Lionel Loueke’s Virgin Forest and Ferenc Nemeth’s Night Songs nominated for 7th Annual Independent Music Awards!

October 31st, 2007

This just in…ObliqSound and our family of artists have been nominated for not one, but three spots for the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards!

Among the potentially award-winning songs and albums:

       

• Guitarist Lionel Loueke’s debut solo album on ObliqSound, Virgin Forest (OS 104), was nominated as a Finalist for Best World Fusion Album;
• The song ‘Kponnon Kpete,’ a beautiful track from Loueke’s Virgin Forest album was also nominated as a Finalist for Best World Traditional Song;
• Drummer Ferenc Nemeth’s debut solo CD Night Songs, featuring Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Lionel Loueke, Aaron Parks and John Patitucci as a jazz sextet, is also a Finalist for Best Jazz Album!

Loueke’s Virgin Forest album features Nemeth’s exceptional drumming (along with bassist Massimo Biolcati, who makes up the rest of the Gilfema (Lionel Loueke Trio) group - plus appearances by the great Herbie Hancock, Cyro Baptista, Gregoire Maret, Gretchen Parlato and more. Loueke returns the favor by appearing in fantastic form on guitar on Night Songs, Nemeth’s first album as a band leader. (Night Songs was released on Dreamers Collective Records, but is distributed in partnership with ObliqSound in North America)

Clearly, we’re thrilled that our ObliqSound artists are doing something right - and we hope you’ll agree and tell the world. The official judges results and winners of the IMAs will be announced in December 2007, but the people can vote until 2008 for the “Vox Populi” popular vote online.

Show your support by clicking the links above on each finalist announcement and vote for our nominees. Log in and vote early and often for our IMA Finalists, since it’s although it’s “an honor just to be nominated,” it’s also not bad to win, too! 

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