Stroum collective is a result of shared common immersion into "motorik" Krautrock sound.The group uses their basement studio as an organic instrument to paint pictures of woven musical structures,
members:  Max Gassmann (Kulku, Brace/Choir)
                   Wenzlovar       ( Kulku, Mahatok)
                   Christoph Adrian  (Brace/Choir)

Ethan Gold, underground LA songmaker and music artist, is finalizing mixes for his upcoming double-album EARTH CITY, a record about the modern world — longing for human connection, for love and thrill in the city, for connection to nature. Several advance singles have been released in recent months including “Our Love is Beautiful” which arrived with a video of hundreds of people around the world delivering Ethan’s song for human unity in this time of fear and separation.

Gold’s much-lauded debut Songs from a Toxic Apartment (“Best New Music” – Sunday Times London) was a deeply personal work confronting childhood trauma and the sexual ambiguity of adulthood. After a head injury sidelined him for some years, he returned with the naive electronic album Expanses (Teenage Synthstrumentals)  (“Wildly diverting” – Electronic Sound), a mostly 80s live covers record Live Undead Bedroom Closet Covers (“Unhinged but weirdly compelling” – Uncut), and several film scores including the jazz-inflected The Song of Sway Lake, featuring artists John Grant and The Staves singing Ethan’s songs, and the glitchy Blumhouse thriller Don’t Let Go.

Today Gold lives and dreams songs, now writing over half his music while asleep. Through a long recovery, he now credits the temporary breaking of his cognitive ability with a clarified mission to bring caring about the world back into the world. Or, as he says with irony, “Make sensitivity cool again.”

Classic writing chops combine with idiosyncratic impulses to the the create sharp, lyric-driven New Wave Folk song on New York singer-songwriter Andrew Vladeck’s upcoming single, “You’ll Get Yours” – produced by Boston’s Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive/Josh Ritter) with the company of multi-instrumentalist Sean Trischka. 

“You’ll Get Yours” is a protest song, and hopefully, what a good rock song should be – cathartic. Andrew writes, “it’s for those liars and manipulators who only increase human misery in the world." Andrew tries to honor Chuck D.'s (Public Enemy) advice on topical songwriting, to the effect of, "if you teach the class you must rock the boulevard." 

The accompanying music video is a Bauhaus homage filmed on the Day of Totality by award-winning filmmaker David Doobinin.

Vladeck’s last record, released under his “Fireships” moniker, features classic songwriting with contemporary folk-rock orchestration, with finger-picked electric guitar and songs that recalled great NYC songwriters Lou Reed and Paul Simon. Voted Best of 2016 by The New York Music Daily, calling it “imaginatively arranged Americana rock and chamber pop with a fearlessly aware, Dylanesque, populist lyricism.”  Fireships was lauded in The Huffington Post, Guitar World, Daytrotter, charted on college radio, and toured across the US and Europe. Contributors included legendary composer David Amram, Sydney Wayser (Clara Nova), Adam Levy and others. 

Vladeck has been a fixture on the New York music scene since the early 1990s. He has released four albums followed by US and European tours. He has opened for or shared bills with The National, Andrew Bird, Norah Jones, Jeff Buckley, Ani DiFranco, Soulive, Marah, Beth Orton, Moe, Alejandro Escovedo, and many more.  He’s won First Place in the International Songwriting Competition and received awards from Billboard, the Independent Music Awards, and was named The Deli Magazine's NYC Artist of the Month. Vladeck is also a founding member of The Honey Brothers (which released four albums, played the national festival circuit, and toured four continents), and the banjo player for “epic, barnyard folk” band Balthrop, Alabama.

2018 brings plans for releasing various singles followed by an LP that integrates work with several different producers of renown, including Grammy Winner Malcolm Burn, Grammy Nominee Felix McTeigue, Roger Greenawalt, and Kaia Fischer. Tour dates in the US and Europe to follow.

Hopalong Andrew sings clever and whimsical cowboy songs about city life. His performances involve multiple instruments and lassos and are so much fun that he has been asked to play a variety of venues such as Brooklyn Bridge Park, Prospect Park, New York & Brooklyn Public Libraries, Oldtone Music Festival, Lancaster Fair, and more. Hopalong Andrew adapts and parodies classic folk and country songs to celebrate the city, it’s people, and nature, while paying homage to the singing cowboys and novelty musicians of yesteryear. Born in Manhattan, he is a former NYC Park Ranger (stationed at the castle in Central Park), and prior to that is best known by some as a member of indie-turned-celebrity rock-band-of-sorts The Honey Brothers. If you love living in – or visiting – a big city, his music is for you. And besides, Who else will lasso you a cab while playing the William Tell Overture on harmonica? His debut album, “Howdy Do – Songs of the Urban Cowpoke,” comes out in 2018.

Latest album "Tuesday Morning is out! New releases in the works :::: Mme. Parasol is a musician, artist, and primitive poet. This page features her solo work, collaborations, demos, and field recordings. For more information: www.RykardaParasol.com

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