Nat Osborn

The time has come… Crash Mansion 199 Bowery on July 31st from 8pm-10pm

No.11’s (Ryan Emmons, Julie Congress and Jen Neads) direction and production, Chris Flannery’s visionary eye, Casey Loomis’ unique and enticing choreography, and the hard work and creative input of many other artists who have all combined powers to create no, not Captain Planet… but a breath-taking new music video for my song “The Changing of the Guard”.

We’ve been hard at work for this for four months and I can’t tell you how excited I am to: 1. show the video to everyone and 2. play with a new 9-piece ensemble that I’ve been envisioning for quite some time now! The concert starts immediately after the showing.

The event is going to be a blast, cover is $7. Please come out and support the coming together of a large group of artists from a number of different mediums who have created a single, exciting new piece.

Here’s a link to the facebook event page.

http://www.facebook.com/natosbornmusic#!/event.php?eid=118949198151765&ref=mf

photos of the shoot:

Hey New Yorkers, if you want to see me play this month, come check out The Lovin’ Cup Cafe, every Friday in June of 2010 from 9:30 to 10:30. The Lovin’ Cup is an awesome little hang on North 6th st. right off the Bedford stop on the L train. Address is 93 N. 6th st. between Berry and Wythe.
There will certainly be special guests, new songs, new covers, and good times. I’m looking forward to this weekly thing (something new to me) because I usually like to plan each show instrument-wise and this will most likely stretch my repertoire in a very healthy way. Hope to see some old and new faces alike at the Cup.

….soon to come: pictures from the upcoming music video for “The Changing of the Guard”.

So I’ve been working a bit with a couple amazing horn players over the past few months, mostly for studio stuff. But when I was faced with a gig at Rockwood and an unwillingness to play another low key, largely acoustic show, which is attractive during the winter months, I realized that the sun is out and it’s time to get funky. So we put together a pretty high energy set and Mikey (trumpet), Joe (Bari sax), and Eric (trombone) killed it. These are the same guys you can see in the studio picture below. That session was for a track called “Dreaming Her Love Away” which you’ll hear in the future and which we played live. We also welcomed former Nat Osborn and the Free Radicals drummer extraordinaire, Mike Kaplan, back into the percussion section to add a little extra groove. The band has a new feel to it so I felt it deserved it’s own name and woke up with the idea the Diamond Allegory. Who know if it’ll stick but it was the first show of Nat Osborn and the Diamond Allegory. Here’s a compilation of some of my favorite moments from the show, thanks to Rockwood for providing the live recording:

Compilations of moments at Rockwood 5/14/10

Lots of music in the works…  I’m working on a dance piece for York Dance Works, a film score for a NYU grad student named Sehaj Sethi, as well as continuing working on my own album.  There are some other, very interesting projects currently in the works and recordings being made, but more will be revealed about that in time.  In the meantime, please enjoy the piece I wrote for the last York Dance Works collaboration, “Burro Burracho Bolero”.  It’s a long piece with very distinct sections that come together at the end thematically, so please listen to it and enjoy it if you have some time  (something not many of us have in this super rapid, internet age existence).

Burro Borracho Bolero

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This thursday, April 29th, I get to become one of the first people to play the best new venue in NYC.  Rockwood Stage 2 is the new big brother to my favorite room in New York City.  Stage 2 has all of the mystery and chill charm of Rockwood but is about three times as large.  It’s got a gorgeous, massive stage that is almost conjures the look and feel of a 1930’s Burlesque Caberet (remember that, those were the days).  It’s beautifully lit, has a great balcony for above viewing, a well stocked and sultry bar, and is one of the best venues I’ve been to in NYC so I’m honored to play there.  Please come check out this show on April 29th at 7pm.

This concert is also a goodbye party for one of my very dearest friends in NYC, Marissa Block.  She actually booked my first show in college and has helped support me ever since.  She’s a staple of the Rockwood scene and it is fitting that we get to say goodbye to her as the new stage opens, new beginnings my friends. New Beginnings.

Hey folks,

Myself, Bunny B (drums), Gab Bowler (bass) and of course, the hairest man in soul, Lyle Divinsky (myspace.com/lyledivinsky), hit the road last week to play a few shows at College’s in the Northeast.   I would love to thank everyone who came out at Bard, Bennington, and Skidmore to check us out, hear some tunes, and generally welcome us with open arms.

We started the trip off listening to the new Erykah Badu album (dope), driving alongside the setting sun on our way to Bard College.  We arrived at my lovely sister Madeleine’s friend’s house to an amazing dinner spread, big bottles of wine, and a bunch of lovely friendly girls (all of which is a touring band’s dream to arrive upon).  We feasted and then headed out on our way to the school to set up at SMOG, the Bard student run performance space (basically a large garage with sound equipment).  Seeing as it was the first beautiful, warm evening of the year, we were inspired to move the stage outside and set up outside.  It turned into a vibrant, joyous occasion with Bardians (?)  giving us plenty of positive energy to feed off of.

The following day turned out to be just about the most glorious pre-blossomed spring day the world has conjured in recent history.  It was a long epic adventure, starting with us smoking a spliff in a waterfall basin and ending with us playing a show at Bennington college, but highlights also included exploring Bard’s amazingly beautiful campus: forests, a cliff, and a victorian stone wall garden, and watching old footage of James Brown, the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, and the Rolling Stones all at an old concert in the 60’s.

Friday and Saturday were spent at Lyle and my Alma Mater, Skidmore College.  After we bitterly parted with our good friend Gab, we spent much of Friday teaching the talented Mike Parker both my and Lyle’s entire repertoires for a concert the next day!  The show went quite well and featured some very talented friends of ours, Simon Dufour on alto sax (killer), Zach Nicita on drums (check him on youtube, he’s a monster: http://www.youtube.com/user/ZMoney99999), and a cameo harmony appearance from our good friend Jodie Levinson.  Lyle, Bunny and I are off to Boston this week and are stoked to be joined by one of our favorite people and musicians, Andrew Clinard on bass.  We’ll also be accompanied by Lyle’s pops’ Phil and his guitar player and friend Andy.  Hope to see you there, TT the Bears April 21st in Cambridge at 9pm.

Photos:

(L to R: Lyle, Gab, Bunny, Nat) Our feet are actually in a waterfall basin at this moment

during "Dreaming Her Love Away" session

Side projects are one of my favorite things, I envision many, pursue a few, and complete only a couple (as of now… I have tons of ideas going forward for other projects).  I currently have a couple things in the works with some close friends of mine.  I won’t tell you too much about it but I do want to share this one photo of myself in Maze studios cutting some horn tracks for a new track that you will all hear in the near future.  Thanks to Mikey, Joe, and Eric for rocking this session, and thanks for Alex Bilowitz for producing the shit out of the track and this session.