Pomona Papyrus is a collection of  solo 4-track adventures in the analog domain.  The music was created using a motley collection of analog synths, eclectic acoustic and electric stringed instruments, and the occasional recorder piped directly into the 4-track.

Bastard Chosen is a three piece power trio originating out of Brooklyn, NY in 2012. Drinking from the stream of proto punk, acid rock and noise bands, they wield fuzz pedals and tube amps in service of heavy riffage and scream-sung vocals peeking out over a dense wall of guitar, bass and drums.

The Heart-Ons were a dance-punk quartet out of the land of Rock (Rockland County, NY), anchored by a rhythm section of driving punk bass and a drummer with a penchant for polyrhythms and groove. With the sensual, sweaty, classic R&B-inspired yelps of its front woman and hook-laden, barbed wire guitar work, the Heart-Ons always brought the party.

“The Color Guard riff away on frazzled-sounding guitars while engaging in reach-for-the-sky counterpoint harmonies. … Reason enough to be charmed.” -Entertainment Weekly

Orange was a project of three final semester Berklee students, comprising Lee Ritter, Chris Spilsbury, and myself, and was a vehicle to record my final college project; an album interlacing sections of written music  with improvised passages acting as segues. We ended up using a slightly reworked lineup for a portion of Lee’s final project as well. It was a short-lived collaboration, given our last-semester status. After conceiving two albums, the band scattered across the US to embark on our post college lives.  The music has indie leanings, but has a mesh of jazz and experimental snippets strewn throughout, the vocals are raw and unabashed.

HailBop was mostly a free improv duet:  Josh Zisman on Guitar, Jason Linder on Drums and a melange of found sounds and aleatoric music.  Other contributers included Matthew Thies on the bass, Sean DiBango on Saxophone, and Lee Ritter on Guitar. The Band was Active in The Boston area at the end of the 1990s.

This was a collaboration between Doc Lawton and I. He brought the poetry, and I made the music. Many a cup of hot tea with honey and lemon were sipped while reciting and recording the more than 370 poems.

Discography

Pomona Papyrus is a collection of  solo 4-track adventures in the analog domain.  The music was created using a motley collection of analog synths, eclectic acoustic and electric stringed instruments, and the occasional recorder piped directly into the 4-track.

Bastard Chosen is a three piece power trio originating out of Brooklyn, NY in 2012. Drinking from the stream of proto punk, acid rock and noise bands, they wield fuzz pedals and tube amps in service of heavy riffage and scream-sung vocals peeking out over a dense wall of guitar, bass and drums.

The Heart-Ons were a dance-punk quartet out of the land of Rock (Rockland County, NY), anchored by a rhythm section of driving punk bass and a drummer with a penchant for polyrhythms and groove. With the sensual, sweaty, classic R&B-inspired yelps of its front woman and hook-laden, barbed wire guitar work, the Heart-Ons always brought the party.

“The Color Guard riff away on frazzled-sounding guitars while engaging in reach-for-the-sky counterpoint harmonies. … Reason enough to be charmed.” -Entertainment Weekly

Orange was a project of three final semester Berklee students, comprising Lee Ritter, Chris Spilsbury, and myself, and was a vehicle to record my final college project; an album interlacing sections of written music  with improvised passages acting as segues. We ended up using a slightly reworked lineup for a portion of Lee’s final project as well. It was a short-lived collaboration, given our last-semester status. After conceiving two albums, the band scattered across the US to embark on our post college lives.  The music has indie leanings, but has a mesh of jazz and experimental snippets strewn throughout, the vocals are raw and unabashed.

HailBop was mostly a free improv duet:  Josh Zisman on Guitar, Jason Linder on Drums and a melange of found sounds and aleatoric music.  Other contributers included Matthew Thies on the bass, Sean DiBango on Saxophone, and Lee Ritter on Guitar. The Band was Active in The Boston area at the end of the 1990s.

This was a collaboration between Doc Lawton and I. He brought the poetry, and I made the music. Many a cup of hot tea with honey and lemon were sipped while reciting and recording the more than 370 poems.