Here is the new, permanent cover-art for Rush Luna, my 20-minute ambient set with bassist John Von Seggern. Now available on Bandcamp (in the link, not the image). surface10.bandcamp.com/track/rush-luna

The band has been counting on me for the last year and it looks like I'm finally coming through for them. On the 12th of April, next month and right around the corner, The Stratos Ensemble will release our first official LP in years. It's called Freeing Form. More soon.

Los Angeles-based alternative jazz band Stratos Ensemble stir vast emotional / musical complexities on the shifting diorama of "Dunn" - A project of Dean De Benedictis! open.spotify.com/track/38QAmD0y… #jazz #jazztronica #nujazz #fusion #newmusicAlert #newmusic2024 #StatosEnsemble #jam

My band The Stratos Ensemble has a new single up on Spotify called Dunn; a precursor to our coming LP. (if you're on Spotify, click the link below, not the image) open.spotify.com/album/37sp8zjM…

Our new single Dunn made it onto a decent modern jazz playlist on Spotify. I think we're near the top. open.spotify.com/playlist/7fjNg…

The Stratos Ensemble's coming album Freeing Form was recently listed in jazz publication Jazziz Magazine! (in link not image) jazziz.com/new-releases/f…

I’ll have to catch the next one.

Today the Stratos Ensemble finally releases our first LP in years, called Freeing Form. It can be found pretty much everywhere. If you want to take a listen, click the link instead of the photos. open.spotify.com/album/4qrifbTI…

Customized, limited edition CDs of The Strato Ensemble‘s new album Freeing Form are now available through Bandcamp. Look us up, or thestratosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/freeing-…

Clip from a music video for "Together In Flames", a track off our new Stratos Ensemble album - Freeing Form. Full video @ youtube.com/watch?v=7aMxml… #newmusicvideo

Clip from a music video for "Up Tyner", track off our new album Freeing Form. Full video @ youtube.com/watch?v=mLH3Y9…

Great review of The Stratos Ensemble: Freeing Form in Jazz Weekly jazzweekly.com/2024/04/the-st…

I’m happy to announce that my official LP with ambient bassist John Von Seggern is finally out. He affectionally called it “Taking Shasta Mountain By Strategy,” and that stuck. Now available everywhere; not Bandcamp this time, but definitely Spotify. open.spotify.com/album/7KxbWFO4…

My new album with John Von Seggern and our track “Trinity Divide” getting love on Spotify playlists.. Guitar Ambient - Playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/2swkf…

Taking a break with Loren Nerell to laugh our asses off at collages of NASCAR crashes and the beauty of sheer debacle.

Just finished new music video for the track “Dunn” by the Stratos Ensemble. Full video at youtu.be/TKDF3cQLfmo?si…

A heads up to listeners that I’m playing a live set of electronic music on the radio tonight (KXLU in Los Angeles) to celebrate the 40 year anniversary of my friend’s program Alien Air Music. I go from 9-10 pm PST. Stream is not in the picture but is at: kxlu.com/dj/alien-air-m…

Shots from my recent radio gig on KXLU, seen with DJs: Don (55 Shades Of Blue) and Pat (Alien Air Music).

A couple of friends asked me where they could hear my recent live set on the radio; here’s the KXLU-Archive Spinitron page where you can here it for a couple more days (in link, not photo). Just enter July 28th at 9pm, on the player. spinitron.com/KXLU/

Shots of my current studio away from home, going through its own evolution, in an empty house that I’ve been trying to work on if not for being obviously distracted by music.