Dr. Lonnie Smith - Breathe Artist_Mr Oizo

Dr. Lonnie Smith - Breathe Artist_Mr OizoBreathe captures the Hammond B 3 organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith during his 75th birthday run at the Jazz Standard in NYC in 2017, the same week he recorded his acclaimed trio album All In My Mind. On this night the good doctor took the stage with an expanded line up featuring Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar, Johnathan Blake on drums, John Ellis on tenor saxophone, Jason Marshall on baritone saxophone, Sean Jones on trumpet, and Robin Eubanks on trombone.

“The Sky Is Falling” is a song about being consumed by depression and witnessing everything fall down around you while you remain stuck in a state of paralysis

Vogue Magazine included his music in a recent playlist

rocksteady

the pig likes it

lists (Rough Trade Album of the Year / Pitchfork Best New Music / Guardian *****)

hyper-specific and loose

their melancholic electronic world depicts a complex soundscape focused on the combination between play and programming

Don Slepian

With his career firmly on the ascent

Outpacing even their own firmly blazed path of audio annihilation

and the sweetly melancholic “Tell Me What’s True” centers around muted electric piano

and SHIRK Studios in Chicago