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title: With Joshoo
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# With Joshoo

## Record

### With Joshoo

**Summary.** Trumpeter, horn arranger, and multi-instrumentalist (Josh Shpak / Joshoo). Public credits include trumpet on Peter Gabriel's i/o era: Road to Joy and Olive Tree, plus membership in Gabriel's 2023 i/o The Tour band. Former Ripe trumpet player. Co-writer with Luke Francis Walton on Ok Ok OK.

Trumpeter, horn arranger, and multi-instrumentalist (Josh Shpak / Joshoo). Public credits include trumpet on Peter Gabriel's i/o era: Road to Joy and Olive Tree, plus membership in Gabriel's 2023 i/o The Tour band. Former Ripe trumpet player. Co-writer with Luke Francis Walton on Ok Ok OK. Collaborator hub for Luke F. Walton and Scoobert Doobert credits with Joshoo. Status on site: complete. Also credited as: Josh Shpak. Josh Shpak records and tours as Joshoo, Berklee-trained trumpeter, horn arranger, and producer (Clark Terry protégé; Yamaha artist page). Before the Gabriel work he was the trumpet player in Ripe, the Berklee-originated Boston/LA funk/alt-pop band: Josh Shpak and Calvin Barthel on horns (trumpet and trombone) from the 2011 founding lineup per Wikipedia) and Discogs. The Peter Gabriel credits are on public record. Shpak joined i/o The Tour (2023) on trumpet, French horn, EWI, keyboards, and vocals: Gabriel's engineer Oli Jacobs overheard him rehearsing next door and recommended him (At The Barrier, PeterGabriel.com). Album credits: trumpet on Road to Joy and Olive Tree (Pitchfork, Wikipedia I/O)). On Olive Tree, session detail includes home-studio trumpet overdubs (summer 2022) and a stacked horn arrangement for a full-section sound. With Scoobert Doobert: Ok Ok OK (2023, Joshoo × Scoobert Doobert), co-written by Josh Shpak and Luke Francis Walton per streaming metadata. Same person discussed touring, sync, and Apple commercials on Love Music More. Co-writing: Ok Ok OK (2023 · Joshoo × Scoobert Doobert · Shpak + Walton writers). Love Music More: Touring in Peter Gabriel's Band & Landing Apple Commercials with Joshoo (LMM interview). Press on Joshoo releases: Joshoo (official), Yamaha Artists: Josh Shpak, Pitchfork: Road to Joy (Josh Shpak trumpet), PeterGabriel.com: Road to Joy credits, PeterGabriel.com: Olive Tree credits, Wikipedia: I/O The Tour personnel, Wikipedia: Ripe (Josh Shpak trumpet), Shoutout LA: Joshoo artist profile.

- Themes: collaborator, Joshoo, joshoo, Josh Shpak, Co-writing, Love Music More
- Record id: with:joshoo

Archived from https://lukefwalton.com/with/joshoo/. Canonical: https://lukefwalton.com/with/joshoo/. This is a surface record: a normalized public-canon summary built from the same data modules as the live page, not a copy of the rendered page.