Hello Dear friends! Happy New Year! You might think I was contacting you from beyond the grave, considering it has been a long long time since I have written here. Still quite alive, and the music is running hot in our veins. I won't bore you with excuses, but I will take this time to introduce to you our forthcoming record, The Afterlife. The new record is recorded, mixed (yay Juan!), and just mastered (thanks Howie!). No, I can't tell you when you get to hear it. The truth is, we are tremendously excited about this new disc. I have to say, it is really...well, I have to stop myself. We seriously want to find the right home for this record, because it really deserves that. So that is what we are doing now, looking for the proper home. But we are wanderers, griots. As you know, we wander for long periods. There is not always an oasis. There may be sand in our eyes, but there is always new music springing from our throats and our hearts. Now we hope for the best. Thank you for still being here, for listening. What can I tell you to expect from the record? 10 songs, unfastened from the firmament. The brilliant light from Ed Pastorini, Ben Perowsky, Matt johnson, James Genus, Thomas Bartlett, Michael Blake, Pamelia Kurstin, Sam Amidon, Jeff Hill, Charles Haynes, Eric Elterman, Shelley Burgon...Oh yes, very excited indeed. And of course Oren and myself. Stay tuned.

What else? We need to find someone who can run and update this site, because obviously, we are incapable.
We have a gig coming up at The Stone, Zorn's little treasure of a performance space, on January 18 at 10 PM, so hopefully a bunch of us can squeeze in. We'll be scaling things down that night, with just Oren, Thomas, and myself to attempt the levitations.

Well, I'm going to get back to my kombucha tea. My faves are guava, greens, and citrus. My brother and sister in law once gave us a mushroom, the mushrooms multiply, and multiply, and we were brewing our own tea, but they started to take over. I had trouble sleeping. The energy these shrooms emit is hardcore, but I was having invasion of the bodysnatchers anxiety! Tonight my pal Becky and I are going to an Otto Preminger double feature. She and I recently caught the Puryear exibit at MOMA, and a magic lantern film show, which was just amazing. Hope to go back and see the Lucian Freud etchings soon. Also want to see the Cental Europe photo show at the Gug. Tomorrow night it's the Front Room in Bklyn.

Well All, I'm really going to make an effort to be more present this year here. I'll also try to get Oren to post more. It would be so great to back on the road, I really miss sharing with all your magic out there. xo, Jennifer