On Fillmore, Kotche’s duo with bassist Darin Gray.
Once the curious listener digs into the music on Bow Shoulder it becomes difficult not to ask why it’s taken a decade for its impeccable contents to see the light of day.
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