Secret Hatch Records

03/01/2024

Todd Sickafoose's BLOOD ORANGE has been out of print for years, but to mark today’s Bandcamp Friday we’re finally making it available again. This hazy, gooey 2006 album – recorded in San Francisco – features Ben Wendel, Alan Ferber, Ches Smith, and Justin Morell (along with guests Nels Cline, Adam Benjamin, Steve Moore, and Mark Ferber). Hans Wendl Secret Hatch Records

Tony & Grammy award-winning composer, producer, orchestrator, bandleader and double bassist whose music straddles the worlds of folk, indie rock, jazz and chamber music.

01/09/2024

Deep appreciation for all the year-end love directed at Todd Sickafoose's BEAR PROOF. Thank you! Linking here to an article about the 18th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll – the combined effort of 159 critics and journalists. A thick web of powerful sound can be found on this monumental list (and beyond!).

Erik Deutsch Jenny Scheinman Kirk Knuffke Allison Miller Rob Reich Ben Goldberg A Train Entertainment Secret Hatch Records

12/06/2023

"★★★★ – Sickafoose’s return to jazz oozes left-field class. The album...seamlessly conjoins nine dynamic, packed-with-detail compositions into a continuous work. Production is crystal-clear, emotions cinematic and the ultra-precise playing grips.” – Mike Hobart / JAZZWISE UK

Listen to Bear Proof by Todd Sickafoose.

12/06/2023

"The album has the goods; wait for them."

Thanks DownBeat Magazine for this thoughtful review and December editors' pick!

Todd Sickafoose / BEAR PROOF
Jenny Scheinman Erik Deutsch Adam Levy Kirk Knuffke Ben Goldberg Allison Miller Rob Reich Secret Hatch Records A Train

Bassist Todd Sickafoose spent the 15 years between his recording debut (2008’s Tiny Resistors) and his newly released album Bear Proof touring with rocker Ani DiFranco and arranging and orchestrating the score for Broadway’s Hadestown. Perhaps that explains Bear Proof’s indie-rock edge, as wel...

11/30/2023

Listen now: The Island In Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Proceeds from this album will benefit the Kau Wo Wolo / Pukapuka People’s Fund.

"A riveting and poetic journey on memory, love, loss, identity and the universal search for wholeness." – AV Club

Talcual Films A Train Todd Sickafoose

25 track album

11/02/2023

"Rarely does an album become so embedded in me that I want more listens—and so layered that I need multiple plays. That’s the way it is with bassist and composer Todd Sickafoose’s grand jazz symphony of composition-meets-improvisation that defies categorization. Bear Proof is created by an octet that at times moves eerily with mystery, buoys with a gentle lyricism, colors the soundscape with instrumental tones and blending timbres, haunts with walls of rhythm, scrapes with gripping avant pockets that create moments where melodies emerge at the edge of beauty. There are crosscurrent tempo and rhythmic shifts and harmonic mischief. Plus, best of all, there are the multitude of surprises. Todd calls his work “a surreal meditation on boom and bust.” What’s most impressive throughout this entire theatrical journey are the artists who move with him in simpatico. It’s incredibly mind-blowing that he has assembled brilliance, including drummer Allison Miller, guitarist Adam Levy, violinist Jenny Scheinman, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, pianist Erik Deutsch and others. The title? A warning of sorts. He writes that Bear Proof is about withstanding downturns. “It’s that thing that protects you from the bad times, a skin that you put on.” Comments like this reveal Todd’s personal connection to his large-scale vision—majestic but also humbling in the face of cataclysmic collapse." – Dan Ouellette / JAZZ & BEYOND

Secret Hatch Records A Train Entertainment Rob Reich Kirk Knuffke Earshot Jazz Angel City Jazz Festival Original art: Grady McFerrin

Limited Edition CDs available now: https://www.amazon.com/Bear-Proof-Todd-Sickfoose/dp/B0CGMKKYYC/

10/11/2023

From the musical mind of Todd Sickafoose (Hadestown), a “collaborative-compositional tour de force.” – DOWNBEAT

Listen to Bear Proof by Todd Sickafoose.

10/09/2023

"★★★★ – Worth the wait...a masterful, Frisell-like blurring of genre lines." – MOJO

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09/29/2023

OUT NOW: Todd Sickafoose's BEAR PROOF. Featuring Allison Miller Jenny Scheinman Erik Deutsch Kirk Knuffke Ben Goldberg Rob Reich & Adam Levy. A Train Entertainment Secret Hatch Records

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09/28/2023

Michael Toland of Big Takeover Magazine writes about BEAR PROOF. Todd Sickafoose Jenny Scheinman Kirk Knuffke Ben Goldberg Jenny Scheinman Erik Deutsch Rob Reich Hadestown Ani DiFranco Adam Muñoz Gateway Mastering A Train Entertainment Secret Hatch Records

Between producing the soundtrack for the hit Broadway musical Hadestown, being Ani DiFranco’s longtime sideperson, and maintaining a prolific career as a producer, engineer, and hired gun, it’s been some years since bassist/composer Todd Sickafoose has made a solo album. From the sound of Bear P...

09/15/2023

NEW SINGLE TODAY: "Boom Bust Startup Ruin" from Todd Sickafoose's upcoming album BEAR PROOF (out Sept 29 on Secret Hatch Records). Featuring Allison Miller Jenny Scheinman Erik Deutsch Kirk Knuffke Ben Goldberg Rob Reich & Adam Levy. A Train Entertainment

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09/11/2023

PRE-ORDER: Todd Sickafoose's upcoming album BEAR PROOF (out Sept 29 on Secret Hatch Records). Featuring Allison Miller Jenny Scheinman Erik Deutsch Kirk Knuffke Ben Goldberg Rob Reich & Adam Levy. A Train Entertainment

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08/25/2023

NEW SINGLE TODAY: "Switched On" from Todd Sickafoose's upcoming album BEAR PROOF (out Sept 29 on Secret Hatch Records). Featuring Allison Miller Jenny Scheinman Erik Deutsch Kirk Knuffke Ben Goldberg Rob Reich & Adam Levy.

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08/17/2023

Todd Sickafoose | People of Pukapuka and Nassau
The Island In Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Available now on Secret Hatch Records

Gemma Cubero Del Barrio Talcual Films A Train Entertainment

Listen to The Island in Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Todd Sickafoose, The People of Pukapuka & Nassau.

08/11/2023

NEW RELEASE TODAY: This is the original music soundtrack to “The Island In Me”, an award-winning documentary feature film by Gemma Cubero Del Barrio. Composer Todd Sickafoose's lush original score is combined with voices, music, and unique instrumentation from the people of Pukapuka, a tiny coral atoll located in the Northern Group of the Cook Islands. These unique sounds have rarely been heard outside of Pukapuka and its diaspora. Proceeds from this album will benefit the Pukapuka People’s Fund which works directly with the Kau Wo Wolo Island Chiefs and the Island Council of Pukapuka. Thank you to everyone across the Pacific who made this album possible! "The Island In Me" will be featured this month at the 2023 Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Listen to The Island in Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Todd Sickafoose, The People of Pukapuka & Nassau.