Press Quotes on Brad Shepik and Human Activity

“Human Activity Suite” (Songlines), the absorbingly eclectic new album by the guitarist Brad Shepik, harnesses folk traditions from across the world to make a light-handed statement about global warming". Nate Chinen, New York Times

“Shepik employs his expertise in multiple musical cultures to deliver an eloquent statement of equal artistic, political, and humanistic urgency. “ Franz Matzner Allaboutjazz.com

“It’s the meditative richness of the music – its compelling sense of endangered cultures and the quiet intensity of its feelings – that gives this work its character…Shepik [is] among the most articulate and quickest-witted of guitarists…”– Stuart Broomer, AllAboutJazz

“A powerful indictment of mankind's role in global warming, Human Activity Suite is guitarist Brad Shepik's most expansive and earnest project to date,” Troy Collins Allaboutjazz.com

“The New York City-based guitarist/composer presents an imaginative travelogue-type program that is as moving melodically and harmonically as it is sonically. Martin Gladu Allaboutjazz.com

“A thoughtful composer and sensitive player player with a keen ear for harmony and rhythmic nuance” Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times

“His solos were exemplary in their fluidity and lyricism. He delights in showcasing his guitar mastery before an audience.” UK Jazzwise

"Guitarist Brad Shepik was the bright spot of the evening - his solos were consistently bright, inventive and cliche free and his choice of chords was always interesting" Ian Mann, Cheltenham Jazz Review

“This beautiful collaboration, offers further evidence for Shepik as one of the most consistently creative and stimulating guitarist-composers on the scene today” Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times

“a breath of fresh air”- Punchland on the album”Top Down"

“Shepik’s got the mind of a pioneer. The rhythmic complexity of his compositions has few parallels in jazz -or any other genre, for that matter. Withall his exotic influences, and all his different axes, he makes us rethink whatit means to be a guitarist and a musician. There’s no telling where he’ll go next.” —All About Jazz

“Shepik is one of the new jazz players who have redefined the “creative” or avant-garde side of the music in a way that is challenging but also beautiful and fun.”—Will Layman, Popmatters Music Review