Label Description: Waiting Music unfolds as a series of evolving musical environments. The opening title track establishes the album’s tone with a haunting two-chord guitar riff that gradually mutates before returning like a ghost at the end of the piece. Elsewhere, the anarchic punk energy of God’s Little Prefect sits alongside the gentle, sunlit circularity of From the Deck. Pieces such as Pocket Rocket, Travelling Home, and Prince of Spoons move fluidly between folk-like lyricism, driving grooves and dreamlike abstraction. Other tracks, like Egg on the Escalator explore the use of rhythmic unison and polytonality inspired by the music and musings of Captain Beefheart. Elsewhere, angular unison lines dissolve into psychedelic solos, delicate miniatures nod to Erik Satie, and extended pieces like Sumud use odd-meter rhythms and electro-acoustic textures to propel the listener through shifting musical terrains. With Waiting Music, Open Thread presents a work that reflects our current moment: restless, searching, and resilient, offering space to pause, attend, and move forward together.

Julien Wilson – tenor saxophone/electronics
Peggy Lee – cello
Theo Carbo – guitars
Dylan van der Schyff – drums/percussion

Tracks 1,2,5 by Theo Carbo
Tracks 3,4,8,9 by Peggy Lee (SOCAN)
Tracks 7, 10, 11 by Julien Wilson
Track 6 by van der Schyff, Carbo, Lee, Wilson

Artwork by Leigh van der Schyff

Recorded on June 30th, 2025, at the Warehouse Studio, Vancouver.
Tracking by Sheldon Zaharko
Mixing by Theo Carbo and Dylan van der Schyff.
Mastering by Joe Talia
Design by Brodie Mcallister

The music was recorded on the unceded ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people.

Thanks to Jeremy Rose at Earshift Music, The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, and The Canada Council for the Arts.

Julien Wilson is a D’Addario artist.