Emma Alabaster Releases Her Debut Release in the Third Generation the Daughters Are Free

“ Modern Jazz Concept Album Signals Debut for New Artist and Label from New York City’s Underground. ”

Emma Alabaster Debut CD

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212 242 2334 FAX

Emma Alabaster Releases Her Debut Release in the Third Generation the Daughters Are Free
Modern Jazz Concept Album Signals Debut for New Artist and Label from New York City’s Underground.
 
Proliferate Music announced their debut release, Emma Alabaster’s In the Third Generation the Daughter’s Are Free. The release is being distributed digitally through popular online retailers such as iTunes, eMusic, Amie Street, Amazon, and others.

Alabaster’s album represents a unique voice in New York City’s underground jazz community. Coming across like an autobiographical concept album for the downtown scene, the compositions presented here are focused around Alabaster’s bass playing, singing, and spoken word writing. However the album is also grounded in the forward thinking improvisational work displayed by Emma and her sympathetic band, which features Jim Bertini on drums, Alex Carter on tenor saxophone, and Jonathan Nocera on electric guitar. In addition, the band is joined by Ian Turner on two tracks, who contributes vocals and laptop manipulations.
 
Proliferate Music is a self-proclaimed “independent record label for the fringe.” While this first release seems to fall somewhere in the “downtown” jazz scene, the label intends to release music across a wide variety of genre’s; Alabaster’s soon-to-be label mates will include Squiggle, an electronic experimentalist, and StickLips, a quirky acid-folk band.
 
Emma Alabaster performs frequently in New York City with her band and other projects. The record release was celebrated with a show at Brooklyn’s IBEAM.

About Emma Alabaster
Emma Alabaster works in New York City as a musician and an educator. She is happy playing in many genres and settings, but most comfortable as an improviser. Emma grew up in Brooklyn with lots of music in the house... as a fetus listening to John Coltrane (through headphones on her mother's belly); as a kid singing alto in public school and camp choruses, performing Broadway musicals and jazz standards with her father at the piano, belting Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Donny Hathaway with her mother in her car and dancing to Earth Wind and Fire and Stevie Wonder in front of their kitchen window; and as a teen at Laguardia High School where she made the crucial decision to study bass. Emma continued her bass-immersion at Bard College under the auspices of Erica Lindsay, John Esposito, Ira Coleman and Kenny Davis. She has experience playing jazz, blues, gospel/ r&b, open improvisation, rock, "world music" (Desi music, Tango, Calypso, Afro-Cuban music), folk, and western classical music. Emma also has experience collaborating with other art-forms and teaching music from many different angles to many different ages.

About Proliferate Music
Proliferate Music is an independent music licensing company that specializes in the experimental, avant-garde, eccentric, and downright quirky. This label seeks to provide a home for music that places creativity before stylistic concern. All genres are welcome to be a part of the Proliferate family, so long as they are not confined by the trappings of that genre.

Our commitment to keeping creativity in the hands of the artist means that Proliferate does not fund album production. Instead, we license albums that are self-produced. Our vision is a grassroots one; DIY and make your music the way you conceive it. Our job is only to provide a space where it is readily available to the public: To PROLIFERATE MUSIC unto the masses that have been sleeping in the womb-like warmth of mass produced major label conditioning for far too long.

Support independent music by buying it, creating it, creating related art, donating for its continuity, talking about it, seeing it live, broadcasting it, blogging about it, criticizing it, and playing it loudly until someone wakes up. PROLIFERATE IT!
 
More information about Emma Alabaster and Proliferate Music can be found here
Website: www.EmmaAlabaster.com
website: www.ProliferateMusic.com
Jonathan Nocera
Proliferate Music
Jonathan@ProliferateMusic.com
111 Barrow St #5C
New York City, NY, 10014
646 824 2121
212 242 2334 FAX