The Incubators

Fronted by the collaborative song-writing team of Katie Freeman (Cosmic Free Way) and Chris Chappell (7th Generation), The Incubators eclectic groove-rock sound is balanced by Mike Emerson’s (Blues Broads, Carlene Carter) classic Hammond B-3 organ and Chris Rossbach’s (D’Amphibians, Zigaboo Modeliste, Bobby Vega) adventurous lead guitar.

The young rhythm section of Max Ramey (Davis Ramey, The Ironsides) and Jared Maddox (Miles Schon) brings an energetic, funky sensibility to a song-based form.

The songs rely on the vocal interplay of Freeman and Chappell often buoyed by April Grisman’s three part, yet kept in check by the band’s interwoven parts.  Though written in the traditional “Rondo” form, the songs often evolve beyond what the listener might expect.  Admitted tone freaks, they employ analog and tube technology to create a vintage and timeless rock sound.

The Incubators (roots rock) have shared the stage with JGB Band, D’Amphibians, Fiver Brown & The Good Sinners, Dredgetown, Tommy Castro, Jess De Natale, Sean Hayes, Bonnie Hayes, Smokehouse Gamblers, as well as members of Poor Man’s Whiskey, New Monsoon, Hot Buttered Rum, Brothers Comatose, Swampthang, and Green String Farm Band.

www.theincubators.net

Mike Saliani

Mike Saliani is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has performed and recorded professionally for the last thirteen years as a band leader, sideman, and session player with a number of Northern California bands and artists (Amee Chapman, Emily and the Mops, Wind Over Sticks, The Moisies, Blue Mire, Friends of the River, Crackerjack Preacher, and more). Sharing stages with The Mother Hips, Garth Hudson of The Band, Tim and Nicki Bluhm, Sensations, Scary Little Friends, Rob Bayne, Victoria George, Bhi Bhiman, Miles Schon, Sweet Chariot, Little Wings, and lots more. Venues include: Slims, The Sweetwater music hall, Frog and Peach, Old Western Saloon, 4th St Tavern, Peri’s Bar, 19th Broadway, Laguntas Taproom, Iron springs Brew, Amnesia, Makeoutroom, Last Day Saloon, Red Devil lounge, Hotel Utah, Blondie’s, the Riptide, Presidio Yacht Club, Cafe Divino, The Living Room(NYC), Fox and Goose, SF State, Kokomo Winery, Hopmonk Tavern, Milk Bar, Hemlock, Russian River Brew Co, Giordano Bros, Grant and Green, Thee Parside, No Name Bar, Divided Sky, Mt. Tallac Brewery, Heavenly Village, Lunas Cafe, and lots more. His band blends a nice variety of genres ranging from rock and americana to groove and soul. He continues to work on his craft as a musician and writer. Currently he performs in his electric group(Mike Saliani Band-with Gavin Jones on keys, Kenny Michael on bass/vocals, and Brian Camara on drums). He plays lead guitar with SF country group(The Bitter Diamonds)and solo-acoustic. Mike has two solo records out called “Green Morning”(2007) and “Dreams on Fire”(2012) on itunes, Amazon, CDBaby.com. Mike has collaborated with New York poet, Michael Spielman. The two wrote a collection of songs, and recorded an ep to be released soon for digital download. Mike is working on his third full length due this year.

www.mikesaliani.com

Saffell

Saffell is a singer songwriter from Petaluma Ca, pulling from R&B, funk and blues. Saffell has a unique percussive style on the piano and his vocals are as memorable as they are captivating. This is not the typical sound you would expect from singer songwriter on piano. Saffell brings a groove, a swagger and a rhythmic, lyrical flow that joins perfectly with his funky attack on the piano.  Saffell has a unique stylized  sound that invites you in at first listen.

www.saffellmusic.com

https://soundcloud.com/saffell/in-the-rain

CCE – P.O.O.K & Energy

CCE provides innovative, high quality programs with a special emphasis on serving low income, minority and at-risk children and youth. The Center provides a wide array of classes in dance, music, fitness, theater, spoken word, computer arts technology and the visual arts. These classes are offered after school at the Carnegie Learning Center in midtown Kingston and in school districts throughout the Hudson Valley.

cce4me.org

Glockabelle

Glockabelle shreds two Casio VL-Tones, a lyre-shaped glockenspiel with eight thimbles and sings in both French and English while racing against her drum machine, Monsieur Dix. Her wild sound stems from a combination of inspiration and circumstance. Born to Francophone parents, Glockabelle received an education both stateside and in France. After being introduced to the sound of the Casio VL-Tone by a neighbor in Paris, Glockabelle began blending her classical piano techniques with vintage synth-pop sounds resulting in a hyperactive mixture of rhythm and tone. She also developed a unique approach to playing the glockenspiel: not with mallets but with eight sewing thimbles.

This new sound lead Glockabelle to a U.S. tour as a member of the Fiery Furnaces. She has performed at The Toronto Film Festival, Bonnaroo, Miami Art Basel, SXSW, The Montreux Jazz Festival, and WFMU. She has opened for Lightning Bolt, Marnie Stern, James Chance and the Contortions, Kaki King, and The Go! Team. She released her first EP in May 2015, which was hailed by SPIN as “Anarchic Enchantment.”

