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After an 8 city tour in the US opening for Maceo Parker at legendary venues including the Fillmore in San Francisco and the Roxy in West Hollywood, Grand Pianoramax has just finished a European tour with Mike Ladd, including shows in Paris, Berlin, London, Edinburgh, Zürich, Lisbon and the Cully Jazz Festival. After Europe, Grand Pianoramax played three memorable nights to full capacity crowds at the Blue Frog in Mumbai, India - which you can see for yourself in the Grand Pianoramax photo gallery on iLike.
This intense touring activity and new album The Biggest Piano In Town in stores now have received rave press reviews and profiles in many top US and Europe publications including BPM, Edinburgh Evening News and Metro London. Watch videos from recent in-studio sessions and concerts, plus read excerpts from the critics’ comments right here and read Downbeat Magazine’s June issue feature about Grand Pianoramax leader Leo Tardin below.
(click image to read the full article)
Do you think the new disc is really the biggest in town? Leave a comment and let us know…
June 9th, 2008
We are pleased to announce that Alon Yavnai’s album Travel Notes is now in stores! The album is ObliqSound’s 10th release in our instrumental series and we couldn’t be prouder.
Travel Notes is now available nationwide in the USA and Canada, and worldwide on iTunes (with a digital exclusive bonus track). CD release in Europe and other territories is set for September.
Travel Notes is a musical diary of pianist Yavnai’s life as a touring musician with a multi-national upbringing, including influences from his culture from Israel, travels in Cape Verde, Angola, and Brazil. Melding solo piano with a trio combination featuring stand-out members Omer Avital on bass and oud and Jamey Haddad on percussion, the album is an intimate and personal songbook with international flavors.
Learn more about Travel Notes by clicking here for critics quotes, free download links and more.
May 13th, 2008
If you were discovering new music on iLike, you could listen to streaming tracks from John Shannon’s new disc American Mystic, read his personal tour blog, and even get free music (like the free MP3 of “Forgiveness). You could also get a world-premiere listen of Max Wild’s new song “Teerera (featuring Oliver Mtukudzi)” and watch “The Making of Teerera” video, which features, Max, Oliver and Oliver’s son Sam, also featured on the track.
So, what are you waiting for? Click here for John Shannon and here for Max Wild. We like it!
April 21st, 2008
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!
October 31st, 2007
Attention Grand Pianoramax fans! After rave reviews from the 2005 self-titled album Grand Pianoramax (OS 009) ran in Billboard, BPM, iTunes and more press outlets around the globe, the evolution continues with the group’s second album The Biggest Piano In Town (OS 018) and an advance three-country mini-tour in Portugal, Switzerland and Germany!
A blend of phuture funk, hip-hop, spoken word and the music of one of the most creative pianists on the scene today, this album will release October 22, 2007 exclusively in Switzerland, followed by worldwide release in winter 2008.
Guests on the album include drummers Deantoni Parks (Kudu, Me’shell Ndegéocello) and Adam Deitch (John Scofield), American MCs Mike Ladd, Celena Glenn (Coco Rosie), Invincible (Platinum Pied Pipers), and French folk/rap artist Spleen. For sound clips, more info and to pre-order the album, read our release page. (Or check out the Geneva Tribune’s Sonotone blog entry about the album, with a full stream of The Hook, featuring Celena Glenn.
The all-live keyboards/drums duo will take the show on the road from November 1 through November 11 on a special three-country tour, as Leo Tardin & Grand Pianoramax tour with MC Mike Ladd! Check our tour page for more info about the dates in Portugal, Germany and Switzerland (plus three special radio shows on Radio Suisse Romande).
Stay tuned for press reviews, news from the tour and more!
October 18th, 2007
Are you a closet Facebook addict? Looking for the latest tunes and music recommendations? If so, come join ObliqSound’s new Facebook group.
We’ll share the latest press, artist news and offer special ObliqSound/Facebook group-member discounts from our online store - and sometimes even give away FREE things. Really! Come join us and we’ll prove it.
September 10th, 2007
ObliqSound and JazzThing Magazine are pleased to present a selection featuring staples from the ObliqSound catalogue like Lionel Loueke and Grand Pianoramax, as well as the rising stars from the label’s upcoming releases. Andy Milne & Gregoire Maret, as well as Pietro Tonolo, Gil Goldstein, Steve Swallow, and Paul Motian’s upcoming Your Songs – The Music of Elton John are just a few of the ObliqSound releases sure to make waves in 2007.
Details on JazzThing….or details on ObliqSound…Read it in every language and it still sounds great!
Available at German retailers starting April, 2007
March 23rd, 2007
Attention W Hotel shoppers! 
The ObliqSound Remixes Vol. 2 CD and Limited Edition Handbag are now available for sale in the W Hotels in Chicago, Dallas and New York. You can buy the Remixes Vol 2 disc solo, or choose a limited edition handbag designed by the one-and-only Karim Rashid - great for toting around your iPod, wallet, glasses and other small essentials. Each handbag comes pre-stuffed with Remixes Vol 2 CD, too!
The blogosphere is lighting up for the project, with popular sites like Luxist showcasing the item’s sale at MoMA Design Store.
March 23rd, 2007
Two tracks from Aisha Duo’s album Quiet Songs have been licensed for pre-loaded to the newly launched Microsoft Vista Suite. The songs (”Despertar” and “Amanda”) are pre-loaded onto all Microsoft Vista Windows Media Player playlists.
This is a global license which will offer some well deserved attention to Aisha Duo. Bravo!
March 23rd, 2007
Just releasing in France, UK, and Germany, Lionel Loueke’s debut solo album on ObliqSound features Herbie Hancock, Cyro Baptista, Gregoire Maret and Gretchen Parlato. Selected as Vibrations Magazine Disc of the Month, click here to listen to or buy the album.
“Full of ease, and often radiant.” - Jim Macnie, Downbeat, November 2006
January 17th, 2007
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