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Big Crown Records

Artists

 * Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band
 * Bobby Oroza
 * Brainstory
 * El Michels Affair
 * El Michels Affair & Black Thought
 * Holy Hive (Homer Steinwiess & Paul Spring) (catalog)
 * Lady Wray
 * Lee Fields & The Expressions (catalog)
 * Les Imprimés
 * Liam Bailey
 * Lizette & Quevin
 * Max Shrager
 * Okonkolo
 * Paul & The Tall Trees
 * Surprise Chef
 * The Shacks
 * The Heart Tones
 * The Lakesiders
 * Thee Marloes

Former label artists also include the band 79.5. Big Crown reissues albums from now defunct artists, notably the work of Sunny & The Sunliners. Other reissus artists on the roster are Boco, Kool & Together, Mickey & The Fabulous Five, Soul Explosives, and The Demands.

Asa Taccone
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/145459/fela-star-sahr-ngaujah-on-his-holy-sht-moment/ great sahr innterview

Acting credits
Flying over sunset

http://www.tessthemusical.com/blogs/in-the-studio-with-tam-mutu

https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/tam-mutu

https://theatricalia.com/person/96j/tam-mutu

https://www.uktw.co.uk/biog/Tam+Mutu

Ricky Rojas
Ricky Rojas is a Chilean-born Australian actor, singer, and dancer.

Theatre
Adapted from and... (CONTINUE ADAPTING!) He also took part of the workshop of ZORRO THE MUSICAL, and of the recording of LOVE NEVER DIES concept album.

Australian Theatre for Young People

http://www.rickyrojas.com/Ricky_Rojas/Home.html

Emigrated to Australia in 1985 at age five. Musical family. Moved to London in early 2000s.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12314830/

Selected credits

Hosts

 * 1) 216: TENEMENT (NICK MULLEN)

lived into a garage in LA // moved to new york with $2000 freelance writing

career a series of false starts (after two hours in) 1:46:10–1:50:20 self-described himself a string feature comedian in his early career


 * Formerly worked at Vox Media as a paralegal briefly

In media (BBNG)
In Your Eyes (IV) own article?


 * American Crime (2017)
 * Eveythign, Eveything 2017
 * Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)



Can't Leave the Night (III)


 * The Blacklist (2015)
 * Better Call Saul (2017)

Birds of Prey (2020) Sour Soul

among other synchs.. including aonga they have written and produced

Appeared on Jimmyt Limmel in 2015 as Earl Sweatshirt's backing band

Grand theft auto

WorldWide FM CAyo Perico (2020)

Libera Awards
Winners: Libera site:

Nomination lists


 * 2019: https://liberaawards.com/2019-nominees/
 * 2018: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/awards/8460782/2018-a2im-libera-awards-nominees
 * 2017: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2017/04/nominees-a2ims-indie-music-libera-awards-announced.html
 * 2016: https://shorefire.com/releases/entry/soundexchange-presents-the-2016-a2im-libera-awards
 * 2015: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/05/a2im-names-libera-indie-music-award-nominees.html
 * 2014: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/06/a2im-names-indie-libra-awards-nominees.html
 * 2013: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/04/a2im-announces-indie-artist-label-2013-libby-awards-nominees.html
 * 2012: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/05/bon-iver-awolnation-battles-lead-nominations-for-a2im-libera-indie-music-awards.html

2018
Saddle Creek –2 Dualtone 3 Partisan 3 Sub POp 7 Dead Oceans 4 Merge –3 ATo- 6 Naxos – 3 City Slang –2 7K! Records -2 Ninja Tune –2 Loma Vista – 3 Matador Records –4 Sargent House –2 Jagjaguwar –3 Daptone –3 4AD –2 XL – 5 Rough Trade – 2 Run the Jewels, Inc. –2 Luaka Bop –2 Nacional Records – 3 Numero Group –3

Album of the Year
 * Big Thief – Capacity
 * Chuck Berry – Chuck
 * Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex
 * Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
 * Slowdive – Slowdive

