In preparation for their third studio album, Nate Wooley’s quartet, Columbia Icefield, will be on tour in Canada and the US East Coast between May 13th and 18th. The group features some of America’s strongest improvisational personalities working under the umbrella of Wooley’s unique compositional blend of minimalism, post-rock, ambient field recording, and hard noise to weave a group sound that is both glacial and dynamic, soft and strong, ancient and futuristic.

The group has released two recordings: an eponymous debut on Northern Spy Records in 2019 (now sold out) and Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes, which came out on Pyroclastic in 2022 (also sold out). Both recordings received critical acclaim:

“...echoes with hints of abstracted Americana ...ranges across an emotional expanse like a dark-hued tone poem.” Bradley Barmbarger Downbeat

“The prettiest, most progressive campfire music ever.” Zachary Woolfe The New York Times

“...the music has an elemental, almost ‘dawn…