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Lamp (2025) US
Lamp (2025) US
Interstate jammers LaMP return with their second studio collection — One Of Us. Featuring Vermont-based Russ Lawton (drums) and Ray Paczkowski (Hammond organ, Hohner Clavinet, Wurlitzer electric piano), alongside Brooklynite Scott Metzger (guitar), the group distills singular, road-honed improv instincts into taut, instrumental epics.
One Of Us, which consists of 10 tracks packed into 35-minutes of kaleidoscopic interplay and club-shifting grooves, is the band’s first studio outing since their self-titled debut, released during 2020, and follow’s last year’s double-dose Live At Nectar’s, which was sourced from two nights at the storied Burlington, VT institution where the band was born.
“If there is a theme to this record, it might be ‘three of us,’” Paczkowski says. “We’re all writers in the sense of courting some kind of inspiration, a melody, a rhythm, a vibe; feeling some kind of spark and bringing it to the band. The goal was to get a fire going.”
While each of the players has extensive experience with other gigs — Lawton and Paczkowski with the Trey Anastasio Band and Soule Monde, and Metzger through projects such as Joe Russo’s Almost Dead — LaMP has hewed its own path.