Josh Zubot Strings is the debut self-titled album from this extraordinary string ensemble based out of Vancouver, BC (Canada).  Over his lifetime, Josh Zubot has been journeying through many realms of string music.  In Montreal, he worked under the wings of legendary composer/violinist Malcolm Goldstein and toured with the trio, ‘In the Sea’, with bassist Nicolas Caloia and the late great cellist Tristan Honsinger.  After recently moving to Vancouver, Josh formed his newest avant-garde string quintet involving the city’s finest string musicians Meredith Bates, Peggy Lee, James Meger and his brother Jesse Zubot.

This album is a culmination of stylistic motifs that have passed through Josh’s mind in blurred moments.  Through his extensive experience performing traditional/graphic scores and ripping free-jazz, Josh brings his own unique compositional process to this album.

Josh Zubot Strings is not your conventional string album.  Each piece has elements of subtle yet dense improvising around in-depth written material.  ‘It 5 Plank’ starts off the album with an energetic group melody, in the lines of a jazz head, then immediately takes off into an intense sporadic violin solo with synchronized background punches.  The 2nd track ‘Rapid From Gone Thy Whisp’ is a grooved based piece where the strings morph together in counter punctual short rhythmic motifs and does not lose momentum.  Other compositions such as his ‘Exploration’ pieces are true adventures into soundscapes and extended technical sonic realms.  The beginning of ‘Auger 44’ references a piece of machinery that Josh grew up with around the farm in Southwest Saskatchewan, that pulls grain through metal tubes.  You could imagine a piece of grain travelling through this tube and all the music it encounters along its journey.

Josh Zubot Strings is a resonating musical adventure through sonically beautiful, yet challenging energetic stabs punctuated with sensual drones and morphing walls of sound!