Nush Lewis is a versatile instrumentalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Mumbai, India. Nush grew up singing, trained for a bit in piano and later took up the harp which is what started her journey as a songwriter and composer.

With moody vocal lines, pensive compositions, combined with a unique production ethos, her musicality can best be described as minimal acoustic, with intricate melodic lines set upon ephemeral soundscapes. Donning multiple hats, as a composer, she’s collaborated with producer Ayan De in 2015 and released her debut EP “Fused”, which was critically acclaimed. In April 2019 she released her second EP, “Bridges”, which is an art collaborative concept piece with artist, Vaishnavi Kumar. “Bridges” set itself apart from Lewis’s previous work as it musically included live elements as well as strong visual elements. Having multiple performance modules, as a solo act, band, and as part of multiple collaborative efforts, her performances showcase these encapsulating creations. She is getting ready to release her third EP titled “Forgotten Verses” in February 2023 which will also be a multi art collaboration in the form of an installation scheduled to be presented later this year .

An avid advocate for music and the arts, in 2017, Nush started her own music education company, OffSet Education. An independent education property, Offset was created to directly support music education and creative development with support from their respective industries, and has been generating tremendous support since it’s inception. OffSet currently runs process driven workshops, a community choir (The Euphony Choir) and a music education podcast called “Out of the Box ”.

She has also been a faculty member at various music schools and was part of the Curriculum Development and Outreach department at the True School of Music, Mumbai, India.

I am a Bassist from Germany, currently living in Basel, Switzerland.

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Singer/Songwriter Jerry Stamp has been battling an auto-immune disease for several years now. Crippling pain didn’t stop him from writing and recording his 6th album Rogue Doubt. If anything it fuelled the fire. Classically-trained, road-tested and with a seemingly inexhaustible work ethic, Stamp has had to reconfigure how to play guitar in his lush percussive orchestral style and renegotiate his operatic vocal acrobatics. Rogue Doubt wasn’t made in spite of his current struggles. It was made because of it. Jerry may not get to perform as much as he used to but you can bet when he does it will be a dynamic and emotional outpouring. He performs every show as if it were his last because it just might be.

DISCOGRAPHY:
Rogue Doubt- 2014
This Noel- 2009
I, Noel- 2009
Bloodwork- 2009
There Is Something In Me That Makes Me Like To Think I Wish I Could Be- 2009
Racing Bad Weather- 2008
This Is Not A High-Five- 2007 (w/ King Nancy)
The Stamp Collection LIVE- 2006
You Were Indestructible Once- 2005 (w/ King Nancy)
Live at Rivoli- 2004 (w/ King Nancy)
Live at C'est What- 2003 (w/ King Nancy)
To Quitta- 2002 (w/ King Nancy)


“I use my gut, and my gut don’t lie to me” is more than just a lyric in Twin Forks’ exuberant “Something We Just Know,” it is a kind of mission statement for the quartet. If you’ve ever been to a musical performance that made you lose all sense of time and place and give in to the cathartic feeling of clapping and dancing and singing along, you’ve already visited the sweet spot where Twin Forks have made it their mission to reside. “Whatever makes the audience stomp their feet and sing at the top of their lungs, that’s what I want to be doing,” says singer/guitarist Chris Carrabba. “I want to be generating that spirit from the stage.

Carrabba figured out the guiding principle for Twin Forks before he even knew exactly what the project would sound like. During recent solo tours, Carrabba -- whose Dashboard Confessional grew from an intimate solo-acoustic affair to a bona fide arena rock band during the mid ‘00s -- says he was reminded how important that audience connection had always been to him as a performer.

