Join us as we celebrate the release of Matthew Fries' new album, Lost Time. We’ll be performing music from the album in this downtown Kalamazoo jazz-club style venue. There will be copies of the album available for purchase at the event.

This album of original music explores the ways in which we might perceive time being lost. The music was written during the Covid pandemic lockdown when we all experienced our own version of lost time – loved ones we lost, special events we missed out on, and just the general loss of awareness of knowing what day it was.

Lost Time varies widely in color and mood even as it documents a cohesive aesthetic, animated by the deep lyricism and swing of Fries’ writing. Threading together formative influences in his own inimitable voice, Fries contemplates life at a time when tragic loss and long-sought artistic clarity and progress exist side by side.