Tom Desisto is an accomplished composer, producer, sound designer, guitarist, arranger, and engineer working out of the Desisto Music studio in Woodstock, NY.  After studying composition with Mario Davidovsky, Miriam Gideon, and Stanley Persky, orchestration with Jan Meyerowitz, and jazz guitar with Barry Galbraith, Tom went on to make a name for himself in many different areas of the music business.  His credits include two Emmy nominations and range from serious music, jazz, rock, pop, dance, and children’s records to music of all types for film, advertising, and theater.

Hailed by the New York Times as “dizzyingly versatile… an eclectic with an ear for texture… strikingly original and soulful”, LJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia, and moved to New York with his parents, composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzburg, in 1990. He divides his time between composing for the concert stage, contemporary dance & film, leading his own ensemble LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, as well as a busy career as a freelance violist, violinist & musical arranger. Among recent projects is a string quartet for Brooklyn Rider and a commission for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, arrangements for Alan Pierson and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, tenor Javier Camarena, conductor Alondra de la Parra, the Mexican songwriter Natalia Lafourcade, composer/guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla, The Knights, and collaborations with choreographers Aszure Barton, Damian Woetzel, Christopher Wheeldon and Eduardo Vilaro (with Ballet Hispanico). Ljova is also the composer and conductor of the video project “Signal Strength“, shared by over 200,000 viewers worldwide.

Lost interviews with rock stars and icons, recorded 1969-1972. Not heard since.

Official account of Bryan Ferry, singer, songwriter, solo artist, and founder of Roxy Music. "Loose Talk" out now https://bio.to/bryanferry

A confluence of trumpets+microphones+synthesizers

Allan Kozinn is following