Best American Roots and Folk Album
 * Aimee Man – Mental Illness
 * Big Thief – Capacity
 * Hiss Golden Messenger – Hallelujah Anyhow
 * Kevin Morby – City Music
 * Phoebe Bridgers – Strangers in the Alps

Best Blues Album


 * Benjamin Booker – Witness
 * Chuck Berry – Chuck
 * Joe Bonamassa – Live at Carnegie Hall
 * The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Front Porch Sessions

Best Classical Album
 * Boris Giltburg; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor) – Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 - 8 Études-Tableaux, Op. 33
 * Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta (conductor) – Novák: In the Tatra Mountains, Lady Godiva & Eternal Longing
 * Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin (conductor) – Copland: Symphony No. 3 & 3 Latin – American Sketches
 * Grandbrothers – Open
 * Luca D'Alberto – Endless

Best Country/Americana Album
 * Deer Tick – Deer Tick Vol. 1
 * Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
 * Lee Ann Womack – The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
 * Midland – On the Rocks
 * The Wild Reeds –The World We Built

Best Dance/Electronic Album
 * Bicep – Bicep
 * Four Tet – New Energy
 * Nicolas Jaar – Sirens (Deluxe Edition)
 * Oneohtrix Point Never – Good Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 * Sylvan Esso – What Now
 * Yaeji – EP2

Best Jazz Album
 * Kamasi Washington – Harmony of Difference
 * Kiefer – Kickinit Alone
 * King Krule – The Ooz
 * Mike Stern – Trip
 * Thelonious Monk – Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960

Best Hip-Hop/Rap Album
 * Lil Baby – Harder Than Hard
 * Meyhem Lauren & DJ Muggs – Gems From the Equinox
 * Sean Price – Imperious Rex
 * Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
 * Wu-Tang Clan – The Saga Continues

Best Latin Album
 * Chicano Batman – Freedom Is Free
 * Él Mató A Un Policía Motorizado – La Síntesis O'Konor
 * Eliane Elias – Dance of Time
 * Ibeyi – Ash
 * La Vida Boheme – La Lucha

Best Live Act
 * Father John Misty
 * Flying Lotus
 * King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
 * Nick Cave
 * Queens of the Stone Age

Best Metal Album
 * Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
 * Converge – The Dusk In Us
 * Mutoid Man – War Moans
 * Myrkur – Mareridt
 * Powerflo – Powerflo

Best R&B Album
 * Jamila Woods – HEAVN
 * Katie Hargrove – Katie Hargrove
 * Kelela – Take Me Apart
 * Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black
 * Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Soul of a Woman

Best Rock Album
 * Bully – Losing
 * Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface
 * Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
 * The National – Sleep Well Beast

Best Outlier Album
 * Alex Cameron – Forced Witness
 * Arca – Arca
 * Moses Sumney – Aromanticism
 * Sleaford Mods – English Tapas
 * Sneaks – It's a Myth

Creative Packaging
 * Bob’s Burgers – The Bob’s Burgers Music Album
 * Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
 * Hüsker Dü – Savage Young Dü
 * Sharon Jones & the E.L. Fields Gospel Wonders – Heaven Bound/Key to the Kingdom
 * The National – Sleep Well Beast

Independent Champion
 * Bandcamp
 * MERLIN
 * NPR
 * SoundExchange
 * Thirty Tigers
 * Vinyl Me Please

Marketing Genius
 * Bob's Burgers (Sub Pop Records) – The Bob’s Burgers Music Album (Marketing Lead: Jon Strickland)
 * King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (ATO Records) – Polygondwanaland (Marketing Lead: Eric Moore / Jon Salter / Dave McClain)
 * Perfume Genius (Beggars Group) – Wreath Video Contest (Marketing Lead: Rian Fossett, Marisa Gesualdi, Gabe Spierer, Hana Mogulescu)
 * Radiohead (Beggars Group) – OKNOTOK (Marketing Lead: Radiohead, Patrick North, Blake Thomas, Pablo Douzoglou, Claire Taylor)
 * Run the Jewels (Run the Jewels, Inc.) – Call Ticketron! - 646.846.RTJ3 (www.1215.runthejewels.com) (Marketing Lead: Amaechi Uzoigwe & Lee Martin)
 * Slowdive (Secretly Group) – Slowdive Album Campaign (Marketing Lead: Phil Waldorf / Tom Davies)

