A First Person Bio
In an effort of transparency I will not pretend to be someone else writing my biography. Hello, I'm Adam, and this is my professional website. I've rented adamschatz.com for the next five years, after which I'll be auctioning it off and buying a boat with my earnings. I'll also be buying boating lessons. I was born in 1987 and play music using mostly keyboards, saxophone, various pedals and knobs, and my voice.
I have a dramatically imaginative and functional recording studio in Southern Vermont, where I spend much of my time when I'm not on tour. Most recently I've been actively on tour with Japanese Breakfast and Neko Case.
Beyond those two I've performed live with Sylvan Esso, Wye Oak, Gia Margaret, Hand Habits, Man Man, William Tyler & others.
I've produced records for Casey Dienel, Sarah Goldstone, Allegra Krieger, Renata Zeiguer and I think they're all just terrific.
I have played instruments on albums by Steady Holiday, Miley Cyrus, Wild Pink, Gia Margaret, Small Black, Y La Bamba, Tallest Man On Earth, Caroline Rose, White Denim, Deep Sea Diver, Those Darlins, Adia Victoria, Man Man, Why?, Rostam, Vampire Weekend, Quilt, Sleigh Bells, She Keeps Bees & others.
My own songs are released under the name Landlady and my improvising instrumentally music has just been released under the name Civil Engineering, with lots more to come on both sides.
I often come up with excuses to organize special concert projects. Those have included:
AS PERFORMER & ORGANIZER:
- Adam Schatz's Civil Engineering + Xenia Rubinos at the Ecstatic Music Festival (January 2018)
- The Landlady Holiday Spectaculars I-V
- Sam Amidon Extended (January 2017)
- DAM JAM Festival in Denmark, Maine (August 2016)
- A Tribute to Allen Toussaint at The Manhattan Inn (March 2016)
- Landlady & Friends perform "All Things Must Pass" at SXSW (March 2014)
AS ORGANIZER
- And Then Yo La Tengo Turned Itself Inside Out at The Town Hall (May 2017)
- The Night Of Improvised Round Robin Duets
- at Brooklyn Masonic Temple (May 2013)
- at The Town Hall (May 2014)
- at The Rickshaw Stop (March 2015)
- Daedelus + Shigeto + Mark Guiliana / Eivind Opsvik / Graham Haynes (May 2014)
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