Shayna Dulberger

Nifty Knuckles

Early Jazz Band, Ragtime and Blues from the Nineteen-Teens through the Nineteen Thirties featuring Sax, Double Bass & Banjo. Music by Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Irving Berlin and other greats.

Warrior of Light

Luciano Rossetti © Phocus Agency
An evolving, ongoing collaboration between, dancer-choreographer Djassi DaCosta Johnson and Dulberger. The base of their creative impulse for the work is rooted in inspiration from the manual Warrior of the Light, by Paolo Coehlo which speaks to personal strength and poise when faced with constant war and struggle. We live in a time where we are constantly reminded of war, struggle, inequality, and the rapid decline of mother earth. djassidacostajohnson.com/

Dromedaries

Jeff Surak
Philadelphia/Brooklyn-based trio who first played together in this format in 2014. The three musicians share an approach to improvisation that is grounded in technical virtuosity, instrumental physicality, and a rigorous approach to form. Stated differently: they climb deep into their instruments and play hard to reward listeners for their time. All three have performed with and been mentored by elders of the jazz avant-garde. Each performs solo and leads their own projects, and each has long-standing collaborations across a range of genres. Their first album, recorded by Eugene Lew in Philadelphia in 2015, was released in 2017 on independent cassette label Already Dead Tapes. A follow-up is forthcoming.
Keir Neuringer: saxophone
Shayna Dulberger: bass
Julius Masri: percussion

Chaser

Bursting from the fertile NYC creative music scene comes CHASER . Comprised of vocalist Dominika Michalowska (Nebadon, Angel of Retribution), guitarist Chris Welcome (W-2, Mothguts), bassist Shayna Dulberger (Cellular Chaos) and drummer Oran Canfield (Child Abuse), Chaser is a veritable who’s who of the NYC underground, and they’ve been sonically pummeling audiences in the city since the band’s inception in 2015. All four members are indispensable for the group’s distinctive sound, one which contains manic and exuberant moments, all immaculately executed and precise. They’ve pooled their collective experiences in rock, noise, improvised music, and free jazz.

Chaser’s eponymous full-length debut album includes nine tracks of palpable influences that bring to mind–the No Wave trance of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, blues drenched repetitions of Harry Pussy, sludgy stoner metal of Sleep, wiry guitar lines of Arab on Radar and innumerable others – but ultimately Chaser is eminently modern and inextricable from its climate of NYC today.

HOT DATE

This noise project has been a crucial development in Dulberger’s artistic path. Here she abandons the bass to explore found sounds and electronic manipulations with tape. Her collages explore themes of nostalgia and commercialism by using samples of R&B singers, Heavy Metal, Gamelan, confident celebrity interviews, feminist discussions, international depression awareness PSA’s, grief management, hypnotism and television from the 1990’s. HOT DATE is representative of Dulberger’s chaotic mind and sense of humor for the absurd world we live in. Welcome and Dulberger have been recording and touring as HOT DATE since 2013. They have four releases on Talking Skull Records (Montreal) and Babysunghxing Tapes (New York).
Chris Welcome: synthesizer, electronics, processing
Shayna Dulberger: tape collage, four track, electronics, processing
hotdatenoise.bandcamp.com