Sun & Rain + Unseen Rain (Fire Museum Presents)

Sun & Rain:

Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone, Travis Laplante - tenor saxophone , Andrew Smiley - electric guitar & Jason Nazary - drums.

Sun & Rain is a fully collaborative quartet that thus far has practiced a painstaking process of co-composing music together. Because of this extreme sense of collaboration and only working on the music when all four members were physically together, the album Waterfall took six years to compose. Beginning in 2014 the band gathered at Laplante’s residence in Vermont for semi-annual rehearsal retreats. These were not particularly relaxing retreats, as the band held themselves to a rigorous work ethic, always working around the clock.Full days were spent obsessively working on two minutes of music which were then trashed the next day and never used. It was an extraordinarily patient and slow-moving compositional process.

With Morgan, Laplante, Nazary, and Smiley all having wildly different personalities and interests…