Dustin Carlson

Air Ceremony: The name is about the temporality of all things live music, the ritual of which is what pulled me into the music life, being a teenager going to concerts in the city, dancing, watching, seeing the immediacy of these humans playing instruments and thusly playing the crowd, exciting, stimulating, impressing. There's a lot of love between a good audience and a good band... Then of course there's this belief i have which is that in smaller (older, saner) societies music was in the life, inextricable and therefore not for purchase but (perhaps) to be supported by the works of the community. For me, my musician life happens because of people for whom the music is inextricable; supported with energy and attention, passion (and yes some $kril). Living is a hustle and is filled with mundanity, unfulfillment, disappointment, hard work and uncertainty; the musical ceremony, gathering with friends, this other place that is life in sound, it’s expressing, releasing oneself into the air. The ceremony hits the wind and travels, it's gone, placeless, massless, houseless, penniless, it's at least something "they" haven't figured out how to make me purchase ((yet?)).

Dustin Carlson - guitar, compositions
Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone
Eric Trudel - baritone saxophone
Danny Gouker - trumpet
Matt Mitchell - Prophet 6
Adam Hopkins - bass
Kate Gentile - drums