Reuniting more than a decade after their explosive 2011 debut, guitarist Sandy Ewen, bassist Damon Smith, and percussionist Weasel Walter deliver a fiercely focused free improv session recorded with vivid clarity, balancing dense collective eruptions, microscopic textural detail, and deeply evolved ensemble interplay shaped in part through years performing together in Roscoe Mitchell's quartet.
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Includes a 10-page booklet of artwork from Sandy Ewen. Liner notes by Henry Kaiser.
Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Catalog ID: bpaltd30030
Squidco Product Code: 37378
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2026
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 3 Panels w/ booklet
Recorded at Bird Cloud Recordings, in Collinsville, Illinois, on November 24th, 2025, by Ryan Wasoba.
More than a decade after their ferocious 2011 debut, the trio of guitarist Sandy Ewen, bassist Damon Smith, and percussionist Weasel Walter reconvene for Untitled (2), a deeply attuned session that reflects the evolution of three musicians who have spent years refining a shared language of extreme improvisation. Recorded with striking clarity by Ryan Wasoba at Bird Cloud Recordings in Collinsville, Illinois, the album balances the trio's raw physicality with a heightened sensitivity to texture, pacing, and microscopic sonic detail.
Ewen's prepared guitar work crackles and shimmers through tangled metallic gestures, abrasive scrapes, and unstable harmonics, while Smith anchors and destabilizes the music simultaneously with resonant arco passages, percussive attacks, and thick low-end turbulence. Walter, credited here simply with percussion, shapes the trio's momentum with astonishing elasticity, moving from explosive fragmentation to near-silent detail work without sacrificing intensity. The result is music that feels both fiercely spontaneous and architecturally precise, continuously shifting between dense collective eruptions and sharply focused micro-events.
The trio's years of collaboration in other contexts — including their work as three quarters of the Roscoe Mitchell quartet — have clearly deepened their ensemble awareness, allowing the music to unfold with an uncommon balance of instinct and structural coherence. Rather than revisiting the brutal immediacy of their earlier recordings, Untitled (2) expands that approach into something more nuanced and multidimensional, where every scrape, resonance, and collision contributes to an evolving large-scale form. Enhanced by Sandy Ewen's accompanying artwork booklet and liner notes from Henry Kaiser, this release documents a trio whose language has become even more singular, communicative, and uncompromising with time.
"When I heard the final master to the trio CD with James McKain and Weasel Walter ....seeing the way the mole tunnels... I knew with Ryan Wasoba's hi-fi recording techniques and Weasel's mix and master we could do a proper follow up to the first CD with this trio from 2011 which had a brutal vividness. Musically, all three of us are in different places than we were in 2011 thanks to all the work we do together and apart no matter where we end up living. Adding the experience of being 3/4s of the Roscoe Mitchell quartet has more than certainly had an effect on each of us & as a unit.
This release features another artist booklet of new work by Sandy Ewen as well as liner notes by Henry Kaiser. This album is all the music we recorded in order minus the first track. I feel like we were tuned in to both the macro and micro structures on this one. In a way, this album was already done - all we had to do was make it."-Balance Point Acoustics
Includes a 10-page booklet of artwork from Sandy Ewen. Liner notes by Henry Kaiser.
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Sandy Ewen "Sandy Ewen was born in Toronto, Canada in 1985, Sandy Ewen received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Since then she has resided in Houston, TX where she pursues musical and visual projects and her architecture license. Ewen has released several albums, including a duo with guitarist Tom Carter, a trio with bassist Damon Smith & drummer Weasel Walter, and a rock album with Austin's Weird Weeds. Ewen's visual work is closely tied to her work in sound; she uses both mediums to explore texture, composition and materials. Ewen's microcollages, enlarged through projection and digital printing, are an exploration of material and technique. Using a unique process pioneered by the artist, natural materials and polymers are torn, liquefied, scorched, melted, cut, and fused. When enlarged, the microscopic nuances of these manipulations are manifested in exquisite detail. Ewen has presented prints of her work at 14 Pews (2012), Spacetaker/Fresh Arts (2012), Khon's (2013) & Galeria Regina (2014). As an improviser in both art and music, Ewen sees herself as guiding materials and space rather than executing a preconceived composition. "I like to explore mediums and materials and tease out their essence," says Ewen. "Working with slide projections has focused my eye on the subtitles of natural processes of decay and transformation. Through my work, I am asking questions of the materials rather than dictating answers." " ^ Hide Bio for Sandy Ewen • Show Bio for Damon Smith "Damon Smith studied double bass with Lisle Ellis and has had lessons with Bertram Turezky, Joëlle Leandré, John Lindberg, Mark Dresser and others. Damon's explorations into the sonic palette of the double bass have resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based in the American jazz avant-garde movement and European non-idiomatic free improvisation. Visual art, film and dance heavily influence his music, as evidenced by his CAMH performance of Ben Patterson's Variations for Double Bass, collaborations with director Werner Herzog on soundtracks for Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World, and an early performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Damon has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including: Cecil Taylor, Marshall Allen (of Sun Ra's Arkestra), Henry Kaiser, Roscoe Mitchell, Michael Pisaro, Wadada Leo Smith, Marco Eneidi, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald. After many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and five great years in Houston, Texas working regularly with Alvin Fielder, Sandy Ewen, David Dove & Chris Cogburn, Damon will move to the Boston area in the fall of 2016. Damon has run Balance Point Acoustics record label since 2001, releasing music focusing on transatlantic collaborations between US and European musicians." ^ Hide Bio for Damon Smith • Show Bio for Weasel Walter "Weasel Walter (real name Walter Wyzowski) is a composer and instrumentalist who founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with a current member of Cellular Chaos and Behold...The Arctopus. Over the years, The Flying Luttenbachers included noted Dylan Posa, and Michael Colligan, while creating a body of music drawing equally from no wave, death metal, gamelan, noise music, hardcore punk and modern classical. Walter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he formed the latest of many Luttenbachers lineups, remaining on percussion with the addition of bassist Mike Green (Burmese), and virtuoso guitarist Ed Rodriguez (ex-Colossamite, Gorge Trio). Singular guitar phenomenon Mick Barr (Krallice, Octis, Orthrelm) joined the group in 2005. The Flying Luttenbachers ceased to operate in late 2007. On November 25, 2009, Weasel Walter announced that he was moving to New York City to join the band Behold... The Arctopus on drums and will be writing "new, more extreme material from scratch." He also formed Cellular Chaos with Marc Edwards (drummer), Admiral Grey and Ceci Moss." ^ Hide Bio for Weasel Walter
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Track Listing:
1. (15:14) 15:15
2. (5:11) 7:38
3. (7:30) 5:11
4. (9:24) 9:38
5. (7:38) 7:30
6. (9:38) 6:52
7. (6:51) 9:24
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