My solo album egg will be out May 10, 2024 on all streaming platforms.
Songs from Musicals
from The Potluck
1. The Revolution
from FUTURITY
2. Every Egg Broke
from The Universe is a Small Hat
3. Make Your Way to Space
4. An Account of Everything Lost
from The Elementary Spacetime Show
5. The Future Looks Very Fine
6. Do You Understand?
7. Tactics for When The Panic Sets In
from NOISE
8. Ironclad
9. Noise
Albums by The Lisps
Are We At the Movies
All songs Written by César Alvarez with The Lisps
except "The Saddest Girl in the World" which was written by
Sammy Tunis and César Alvarez with The Lisps.
Produced + Mixed by César Alvarez
Recorded in 2010 at Bloomfield College in NJ
and at César's apartment in Brooklyn, NY.
Cover Photo was taken on Assateague Island in 1976
Graphic Design by Emily Orling
released May 17, 2011
Lorenzo Wolff plays bass on Pills, Pepper Spray and Wear and Tear. Jeremy Hoevenaar plays bass on all other tracks. Michael Cerveris plays Banjo on Singularity and Wear and Tear. Ben Simon plays Organ on Singularity and Wear and Tear. Aurora Nealand plays Accordion on Movies, Psychological Health, and Typewriter Girl. Zoe Boekbinder and Shenandoah Davis sing on Pepper Spray. Jillian Tully sings on Saddest Girl. Additional Background Vocals by Zoe Boekbinder, Michael Cerveris, Shenandoah Davis, Chelsey Donn, Maya Ferrara, Aurora Nealand, Grant O'Brien, and Jillian Tully. César Alvarez plays organ on Pills and melodica on Movies Assistant Engineers: Mark Bucci, Mike Williams, Elias Orling. Assistant Mixing Engineers: Lorenzo Wolff, Mike Williams, Alberto De Icaza
Mastered by Myles Boisen
FUTURITY
All songs written by César Alvarez with The Lisps
César Alvarez (Acoustic Guitar + Vocal + Percussion)
Eric Farber (Drumset + Objects + Kinetic Percussion Machines + Backup Vocals)
Sammy Tunis (Vocals + Filing Cabinet +Tambourine)
Lorenzo Wolff (Bass + Sousaphone + Resonator Guitar + Backup Vocals + Chains)
Michael Cerveris (Banjo + Mandolin + Backup Vocals + The General + Announcer)
Ben Simon ( Organ +Resonator + Electric Guitars)
Chorus: Chelsey Donn, Grant O'Brien, Aaron Schroeder, Caroline Tamas, Jillian Tully
Kyle Forester: Organ on "Meaning or the Medium"
Luke Winslow King: Resonator Guitar on "Ada"
Artwork by Emily Orling
Country Doctor Museum
The Lisps 1st Full Length Album
"Country Doctor Museum tempers its considerable cleverness with a sense of vulnerable immediacy.” - Time Out New York
credits
released January 5, 2008
The Lisps are…
Sammy Tunis – Vocals, Melodica, Tambourine
César Alvarez – Vocals, Guitar, Melodica, Saxophone, Clarinet, Harmonica, Organ, Thunder Stick
Jeremy Hoevenaar – Backing Vocals, Bass, Yells, Noises
Eric Farber – Drums, Air Raid Siren, Monkey Wrenches, Gags
Eric plays on all tracks but 6 & 8
Mikey Palmer - Drums on tracks 6 & 8, percussion on tracks 11 & 5, and guitar on tracks 3, 8, 9, and 13
Peter Evans – Trumpet on tracks 2, 9, 12 and 13
Aaron Moore – Trumpet on track 11 and bag pipes on track 2.
The Lisps Binaural Choir is: Sylvie Baumgartel, Yvonne Buchard, Brendan Connelly, Nina Hoffman, Alisha Kerlin, Stephanie Loveless, Brett Price, Zeljko McMullen, Saul Melman, Doron Sadja, and Dee Dee Thompson. They perform on tracks 4, 6, 7, 9 and 12. All Songs written, produced, and mixed by César Alvarez with The Lisps. Depravity written by César with Mikey Palmer. Title and spoken lyrics in “The Familiar Drunk” were excerpted from Jess Arndt’s novel Shanghaied. Spoken lyrics on “Depravity” were liberally adapted from various translations of Homer’s Odyssey.
Recorded at Lisps headquarters in Brooklyn, NY; César’s parents’ attic in Yonkers,NY; and in scenic Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge in New York
Artwork by Sammy Tunis
Design by The Lisps and Ryan Case
The Vain, The Modest, and The Dead
The Lisps debut EP
released August 10, 2006
Sammy Tunis- Voice
Kyle Forester- Bass Guitar
César Alvarez- Voice, Guitar, Organ, Saxophone, All Synths
Mikey Palmer- Drums on "Chaos"
Nick Halley - Drums on. "The Winter That I Missed"
All songs Written, Produced, and Mixed by César Alvarez
Mastered by Paul Zinman at SoundByte
Experimental Music
Instruments
Instruments is a series of 20 instrumental cut-ups by César Alvarez which explore the finest grains of sound from a variety of sources.
Laura Goldhamer – Banjo
Lily Gottlieb-McHale – Cello
Jeremy Hoevenaar – Electric Bass
Jessica Feldman – Flute
Marylea Madiman - Horn
Marina Rosenfeld - Piano
All other instruments played by César Alvarez
The Table of Drops
The Table of Drops is a performance environment designed by César Alvarez in which an electric guitar and a bass guitar are suspended face down over a large amplifier. Within a structured improvisation the performers use feedback, gravity, a variety of tools, and found materials to manipulate and excite the strings. I recommend listening to these on headphones, they work much better that way.
César Alvarez and Jeremy Hoevenaar - Objects, Guitars, Feedback
César Alvarez - Tenor Saxophone (on One)
Ei Arakawa - Voice (on One and A Number of Recent Pieces)
Michael Allman - Voice (on This Device and A Number of Recent Pieces)
Sammy Tunis - Voice (on A Number of Recent Pieces)
Text on Quarter by Jeremy Hoevenaar
Produced and Mixed by César Alvarez
Recorded at Bard College July 2006