"If you start improvising with a group for long enough, you'll click into a default mode, and you'll start at a certain place.
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"If you start improvising with a group for long enough, you'll click into a default mode, and you'll start at a certain place. That can be fun and exciting in a live setting, but for this record, it was like, 'Okay, let's take it somewhere different.'"
On their third album, 'Desert So Green,' the six-piece collective Winged Wheel reflects on the slow build of musical trust, the discipline of leaving space, and what it means to stop defaulting and start deciding. The Tonearm's Jonah Evans shifts into gear.
From Default to Deliberate — Learning to Listen with Winged Wheel:
From Default to Deliberate: Winged Wheel's 'Desert So Green'
Winged Wheel reflects on musical trust, collective listening, and how 'Desert So Green' pushed them past improvisation's comfortable defaults.
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