MONSTER SEASON IS COMING!

Formed in the spring of 2020, Hot Mustard is the recording duo of producer Jack Powell (guitar, keys, bells and whistles) and Nick Carusos (bass) whose dynamic low end anchors the project. Powell’s production style combines his love of assemblage art and collage into his musical approach in which improvised sessions are recorded and then chopped and assembled into compositions.  These compositions are then passed off to Jordan Mclean (Antibalas) who writes brass parts and records them with Dave ‘Smoota” Smith (TV on the Radio) in Brooklyn, NY before heading back to South Carolina to be molded into final form by Powell, often times incorporating sessions with local musicians and collaborators who work remotely. The finished pieces are then released with animated collages (embedded below) by Powell whose visual art studio/moniker is Opus Thimble.