Freedom Therapy Trio - At DIM Art House (2023)

Freedom Therapy Trio formed on campus at the University of Illinois soon after free jazz drummer and percussionist Richard Gilman-Opalsky began playing with improvising guitarist Adam Larison. The two were joined shortly thereafter by saxophonist and flutist Brian Stark. Freedom Therapy Trio takes listeners on a journey of instantaneous composition, traversing sonic terrains from textural, minimalist sound paintings through fleeting passages of swinging jazz to the outermost limits of ecstatic collective improvisation. A trio of kindred spirits who found one another at a particular moment in time when the replenishing healing force of creative music was necessary, and possibly even inevitable. The trio developed a telepathic sensibility and organic sound unified in the cause of sharing joyful therapeutic musicking with adventurous ears and courageous hearts.