Nick Pope, Carrie Ashley Hill, Rachel Ana Dobken, Steady Sun

Carrie Ashley Hill is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter who hails from Texas but wrote her first song stranded on the side of the highway in Trinidad, Colorado.
"Hill's love-weary voice recalls breathy country legends like Emmylou Harris and the resolve of Steve Nicks." -The Village Voice.

Her debut ep Me et All, released August 2013, was comprised of these first songs, followed up with the 2014 7" Found You, a collaboration with husband and writing partner Jeff Berrall of Caveman. The pair will be releasing Hill's debut full length record Orion, Low in the Sky this fall.


Rachel Ana Dobken graduated from Bard College in upstate New York December 2012, with a BA in Photography and "unofficial" minor in music. While at Bard, Rachel studied jazz drumming, vocals and theory (as well as some guitar) and joined the band "Ramrad" featuring her very good friend and musical colleague Ryan MacLean (now the frontman for Meadowhawks). It was in this duo that Ryan (lead guitar/vocals) and Rachel (drums/vocals) created a lush, powerful and exciting sound. She completed her Senior Project in Photography and Music where she composed music around the content of images she photographed and for the Gallery Opening, she played a live concert (in the gallery) with her band of the original compositions.

Rachel's music is honest and raw, personal but relatable. The tunes are catchy, musically intricate and dynamic, pulling from a number of different artists and genres for influence…everything from roots rock/blues and soul, to jazz, to indie and alternative. Some of her biggest influences: The Band, Incubus, Paul Simon, Fiona Apple and Jeff Buckley. At the end of the day, its about what needs to come out and be said...a stream of consciousness sometimes absurd, heavy and abrasive (later on funny to laugh and look back at). It doesn't necessarily have to make sense, but it does have to have honesty behind it. And she truly believes that in life, if whatever you are doing is coming from a place of true genuine-ness, people will always be able to relate and respond positively to it.

True depth. "I believe it to my soul."


Dylan Nowik's five-piece brainchild is growing up. The band is poised to release their second full-length LP this summer, and will be supporting the release with a run of shows across Brooklyn. Flora's eleven tracks are the result of two weeks' time occupied exclusively recording last summer in an Upstate New York Barn, and seven months of creative deliberation in post. Says keyboardist Slack Barrett, "Dylan is so meticulous, you know, with mixing and final touches...but the result is essential to our sound, and I see the time he spends as a well-practiced ritual."

Recording Upstate offered Nowik some new opportunities, and the change in scenery encouraged ingenuity. Their debut album, Good Evening, released in September 2013, was recorded at Rose Studios in Brooklyn, and is described as being "folky, baroque pop" whereas Nowik sees Flora as the result of a fascination with rhythm, textures and soundscapes. There are sonic eccentricities throughout the album, such as recordings of bugs in Vermont, and a massacred crash cymbal. Says Nowik, "Andrew wanted a different cymbal on 'Waiting', and nothing was working, so he and I went from the barn out to the street at like 2pm and just started thrashing this thing on the road with hammers, making a big racket. It fractured though, and we used it".

Nowik rarely left the easel on which his artwork was taking shape; over the course of two weeks, other members made their way in and out from the city and laid down parts. The result is a lush patchwork of sound, complete with DD-7 delay-scapes, dictaphone recordings of conversation, fuzzed out harmonies and smooth yet enormous transitions that pull you in like a current as it gets closer to a waterfall. The mist rising up from that waterfall is Flora: airy and beautiful, the intangible result of a journey over the edge of an everlasting dance between delicacy and force.

Steady Sun is Dylan Nowik, Andrew Emge, Slack Barrett, Danny Rose, and Peter Victor-Gasper. They are pioneering a new genre, coined by Nowik as "Jive Daydream", and they are looking forward to sharing it with you.