"Christopher is a cellist, composer, producer, engineer and filmmaker. He currently performs in Henry Threadgill's Pulitzer Prize winning ensemble Zooid, Anat Cohen Tentet, Kenny Warren Trio, Tony Malaby, Michael Blake, Darius Jones and his own projects. He has worked with Martin Scorsese, Yoko Ono, Bleachers, Iron & Wine, Ryan Adams, Marianne Faithfull, Michael Pitt & Pagoda, Marc Ribot, Butch Morris, Lee Konitz, Rudy Royston, Anna Webber, Ryan Scott, Anthony Coleman, Jeremiah Cymerman & many others."

"Since he was a landlocked Dallas, Texas kid, beach culture has held a tropical mystique for pianist/composer Frank LoCrasto. Family trips documented by camcorder videos, featuring slinky jazz-fusion soundtracks are etched in the Brooklyn-based artist's memory. In his mind, there will always be a fantasyland replete with wicker furniture, pristine beaches, swaying palm trees, the smell of vanilla-scented suntan lotion, and breathtaking aqua water expanses.

These days, LoCrasto uses his imagination, evocative musicality, prodigious chops, and eclectic sonic palette to create dreamy musical locales. His transporting compositions are genre-defying but informed loosely by the feel of jazz, ambient music, Latin, vibey 1960s and 1970s B-movie film scores, and exotica. His tunes are dynamic and dimensional, brimming with thoughtful instrumentation choices, lush orchestrations, and melodies and movements that exhibit narrative instrumental arcs. His recordings are vibey, and favor little atmospheric imperfections that lend them a warmly organic feel. Upcoming, LoCrasto will release his soundtrack to the 2012 comedy-drama, Sandbar, and, in the spring 2021, he will issue his fifth solo album.

"Several different things inspire that transporting feeling of my music. These days, it can come from something I read, a movie, or a photo I saw. The cover art on the front of old LP's definitely transports you. It's an artifact made in a different time that's basically a window into the past-time travel into a different time I'll never know. Those types of visual elements I find hugely romantic. That, and the sound of tape," LoCrasto shares.

To date, the Texas-born, Brooklyn-based artist has released four solo albums (When You're There 2006, El Dorado 2011, LoCrasto 2015, and Lost Dispatch 2019). He has composed and recorded music for three feature length films (Sandbar 2012, Union Furnace 2015, Stranger in the Dunes 2016), and has had songs placed in the 2014 movie, Obvious Child, and the 2020 HBO series, How to With Jon Wilson. In addition, LoCrasto has recorded and toured with Cass McCombs, Pat Martino, Jeremy Pelt, James Iha, Parquet Courts, Fruit Bats, Nicholas Payton, Greg Osby, Okkervil River, and Wallace Roney. He has also appeared as a sideman on over 70 albums. Prior to the pandemic, LoCrasto was actively touring with his band, Cass McCombs, the Fruit Bats, and Grateful Shred.

LoCrasto's father is a bassist and his mother has always been supportive of the arts. At age 5, his parents bought him a Casio keyboard and enrolled him in piano lessons. Yet, it wasn't until he was 8 years old that LoCrasto found his way with piano. Eschewing lessons, he made progress on his own, playing by ear, and, by the age of 10, LoCrasto was playing paid gigs at the mall.

For high school, LoCrasto attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, a haven of taste and talent which boasts alumni such as Erykah Badu, Norah Jones, and Roy Hargrove. While in that fertile music environment, he thrived and earned the prestigious Presidential Scholar in the Arts award. LoCrasto also earned a scholarship to the world-renowned New School in New York. Relocating to New York, he began associations that landed him gigs with heavyweight jazz artists, including jazz guitar icon Pat Martino. Eventually, LoCrasto migrated to the vibrant NYC singer-songwriter scene, savoring the creative freedom the milieu afforded.

As a busy sideman, LoCrasto has had to release solo material in five-year gap increments. The benefit of the quarantine, so far, has been that he can finally release his solo material in a timely fashion. The first album LoCrasto will be issuing in this active downtime is his soundtrack to the 2012 indie comedy-drama, Sandbar.

