Underworld Orchard (Liz Downing, Steve Strohmeier, and Hanna Olivegren)

Andy Stack & Jay Hammond

Andy Stack and Jay Hammond come together to make meditative electro-acoustic duo improvisations. The tone of the music straddles two worlds — one of glitchy synthesizers and pointillistic drums, and the other of languid, lyrical guitar and droning organ pedals. Each piece is a conversation between two old friends, in a language that draws equally upon electronic, ambient, Americana, Krautrock, and jazz sensibilities. Their duo debut will be released in June 2023 on Sleepy Cat Records. Andy Stack is a multi-instrumentalist composer, producer, and songwriter from Baltimore, MD, currently living in Durham, NC. He has released multiple albums with Merge Records and has toured extensively as half of the duo Wye Oak since 2006. His solo project - Joyero - was released by Merge Records in 2019. In addition to Wye Oak and Joyero, he has toured and recorded as a member of Lambchop, Helado Negro, EL VY, Thor & Friends, and many others, which has granted him recording credits on Sub Pop, 4AD, Nonesuch, Joyful Noise, New Amsterdam, and RVNG Intl.

Jay Hammond is a musician, sound artist and academic from Jackson, TN living between Washington DC and Asheville, NC. He records under the moniker Trippers & Askers, whose latest release was called a "shimmering homage to nature" by The Guardian. He has toured and recorded with Psychic Temple, Eamon Fogarty, and No Lands, and his recording credits include New Amsterdam Records, Galtta Media and Sleepy Cat Records.

Small Sur

Since 2005, Baltimore-based songwriter Bob Keal has released and performed music as Small Sur. Keal has always been elusive–touring occasionally, self-releasing the majority of his full-length records, and rarely throwing elbows in the attention economy. Despite this relative obscurity, his unique and understated songwriting has been hailed as “expansive” (Aquarium Drunkard), “stoic, dark, and exuberant” (Tiny Mix Tapes), and “serene minimalism [which] conjures large expanses of natural landscapes at their most beautiful” (NPR). His songwriting tends to speak the language of the natural world, and it is this relationship to nature which informed his work on 2022’s Attic Room, released via UK imprint Worried Songs.

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