Combining elements of jazz, groove, rock, and experimental world music, The Moho Collective, an instrumental trio from Rochester, NY, strives for a raw, open, and free form sound. They accomplish this best through improvisation and dynamic song structures, proving vocals are not necessary to engage the listener if the music speaks for itself.

Driven by the rhythm of bassist Justin Rister, percussionist Ryan Barclay, and adding intricate guitar work from Kurt Johnson, the multi-instrumentalist band incorporates a host of different instruments, such as pedal steel guitar, didgeridoo, world percussion, and various effects, found sounds, and samples. All three musicians have percussion experience, a big reason why the rhythmic energy itself can often drive the songs, providing a palette for tasteful melodic development and arranging. Barclay has trained with Billy Martin of Medeski, Martin and Wood, and percussionist Cyro Baptista. Both he and Rister are music educators who lay a tasteful textured canvas for each tune. Johnson brings his own experience and training with master Indian musician Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, bringing elements of Hindustani classical music into the band’s varying sounds.

The three musicians embrace the sentiment that music – like all art – is meant to be an experience for the audience. At heart, they are an art band. It’s about the experience: where they play, who they’re with.

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Julia Weldon is a wide-eyed lover of life and prolific queer folk-pop musician, guitarist, and songwriter. After years voicing the words of others as a child actor, Julia had to release her own. In her deeply personal percussive guitar-driven songs she plays with urban & rural memes. Intensely felt lines – from sardonic to heartfelt -weave stories of loss, regret, debauchery, incest, love & desire. It’s the harsh city edges, the liminal open fields, the rough and soft sounds that make her music a pleasant paradox that draws immediate attention. Julia headlines at reputable NYC venues like City Winery and the Knitting Factory, has opened for national acts such as MELISSA FERRICK, BITCH & KAKI KING, and just did her first major tour down to SXSW Festival in Austin, TX. Other festivals include Chicago’s 2008 Decibelle Festival and the 2010 Women’s Experimental Music Festival in Brooklyn. Her first, self-titled album was a DIY project with intimate grit, and she is currently finishing a fully produced and realized 12-track album with renown producer Saul MacWilliams.

http://juliaweldon.com/

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High Drags is a family band made up of siblings James and Marissa Longstreet who grew up in Upstate NY. At 22, James moved to California to pursue music while Marissa remained on the east coast writing and performing songs with her folk-pop group, Dave & Marissa. Now, the siblings have come together through technology to create a bi-coastal music project which juxtaposes influences from the coasts which had initially separated them. They design to bring a fresh sound that layers folk with hip-hop, indie rock, and dance electronic beats. High Drags creates music to install an environment. Through high energy live performances and consistent dedication to the production of new music, High Drags produces and performs to bring boldness, spontaneity, and an authentic happiness to every stage and room.

http://www.highdrags.com

 

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Josh Netsky is a singer-songwriter from Rochester, NY. His latest project took him on a trip visiting several ghost towns in the Northeast and performing music in them. His latest album, The Spirits, an album and film (captured by Adam Netsky) is the result of that trip and Netskys first “concept album”. Netsky writes in many genres, most consistenly folk and psychedelic, and is inspired by the craft of songwriting.

http://www.facebook.com/joshnetskymusic

 

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Since September 2010, these four crucial points of the illest of light have touched down on Earth and emerged on the scene as RootsCollider – the definitive 21st-century “Dry & Heavy Livetronica DubCore” act, which continues to push the sonic envelope toward a state of musical enlightenment. This future Fab Four are dedicated to bringing their listeners only the freshest cuts of live, original, punishing drum-and-bass, crushing dubstep, destructive electro-rock and fresh future-funk, all of it blended with the crucial elements of dub reggae. The band’s sole purpose is to supercollide these genres into a single, unstoppable aesthetic force, and they also take pride in being one of the last almost completely analog defenses against the digital era.

 

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Indie harpist and vocalist, Mikaela Davis, is joined by other eclectic instruments to create a unique and soulful lo-fi sound. Mikaela has been playing the harp since the age of eight and started writing music when she was twelve years old. She is currently studying Harp Performance at the Crane School of Music. Mikaela is releasing her debut album on June 30th. It can be purchased at www.mikaeladavis.bandcamp.com

 

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The music collective “Epilogue” began as a rigid concept for improvisational musicians to play instruments with one another with no verbal discussion. It sought a conversation between artists using no more than the voices their instruments produce. As time went on and intuitions developed, the music began to give birth to a new realm in sound. Blending Free Jazz Fusion, Minimalism, and Avante Garde Metal.

Melodies hold descriptions of certain characters allowing listeners to create their own story, in the moment. Harmonies paint in colors, layering backdrops and changing scenes. Compositions transpose Surrealist cultivations and artistic improvisation into a sort of learned poetry where each performance is a unique and singular event.

WEBSITES
http://soundcloud.com/the-music-of-epilogue
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Music-of-Epilogue

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