Alex Lozupone is a New York City–based jazz and rock musician and film director. As a musician, he is a member of

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, 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

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, Weasel Walter,

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, and Melvin Van Peebles, as well as readings by

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. He has also received airplay on WFMU. In 2011, he released the first video associating the Occupy Wall Street movement with the Melvin Van Peebles song,

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. The video spawned several imitators. In 2012, he recorded and mixed Melvin Van Peebles' 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

, performing at a fundraiser at the Cotton Club. In 2013 he recorded and performed on two tracks on a benefit album for Donovan Drayton, which also featured

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, and Burnt Sugar. He also recorded and played on a release by Marc Edwards called Holographic Projection Holograms, an album which Steve Holtje 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

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and Paul Feitzinger. Bruce Gallanter of

Downtown Music Gallery Downtown Music Gallery is a long-running, internationally-known record store, mail-order, and performance space located in New York City. It specializes in "Downtown Music", a recognized catchphrase for avant-garde jazz and contemporary composition, ...

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

Steve Dalachinsky Steven Donald Dalachinsky (September 29, 1946 – September 16, 2019) was an American downtown New York City poet, active in the music, art, and free jazz scenes. He wrote poetry for most of his life and read frequently at Michael Dorf's club th ...

, 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 Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system of ...

–

Holographic Projection Holograms Holography is a technique that enables a wavefront to be recorded and later re-constructed. Holography is best known as a method of generating real three-dimensional images, but it also has a wide range of other applications. In principle, it ...

* 2014 –

Marc Edwards Marc or Mark Edwards may refer to: Marc Edwards * Marc Edwards (American football) (born 1974), American football player * Marc Edwards (professor) (born 1964), professor of civil and environmental engineering * Marc Edwards (drummer) (born 1949), ...

–

Sakura sakura , also known as "Sakura", is a traditional Japanese folk song depicting spring, the season of cherry blossoms. It is often sung in international settings as a song representative of Japan. Contrary to popular belief, the song did not originate ...

* 2014 – Pain Hertz with

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and

Carmine Guida Carmine T. Guida is a New York City-based, nationally recognized musician, teacher and performer. He is also a programmer and creator of online games and apps. Music Guida is known primarily for teaching the doumbek, however also plays several ot ...

– Sakura * 2014 – Alex Lozupone Project (aka Eighty-Pound Pug) with

and Paul Feitzinger – Poodle * 2015 - Eighty-pound Pug with

and Kevin Shea - donetsk donatello * 2015 - Eighty-pound Pug with

and

Keith Abrams Kim Abrams is a rock drummer (formerly Keith Abrams), known mostly for her work with Time of Orchids and PAK. She was a frequent collaborator both with Ron Anderson and Jesse Krakow. Abrams was recruited, along with Jesse Krakow, into Time of O ...

- First Meetings * 2015 - Eighty-pound Pug with

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)