Three Bushwick-based musicians and collaborators have recently released an album called “No Liquor in Bushwick,” a genre-bending effort they describe as post hip-hop. The 11 song album was created over the course of a year in a studio on Jefferson Street, with a zero budget and full creative freedom, making “No Liquor in Bushwick” a truly DIY project—a mode of creation that feels at home in the Bushwick neighborhood.
The album is written, performed, produced, and published by Ace Marcano, Jordan Menard, and Ivan Markovsky; Markovsky recorded and mixed the tunes as well. While the three musicians all hail from different places—Marcano, a native of Bushwick, Menrad from California, and Markovsky from Ukraine—a chance encounter in a Bushwick apartment building is what brought them all together.
“I run a small sound production studio on Jefferson Street, and Jordan just moved in the same apartment, and Ace was his friend,” Markovsky said. “It was just random circumstances: we met, we felt something, and we immediately started to work together, and that’s a rare thing.”
