LASH & GREY
new album
Blossoms Of Your World
&
Lash
Grey
Hello, Decca Records. We prepared this EPK for you to consider our music and what we've achieved in the recent two years since our first release in July 2020. Our two albums represent mainly soul, singer-songwriter, groove, and pop genres. We come from and currently live in Slovakia, but we're willing to move, release a new record, and we'd be honored if you'd be open to giving us a chance to do so on your board.
BLOSSOMS OF YOUR WORLD
album released on the 24th September 2021
soul/groove
soul ballad
pop ballad/soft rock
a cappella
alternative/singer-songwriter
singer-songwriter
singer-songwriter
soul/funk/groove
Album Blossoms Of Your World was written, arranged, and produced by
Kristin Lash & Jakob Grey
album special guests:
Brandon Combs on drums (John Legend, Leon Bridges, Moses Sumney)
David Hodek on drums (Casey Benjamin, Aron Hodek, Soweto Kinch)
Bryan "B Dub" White on bass (Stevie Wonder, Zendaya, Kim Burell)
S.V.A. Trio - strings (Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
Album was recorded in Bratislava, Prague, Detroit & Los Angeles,
mixed in Bratislava by Roland Kanik in SonicCat Studio,
and mastered by Vlado Meller in Charleston, South Carolina, USA
(Vlado mastered albums of M. Jackson, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Johny Cash,
Pink Floyd, P. McCartney, A. Bocelli, and many others)
Brandon Combs / Los Angeles
Bryan "B Dub" White / Los Angeles
David Hodek / Slovakia
Roland Kanik / mixing engineer / Slovakia
S.V.A. Trio / Prague, Czech Republic
Vlado Meller / mastering engineer / Charleston, SC
SLEEPIN' WITH THE LIGHTS ON
debut album released on the 7th July 2021
DEBUT ALBUM OF THE YEAR
BEST YOUNG CREATOR PRIZE
Tatra Banka Art Foundation
DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR
Advance Investments Foundation
lets them stand out, and makes them sound so special. Their musical versatility is also confirmed by the fact that they arranged and produced the whole album themselves." - Denver
- Italy
soul/pop
soul/pop/ballad
singer-songwriter
singer-songwriter
singer-songwriter
alternative/singer-songwriter
singer-songwriter
singer-songwriter
origin//
Bratislava, Slovakia
genres//
Soul, Pop, Songwriting, Jazz
website//
label//
independent artists
booking//
Bella Concerts (Vienna, Austria)
BASIC INFO
releases//
2 albums on vinyls
Spotify//
26k monthly listeners
1,13mil streams
Over 100 solo shows played including renowned fests like Wiesen Jazz Fest, Paris Jazz Marathon, Lyon Jazz à cours et à jardins, Porgy & Bess, Jazzdock, Bratislava Jazz Days, Prague PROMS, Open Jazz Fest, Winter Jazz Fest
awards//
Best Slovak Album - Ceny Andel
Single Of The Year - Radio_Head Awards
Tatra Banka Art Prize
Zlaty Klinec Art Prix
Best Debut Album - Radio_Head Awards
Best performance - Bratislava Jazz Days
Best performance - Jazz Start-Up
Discovery Of The Year - Radio_Head Awards
Discovery Of The Year - New Faces Of Slovak Jazz
Other SHOWS in 2022
24 Mar - One Day Jazz Festival, Bratislava (supporting Walter Smith III & Matt Stevens)
2 Jul - ARTE TV Live Show, France
6 Aug - Atmosfera Festival, Banska Stiavnica , Slovakia
3 Nov 2022 - Carnegie Hall, NYC, USA
Shows IN 2021
22 Jun - Žilina Jazz Fest, Slovakia
26 Jun - United Islands festival Prague, Czech Republic
27 Jun - Prague PROMS fest, Czech Republic - concert with strings
24 Jul - Open Jazz Fest, Slovakia
29 Jul - Bratislava City Gallery festival, Slovakia
13 Aug - Verein Innenhofkultur, Klagenfurt, Austria
18 Aug - Albrecht Garden, Bratislava, Slovakia
28 Aug - Wiesen Jazzfestival, Austria
11 Sep - Slovak radio hall, Bratislava City Sounds Fest, Slovakia
16 Oct - Jazz Marathon V4 Paris, France
22 Oct - Bratislava Jazz Days Fest, Slovakia
26 Nov - Ermatingen, Switzerland
27 Nov - Ravensburg Jazz Festival, Germany
Shows IN 2020
22 Jan - Flagey National Radio Hall, Brussel
1 Feb -. Kosice, Slovakia
