Joe Russo, Stuart Bogie, Jon Shaw & Jonathan Goldberger Preview Debut Selcouth Quartet Album With ‘Smaller Horses’ Single

Drummer Joe Russo, woodwind specialist Stuart Bogie, bassist Jon Shaw and guitarist Jonathan Goldberger formed a new group called Selcouth Quartet with their self-titled debut album set for release on October 20 via Flóki Studios Records. The group previewed the LP with the single, “Smaller Horses.”

Selcouth Quartet captured their debut at Iceland’s Flóki Studios after Joe Russo was invited to record there and reassembled a band of longtime collaborators he had put together for a gig that was ultimately canceled. “We birthed the band in the studio,” Joe Russo stated. “Selcouth” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “unusual, strange.”

Produced by D. James Goodwin (Tim Berne, David Torn, Bonny Light Horseman), Selcouth Quartet had no material before entering Flóki. “Not having any predetermined material was definitely a benefit,” Jon Shaw noted. “We could do anything, no limitations.” The band previously shared the single “100 Words For Wind.”

The record was deeply influenced by Iceland’s legendary landscape. “If we had made a record for the first time in Woodstock in the spring, it wouldn’t have sounded like this,” Russo added. “This album was completely dictated and formed by its surroundings. It sounds like how we felt.”

Preview Selcouth Quartet with “Smaller Horses” below:

While no tour dates have arrived yet, a press release noted that Selcouth Quartet “reconvened for proper rehearsals and writing sessions” after returning to the U.S. and that “the chemistry between Russo, Goldberger, Bogie, and Shaw is immediate and now they’re all in.”

“What is this thing?” Russo concluded. “It’s fun to be scared again.”

Selcouth Quartet Tracklist:

1. 100 Words For Wind
2. Smaller Horses
3. The Hidden People
4. Dragon, Bull, Vulture, Giant
5. Limited Light
6. Gyr
7. Unlimited Light
8. Before We’re Sunken