Devin Gray

Brooklyn-Berlin based drummer-composer Devin Gray made his widely lauded leader debut in 2012 with the release Dirigo Rataplan, which included a crew of heavyweight veterans Ellery Eskelin, Michael Formanek and Dave Ballou. JazzTimes said that Gray’s debut represented “the work of a young artist who knows who he is.” Free Jazz blog encapsulated the album this way: “...one of the best debut albums in years.” In 2015 Gray released Relative Resonance, a band of close New York associates: Chris Speed, Kris Davis and Chris Tordini. All About Jazz noted “...the questing, inquisitive, risky nature of the compositions is no less bracing than Anthony Braxton's finest work.” In 2018 Gray reconvened his all-star group for Dirigo Rataplan II, with the establishment of the record label Rataplan Records. The album shines with rich harmony, and earworm melodies. Fans from Alice Coltrane and Henry Threadgill to Dave Holland and Craig Taborn will dig this organic, engrossing mix of composition and improvisation.

devingraymusic.com

Electro/Acoustic Live in Philadelphia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wIBZAg6uf0 Acoustic Solo Live in Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vKXoXzdHhI

Federico Balducci + Becca Pasley

Federico BalducciThe music of Puerto Rican guitarist and composer Federico Balducci can be described as a mixture of classical and ambient music with unusually intricate harmonies.Federico Balducci has a Bachelor’s Degree in Film Scoring from the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Currently, Federico mostly works on film scores for short films and documentaries.Becca PasleyBecca Pasley has a varied background studying and performing creative improvisation, noise music, DIY punk rock, Black American music, and European classical. The name of their ambient noise project, Souther Cistern, recognizes the strong influence of Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros’s mindfulness philosophy, and her album of the same name that was recorded in an empty reverberating cistern.

https://federicobalducci7.bandcamp.com/album/its-the-middle-ground-thats-dangerous