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Mrs. Adam Schatz is the solo extension of “Landladyland” — a world best described as the the solar system of Adam Schatz. Its planets include the acclaimed Landlady, Father Figures (see their NPR Tiny Desk Concert), The Shoe-Ins, Afrobeat band Zongo Junction, a multi-year history of Adam Schatz & Friends residencies and shows, the new large ensemble improvisational project Adam Schatz’s Civil Engineering, and Schatz’s connected work as a promoter, organizer, and producer (including his co-direction of NYC’s Winter Jazzfest, curation for the Red Bull Music Academy nationwide, and his annual benefit bash, the Landlady Holiday Spectacular).
 
Mrs. Adam Schatz has performed frequently in the past two years, including shows with Those Darlins, Adia Victoria, and Made of Oak (Nick Sanborn of Sylvan Esso). Primordial versions of Landlady songs and hyper-evolved covers of kindred artists like The Band, Allen Toussaint, Arthur Russell, Elliott Smith, and Randy Newman tend to populate his extremely moving performances — where his native instrument, the tenor saxophone, enters his vocabulary in ways unseen in any other part of Landladyland.
 
“Adam Schatz, the chief songwriter of Landlady, is arguably one of the most versatile and exciting musicians in recent years.” -Paste
 
“The penetrating tone of Mr. Schatz’s Farfisa organ summons garage-rock and international psychedelia; crisp percussion patterns, moving in and out of odd meters, touch on carnivals, military parades, Minimalism, swing and world music. Guitar lines can have the delicacy of folk-rock, the lilt of Congolese rumba or a spaghetti-western twang.” -The New York Times
 
“Schatz has a truly rare knack for establishing an instant connection through the force of his words – they caress, support, and embrace instead of the normal glancing blow…Landlady strikes a chord as the everyman’s gospel; secularly spirit-rousing but no less powerful, articulate in vision but universal in its delivery.” -I Guess I’m Floating