Best Re-Issue
 * Alice Coltrane – World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
 * Elliott Smith – Either/Or: Expanded Edition
 * Fela Kuti – Fela Kuti Box Set #4 Curated By Erykah Badu
 * Hüsker Dü – Savage Young Dü
 * Radiohead – OKNOTOK

Breakthrough Artist
 * Alice Merton – No Roots
 * Jamila Woods – HEAVN
 * Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
 * Princess Nokia – 1992 Deluxe
 * Trippie Redd – A Love Letter to You

Best Sync Usage
 * Cigarettes After Sex (Partisan Records / Spanish Prayers) – The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu (Music Supervision: Jessica Dolinger)
 * Luca D'Alberto (7K! Records) – Salvation Episode One (Music Supervision: Nora Felder)
 * Run the Jewels (Run the Jewels, Inc.) – EA's FIFA '18 Official trailer starring Cristiano Ronaldo (Music Supervision: Raphaella Lima & Amaechi Uzoigwe)
 * Sofi Tukker (Ultra Music) – Apple - Meet iPhone X (Music Supervision: TBWA\Media Arts Lab)
 * William Onyeabor – Apple- iPhone 7 Plus - Barbers (Music Supervision: Apple/Licensing: Fine Gold Music)

Best World Album
 * Forró In The Dark – Sandcastle
 * Ibeyi – Ash
 * Ibibio Sound Machine – Uyai
 * Tribalistas – Tribalistas
 * Vieux Farka Touré – Samba

Label of the Year (Big)
 * ATO Records
 * Dead Oceans
 * Loma Vista Recordings
 * Ninja Tune
 * The Numero Group
 * Warp Records

Label of the Year (Small)
 * Awesome Tapes From Africa
 * Daptone Records
 * Kill Rock Stars
 * Sacred Bones Records
 * Triple Crown Records

Video of the Year


 * Arca – "Reverie"
 * Noga Erez – "Off the Radar"
 * NxWorries – "Scared Money"
 * Perfume Genius – "Die 4 You"
 * Superorganism – "Something for your M.I.N.D."

Personal
partner – Marifel RRT, end og life   2009Los Feliz Bought house in Los Feliz in 2018

Mississagua in 2016

Possibly this guy completely unverifiable

c2008 business in Toronto

Linkedin > Ryerson University (2001–2006 Bachekor of Commerce (Information Technology Managment / Marketing)

Filipino

Parents: Terry (Terrence) and Jo Jo Feeney (as per thanks in Sour Soul) (Jo Jo from Hong Kong) Richmond Hill

Formerly, owned a car dealership together

Younger brother, Julian

Style
Noted champion of producer collaboration and sample production.

Menahan Street Band era
First Connected with MST in 2009, after 50 Cent used a Dukes beat sampling the band ("The Traitor") without the permission of either party ("Talking in Codes" of the unofficial War Angel LP). Around 2011, became friends with and began working with the Menahan Street Band while living in Brooklyn.

In particular he worked with closely with the band's guitarist Tommy Brenneck and drummer Homer Steinweiss; at this time, he formed a short-lived production duo with Steinwiss under the name Silver & Gold and worked with a number of New York retro soul and funk artists at Brenneck's analog Dunham Studio through 2012. An album was ultimately never released, but one project made together during this time – Doug Shorts' EP Casual Encounter – was released by Daptone Records in 2019.

of note, Dukes and Steinweiss formed a short-lived production duo under the name Silver & Gold and worked with a number of New York soul and funk artists in the early 2010s.

