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The Lowliest One began as a lone voice and a resonator guitar in upstate New York—quiet songs in open D minor, written somewhere between reflection and ruin. Over time, those spare beginnings grew heavier, darker, more distorted. Suitcase drums became foot-triggered samplers; soft folk became something raw and elemental. The songs didn’t get louder—they got closer to the bone.The project has since evolved into a trio: Peter Siegmann (founder, guitar, vocals, drums), Zoots Houston (pedal steel), and Mike Maroney (synth). There’s no bass player. Instead, the low end pulses through subharmonic synth layers and warbled patches that hum like forgotten engines under the floor. The pedal steel doesn’t play licks—it wails through a pedalboard like a haunted theremin. Siegmann still plays guitar and drums at the same time, controlling layers of beats with a custom SPD-SX rig at his feet. The sound is stitched together from ruin and intention: part folk ritual, part broadcast from a signal no one’s sure is still live.
Based in Kingston, NY, The Lowliest One plays in strange rooms and unlit corners—anywhere the sound can echo and the tension can hold. Their music isn’t nostalgic. It remembers something that maybe never happened. Songs from the edge of a burned-out county line. Music for the last room with a light on.
https://www.thelowliestone.com/
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Having produced electronic and acoustic music in a variety of contexts since 2012, NTHNL’s work currently straddles both healing and contemporary creative spheres, leading regular sound baths as well as collaborative concerts. NTHNL first joined Youngbloods in 2023 by recording Movement in The Tunnel on the tracks of the NYC subway system. Since then NTHNL has been steadily expanding his unique style. In 2024 he released Ontogenesis, the third album in his Tranquility Studies series, combining electronic binaural frequencies with performances on a variety of instruments to create soundscapes that are at once calming, poetic and healing. Most recently NTHNL released Awareness of the Wind Within with acclaimed percussionist Sphente, combining gongs and winds into immersive long-form improvisations. His mastery of the flute, piano, and woodwind instruments has been featured in projects by Cola Boyy, Laura Wolf, and Liturgy, and met with wide critical acclaim that describes his productions as “genre-defying” and transportive.
https://nthnlsound.bandcamp.com
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