Her journey and performance at SXSW 2017 were filmed as part of a documentary by the NHK Network of Japan which premiered in April 2017.

In April 2018, she completed a solo tour of the northeastern U.S. opening for Lightning Bolt and is currently completing a new album to be released later this year.

www.glockabelle.com

Decorum

“This trio out of Brooklyn casts an ample shade of gloom over their sound on their new album “Vail”. This is not another run of the mill post-punk revivalist band; they do not plug in a single six string and instead hit you with a hypnotic swirl of two basses. Vocally they weave their melodies in between a dizzy entanglement of bass lines that warble in echoing waves. Male and female vocals dance around one another sometimes harmonizing at other times creating counter points. The male vocals are a dead pan baritone that sometimes reaches more of a croon. The female vocals are an indifferent indie rock alto. The bridge coming out of the verses is disjointed and gray, but it works for the sound they are going for. This is the perfect sound track for a rainy afternoon drive into an abandoned urban area.” – Abysmal Hymns

www.decorum.nyc

https://vimeo.com/159156292

Loch Lomond

A music collective from Portland, Oregon, Loch Lomond began life in 2003 as the solo project of Ritchie Young. Admittedly, most solo projects don’t involve a carousel of contributions from upwards of 30 musicians, but that’s an indication of just how amorphous Loch Lomond’s line-up was until 2007 (when their second album, Paper The Walls, was released). Having coalesced into a more settled, six-piece incarnation, Loch Lomond finished recording ‘Little Me Will Start A Storm’ back in 2008 before the material was temporarily shelved due to mixing issues and the small matter of a sell-out US tour with fellow Portlanders ‘The Decemberists’. The mixing issues were eventually ironed out by a small army of mixers and producers: Tucker Martine (REM/The Decemberists), Tony Lash (Elliot Smith/Dandy Warhols), Kevin Robinson (Viva Voce), Adam Selzer (M Ward/Norfolk & Western) and Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Stephen Malkmus/Sleater Kinney). From all of this creative input emerged not only the album, but material for the EP that preceded it (the ‘Night Bats EP’ released on the another Scottish label, the wonderful Song, By Toad): a release that, thanks to a street trials pro rider from the Isle of Skye named Danny MacAskill, would see Loch Lomond’s profile boosted significantly. Already something of an internet phenomenon, Danny decided he wanted to use Loch Lomond’s track ‘Wax And Wire’ for a new film he was making and reached out via the internet…

www.lochlomondmusic.com

https://soundcloud.com/loch_lomond/07-pens-from-spain

Earl Grey Trio

Earl Grey is a project led by drummer and composer and 845 native Kyle Hutchins. The group performs a balance of originals and compositions by great American composers such as Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, and Eric Dolphy. The Earl Grey Trio is about the interaction between the three instrumentalists, using the intimate acoustic format to achieve a unique approach in improvisation and composition.

http://www.kylehutchinsdrums.com

earlgreytrio.bandcamp.com

https://soundcloud.com/kylehutchinsdrums/sets/team_watermelon

Heroes of Toolik

Heroes of Toolik is strangely original, old-school art rock–“deceptively catchy, hypnotically growling, post-Velvets grooves.” (NY Music Daily). Comparisons range widely from the Velvets to Captain Beefheart ‘Shiny Beast’, even to the Grateful Dead. (NY Taper) NY Music Daily says of the 7” Aquarium School, “it wouldn’t be out of place on REM’s Chronic Town but with a more lush interesting arrangement than anything on that album.” “Strong guitar riffs, a chill drumbeat and that boisterous brass section . . . ” (The Aquarian). The players are “a who’s who of underground rock”. (Big Takeover). The NY Times has praised Arad Evans’ (Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham) “soaring guitar” and as one of “an index of creative or experimental electric-guitar-based music in America — young lords of the wild in the post-rock tradition.” Rolling Stone calls Robert Poss’s (Band of Susans) guitar playing “adamantly arty, brainy, visceral and bracing.” Billy Ficca, drums, is an original member of the foundational CBGB’s band, Television. Ernie Brooks (bass) shaped punk rock as a member of The Modern Lovers, and later with David Johansen, Jerry Harrison, and Arthur Russell among others. John Speck on trombone is one of the busiest latin session players in the New York area and Jennifer Coates (violin/vocals) is a widely-recognized painter and proponent of old-time fiddle music. Bills have included Antietam, The Fleshtones, The Figgs, The Scene is Now, Speed the Plough and many others. A second, full-length release “Like Night” is set for August 2016, produced by Wharton Tiers.

www.heroesoftoolik.com

Twisty BonBon

Twisty BonBon was formed in March 2016 by Japanese females, Twisty and BonBon. Twisty is a music producer, BonBon is a singer. Twisty has contributed songs for movies and fashion shows, and produces mainly electronic music. BonBon used to sing in a jazz big band. Their two different backgrounds blended well, and now they make interesting new pop sounds together.

twistybonbon.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL1k-G1stjM