Written in the Universe (New LP)

Label: Psychic Hotline

"Sometimes Nicole Mitchell and Joe Westerlund finish each other’s sentences. It’s the sort of telepathy that bandmates develop after playing together for a while. Only today during our interview, instead of showing up on the stage, it manifests through words. Mitchell, an internationally acclaimed flutist, composer, and former chair of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), has spent decades expanding the language of improvised music. Westerlund, a percussionist whose background spans experimental rock, jazz, and electroacoustic improvisation, approaches sound with an equally exploratory sensibility. Written in the Universe is the product of such telepathy as well as a resolved duality: imbued with a grounded, natural feeling; paired with an expressive, psychedelic, expansiveness. Echo-imbued, electronics forward and vaguely dreamy, the sound is rooted by a rock-solid polyrhythmic backbone..."