Balto (Portland, Oregon)
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Balto’s return to the LP after a 5 year absence lands with a swell of feedback, a heavy downbeat, and a punch to the gut. “I’ve known love as a fleeting beauty lost upon the young.” It’s a coming of age album in the fullest sense, a 10-cut meditation on the realization that time is pushing us all closer to the void and away from one another, and that the doe-eyed romanticism of Balto’s early writing has long since sobered. Biting cynicism, instant classics, rip-your-heart-out live energy, a willingness to swagger, rip hard, and live behind the beat.

Wendy & The Lost Boys: First performing live on BBC Radio Shropshire, England in 2013~Singer/songwriter Wendy Jane’s performances were solo. In 2015, after receiving a grant to write an EP she created a roving band of journeyfolk (The Lost Boys) to develop different sounds for the songs she writes. She has since been writing for film and live performance. In 2017 her first recording with Tremulant Records Online will be released~ including musicians Benjamin Kushner and Justin G. Jones.Along with Bantam’s smooth vocal delivery, the artistry of the musicians Bantam pairs for performance are exceptional. March 5th Bantam will be accompanied by clarinetist and saxophonist extraordinaire, Pance Zaev, extreme violinist,Joshua Rector, and the remarkable bassist, Ben Merliss.