Watererer Does It Again

On a cold winter day in Pittsburgh, the Watererer trio of David Bernabo, Matt Aelmore, and PJ Roduta entered The Church Recording Studio and improvised four hours of material. It was a new approach. It's true that Watererer's previous five records leaned heavily on improvisation for sections of songs and parts, but that tendency was anchored by through-written compositions and studio-as-instrument experiments. Here, the moods of the day and the influence of a Youtube playlist containing songs by James Brown, Change, Joaquín Orellana, and Kali Malone guided improvisations that quickly grew rhythmic and more open to dissonance and entanglement than past Watererer efforts.