biographical info
"A great group of zanies here."
-John Zorn
"Lap-steel whiz Myk Freedman excels at intensely evocative instrumentals that draw on Dixieland, klezmer and avant-garde jazz. His aesthetic is wistful yet subtly surreal."
-Time Out New York
"Freedman's ballads are some of the most gorgeous music in jazz right now."
-David Dacks, Exclaim! Magazine
St. Dirt Elementary School is a little bigband; it's a salon orchestra; it's a cabaret pitband; it's a New School concert band half-remembering oldschool psychedelics in a district West of Weimar and North of San Antonio. It is both public and private. It can swing like a Kollektief or shamble like a seaside sinfonia. St. Dirt Elementary School plays compositions: rubberband exotica, bouncing like bamboo windchimes dangling from the hood of a springloaded pram. St. Dirt Elementary School is Wes Cheang -- guitalele, Ryan Driver -- analog synth/thumb reeds, Myk Freedman -- lap steel, Tania Gill --piano/melodica, Julia Hambleton -- clarinet, Kai Koschmider -- alto sax, Jake Oelrichs -- drums/glockenspiel, and Mike Overton -- bass.
lineup
Myk Freedman leader/lap steel
Jake Oelrichs drums/glockenspiel
Mike Overton bass
Tania Gill piano/melodica
Julia Hambleton clarinet
Kai Koschmider alto saxophone
Wes Cheang fretted strings
Ryan Driver analog synth
influences
Deep Dark United
The Silt
71 et
Dave Clark