Boston-area release show for Max Liebman & Mike Moschetto's second collection of ambient musical works, Looking Heaven in the Eye.

Max Liebman: keys, electronics. Mike Moschetto: guitar, percussion, electronics.

Drummer & improviser Gareth Dylan Smith opens (and collaborates).

Max Liebman is a composer, performer, producer, engineer & educator based in Kingston, NY, having previously called Boston, Nashville & northern New Jersey home. Before relocating to the Hudson Valley, he performed regularly with The Still Point, an eclectic jazz outfit with classical influence, and The Old North, an acoustic Americana trio. His solo work includes In Transit, an experimental EP rooted in field recordings that are subsequently interpreted through meticulous instrumentation, to reflect navigating one's way through urbanity and modernity.

Mike Moschetto is a producer, engineer & musician from Massachusetts. In a past life, he'd routinely hop into a van and do laps around North America & Europe with ear-splitting punk bands like Aviator. But aside from his post-rock/jazz fusion group Kind King, his personal musical output has veered sharply toward the contemplative, using an array of electronic whizbangs to explode the sonic palette of his guitar out in every direction and plumb the depths of the self, evoking not only other instruments but also a sense of place and even memory.

The two met as coworkers at WBUR in Boston, as audio engineers for NPR's Here & Now. As a musical duo, they indulge each others' sensibilities and let their freak flags fly, sonically augering inner space using Fender Rhodes, synthesizer, bowed glockenspiel, profoundly effected guitar, singing bowls, tingsha bells and whatever else is within reach. Their first recorded collaboration, 2023's I came like Water and like Wind I go, is rooted in these meditative drones and neo-noir atmospherics.

Gareth Dylan Smith is an English drummer based in Boston, MA and East Stroudsburg, PA, USA. Gareth cut his teeth in the alt- rock, jazz, free improvisation and musical theatre scenes in Brighton, Cardiff, London, NYC and New Jersey. Collaborators include Stephen Wheel, Martin Urbach, Andy Krikun, Zack Moir, Victor Coelho, Dan Sheehan, Black Light Bastards, Mother Nature and Austina Lee. His latest album is Permission Granted, out now on Anthrophonic Records.