Golden Mean features original compositions by Bill Kautz inspired by questions, conversations, harmony, discord and the search for authenticity. The music features thoroughly composed melodies while integrating improvisation in various structures. Golden Mean is Bill Kautz, trumpet and cornet; Steve Kalling, double bass; Aria Peters, violin; Hannah Ransom, percussion and Jake Ransom, vibraphone.
Shuffled and reshuffled from an endless stack of blank paper, scribbled with a thousand thoughtless notes, and emerging from a dramatic cloud of chalk dust, Missoula’s LOOK BUSY (Ken Grinde, Matt Riley, Johannah Kohorst, Drew Fetherolf) meld driving pop and lofty ballads to achieve new dimensions of appearing businesslike and occupied.