Peggy Lee, Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, Dylan van der Schyff

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Peggy Lee, Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, Dylan van der Schyff: Waiting Music

by Nenad Georgievski
June 16, 2026

Improvised music operates through a productive tension: collective intuition on one side, and the constant risk of collapse into formlessness on the other. When a group sustains that balance without resolving it into comfort, the results tend to resist easy classification. Waiting Music, the second release by the Australo-Canadian quartet Open Thread, belongs firmly in that space--an album shaped by real-time decision-making, where continuity is always provisional. Open Thread brings together cellist Peggy Lee, saxophonist Julien Wilson, guitarist Theo Carbo, and ...