Please join Ars Nova Workshop for the Philadelphia premiere of the Saccata Quartet, a new supergroup including members of Wilco, at Solar Myth on Friday, December 5, 2025.

Saccata Quartet is a supergroup featuring guitar explorer Nels Cline (Wilco, CUP with Yuka C. Honda, his own Consentrik Quartet); percussionist Glenn Kotche (Wilco as well as myriad recordings by everyone from John Luther Adams to Taylor Swift); drummer Chris Corsano (a collaborator with countless free improvisers including Joe McPhee and Bill Orcutt); and bassist Darin Gray (touring bassist for Tweedy and Jim O’Rourke’s longtime bassist of choice). While Saccata Quartet’s music could probably well be called free jazz, drone, dark ambient, post-noise or kosmische-noir, it should not be labeled too rigorously under any one of those banners. As a work of four lauded instrumentalists, their sound, be it loud and undeniably wall-like or hazy and quiet, almost fog-like, comes from a place of democratic free expression of four musicians coming together on their own terms. Monolith Cocktail called them “a harrowing and galloping, scattering merger of Faust, Roscoe Mitchell, Sam Rivers, Zappa and AEOC in a dense experimental world of scares and uncertainty.”