Featuring Cassie Watson Francillon on concert harp, Smith on drums and electronics and Webre (Lost Bayou Ramblers and Michot’s Melody Makers) on bass and electronics, Shakespeare & the Blues makes instrumental experimental music drawing on Jazz and Hip Hop influences.

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The songs on e.g,rhapsodic are uninhibited explorations of genre blending, tied together by futurist grooves and virtuosic syncopating. They are composed around a startling selection of samples and soundbytes enmeshed in the trio’s visionary instrumental experimentation.

Shakespeare & The Blues originated from an improve performance in New Orleans, and found it's way to Piety Studios at Nina Hwy in Henderson, Louisiana, where the band self-produced this instrumental sonic submersion of an LP.