Incus is a wonderfully interactive group that mesmerizes its audience, and manages to sweep an entire festival into a heartfelt dance party and sing along. Chosen as "Band on the Verge" in Relix Magazine's January 09 issue, Incus is a combination of glorious light and soul stirring dark. "Under the powerful vocals and drums that drive Incus's music is a soul that is rare. If Incus is dark, then it is dark like the woods under a full moon: unexpectedly bright, full of brilliant stars, inviting, warm, natural and seductive." -- J. Bonni, The Weekly Dig.

Drawing on influences from Middle Eastern, Native American, African and Eastern European musical traditions, Incus is redefining the American Tribal music movement. The combination of keyboards, accordion, violin, and cello with male and female vocals creates a beautifully haunting soundscape, replete with mesmerizing rhythms capable of inducing trance-like states.

Incus expresses a willingness to embrace the totality of human emotion, both light and dark. An Incus performance is a gathering of people who come together to live and breathe the challenge of being alive, to raise the energy to move toward ecstasy. The element of fire both illuminates and transforms, and it is this energy that Incus embodies while holding space for people to acknowledge the dark and move toward the light.

Incus' music has moved many a dancer since the band's formation in the mid-nineties. Indeed, the band's live act has featured performers of many stripes for years, particularly belly dancers, fire and flag spinners, and shadow dancers, among others. More than just a band, Incus has become an important anchor for a community of creative performers, providing the musical and energetic foundation for creative expression both onstage and in the audience.

Their newest single, "Dancer Through Time," is set to a video that portrays some of the Incus experience, featuring the band and many other performers. This song is also featured on a recently released DVD as part of the Fantasy Bellydance Series: Desire, produced by World Dance New York. The song accompanies a dance performed by Naraya of Vadalna Tribal Dance Company.  

Incus is equally at home rocking out onstage at festivals, clubs and bars "plugged in" and electrified, as they are performing in their acoustic power at fire festivals, temples and churches around the country. They have gained appreciative followings from these diverse settings. During the last four summers, Incus toured over 20,000 miles, making music at over 100 fires, and at various festivals and venues.

The current members of the tribe at its core are composer Jason Cohen on vocals, keys, accordion, and percussion; Regan Gibson on drums and percussion, Chris Baum on violin (Dropkick Murphy’s), and Sara Griffith on bass, and includes a wonderful rotating cast of musicians including: on vocals, Kellianna, Kara Trott (Fluttr Effect), and Katie Quarrier (also on Aerial Silks), Oliver Jacobson (The Human Revolution) on violin, Eric Freeman on Kalimba and percussion (Kalimba Sound System), with Billy Woods on percussion, and with many other special guest.  The group also enjoys sharing the stage with many of their dancing friends, most of whom are members of Boston’s Valdalna Tribal Dance Co.  This summer they will be again joined by Tiffany and Kalidase from Vadalna and by Sarah "Jezebel" Wood of Sera Solstice and East Coast Tribal.  

Jason Cohen, the visionary force of the band, has experienced and facilitated numerous healing and expressive arts rituals around the United States, Mexico, and Costa Rica. His knowledge, experience, and training as a ritual facilitator becomes a part of every Incus performance. Jason is also known for his work developing the interfaith spiritual Forestdance Gatherings, which have taken place in 5 US states and in Costa Rica. These are powerful transformational ritual gatherings designed to bring people into their full power through sacred fire circles. Jason is a community organizer, deeply committed to empowering people and communities while doing his best to honor all life on the planet.

"Fire and Bone" was released in November of '08 and is currently receiving fantastic reviews nationally.
The band's future is burning brightly.