Proud to announce my first headline shows in NYC & LA ... tickets are on-sale now:
8/14 - Baby's All Right (Brooklyn): bit.ly/AB_NY_1
8/23 - The Echo (Los Angeles): bit.ly/AB_LA_1

"Gabriel" is the story of a boy who has nobody to talk to.

"Gabriel"

Music by Joshua Rist, Poetry by Roger Weaver, Performance by Kathy Briggs and the St. Mary's Academy Marian Singers. 

Recorded on January 2, 2017 at St. Mary's Academy in Portland, OR. Many thanks to Kathy Briggs for her refined and expressive performance.

The Runner

The ground fits her foot
perfectly as she runs,
each breath fits her lungs.
The earth pushes back
in its slow spin.
While she crosses the golden 
field of barley, it seems 
that her whole body will burst
into song.

Unknown album (1/8/2017 6:50:01 PM)

The Runner SSAA

Steampunk Salmon

Rollercoaster [Bleachers cover]

Written, recorded, and edited from various basements, couches, bathrooms, and cars that doubled as bedrooms "Insert Catchphrase Here:" is the freshman outing for Rosemount rapper (Lead Singer of Saving Vinyl City) Ner-D. 

With all the beats (sans one piano led mashup and one cover) coming from free youtube producers this mixtape sets out to evoke the emotions a young rapper might experience trying to break into a genre that seems "much too cool and sexy" for a nerdy black kid from a small town to handle. 

Ner-D's fun, whimsical, and often chaotic approach to rap is a stylistic nesting doll with a new layer to by found with each repeat listen. At the same time Ner-D has moments that reaches down into the more subtle and somber questions of both fame and oppertunities not taken a long the way. 

"Insert Catchphrase Here:" has been a labor of love for over a year and is finally here to be brought to the Millions (or more likely dozen) Ner-D fans around the world.....once he figures out a cool enough catchphrase that is

Insert Catchphrase Here:

Music by Joshua Rist.  Poetry by Roger Weaver.
Performed by Chris Maunu and Arvada West High School in 2018.

The Runner 

The ground fits his foot
perfectly as he runs,
each breath fits his lungs.
The earth pushes back 
with its slow spin.
While he crosses the golden 
field of barley, it seems 
to him his body will burst
into song.

Rejoice and Be Glad 

The Runner SATB

Baby ˈShark

Homebody (feat. Julia Meyers)

Edit from Andrew Huang's '4 Producers 1 Sample' series, up on Youtube now!

Full edit coming very soon.....! (psst end of October!)

Watch this to hear the sample and to see what @andrewismusic , @ill-gates , @au5 and I did : 
https://youtu.be/EiUL4yCB8lM

To see an extended behind-the-scenes video for 'crybaby':
https://youtu.be/SJkXdTLiLmk

Thank you Andrew for including me and my ambient take on this!

** HEY I have a new chamber-electronic LP 'semi songs' dropping next week July 19th!!! ** LP Release Show @ Bootleg Theater (LA!) on July 18th! Come on out! *

pre-order it here: http://drumandlace.bandcamp.com/album/semi-songs

pre-save it here: https://ffm.to/9op1dzb

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drumandlace.bandcamp.com
www.drumandlacemusic.com

Crybaby

Other releases

Crybaby (4 Producers 1 Sample EDIT)

Remix of @dorianelectra for Andrew Huang's (@andrewismusic) 4 Producers series.

Watch the breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4sx0VFbwHU

Art by Granite (https://twitter.com/granitemcgee)
Mastering and outro production by @theotter

Dorian Electra - Daddy Like (ABSRDST Flip)

MARCH, 2020

For my Mom, Laura, on her birthday... March 23, 2020... 
Forever light, hope, and love...

"The Buoyant"
composed, arranged, performed, mixed, and mastered 
by Matthew B. Zrebski (BMI)
copyright 2020
all rights reserved

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