Ezra Lipp - The Softened Sky (2022) [Hi-Res]

Ezra Lipp is a bay area-based drummer, singer, songwriter, band-leader, audio-engineer and intermittent podcast host of The Ezra Lipp Hour (More or Less). For years Ezra has been known and revered for his fearless improvisational chops and deeply musical drumming that can be heard playing with bands such as ALO, Phil Lesh & Friends, and many other rock/jam staples, as well as his ability to effortlessly support more traditional songwriters like Sean Hayes, Kacey Johansing and others as a live drummer or session musician. In more recent years he has emerged as a dynamic and charismatic front man in his own right, engaging his natural abilities for humorous banter and antics while presenting his unique and articulate knack for heart-resonating songwriting and singing in bands like the short lived (but power-packed) Magic In The Other which was the brain-child of Ezra from 2017-2020.

With the unexpected curveball of the pandemic in 2020 and the inevitable pause of live performances, Ezra turned his creative sensibilities towards the duel focus of leveling up his audio production skills (and now offers freelance mixing and mastering work under the pseudonym Middle Line Mastering), as well as honing his songwriting and producing efforts to create what will be his debut LP “The Softened Sky”, expected to be released in early 2022 along with a new band to explore and present his material in a live setting.

"Ezra Lipp appears and sounds utterly natural, as if each of these varied environments is his organic state as a drummer. He exhibits a steely-eyed, no-holding-back intensity that speaks of an artist that truly gives himself to the moment, open ears craning to catch what the music needs as his body blurs beautifully to tease out the right moves and deliver them right on time. Our gut says Lipp is going to be one of the greats one day, and it’s not going to suck to witness his evolution along the way." - Dennis Cook, Jambase/Dirty Impound