Page dedicated to the memory of my father, the brilliant and creatively fearless Marty Laster. Marty composed and arranged all tracks unless otherwise noted in the description.

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.

Matthew Davis is a multi-instrumentalist who plays a variety of genres ranging from Bluegrass and Country to Rock and Jazz. With influences from guitar players like Stevie Ray Vaughn, piano players like Oscar Peterson, and banjo players like Bela Fleck. Matthew exhibits a wide variety of styles in his playing, regardless of the instrument. 
He is the 2016 Walnut Valley National Banjo Champion, he was selected to perform in the 2014 Nebraska All-State Jazz Band, and was selected for the 2016 Acoustic Music Seminar at the Savannah Music Festival.
His plans for the future are simply to make music that excites the audience, challenges himself, and most of all, gives people enjoyment.

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