Saturday April 26 2025
Doors 7 PM, music 7:30
Free admission, all donations to the musicians
rsvp@chromatic-studios.com
Spaghetti Eastern Music is the genre-leaping solo project of NYC & Hudson Valley-based guitarist/keyboardist Sal Cataldi. Spaghetti Eastern Music marries acid jazz-fueled guitar instrumentals with bare-bones acoustic ballads straight out of the Nick Drake school. Cataldi debuted the project with the critically-acclaimed 2016 album, “Sketches of Spam,” which has been followed with a number of EPs and singles. The New York Times says Cataldi “has a beat unmistakably his own” while Time Out New York praises his “the delicate guitar work and the hauntingly moody atmosphere he conjures.”
spaghettieasternmusic.bandcamp.com
Mark Donato fashioned his musical identity in Downtown NYC and Upstate New York as a writer of eccentric and poetic rock songs and earthy, experimental pop. Donato writes songs that are effortlessly profound and tuneful, layered with subtle irony, humanistic pathos, and a kind of psychological perfect pitch. He has 6 full-length records and many more songs ready to be dressed and served. A new record, “Community Theater,” will surface soon.
” …A History of the Boys and Girls draws its title from an unfinished work by the late poet and author Delmore Schwartz, who in his lifetime influenced everyone from Saul Bellow to Robert Lowell to Lou Reed. It’s worth noting the disparate group of names in an effort to draw a parallel between the disparate sounds on this utterly wonderful collection of songs…”
– Roll Magazine