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/frank_dukes

Menahan Street Band

Lens?

In his short career Dukes has already lent his distinctive sound to new and established artists such as Maino, Styles P, Sean Price, Lil B, AZ, Mobb Deep, Masta Ace, Danny Brown and Corey Gunz. BBNG: connection sept 19, 2011;

Critical of Spotify:
Dukes has supported and spoken for the rights and compensation of songwriters, particularly by music streaming platforms In 2019, he spoke out against Spotify and their push against the Copyright Royalty Board's increase of royalty payouts.

H3 Podcast
The H3 Podcast is a podcast channel created by H3h3 Productions in 2016. As of 2021, the podcast features three concurrent weekly series: the self-titled H3 Podcast, H3 After Dark, and Frenemies with Trisha Paytas.

H3 Podcast is one of the most popular video podcasts and has championed YouTube as a host for podcasts. As of 2021, it is currently one of the most popular video-oriented podcasts, following The Joe Rogan Experience and VIEWS with David Dobrik and Jason Nash in terms of overall listenership.

Series
H3 Podcast

H3 After Dark

Frenemies

Content Court

Personnel
Hosts


 * Ethan Klein – Host and producer (2016–)
 * Hila Klein – Co-host (H3 After Dark) and producer (2016–)
 * Trisha Paytas – Co-host (Frenemies) (2020–)

Production


 * Dan Swerdlove – producer
 * Ian Slater – producer and video editor
 * Zach Louis – audio editor and producer
 * AB Ayad – researcher and producer (2020–); run unaffiliated YouTube channel Starkilla
 * Love – H3 Podcast social media manager (2020–); runs unaffiliated accounts/website H3 Out of Context

Big Crown Records
Big Crown Records is an independent record label based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Founded in 2016 by Leon Michels and Danny Akalepse following their tenure with the label Truth & Soul.

Artists
As of 2022


 * 79.5
 * Bacao Rhythm & Steele Band
 * Bobby Oroza
 * Brainstory
 * El Michels Affair
 * Holy Hive
 * Lady Wray
 * Lee Fields & The Expressions
 * Liam Bailey
 * Lizette & Quevin
 * Okonkolo
 * Paul & The Tall Trees
 * Surprise Chef
 * The Shacks / Max Shrager

Reissue artists


 * Boco
 * Kool & Together
 * Mickey & The Fabulous Five
 * Soul Explosives
 * Sunny & The Sunliners
 * The Demands

Worldwide (radio program)
Worldwide, formerly WorldWide, is a long-running radio program hosted by DJ Gilles Peterson. The show was founded in 1990 at Kiss and was broadcast from 1998 to 2012 on BBC Radio 1. Since 2012, Worldwide has been part of BBC 6 Music's Sunday programming.

In 2016, Peterson co-founded

independent online radio platform Worldwide FM.

History
WorldWide was founded in the early 1990s (c.1990-1993) on Kiss by Peterson. Peterson had joined Kiss in 1990, following stints at Jazz FM, BBC Radio London, and various pirate radio stations during the previous decade. The show was broadcast on Sunday evening for eight years until Peterson decided to move to BBC Radio 1 in 1998. At Radio 1, Peterson presented Worldwide during the late night Wednesday/Thursday morning slot at 2:00 am to 4:00 am. The show was originally produced by Benji B and syndicated in fifteen countries. He began organizing the Worldwide Awards during this time, as well as the Worldwide Festivals in London and the south of France.

After thirteen years, Peterson and Worldwide moved to BBC Radio 6 Music in April 2012. Since that time, Worldwide has been broadcast on Sundays from 3:00 pm to 5:00pm.

Gilles Peterson presents: Worldwide (2010)

Bobby Oroza
Boris Nordin, professionally known as Bobby Orozo, is a Finnish musician.

