Alex Lozupone is a New York City–based

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and rock musician and film director. As a musician, he is a member of Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel, and has played with Percy Jones and

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. As a director and cinematographer, he shoots mainly music shows in New York City, and has put up videos for artists such as Pet Bottle Ningen,

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, and

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, as well as readings by

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. He has also received airplay on

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. In 2011, he released the first video associating the

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movement with the

song,

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. The video spawned several imitators. In 2012, he recorded and mixed

' first album in 17 years, Nahh… Nahh Mofo. He then shot and edited, with Van Peebles, a video to accompany the album for Lilly Done The Zampoughi Every Time I Pulled Her Coattail. Also in 2012 he joined Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel, performing at a fundraiser at the

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. In 2013 he recorded and performed on two tracks on a benefit album for

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, which also featured

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, Paula Henderson, Jimi Hazel, and Burnt Sugar. He also recorded and played on a release by Marc Edwards called Holographic Projection Holograms, an album which

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listed as #12 in his ''Favorite Jazz albums of 2013''. Holtje particularly praised Lozupone's configuration of splitting his guitar signal and routing it signal through a processor and bass amp, creating both a guitar and bass track. In 2014, he released a CD under the group name "Eighty-Pound Pug", with David Tamura and Paul Feitzinger. Bruce Gallanter of Downtown Music Gallery says of the CD, "Right from that opening salvo, this trio is powerful and impressive. Mr. Lozupone sounds as if he is playing some dark, metalish, heavy guitar with Mr. Tamura's sax also erupting intensely and Feitzinger strong drumming holding things together. Scary, punk/metal/free/jazz improv?!? Lozupoane does a fine job of playing powerful riffs, helping to keep the trio focused into a fire-breathing bohemeth. He uses effects likea wah-wah or distortion to fatten his sound into a more throbbing mass. Torture time? Indeed." In 2015, he released, with poet

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, Leave The Door Open; Steve Holtje of Culture Catch said of this album "''Dalachinsky's self-deprecating Brooklyn humor and existentialist beat musings, more usually accompanied by free jazz, prove highly compatible with this doomier sound keyed on Lozupone's electronically combined bass and guitar. Really, what better to accompany a 9/11 poem that starts, "I thought it was the end of the world/And then the end of the world happened again"?''".

Discography

* 2013 – Marc Edwards with Sonos Gravis – Holographic Projection Holograms * 2014 –

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–

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* 2014 – Pain Hertz with Nick Wolven and Carmine Guida – Sakura * 2014 – Alex Lozupone Project (aka Eighty-Pound Pug) with David Tamura and Paul Feitzinger – Poodle * 2015 - Eighty-pound Pug with David Tamura and Kevin Shea - donetsk donatello * 2015 - Eighty-pound Pug with David Tamura and

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- First Meetings * 2015 - Eighty-pound Pug with David Tamura and Elliott Levin - tenoreleven * 2015 - Eighty-pound Pug with

- Leave The Door Open * 2015 - Eighty-pound Pug - When The Flowers Bloom In Baltimore

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lozupone, Alex American jazz musicians American rock musicians Film directors from New York City Living people Jazz musicians from New York (state) Year of birth missing (living people)