Jascha Hoffman Music
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About Jascha Hoffman Music
Jascha Hoffman is a singer and songwriter living in Brooklyn. With a background in journalism, his concept-driven albums mine dark themes to produce subtle and bittersweet songs that span genres from indie folk to classic pop. Drawing comparisons to independent artists like Sufjan Stevens and Josh Ritter, as well as masters like Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen, critic Paul Zollo has praised his "beautiful gift for the telling detail, the small use of language that lets us see humans at their most human.”
Born in Western Massachusetts and raised in Northern California, Jascha has long believed that if he could pull together the right music and words, some mystery would be revealed. Jascha's 2015 album The Afterneath was inspired by the obituaries section of the New York Times, for which he once wrote, and praised in American Songwriter as “a remarkable album and great achievement” for its "poignant testaments to the human spirit.” Produced by Leo Sidran, the album was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and WNYC among other outlets. His early records, A Cure for Sleep (2010) and The Future Limited (2012), have been described as “deceptively simple, deeply weird” and “Leonard Cohen without the attitude.”
As an improviser and teacher, Jascha has found that the human voice holds a strong connection to body, heart and spirit. His concerts are intimate experiences where he pulls new songs from the air and audiences are invited to join together in song. He is a founding member of Moving Star, a vocal laboratory at Carnegie Hall, and Sounding NYC, which brings spontaneous singing to resonant public spaces. A devoted student of master improviser Rhiannon, Jascha has taught singers to improvise around the world, including life-changing collaborative work with Música do Círculo in Brazil.
This fall, Jascha will release the first tracks from The Weather, an album of love songs set against end-of-the-world scenarios that he begin writing in 2016. “After the election, with fear in the air, I thought about what I’d say to loved ones if the world were really ending,” he says. As he wrote these songs, Jascha imagined his friends and family facing real issues like climate change, disaster prep, global inequality, even genocide—as well as more eclectic troubles like insomnia, shipwrecks and aliens. "Making The Weather let me keep a strong sense of hope against the darkness around me," he says. “It's fear and love, all mixed together."
Born in Western Massachusetts and raised in Northern California, Jascha has long believed that if he could pull together the right music and words, some mystery would be revealed. Jascha's 2015 album The Afterneath was inspired by the obituaries section of the New York Times, for which he once wrote, and praised in American Songwriter as “a remarkable album and great achievement” for its "poignant testaments to the human spirit.” Produced by Leo Sidran, the album was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and WNYC among other outlets. His early records, A Cure for Sleep (2010) and The Future Limited (2012), have been described as “deceptively simple, deeply weird” and “Leonard Cohen without the attitude.”
As an improviser and teacher, Jascha has found that the human voice holds a strong connection to body, heart and spirit. His concerts are intimate experiences where he pulls new songs from the air and audiences are invited to join together in song. He is a founding member of Moving Star, a vocal laboratory at Carnegie Hall, and Sounding NYC, which brings spontaneous singing to resonant public spaces. A devoted student of master improviser Rhiannon, Jascha has taught singers to improvise around the world, including life-changing collaborative work with Música do Círculo in Brazil.
This fall, Jascha will release the first tracks from The Weather, an album of love songs set against end-of-the-world scenarios that he begin writing in 2016. “After the election, with fear in the air, I thought about what I’d say to loved ones if the world were really ending,” he says. As he wrote these songs, Jascha imagined his friends and family facing real issues like climate change, disaster prep, global inequality, even genocide—as well as more eclectic troubles like insomnia, shipwrecks and aliens. "Making The Weather let me keep a strong sense of hope against the darkness around me," he says. “It's fear and love, all mixed together."
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Bandsintown Merch
Circle Hat
$25.00
Circle Beanie
$20.00
Rainbow T-Shirt
$30.00
Live Collage Sweatshirt
$45.00
About Jascha Hoffman Music
Jascha Hoffman is a singer and songwriter living in Brooklyn. With a background in journalism, his concept-driven albums mine dark themes to produce subtle and bittersweet songs that span genres from indie folk to classic pop. Drawing comparisons to independent artists like Sufjan Stevens and Josh Ritter, as well as masters like Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen, critic Paul Zollo has praised his "beautiful gift for the telling detail, the small use of language that lets us see humans at their most human.”
Born in Western Massachusetts and raised in Northern California, Jascha has long believed that if he could pull together the right music and words, some mystery would be revealed. Jascha's 2015 album The Afterneath was inspired by the obituaries section of the New York Times, for which he once wrote, and praised in American Songwriter as “a remarkable album and great achievement” for its "poignant testaments to the human spirit.” Produced by Leo Sidran, the album was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and WNYC among other outlets. His early records, A Cure for Sleep (2010) and The Future Limited (2012), have been described as “deceptively simple, deeply weird” and “Leonard Cohen without the attitude.”
As an improviser and teacher, Jascha has found that the human voice holds a strong connection to body, heart and spirit. His concerts are intimate experiences where he pulls new songs from the air and audiences are invited to join together in song. He is a founding member of Moving Star, a vocal laboratory at Carnegie Hall, and Sounding NYC, which brings spontaneous singing to resonant public spaces. A devoted student of master improviser Rhiannon, Jascha has taught singers to improvise around the world, including life-changing collaborative work with Música do Círculo in Brazil.
This fall, Jascha will release the first tracks from The Weather, an album of love songs set against end-of-the-world scenarios that he begin writing in 2016. “After the election, with fear in the air, I thought about what I’d say to loved ones if the world were really ending,” he says. As he wrote these songs, Jascha imagined his friends and family facing real issues like climate change, disaster prep, global inequality, even genocide—as well as more eclectic troubles like insomnia, shipwrecks and aliens. "Making The Weather let me keep a strong sense of hope against the darkness around me," he says. “It's fear and love, all mixed together."
Born in Western Massachusetts and raised in Northern California, Jascha has long believed that if he could pull together the right music and words, some mystery would be revealed. Jascha's 2015 album The Afterneath was inspired by the obituaries section of the New York Times, for which he once wrote, and praised in American Songwriter as “a remarkable album and great achievement” for its "poignant testaments to the human spirit.” Produced by Leo Sidran, the album was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and WNYC among other outlets. His early records, A Cure for Sleep (2010) and The Future Limited (2012), have been described as “deceptively simple, deeply weird” and “Leonard Cohen without the attitude.”
As an improviser and teacher, Jascha has found that the human voice holds a strong connection to body, heart and spirit. His concerts are intimate experiences where he pulls new songs from the air and audiences are invited to join together in song. He is a founding member of Moving Star, a vocal laboratory at Carnegie Hall, and Sounding NYC, which brings spontaneous singing to resonant public spaces. A devoted student of master improviser Rhiannon, Jascha has taught singers to improvise around the world, including life-changing collaborative work with Música do Círculo in Brazil.
This fall, Jascha will release the first tracks from The Weather, an album of love songs set against end-of-the-world scenarios that he begin writing in 2016. “After the election, with fear in the air, I thought about what I’d say to loved ones if the world were really ending,” he says. As he wrote these songs, Jascha imagined his friends and family facing real issues like climate change, disaster prep, global inequality, even genocide—as well as more eclectic troubles like insomnia, shipwrecks and aliens. "Making The Weather let me keep a strong sense of hope against the darkness around me," he says. “It's fear and love, all mixed together."
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