The Lisps

The Lisps was a band created in 2005 by <a href="spotify:artist:54peKXADJGCE3YAtrSfGRw" data-name="César Alvarez">César Alvarez</a> and Sammy Tunis. We recorded 4 albums, played hundreds of shows and wrote a musical, FUTURITY. After our musical premiered off-Broadway in the fall of 2015 we all moved onto other projects but are all still friends and collaborators. Our core members were César Alvarez, Sammy Tunis and Eric Farber (<a href="spotify:artist:15qL2oIvXdTLPUiZZypsvi" data-name="The Ladybug Transistor">The Ladybug Transistor</a>)

In a tiny hotel room in Amsterdam during the summer of 2004 Sammy sang one of César’s songs on a whim. It sounded incredible, or maybe it was just because of how magical it is to be in a tiny hotel room in Amsterdam, but either way <a href="spotify:artist:72VHlXRTygyJ0u9jxa0evh" data-name="The Lisps">The Lisps</a> were born. In 2005 we started recording an EP in our apartment in the South Bronx, playing shows at house parties and luring our musician friends on stage with us. The Lisps’ music is a rambunctious assemblage of hyper-earnest, absurdly verbose, neo-vaudevillian hijinx. The ruthless banter between Sammy and César, Eric Farber’s ever evolving worlds of found percussion, DIY costumes and experimental sonic meltdowns were signatures of our live shows.

The Lisps had four amazing bass players over 10 years: Freddy Epstein, <a href="spotify:artist:7CjbJtMNt4Dg9Wd1RnO4cg" data-name="Lorenzo Wolff">Lorenzo Wolff</a>, Jeremy Hoevenaar and <a href="spotify:artist:7JC4p2qQ0oKIQ50rjgblbX" data-name="Kyle Forester">Kyle Forester</a>. Mikey Palmer was our drummer before passing the throne to Eric Farber in 2007, and <a href="spotify:artist:1VN3hs1Ra3vupNT3zN3baC" data-name="Luke Winslow-King">Luke Winslow-King</a> was in the earliest version of the band. Ben Simon (<a href="spotify:artist:0gHCgjPqn1lDeSZNsvc2Mc" data-name="Get The People">Get The People</a>) is an honorary Lisp as he joined us for multiple versions of FUTURITY and The Good Person of Szechwan.