Release date: 6 June 2025

Jason Lindner Synthesizer, Electric Piano

Donny McCaslin Tenor Saxophone, Alto Flute

Tim Lefebvre Electric Bass, Electric Guitar, Synths

Ben Monder Guitar

Nate Wood Drums

Zach Danziger Drums

Visionary saxophonist and composer Donny McCaslin, known for shaping David Bowie’s Blackstar, launches a bold new chapter with Glitch, a two-track EP that leads into his upcoming album Lullaby for the Lost (out September on Edition Records).

Built on collective spontaneity and rhythmic fire, Glitch fuses electronica textures, jam-session energy with a deft melodicism, rhythmic invention, and spontaneous interplay. McCaslin treats the saxophone like a lead vocal: urgent, raw, and fully in the moment. This is McCaslin unfiltered: fearless, focused, and still evolving.

Both songs are co-writes with Tim Lefebvre, who produced these and the coming album in September. Glitch is a snapshot into what we get into on stage.

Tim’s ring mod affected bass is the centerpiece, with Jason and I having a bolero-esque melody on A sections. Bridge goes to a chant-like melody on saxes with psychedelic flute coloring the edges.

Pony Up started with Tim’s demo, which had a Meshuga-like energy. Added a 4 chord of sorts, and then we jammed on it, again at soundcheck, and Tim went into this sick atonal ½ time B section idea. Luckily it was recorded…after transcribing it, I added the sax multiphonics as a melody element.

The ending section felt like a release from the overall intensity of the song. Was imagining a scene change moment to end things on a more hopeful note. The C, G, D guitar forward part that precedes the melody recap was Tim’s addition. I love it and dig that it has shades of Bowie’s “Earthling.” Donny McCaslin