Check out our new releases with Warren Haynes, Oteil Burbridge, Scotty Hard, River Guerguerian and others HERE
stay tuned for This starless night our upcoming album release
New Saint Disruption Podcast episodes with Vernon Reid, DJ Logic, Brian Jackson, Jeff Sipe, Oteil Burbridge, Poetikah, Jahman Hill and many others HERE
Introducing the new Saint Disruption Podcast:
Saint Disruption with their partners Osiris Media launched the Saint Disruption Podcast to honor the power of poetry and music when brought together in the spirit of collaboration. We provide a platform for young visionaries to share their works and engage in deep dialogue. The spark of inspiration arose from Jeff and John’s creation of a sonic landscape to support Umar Bin Hassan’s poem called ‘Painstorms,’ check out the video HERE.
Our rendition of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ (feat. Warren Haynes) was Featured in Jazziz Editor’s Choice playlist for April 2022
“…it’s the psychic and spiritual chemistry between [Firewalker] and his brilliant principal collaborator [Medeski] that imbues this effort with its intrinsic sense of focus” - Glide Magazine
“Painstorms”, an ominous march into oblivion scored by ethereal Medeski piano, thundering timpani, and a wash of digital distortion to accent the social distortion at the root of the poem’s message” … “Choke A Man”, a browbeaten blues lament sung with gut-churning vulnerability by rising Asheville vocalist Datrian Johnson” - Live for Live Music
“sweeping seven-track opus of probing and political neo-funk” - Jambase
“What’s surprising about this partnership between Schmitt and Medeski is how different the results are from what most people expect of “spiritual music.” The two men may have met in a shaman’s kitchen in the far reaches of the Amazon jungle, but the music they created sounds much more like an American street than that rainforest or a guru’s mountaintop. The predominant flavors are hip-hop, funk, blues-rock and electronica, even if the lyrics are probing issues of systemic oppression, personal identity and barriers to spiritual development” - American Songwriter
Press and Podcasts
American Songwriter: Medeski and Firewalker, from the jungle to the street
WNYC Studios: weekly music roundup, Painstorms
Life for Live Music: John Medeski Saint Disruption, Choke a Man
Jambands: Medeski and Firewalker team up, new single
Jambase: Medeski and Firewalker team up, new single
Grateful Web: Medeski announces new project after Amazon encounter
Newsbreak: Jungle to the street
