SPRY
New record coming soon…
"There have always been two landscapes in my life - there's the Pacific Northwest which is so mentally tangible to me, and then there's Massachusetts, which is so present to me. I think the band exists in part as an outgrowth of the physical environments we occupy." - Eleanor Elektra
Spry is the outcropping of songwriter Eleanor Elektra's original music, a five-piece band, playing jazz, folk, and roots-influenced songs.
Spry is also, by design, a kind of research group, investigating the porous boundaries that Eleanor's lyrics invoke - the existential & internal, tension & flexibility, sickness & recovery, the shoreline & the forest's edge.
Alternatingly precise and wild, the group's collective compositions recreate landscapes where they can bring their audiences in to more fully examine the fragility of the communities and ecosystems around them.
Squaring Max Ridley's joyful, steady upright bass against Zosha Warpeha's richly textural and toothsome fiddle, Jacob Hiser's rippling and elegant piano against Tim Wolf's belly-felt rhythms and animalistic clatters, the group's tensions and collaborations create a bed of wonders for Eleanor to to build her songs upon.
Eleanor has been touring the United States as a solo artist for nearly a decade, and is a mainstay in the local Boston music scene, performing in premiere venues from the House of Blues to local fixtures like The Lilypad.
