Naked Lore:

“A soundtrack to the folktales your great-grandparents vowed to forget,” Naked Lore is a trio dedicated to new music with ancient origins. Led by trumpeter Ben Holmes, the group features Brad Shepik on guitar and Shane Shanahan on percussion. The wordless stories they tell are by turns sinister, sweet, majestic, mischievous, rampaging and ruminative. The group’s debut album has been recorded, mixed and mastered and will be released in early 2020!

Naked Lore is the brainchild of Ben Holmes, a trumpeter/composer who has worked with artists including Slavic Soul Party!, Vampire Weekend, Gogol Bordello and Cynthia Hopkins. His music conjures ancient sounds through the filter of 20+ years of study in jazz, klezmer, and classical music. Featuring master musicians Brad Shepik on guitar (Paul Motian, Dave Douglas, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley) and Shane Shanahan on percussion (Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, James Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Philip Glass), the trio seemingly travels through thousands of years of history while remaining firmly rooted in the present moment, veering from tightly composed occultist chamber jazz to wild improvisation with the speed of a darting snake’s tongue.

Radiant Others:

Dan Blacksberg: trombone
Nick Millevoi: guitar

Radiant Others is the newest album by trombonist Dan Blacksberg, one of the acknowledged masters of klezmer trombone. Featuring original music and arrangements of traditional klezmer tunes that span the history of the tradition, Radiant Others is the first klezmer album to feature the trombone as the lead instrument. Live, Blacksberg pairs up with longtime collaborator, guitarist Nick Millevoi (John Zorn, Desertion Trio, Many Arms) to fill out a thoroughly modern sound.

On Radiant Others, Blacksberg brings together years of research and development on how to play klezmer melodies with all the virtuosity, ornamentation, and depth of emotion that we hear in the more common lead instruments like the clarinet or violin. This music presents the results of this search, creating a new language for the trombone that can lead a new role for the instrument in the klezmer tradition.

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