"Overseas" was released in 2003 to great critical acclaim in publications like The New York Times and Downbeat (on Downbeat's best of 2003 list) and in 2005 "Overseas II" was released. The band has recently been in the studio to record their third record, all analog recording at Edison Studio in Manhattan by long time Lenny Kravitz engineer Henry Hirsch. Over the last five years "Eivind Opsvik Overseas" has been playing regularly at such NYC clubs as 55Bar, Barbés, Nublu and Zebulon and they have also toured Europe, playing Festivals and Clubs. Eivind is also heavily involved in numerous other New York projects like Opsvik & Jennings, Rocket Engine and The UP. He has also recorded with such musicians as Bill Frisell, Craig Taborn and Paul Motian.

”Eivind Opsvik has an unusual gift for writing small, poignant pieces of music. The color and mood of his music, along with its rhythmic patterns, bleed over into pop, and the sound has a sheer, weightless quality” Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

"Overseas shows what happens when a musician puts the whole range of his imagination into play” Downbeat

“Adventurous and stylistically free-ranging, their music is densely-packed with ideas and hard to categorize” The Wire
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A new twist on the ancient tradition of oral history.

SpeakEasy is people telling stories-- true stories. Period. No scripts. No crib notes. No rehearsals. SpeakEasy has a dynamic and constantly changing cast of storytellers that include such greats as Mike Daisey, Jonathan Ames, and Reno, along with homemakers, lawyers, dog walkers, street magicians and writers.

You never know what you'll hear. So join us for what could be a life changing experience!

Martin Dockery is a five-time Moth GrandSlam storytelling finalist. His one man show about an office temp lost in West Africa, Wanderlust, recently made its New York City premiere at Ars Nova Theater.
Kimmi Auerbach is a former Fox News producer who now writes and performs full time. Her comedic monologues have been performed throughout New York, including a sold out run at the 9th Annual New York International Fringe Festival, several Moth GrandSLAM Championships, The Original Improv, The Kraine Theater, and The Bitter End. Her memoir The Devil, The Lovers & Me: My Life In Tarot was just published by E. P. Dutton.
Tracy Rowland: “It seemed like the monkey and I were really hitting it off, until....” And that’s how Tracy got into storytelling.
Elna Baker has written for ELLE Magazine, The Onion and one of her stories will be featured in comedian Jon Friedman’s book The Rejection Show (Random House/Villard 2008). This December she will be telling one of her stories on NPR's This American Life.
Jennifer DeMeritt takes first-person navel-gazing one chakra lower with her louche and literate stories. She’s published in nerve.com, BUST Magazine and Glamour, and performed in NYC’s finest venues including KGB, Gotham Comedy Club, HERE Arts Center and, of course, the sack.
Rick Patrick: His films have been at the Aspen comedy festival, his private life on the BBC, and his performances on MNN. Not only a Painter, performer, Gardener, (A Garden by the Sea by Leila Hadley), he is a World renowned Collector of Silver, Furniture and ephemera for his modest Museum. www.mrpatrick@talkingstick.us
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Romanian expatriate singer Sanda Weigl has quite a personal history. She first learned gypsy songs as a child and found early success as a child star on Romanian television. Later she was a rock singer in East Berlin, and was tossed into prison for protesting against the communist regime. In 1990 she moved to the USA and she quickly became known as the “Gypsy Queen of Downtown New York”.
Avant-jazz neighbors from Sanda’s adopted home New York City, including luminaries like the Romanian born pianist Lucian Ban on piano (and arrangements), Alex Harding on sax, Sam Bardfeld violin, Sean Conly on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums serve as a balance beam for her thunderous, mezmerizing and sinfully spooky vocal “Gypnastics”.

"To call Sanda’s voice 'powerful’ would be an understatement...Her interpretations are dramatic, even theatrical, but never 'over the top’...If you’re a fan of vocal ethnic music of any sort, that’s something you don’t want to miss."
Bill Tilland (BBC World)
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For more info, discography, sound samples please visit www.lucianban.com, www.abrahamburton.com, www.aklaff.com
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"...Open Loose is no ordinary band, and Atomic Clock is no ordinary jazz record. I�m strenuously enthusiastic about it, as will be all serious jazz fans. Almost �classical� in its organization and technique, this sequence of improvisations on tantalizing themes is a 2006 highlight that more people need to hear. Freedom with design, it sounds like the very definition of jazz�the very definition of America at its best." Will Layman, Pop Matters 12/2006
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Guitarist Tom Dempsey and Bassist Tim Ferguson perform in an intimate duo setting to celebrate their new recording "What's Going On" on City Tone Records. As stated in their liner notes, “Both of us have a real affinity for playing duo. This recording helped stretch our creativity and musicianship, both individually and as a duo. As we began preparing, it became apparent that after playing together all of these years, we have developed a unique identity as a group. Capturing the feeling of playing live, coupled with the repertoire we chose, proved to be challenging and in the end, very rewarding. Between the compositions, the arrangements, and the performance, this recording represents a fresh treatment of these songs that pays tribute to thesegreat composers.”From the American songbook standard “Stardust”, to jazz classics like Billy Strayhorn’s “Isfahan,” the soulful spiritual “Deep River” and the classic Marvin Gaye soul anthem “What’s Going On,” this CD captures the ear from the beginning and takes the listener on a fascinating and fulfilling musical journey.

"What a marvelous duo! Great tunes, terrific solos and careful listening to each other. Tom Dempsey and Tim Ferguson do it all and swing!"
- Jim Hall

More info: \ www.myspace.com/tomdempseytimfergusongroup
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