I am an artist/musician known as Jalani Lion. I was born and raised in Kingston, NY. As an artist, I have several years of experience in painting portraits and creating handmade artwork through computer graphics. As a musician, I also have years of creating diverse sounds. I’ve performed LIVE in NYC, NJ and Kingston, NY. I painted the mural of the four boys and my brother on the corner of Fernace St. and Franklin St., whom all passed away in 2015, in partnered with O+. My LIVE performances are always very creative and energetic.
The World/Inferno Friendship Society (also referred to as “World/Inferno”, “Inferno”, or “W/IFS”) is punk/soul/klezmer/jazz band from Brooklyn, NY. While its collective membership features horns, piano and guitar and has a membership of about 40 players, only about seven to ten active members usually perform at a time. The group is led by singer Jack Terricloth, who has been the only constant during the group’s history. Its lyrics often concern historical or biographical subjects, such as Weimar-era Germany, Peter Lorre, Jeffrey Lee Pierce of The Gun Club, Paul Robeson, Leni Riefenstahl, Dante Alighieri, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Fire*Eater.
Brought up in a rural, religious environment in Pennsylvania, Naddeo was a late-comer to the aesthetics of cool. He took inspiration from unlikely sources: from his father’s love of obscure prog rock and from the Christian rock artists (Keith Green, Phil Keaggy) played often in the house. Turned on to Radiohead in his high school years, Naddeo didn’t stumble upon the underground history of experimental rock—from Television to Pavement–until leaving home for Boston University, where he made many of the music connections that would eventually beckon him to Brooklyn in 2007.
While he was “there” for the BK indie revolution, Naddeo is a throwback and outsider figure per force more than by choice. He learned to arrange under the strict limitations of the four-track cassette deck, the bedroom medium of a much older generation of experimentalists. “I had two four track machines that I would mix down together into a boombox tape deck, applying a finger to slow down the tape reels whenever they would fall out of sync with one another,” he recalls. While he did eventually move to Ableton and the world of unlimited tracks, something of the economy and resourcefulness of the ardent four-tracker is evident on Stubborn Horse, and his original four track deck is still involved in his work flow.
Sandy Bell is a songwriter, singer and musician who currently calls Woodstock, NY home. She has moved through a vibrant and textured musical constellation, playing most notably with the eternally brilliant Jeff Buckley, and contributed vocals on the Mercury Prize nominated ‘Bat for Lashes’ album. While Sandy’s music is expressionistic and lush, she is most interested in the ‘cathartic transmutation of grief into song’.
A review of her most recent record by music journalist Alex Green honored the album by saying:
‘When I Leave Ohio is beautiful, resonant work that’s stark and painful, oddly comforting and deeply, deeply sad. Sandy Bell’s songs have such poetic precision and crushing emotional exactitude, her work is nothing short of staggering.’
Formed in December, 2019 to perform the New Year’s show at Colony Woodstock, The Silver Spaceship is a collective of musicians and performers who have performed with each other in pairs or smaller bands for years. We are united by our connection to The Secret City, a non profit arts organization programming in NYC, LA and the Hudson Valley. Our members have performed on stages and studios all over the world. We’re fronted by two people: Chris Wells, impresario of The Secret City, who provides crooning and non-stop dancing with the crowd, and his sidekick, Jeremy Bass, who holds it down with killer vocals and guitar. The rest of the line-up includes drummer Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel, Indigo Girls, Dreamland Studios, etc), bassist Jennifer Maidman (Culture Club, Murray Head, Penguin Cafe Orchestra), Trombonist Annie Whitehead (Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Jamiroquai, Charlie Watts), keyboards Aaron Kotler (The Awakening Orchestra), piano Marta Waterman (Silent Movies at Rosendale Theater, etc), percussion Lisa Wexler (Big Sister.) We also have two rotating back up vocalists and occasional guests. We strive to lift the vibration wherever we go and whenever we can.
With amps to 11 and bad vibes in the red, Foster Care manages to roll out a reckless punk spirit you rarely find in the genre that all too often defaults to paint-by-numbers primal cliche. The New York foursome- Chris Teenager, vocals; Patrick Sullivan, guitar; Jesse Crawford, bass; Allison Busch, drums- swerves in and out of control with ragged, blasting guitars and incessant, beating rhythms. Sprinkle in some snotty vocals that tilt from howl to scream and you have a sound reminiscent of that brief but golden time when punk was transitioning into hardcore with a wild barrage of spontaneity.
The Meditation Tapes is a collaboration between Grammy Award-winning producer/musician Damon Whittemore and musician Jason Sebastian Russo. It aims to facilitate the temporary cessation of thought and desire.
The Restless Age is a collaboration – a harmony of Will Bryant, Lee Falco and Brandon Morrison. Each player brings a unique song and voice to the bandstand, as the trio spans generations and genres.
The members of The Restless Age have been a premier rhythm section throughout New York’s Hudson Valley for the past half-decade. As the house band for Amy Helm’s ‘Oh to be Home Again’ at Levon Helm Studios, they performed behind Donald Fagen, John Sebastian and Graham Nash, as well as being Kate Pierson’s (The B-52’s) touring band in support of her 2015 debut album ‘Guitars & Microphones’. During that same year they toured the U.S. & Canada supporting the The Waterboys and The Gipsy Kings along with fellow Hudson Valley singer-songwriter Connor Kennedy.
Lee Falco, Brandon Morrison and Will Bryant rose to national attention backing Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, as “The Nightflyers” on his 2017 national tour.
Now, with their harmonious indie rock The Restless Age steps out as a unit of songwriters, singers and instrumentalists.
Datura Road sits at the crossroads of various musical styles that are finding new life in the Hudson Valley and greater New York area. By bringing together elements of the east and west the band creates a new type of world music that emphasizes song-form and groove, introducing new textures to the western ear. Their debut release, Datura Road, features instruments such as the ud/oud, doumbek, bansuri, and tabla, in addition to the more familiar guitar, bass, and drum framework. Besides unique instrumentation, the roughly thirty-year age gap between front man Matt Nobile (twenty-six) and the other three touring members will surprise most audiences. This accounts for the even wider age range among their listeners and likens the band more to jazz and world music contemporaries than it does to more mainstream up and coming artists.
In July Datura Road released their “Elephants Dream” EP, a collection of three instrumental pieces and one vocal piece titled “Görüşürüz”, the Turkish word for “goodbye” or “see you later”.
“Datura Road is a cohesive and heartwarming group, that offers tunes in varying styles. From warm dance grooves, smoky Latin ballads, and trance-like meditations that enliven the senses and create great joy from song to song in the program. Datura Road the album is a wonderful addition to any world music collection.”
– Shannon Smith, Sound in Review
