Jay Sanders is a guitarist, bassist, composer, producer, and bandleader based in Asheville, North Carolina. A master of stylistic variation, Jay’s music is characterized by an overwhelming sense of space, time and genre. He effortlessly mixes jazz, rock, blues, metal, and African influences with years of improvisational study and training. His compositions tend towards the melodic and sublime; expertly traversing from peaceful melodicism to free jazz and cacophonous noise music. He claims his primary influences as Sonny Sharrock, John McLaughlin, Bill Frisell, Dave Holland, Ornette Coleman, and John Hartford.

Jay has recorded over two dozen records and performed in 47 US states and six countries. As a composer he has worked with the ETHEL string quartet, Rational Discourse, and scored several independent films.

Originally from Nashville, TN, Jay grew up surrounded by the immensity of Nashville's music scene. He has early studies with Regi Wooten opened his mind to the concepts of fundamental vibration, sacred geometry, and the Music of the Spheres. Jay later moved to Knoxville, TN, where he cultivated his curiosity through a series of extended conversations with former Sun-Ra drummer, Samurai Celestial. He formally studied music at Belmont Univeresity and the University of Tennessee.

Jay Sanders: Guitar and Effects
Will Boyd: Reeds
Zack Page: Bass and Effects
Evan Martin: Drums and Percussion