KnCurrent is the new quartet and the album of American, New York-based alto sax player-composer patrick brennan (who leads the rhythm-centric sOnic Openings, and the Sudani Project, in collaboration with Moroccan Gnawi musician Ma’alem Najib Soudani), featuring fellow veteran musicians from the New York free jazz scene – Cooper-Moore (aka Gene Y. Ashton, a pivotal member of the free jazz movement in the 1970s with David S. Ware, and later with William Parker’s In Order to Survive and Digital Primitives) on the hand-made fretless bass, the diddly-bow; On Ka’a Davis (of SunRa’s Arkestra and Donald Ayler’s septet) on electric guitar; and Jason Kao Hwang (who has worked with William Parker, Henry Threadgill, Joëlle Leandre, Anthony Braxton, and Butch Morris) on electric violin. The debut album (KnCurrent) was recorded at Tedesco Studios in Paramus, New Jersey, part of Lenapehóking – the homelands of the native American Lenape, in June 2024.
Brennan wanted this quartet to explore “timbre.