History
chicano soul

singer-soungwriter

in Helsinki, Finland to

Born in the 1980s

Antti Nordin is a jazz guitarist

Siboné Oroza an ethnomusicologist and tango singer

His sister is songwriter Franka Oroza. Through his father, he is stepbrother to singers Reino Nordin and Siiri Nordin.

He is of mixed Finnish-Swedish-Norwegian-Bolivian descent

Oroza studied music in two Finnish conservatories, in Helsinki as well as Joensuu, a town in Eastern Finland. He never graduated.

His band, Cold Diamond & Mink, is known as the “house band” for the Helsinki-based Timmion Records.

Not really! Thanks to my mother, I speak Spanish, so in that way I can kind of relate to the Latin identity –­ but of course the music from that tradition not ‘my music’ per se. My music rather comments that tradition.”

His debut album This Love was released in May and ended up on three different Billboard charts.

Big Crown Records also got the title track to be featured in two Netflix shows: the comedy series Master of None and the documentary series Flint Town. The song also appears on the soundtrack of the Hollywood film Ingrid Goes West.

If this wasn’t enough, even the underground rap maestro Earl Sweatshirt built his track Hat Trick / Human Error around a sample from the song.

“A few other rappers also used the sample, as far as I know. Earl is after all a bit outside of the mainstream radar, and he follows the vinyl single market avidly. I guess that’s the way he found the song."

partner with Finnish actress Malla Malmivaara

LELAND WHITTY
Jesse Futerman & Haleek Maul – unspecified project (2014); saxophone, flute  Syos interview (2021)


 * 10:08–10:20
 * BBNG had a Euro tour planned for summer 2020 that was canceled (all improvisational music)
 * 25:02–26:20
 * free studio time overnight,
 * originally recorded sax into drum mics, but had to overdub rerecord sax lines at Alex house
 * 29:48–30:38
 * On being labeled as wavy or wonky: "Earlier BBNG stuff is lo-fi, and the element of recording to tape...Even the way I like to play saxophone... I'm not trying to strive to play everything perfectly in tune and I like to mess with the tuning a little bit.... we're not striving for metronomic perfection either"

studio
former studio of The Cowboy Junkies; recorded IV there

interested in establishing a studio for analog recording and becoming obsessed with collecting keyboards and old gear.

" perfect sound-proof garage." Us and Frank Dukes share it. Studio 69. after sour soul

interview from 2014 befreo then got this studio

"Where the band's last two albums were laid down digitally wherever they could get the space, III was recorded direct-to-tape at Revolution Recording in Toronto. Overdubs and mixing were completed at the band's home studio in Little Italy, a space shared with III producer Frank Dukes."

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/badbadnotgood_talk_creative_process_of_iii_stream_album_on_exclaimca

in 2013 had studio in Palmerston / Little Italy

The space is a focal point not only for BBNG's extended family of Canadian collaborators - which includes rising soul singers Charlotte Day Wilson and Daniel Caesar, Montreal production wiz Kaytranada, experimental electronic act Kilimanjaro and R&B singer/songwriter River Tiber - but a destination for Americans like Mick Jenkins, GoldLink and Kali Uchis, all of whom have dropped by to record.

If Drake's success has made Toronto a destination for A-list hip-hop and R&B acts in need of radio hits, BBNG's connections in the indie hip-hop, rock and pop worlds are helping to foster a parallel scene - with Dukes as the connector between the two.

One day Kaytra might stop by to record with BBNG (they have 30 to 40 unreleased tracks in the can), the next Dukes and producer Boi-1da might be working on drum sounds for a Rihanna song.

"There's an idea that the city has a sound and all these artists are putting it on the map, but if you think about what's happened in New York, Atlanta or L.A., not everyone was working together," says Sowinski. "They all had their owns spaces - and a lot of them were rental spaces - but the collective sound of artists putting out music is the movement.

good sour soul info -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDsPNt5gMpc

... and about working in the Toronto music scene

Random BBNG
Alexander Sowinski (Al Sow) uses new drums as of 2021. Also istanbul cymbals. on WWFM w Virgil Ahloag in June 2201.