This is LoCrasto's first soundtrack, and he rises to the challenge masterfully, composing and producing the music, and tapping top notch musicians from his inner circle to round out the recordings. This warmly lo-fi collection of dreamy 1960s soundscapes evokes the movie's "everything is gonna be alright" mix of sadness and quirkiness. Select standouts include "Christmas Is You," a collaboration with Jessica Martins; "Spin The Bottle," which was reappropriated by Casey Neistat in his YouTube "Hong Kong McDonald's" video; and "Abandoned Car." "Christmas Is You" has a 1960s Phil Spector girl group feel to it with a languidly luxurious ballad poise enhanced by lush piano and acoustic guitar interlay, and Jessica's sensual vocals. "Spin The Bottle" boasts a tropical tango rhythm and pastel chord changes lending it an elegant "pass the martini" feel. Palm trees and pristine beaches come to life on "Abandoned Car." This track, with its slinky percussion, airy backup vocals, and breezy acoustic guitar and jeweled piano melodies, poetically captures a "tropical dreaming" movie moment.

These days, LoCrasto is making the most of pandemic life through writing, recording, and releasing new music. "I miss being on the road and being inspired by different places, but this freedom right now is joyful and comforting," LoCrasto says. He will follow up the Sandbar score with an official solo album in the spring of 2021. This album will be polished, featuring luxurious strings, woodwind, and brass orchestration, and compositions that wind through a multitude of thoroughly composed sections. The record will offer a variety of transporting vibes, including Iranian musicality, Brazilian samba moments, and songs that sound like they were pulled from 1960s French New Wave films. LoCrasto wrote and tracked the album during quarantine, piecing together remote individual performances to make full string, woodwind and brass sections."

"Bill Campbell is the drummer, singer, songwriter and leader of the international cult sensation known as BREASTFIST, which released it's much heralded debut record "tickly shimmers" in May 2012 and follow up "Amuse Deuce" in 2017 on groundUp records. Bill is also a member of Kurt Rosenwinkel's "Caipi" band. As a sideman, Bill's beats are in large demand on stage and in the studio. His unique sound and feel have made him a favorite of producers, songwriters, rock and jazz musicians alike. Artists he has worked with include Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Cass McCombs, Andrew Bird, Brazilian Girls, Chris Thile, Lauren Hill, Norah Jones, Meshell Ndegeocello, Madison Cunningham, Robin McKelle, James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Ryan Scott, Chris Cheek and Joel Frahm. Bill is busy recording, performing, writing music, teaching, traveling, playing table tennis and making animated cartoons."

"Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, saxophonist and flautist, who came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating a range of non-jazz genres.

Threadgill studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, majoring in piano, flute, and composition. He studied piano with Gail Quillman and composition with Stella Roberts. He has been a bandleader and composer for over forty years. He was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition In for a Penny, In for a Pound, which premiered at Roulette Intermedium on December 4, 2014

Threadgill has performed and recorded with several ensembles: Air, Aggregation Orb, Make a Move, the seven-piece Henry Threadgill Sextett, the twenty-piece Society Situation Dance Band, Very Very Circus, X-75, and Zooid."

"Reedist Anna Webber, a Brooklynite by way of British Columbia, is one of the most exciting new arrivals on the New York avant-garde jazz scene in the past couple years. Her second album, SIMPLE, demonstrates the inextricable link between her improvising and her compositions; her detail-rich writing recalls the work of elders as disparate as Tim Berne and Henry Threadgill, and her busy motion evokes a fizzy sort of exhilaration.-Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

Anna Webber is an integral part of a new wave of the Brooklyn avant-garde jazz scene. A saxophonist and flutist who strives for the unexpected, she has furthermore consistently proven herself to be a unique and forward-thinking composer with releases such as 2014's SIMPLE (Skirl Records) and 2013's Percussive Mechanics. Binary, the follow-up to SIMPLE which features bandmates John Hollenbeck and Matt Mitchell, further establishes Webber as a compelling improvisor and composer."

"Alfredo Colon is a New York City native. The saxophonist was born to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic and grew up in Washington Heights. He studied under musicians such as Lee Konitz, Jason Rigby, Steve Wilson and Jacob Sacks

Colon has performed alongside musicians such as Henry Threadgill, Moses Sumney, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Nduduzo Makhathini, Amirtha Kidambi, Harish Raghavan and many others. He has performed at esteemed spaces such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Roulette Intermedium, BAM, The Jazz Gallery, The Stone, National Sawdust and a myriad of others.

Colon was awarded the Jazz Coalition Commission Fund Grant in early 2020. His piece 'A Witch Gets Married' premiered online on October 2020. The performance can be viewed here. He is also one of the recipients of Roulette's Van Lier Fellowship for 2022.

Alfredo plays P Mauriat instruments and D'Addario reeds."