Thumbscrew (Fujiwara/ Formanek/ Halvorson) | Roulette Intermedium

The collective trio will present new music from their forthcoming album, Never is Enough, plus a selection of tunes from their latest release, The Anthony Braxton Project, mixed in with other originals and covers developed over the past nine years of playing music together. Please tune in and celebrate Mary’s 40th birthday with us!

The trio Thumbscrew came about by accident, after bassist Michael Formanek subbed in a band including guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Tomas Fujiwara back in 2011. Something special happened among them right away, so they formed a trio, a co-operative in the truest sense. They play originals by all hands, compositions whose rhythms may surge or lag or veer sideways according to their own internal logic. Bass and drums solo within the ensemble, not in quarantine. No one needs to be loudest. The blend is tight: one string (or metal) sound may bleed into another. It’s something to hear—something twisty and turny and always on the move. The band has released five albums to date, all on Cuneiform Records: The Anthony Braxton Project (2020), Ours and Theirs (2018), Convallaria (2016), and Thumbscrew (2014). Their sixth album, Never is Enough, is coming in February 2021.

“Made up of three highly distinctive voices in the world of jazz and avantgarde music, Thumbscrew should probably collapse under the weight of its own star power but Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Mary Halvorson (electric guitar) and Michael Formanek (acoustic bass) are just too aware of the potential of this supertrio to let that happen.”

– S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!

Drums – Tomas Fujiwara
Bass – Michael Formanek
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
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