9 Feb - Club Pod Lampou, Bratislava, Slovakia
28 Feb - Winter Jazz fest Trnava, Slovakia
30 Apr - Radio_FM online concert, Bratislava, Slovakia
7 May - Plody Doby online festival streamed in Slovakia, Italy, USA
Sleepin` With The Lights On Tour 2020
10 Jul - New Synagogue, Zilina, Slovakia
17 Jul - Rimavska Sobota Jazz Festival, Slovakia
18 Jul - Bratislava, Slovakia
25 Jul - Sound for Modra Fest, Slovakia
27 Jul - Trnavsky Jazzyk festival, Trnava, Slovakia
14 Aug - Sound for Stiavnica Fest, Banská Stiavnica, Slovakia
15 Aug - Moc Umenia festival, Partizanske, Slovakia
20 Aug - Viva Musica! Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
22 Aug - Tatranska Lomnica, High Tatras, Slovakia
30 Aug - Slovenka Roka TV Awards, Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava, Slovakia
6 Sep - Devin, Slovakia
9 Sep - Slnko V Sieti National Film Awards TV Ceremony, Bratislava, Slovakia
11 Sep - Svet v Meste festival, Lucenec, Slovakia
26 Sep - Taborak Fest, Levice, Slovakia
Shows IN 2019
12 Jan -. Kosice, Slovakia
9 Feb - Paris, France
23 Feb - Zilina, Slovakia
2 Mar - Trencin, Slovakia
4 Mar - Reduta jazz club, Prague, Czech Republic
5 Apr - La Loca Music Club, Prague, Czech Republic
25 Apr - supporting Stanley Clarke // Bratislava Jazz Days fest, Slovakia
27 Apr - Liptovsky Mikulas Jazz Fest, Slovakia
4 May - Trencin, Slovakia
31 May - Jazz City Caffe Club, Bratislava, Slovakia
8 Jun - Jazz à cours et à jardins festival Lyon, France
24 Jun - Trencin, Slovakia
25 Jul - Bukowski club, Bratislava, Slovakia
3 Aug - Gibon festival, Trencin, Slovakia
6 Sep - U Stare Pani Jazz Club, Prague, Czech Republic
16 Oct - Radio-FM festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
25 Oct - Bratislava Jazz Days contest (1st place)
7 Nov - La Loca club, Prague, Czech Republic
17 Nov - Olomouc, Czech Republic
30 Nov - Jazz StartUp contest, Bratislava, Slovakia
7 Dec - Brezno Jazz Fest, Slovakia
14 Dec - Jazz StartUp final (1st place), Bratislava, Slovakia
18 Dec - Martin, Slovakia
Shows IN 2018
30 Jan - Jazzdock, Prague, Czech Republic
17 Feb - U Maleho Glena, Prague
7 Apr - Reduta Jazz Club, Prague
12 Apr - supporting Candy Dulfer at Bratislava City Sounds Fest, Slovakia
9 May - Jazdock, Prague
26 Jun - Reduta Jazz Club, Prague
15 Jul - Smolenice, Slovakia
11 Oct - Bratislava, Slovakia
23 Oct - La Loca Music Club, Prague
26 Nov - supporting Naturally7 at Bratislava City Sounds Fest, Slovakia
10 Dec - Jazzdock, Prague
22 Dec - Trencin, Slovakia
OUR NEXT STEPS
We wrote our 3rd album and now we're preparing the recording, new collabs, and concerts. We started a production process on an art movie based on the music of our next upcoming album in cooperation with rising stars of Czech and Slovak filmmakers, whose movies were already premiered at Cannes festivals, Karlovy Vary film fest, and others.
In cooperation with Bella Concerts, our concert booking agency from Vienna, which has an artist roster filled with names such as Pat Metheny, Mononeon, Hiromi, Herbie Hancock, and many other great world-famous artists, we're working on touring, and based on that, we will perform in Carnegie Hall this year in November.
Thank You for your time and consideration of what we create. We have only been on the scene for two years, but we think that despite the difficult pandemic situation, we have managed to achieve quite a lot of remarkable success, even though we have invested only our resources into the whole creative and PR process without the help of anybody else involved. Now, we feel, we have to take another step and move forward, try to get on the European music scene, as in our country we don't feel the best ground and support from people working in the recording business. We don't fit their low cost mainstream taste. We're willing to move and work hard on this.
Thank you for spending your time with our music.
If you'd like to know more, please, let us know.