This recording
aired on WVIA 89.9 FM on 8/5/97. It features original music
written between 1993 and 1997 and was recorded live between
10pm and 2am on 6/11/97, with minimal overdubs and edits.
I was especially pleased with the live energy of the performance,
and a year later decided it was worth releasing.
This is truly a once in a lifetime
performance, since all of the musicians are now in different
cities or states, and the original master tapes have since
been erased. I am especially grateful to George Graham,
producer of Homegrown Music, and the musicians who helped
bring these songs to a new level.
This CD features nine of my most requested
songs in a laid-back acoustic setting with simple percussion.
The recording is available on CD only.
Personnel:
Jeremy dePrisco
Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Vocals & Flute
Lou Ontko
Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals & Percussion
Ken Wenner - Sax & Percussion
Mark Remenar - Percussion
Copies of this performance are currently out of print.
12-song
CD released in 1999. Progressive folk-rock without the bad
attitude. MANDALA features some of the same songs from the
1997 Homegrown Music collection recorded in a full-band format
with drums and electric guitar. If you love the Backstreet
Boys, you'll absolutely hate MANDALA. The recording is available
on CD only.
Personnel:
Jeremy dePrisco - Acoustic & electric guitars, voice,
bass,
percussion, mandolin, samples, keyboards
Joe Schrum - Drums, Roland electronic drums, congas and
marimba
Lou Damon - Occasional backing vocals on tracks 2, 5,
9, and 12
Lead guitar on tracks 5, 6, and 10
Jim Nowak - Lead guitar work on tracks 1 and 7
Matt Homiak - Bass on tracks 5 and 11
10-song CD released in 2002. Features
all new material in a stripped down Americana and Folk-Blues
style. Dark, character-based songs and a funky bonus track.
The recording is available on CD only.
Bloomsburg to Bangladesh
(Blue Buddha Records) is a self-titled album that showcases
the collaboration of roots songwriter Jeremy dePrisco and
Bangladeshi tabla player Ahm Mostafizur (Bulu) Rahman. Formed
in 2003, Bloomsburg
to Bangladesh has performed throughout Central PA and
have been featured on WVIA’s Homegrown Music with George
Graham (billed as Moonlight Masala with artist Tom Dennehy).
Bloomsburg to Bangladesh
consists of 11 tracks of East/West fusion with anthemic lyrics
and full arrangements, as well as some stripped-down acoustic
instrumental music. Instrumentation includes guitars, flute,
tabla, harmonium and tasteful use of sampling. Subject manner
ranges from whaling to teen violence and fairy tales expressed
through sometimes dark characters and situations. A tribute
to songwriter Tom Waits is also given with Jeremy’s
rendition of “Yesterday is Here.”
Jeremy’s
third self-produced release, Bloomsburg to Bangladesh
is truly a celebration of intercultural possibilities. Several
students from the community and singer Nandini Sengupta
contribute to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party song “Prothom
Bangladesh.” Jeremy co-wrote one of the songs with
lyricist Paul Rodericks from India.
Immaculate Misconceptions, recorded in June 2006, is an all-acoustic
CD featuring music from and inspired by the play Immaculate
Misconceptions by long-time collaborator Stephen
Schrum. The play opened on June 16th and 17th,
2006 in Greensburg, PA.
In his monologue performance, Stephen A. Schrum
tells his stories of Catholic grade school and high school,
finding the humorous and serious aspects of the positive
(and negative) role models of his youth. With references
to secular events (such as the Kennedy Assassination and
the NASA moon landing), as well as more religious happenings
(the world’s oldest nun giving sex advice, another
nun teaching Marriage Class and, of course, Vatican II and
the Baltimore Catechism), Schrum seeks to discover how his
Catholic school education shaped the college professor he
is today.
The music on this album is primarily acoustic with light
percussion (hand drums, brushes).
Catch the Squirrel is Jeremy dePrisco’s latest collection of folk-blues material written and recorded in Bloomsburg, PA. Included in this selection of 12 songs are Jeremy’s rendition of the Tom Waits classic “Jockey Full of Bourbon” and an interpretation of the Leadbelly song, “Ox Drivin’ Blues”. Instrumentation includes acoustic and electric guitars, and a wide variety of drums and experimental percussion instruments (some of them home made). Song topics range from the Indian fakir Satyananda and life in prison, to hopeful escapes to the shore and the adventures one has during the long, dark winter.
"There are spectral images, memories, shadows all about... a collection of tunes that take you through the trials and tests of life, judgment, lessons learned, false perceptions, realizations, and finally points to a brighter future." - Mickey Maguire
"Often, with a certain lyrical alchemy, Jeremy makes us consider some aspect of life in a brand new way. As always, he is simultaneously conversant with mundane and sublime worlds, with Jersey tolls, or living through a lonely and cold, cold night." - Dr. Stephen Schrum
