An eight-piece jazz, indie, art rock, inspired original music collective from Oakland. Co-led by pianist/keyboardist Ruthie Dineen and bassist Andrew Lion, the expansive electro-acoustic Negative Press Project (NPP) delivers their charged and textural palette to a new program of original debut compositions in a post-pandemic series of performances starting in Central Oregon before arriving at California Jazz Conservatory.
Negative Press Project has brought its members together from Oakland and Los Angeles; Bend, Oregon; Brooklyn, New York; and Helsinki, Finland, since their 2019 ‘To Feel Whole’ tour. Saxophonists, Nora Stanley (special guest), Chris Sullivan, and Tony Peebles, trumpeter Rafa Postel, guitarist Luis Salcedo, and drummer Isaac Schwartz offer some of the finest improvisors from each region. Laced with improvisation and effects informed by extended song forms, the music reflects and evokes an array of sensations and situations....
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An eight-piece jazz, indie, art rock, inspired original music collective from Oakland. Co-led by pianist/keyboardist Ruthie Dineen and bassist Andrew Lion, the expansive electro-acoustic Negative Press Project (NPP) delivers their charged and textural palette to a new program of original debut compositions in a post-pandemic series of performances starting in Central Oregon before arriving at California Jazz Conservatory.
Negative Press Project has brought its members together from Oakland and Los Angeles; Bend, Oregon; Brooklyn, New York; and Helsinki, Finland, since their 2019 ‘To Feel Whole’ tour. Saxophonists, Nora Stanley (special guest), Chris Sullivan, and Tony Peebles, trumpeter Rafa Postel, guitarist Luis Salcedo, and drummer Isaac Schwartz offer some of the finest improvisors from each region. Laced with improvisation and effects informed by extended song forms, the music reflects and evokes an array of sensations and situations.
"Versatility abounds, and they always look for new ground to explore.” -The Bay Bridged
Group Bio
Negative Press Project (NPP) is a self described jazz and indie/art rock influenced music collective established in Oakland.
Co-led by Ruthie Dineen (Piano/Keys) and Andrew Lion (Electric and Double Bass), the group is a composer's culmination of a converted rock bassist and classically trained pianist to jazz inspired creative music. The leaders' writing is represented on 2015's Full-Length recording, ‘see evil eyes | civilize’ with ten original songs and arrangements split almost equally amongst the two.
The additional voices of Tony Peebles (Tenor Sax), Rafa Postel (Trumpet), Chris Sullivan (Alto Sax), Lyle Link (Soprano, Alto & Tenor Sax), Luis Salcedo (Guitar), and Isaac Schwartz (Drums), imprint the music with virtuosity and diverse experiences and backgrounds. Additionally, the group has assimilated reed expert, Ivan Arteaga, a Seattle native, now Brooklyn-Based, into its live performances and forthcoming recordings.
After receiving national acclaim with the band’s take on the music of Jeff Buckley, recorded at the legendary Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, produced by Jeff Denson and Negative Press Project, ‘Eternal Life | Jeff Buckley Songs and Sounds’; NPP followed up with another ten song set of mostly originals with 2019’s full-length on Ridgeway Records, 'Within'.
While dispersed across California, Pacific Northwest, Northeast, and Northern Europe, the members of the group have most recently collaborated with renowned creative string quartet ensemble, Friction Quartet, on an 18-song set of material to be presented in 2023 at Richmond, California’s East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.
2022 has the group re-emerging, post-pandemic, with sets of effect laden and electro-acoustic statements on the recent years’ tumult and social anxiety with a series of performances in Central Oregon and Berkeley.
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