Book/Spirit is a five-piece Brooklyn based outfit that combines seemingly irreconcilable elements – straightforward rock riffs and atmospheric jam sections, catchy melodies with heavily distorted guitars – to create a sonically lush oeuvre. After refining their sound through dozens of live shows, Book/Spirit released their debut album ‘Easements’ in March 2024. Drawing upon influences from indie, 90’s college & alternative rock, shoegaze, and noise rock, the result was described by Get Some Magazine as “Pixies and early-Queens of the Stone Age covering Slowdive”.

Book/Spirit traces their origins back to 2018 in Williamsburg, when ad-hoc jam sessions between friends created the foundation to build something dynamic and beautiful together. Co-lead vocalists Pete Ferrari and Michael Susa originally met at an audition for an indie folk band. While that group’s singer felt Susa’s guitar playing was “too loud”, Ferrari saw a kindred spirit and the pair began jamming and bonding over their love of bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. The group’s eventual third guitarist, Pierre Ratzki, identified drummer Garrett Troy via a Craigslist ad looking for a “krautrock drummer”. Eager to turn these informal jam sessions into something more, Susa and Troy booked the band’s first show prior to finalizing their name, lineup, or even writing a single song. After the performing their first show using a joke-placeholder name (“The DeBlasibros”), the group re-named themselves Book/Spirit, evoking the interplay between matter and spirit and reflected the diverse and, at times, opposing creative influences within the band. Resisting the lure of instant gratification prevalent in the digital age, Book/Spirit preferred to hone their sound the old-fashioned way playing live for the past few years across various Brooklyn and Manhattan venues with Ratzki taking up bass duties.

After the pandemic lockdown, the group re-emerged as a five piece in 2021 with Ratzki on third guitar with Dave Jacobson (Good Time Mystery Vision) assisting on bass with an entirely improvised performance at Fremin Art Gallery, which released as “Live at Fremin” from a portable recording device. They recorded their debut studio album, Easements, in late 2022 at GB’s Juke Joint in Long Island City with producer/engineer Colin Mohnacs, and released it on and Micah Evans was added as bassist in 2024. The band is currently performing throughout the New York City area with plans for regional touring.