MAX AVERY LICHTENSTEIN is a film composer, record producer and songwriter. His music can be heard in films Tarnation, The King, Jesus' Son, Far From Heaven, Loot and many more. He's co-produced records with artists such as Mercury Rev, Hopewell, The Silent League and his own bands Timesbold and Camphor.

www.maxavery.li

CAMPHOR is a project helmed by indie filmscore composer Max Avery Lichtenstein (Tarnation, Jesus’ Son, The King). “DRAWN TO DUST” is the debut full-length release...

With a captivating voice, evocative lyrics, a beguiling use of melody and creative production techniques, Max has concocted a potent emotional brew loosely evoking the Japanese concept of wabi sabi. What’s that, you say? Well, it’s the idea that greatness exists in the inconspicuous details of the world, and that heart-tugging beauty can be found in the imperfect and the broken…

To bring this theme to life Max built Camphor as a malleable entity, pulling in friends and collaborators from bands such as Hopewell, The Silent League, Timesbold, Beirut and Mercury Rev. Playing with a menagerie of character-rich instruments (mariachi horns, mellotrons, optigans, chamber strings, bari sax, harp, vibraphones, lo-fi electronics, etc…), Camphor offers up a complex, dark-but-catchy album reminiscent (in flashes) of Nick Cave, Sufjan Stevens, Sparklehorse, Beck, Tindersticks and late-era Talk Talk.

www.camphor.net

Brooklyn-based group HOPEWELL is had been at the forefront of the NYC rock scene since the late 90's... catch up with their latest exploits at
www.hopewell.tv

Orchestral pop band THE SILENT LEAGUE originated as the solo identity of singer Justin Russo in the late nineties. While a keyboardist with Mercury Rev in support of the critically acclaimed albums "Deserter's Songs" (V2) and "All Is Dream" (V2), Russo secretly stole each available moment in a busy tour schedule to write and record his own fragile and epic LP, "The Orchestra, Sadly, Has Refused".

The resulting debut record - hailed as "a masterful blend of sepia-toned chamber pop and sunny-sinister piano balladry" (Bang Magazine), "stellar"and "heavenly" by the Village Voice - features performances from, among others, Sam Fogarino (Interpol) and Sean 'Grasshopper' Mackowiack (Mercury Rev). Blending glockenspiels and trumpets, howling guitar drones and gentle piano, the live incarnation, a dense and boisterous chamber pop ensemble, is quickly becoming NYC's most whispered about 'conversion experience'.

The group skillfully melds '70s-era piano balladry and a sense of offbeat childlike vulnerability with the heavily arranged and darker elements of Russo's former band.

www.thesilentleague.com

JESSE SPARHAWK is a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose instruments include, but are not limited to harp, guitar, bass, and mandolin. He has toured nationally and internationally as accompanist and band member with Greg Weeks (of Espers), Timesbold, Fern Knight, Marissa Nadler, and as a solo artist. Jesse is also a featured player in Max Avery Lichtenstein's original scores for the films "Tarnation" (2003), "The King" (2005), and "Home Front" (2006).

www.myspace.com/jessesparhawk

TIMESBOLD pairs vivid, cunning lyrics with music that skillfully balances the rickety with the rich and the raucous with the ruminative. Lead-vocalist/lyricist Jason Merritt (a.k.a. Whip) and multi-instrumentalists Tony San Marco, Tony "Levon" Leva, Jesse Sparhawk and Max Avery Lichtenstein (who also handles production duties) conjure up a compelling atmosphere of tone, texture, melody and noise. They draw from a palette of instruments that includes mellotron, mandolin, harmonium, horns, banjo, vibraphones, concert harp, bowed saw, lo-fi electronics, old vinyl and much more...

www.timesbold.net

WHIP is Jason Merritt, who was born kicking and screaming in Hopewell Junction, New York... a town of more junk and shunning than hope and wellness.

Later, the kicking became running and the screaming stayed screaming.

Later still, the running became sitting and screaming became writing.

Left to his own devices, he performs songs under the name Whip. However, when fate and muse intervene, he performs with the group Timesbold.

He is good at listening and stealing.

He has no hobbies.

www.timesbold.net/whip