PETITS MACHINS

Petits Machins - songs of deep sadness and hopelessness played with heartbreaking beauty... Petits Machins is a dark and dreamy melodramatic song oriented noise jazz rock project launched in 2015 by the three in-demand seasoned musicians of the NYC jazz and rock scene  (Svetlana Shmuyian (Wycliffe Gordon, Svetlana & The Delancey Five);  Dmitry Ishenko (Steve Lacy, John Tchica, Paul Banks of Interpol); Chris Stromquist (Slavic Soul Party, Kultur Shock). Borrowing from Miles Davis's compositions Petits Machins ("Little Things") (from his Filles de Kilimanjaro album that marked transition from acoustic to electronic Miles) the project's name gives a nod both to improvisational and to electronic nature of the band's music - and also, more literally, signifies the use of smaller instruments ("petits machins") used in creating Petits Machins music (loopers and effects, electric bass and drums).  The project was created in 2013 thought the sessions exploring the sound of jazz songs using their "petits machins" - as well as covering songs by the pen of Bjork, Kraftwerk, Radiohead, Portishead, and My Bloody Valentine.  In 2015 the band recorded their first original compositions... Playing for crowds in half dilapidated Brooklyn warehouses and recording in the underground Brooklyn studios, the band had a chance to refine their songs and explore the deeply improvisational nature of their compositions.  The band often performs with a VJ to fully immerse the audience in the dreamy and dark world they are creating with their music. 

Vocals, Effects / Svetlana Shmulyian
Bass, Guitar, Effects / Dmitry Ishenko
Drums, Effects / Chris Stromquist