Spirits in the Woodshed

Spirits in the Woodshed is the first of a collection of improvisational expressions made within the natural surroundings in which music has been created since its most primal beginnings, which is within the home, the community, and nature.

In today's commercially-driven society music is suppose to only be deemed worth the listening if it is delivered to the listener by way of a high priced professional studio, or is recorded on stage as in a concert performance before usually unfamiliar faces, and in both cases the environments are controlled and bound by the limited parameters of time and cost, be the latter being defined either by the musician being paid decently, or on the other hand being exploited financially by a recording studio or club owner.

...a series of recordings that try to recapture the primordial origins of music, giving music a way to communicate to life, and the spiritual world

So many creative musical artist have had to walk this tightrope, a tightrope so restrictive that some of our greatest artistic contributors to this primordial science called music are seldom heard, or have gone to the grave never being
documented nor given a chance to connect
to those who seek their shamanic gift.

Music was created as audible medicine to center the mind, and has been a necessity for every civil society. This CD Spirits in the Woodshed begins a series of recordings that try to recapture the primordial origins of music, giving music a way to communicate to life, the spiritual world, as well as the soul of the listener.



Feelin' Altoistic

Second in this series of solo expressions exploring Jay Dubz' alto saxophone sound is the CD Feelin' Altoistic which continues to keep the fire of musical alchemy crafted in solitude alive.

This recording continues to help usher in a growing revolution of independent and creative artist who seek to return musical expression back to its indigenous roots. By creating these recordings Jay Dubz is not attempting to necessarily use music as a confrontational tool toward the commercial recording industry as much as he is attempting to revive the true art of being an artist and to the free music to function as a natural act and part of the our everyday culture.