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THREE ATTEMPTS

SETTLERS SET SAIL

Check out our satellite Grateful Dead project! In addition to our originals, we are now also touring as Near Dead Experience.  NDE brings a fresh and dynamic energy to the Grateful Dead catalog. Guitarist Ben Uniacke, singer / guitarist Phil Radiotes and drummer Steve Remp met online, discussing the Dead on the band’s Reddit page. Realizing they were all NYC locals, they started playing together and fusing their musical talents through the Grateful Dead canon. Also on the bus are Osophers bassist (and mega Deadhead) James Denatale and singer / keyboardist / violinist Jane Choi, plus keyboardist / saxophonist Ben Pinnola and vocalist Coco Salaza to round out the sound. They began recording covers for Dead Covers Project, which landed them on the front page of Dead.net and got them a rare follow from the official Grateful Dead instagram.

Near Dead Experience at Brooklyn Bowl

Photo by Melissa Sgambati

Cover Art by Federico Schiro

Doux Si Doux

We’ve recorded a five song EP in French and are released it as Doux Si Doux (pronounced dough-si-dough… like the dance and the girl scout cookies). We’ve teamed up with Julie Bernouis, a doyenne of indie music who, though she’s made music in English, has never recorded in her native French language. It began when I got a licensing request for French song. I have always wanted to record music in other languages! So I asked Julie if she wanted to collaborate, and then wrote the music for a song, mumbling a melody into Google Translate on the French setting until a word or two popped up.  Then I had something to build lyrics off, drafted a song idea in English and we worked them back and forth into French. Once that song (Je Navigue) was done, I wanted to make some more – so we did the same basic process four more times, et voila!

Je Navigue will be featured in the upcoming film “Stowaway.”

The EP is out now, stream it on Spotify! View lyrics and more info here.

Stay tuned for new Phil and the Osophers music (in English) soon!