He also knew he wanted to craft a sound closer to the music he’d loved as a kid -- classic folk, country and roots music. Growing up outside Hartford, Connecticut in an area he describes as “half-rural, half-city,” Carrabba developed an early fondness for acoustic singer-songwriters he heard on the radio -- Cat Stevens and John Denver and Gordon Lightfoot -- as well as the more obscure Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan and Guy Clark LPs he found in his mother and step-brother’s record collections. “At the beginning of Dashboard, I wanted to write an acoustic record, but every time I played a D,C, or G chord -- which are called the ‘cowboy chords’ -- I would think about how Tom Petty or Cat Stevens or John Denver or Gordon Lightfoot did this already,” says Carrabba. “That’s when I started tuning my guitars all to hell and back, just so they sounded weird to me. I was probably playing DCG anyway, but I didn’t know anything about guitar, and that was how I could get myself feeling like I was in new territory.”

“When I started playing acoustic-based music, I wasn’t trying to avoid traditional folk because I didn’t love it -- I just loved it so much and didn’t wanna do an injustice to it,” Carrabba notes. “And I had other influences and I thought, why can’t I combine this punk and hardcore feeling with this classic folk feeling -- because they were both such massive loves of mine. But right now I’m more excited about utilizing the age-old, time-tested thing and trying to excel within the parameters of a traditional template.”

He still wanted to be in new territory, though, so when he started writing songs for the project that would evolve into Twin Forks, he wanted to add a new twist. So Carrabba spent three years teaching himself traditional fingerpicking technique. “There’s magic in that kind of playing, where you’re managing two guitar parts,” he says. “I have always found it fascinating and it just seemed like it was calling to me.” Equipped with that new set of skills, Carrabba started writing his most delicate, musically articulate compositions yet, temporarily setting them aside for he-didn’t-know-what. In the interim, making his 2011 covers album, “Covered In The Flood,” gave him the chance to explore his relationship with songs by some of his favorite folk and country artists, both classic and contemporary, including Clark, John Prine, Justin Townes Earle and Corey Brannan. He then worked up those covers for a performance at San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.

The experience was a major awakening. “Onstage at HSB, we were elated. All I want to be is elated while I’m performing. Why else should we be getting onstage? We’re not up there to be some good-time charlie band, but we are not hiding the fact that we are elated to be onstage with you and we’re choosing the songs that are giving us the best edge to be able to do that.”

After Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Carrabba returned home with a new sense of purpose and a clarity of vision for Twin Forks. In the previous two years, he had been sticking to a temporary rule he’d imposed on himself as a songwriter: “I had made this rule that I would not say ‘love’ or ‘heart’ in my lyrics,” he explains. “I would talk about those things but I wouldn’t say them. So when I came home from that festival and I did write the first song and it did say both ‘love’ and ‘heart,’ they felt like the right words, after not having used them for so long. I let the songs happen and found a tempo that suits what Twin Forks became.”

“Something We Just Know” came to him first, and then, the flood -- another eight songs in the following eight days. Twin Forks began tracking the new songs whenever they could, between tours with other projects, in a multi-purpose space Carrabba had converted into a studio. Over the course of several weeks starting last fall, they managed to record more than twenty tracks that they plan to whittle down to eleven or twelve for the debut LP they plan to release later this year. “We tracked everything live, and I have this tendency to get really excited about what everyone is doing and I’ll make a little hoot or shout, and you can hear all those things in the final versions of the songs,” says Carrabba. “On ‘Scraping Up The Pieces,’ everytime I listen to it and hear Suzie laughing, I’m dying to remember what could have been so funny. Then we additionally multi-track, which we figured was a thoughtful way of approaching the record. You get the error-prone thing that has all the magic in it, but that doesn’t mean you can’t chase a little more precision. But the goal is always to do our best to get it right in the same room with each other, looking at each other, laughing with each other. I think you can feel that all over the songs.”

Originally recorded with musician friends including mandolin player Suzie Zeldin, bassist Jonathan Clark and drummer Ben Homola, Twin Forks has evolved as a live band to include Kimmy Baranoski on backing vocals, Kelsie Baranoski on mandolin and Shawn Zorn on drums.

From Baltimore. Mostly making experimental music. Give it a try! Also check out @idenfuse's music. We both write stuff and sometimes make songs together as Just 2 Bros and a secret project completely disconnected from us.

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