 * Minute: 30:45–37:00
 * "parents" and sister
 * Grew up, big fan of Tribe and The Roots
 * inspired by internet DIY culture of the time (around formation)
 * PERMIERED THE LV 2018 SET

Tik Tok trend.

BBNG TOUR LIST

 * UNited States & Canada (May – June 2012)
 * (July 2012)
 * Europe & North America club cates (May – September 2014)
 * North America (October – December 2014)
 * Europe (May – June 2015)
 * North America Summer Fest (July – September 2015)
 * Europe & North American Summer Fest (April, June – August, November 2016)
 * Australia (Decemner 2016)
 * Western UNited States (January – February 2017)
 * Europe & North American Summer Fest (May– August 2017)
 * US Festivals (September – October 2017
 * Europe (October–November 2017)
 * Australia/NZ (January–February 2018)
 * Canada (March/April 2018)
 * Europe & US Summer Fest dates (May–August 2018)
 * Asia & South America (October–November 2019)
 * Europe & US Summer Fest dates (May–August 2018)
 * Asia & South America (October–November 2019)


 * Europe & North America club cates (May – September 2014)
 * North America (October – December 2014)
 * Europe (May – June 2015)
 * North America Summer Fest (July – September 2015)
 * Europe & North American Summer Fest (April, June – August, November 2016)
 * Australia (Decemner 2016)
 * United States (January – February 2017)
 * Europe & North America (May– October 2017)
 * Europe (October–November 2017)
 * Australia/NZ (January–February 2018)
 * Canada (March/April 2018)
 * Europe & North America (May–August 2018)
 * Asia & South America (October–November 2019)
 * Asia & South America (October–November 2019)

POD: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lygN3e7QE3c)


 * 2:16–2:26: psychedelic jazz,
 * alias "project whatever"
 * https://www.projectwhatever.com/
 * napanee district secondary school (napanee, ontario)
 * guitar and piano, drums

GOOD ARTICLES LA FOUND LATE 2020 STUFF ABOUT TORNOTO SONDS, SIBLINGS

https://www.vibe.com/2016/05/badbadnotgood-interview

https://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/how-badbadnotgoods-low-key-vibe-turned-them-into-musical-crown-princes/

"About three years ago we played our first show in Toronto, at Red Light, and that's where we met [hip-hop producer] Frank Dukes," recalls bassist Chester Hansen. "He ended up helming the whole project and bringing everyone together for it."

=== Source === Can you talk a little bit about working Frank Dukes and how your samples have ended up on such big songs by Drake and Rihanna?

We share our studio with him and for the past four years we’ve worked on so much stuff in our spare time when we’re not working on band stuff. Like, me and him would work on something, or him and Matty, or him and two of us, or any combination of people… Actually a song came out yesterday with Post Malone and Justin Bieber that Frank and Matty produced and wrote.

Frank’s paved his own way in terms of what he does, like making samples for people instead of making beats which he was doing exclusively for years. It’s a little crazy because a lot of those ideas, specifically the Rihanna song and the Drake song, those were things that me and him did years and years ago. When you do something like that, you don’t really have the intention of it going anywhere, and then with the contacts he has now and the work ethic he’s had for the last little while, he’s been working with everybody and sending ideas to everyone and seeing stuff like that come out of it is crazy.

'''You’ve spoken before about attending music school and how it wasn’t necessarily the best preparation for the industry itself. Could you expand on that?'''

I think our views on school have changed a lot since we first started doing interviews. When we started to get busier and started playing shows we were still in school and getting fed up with it. I think it’s really hard to create a curriculum to teach art or music or photography, something so subjective, that relies a lot on the personality of the person doing the art. It’s so important to have experience and to try writing songs and be exposed to things that you can’t express in a classroom but I think what we did learn there was really positive. I mean, I was only there for a year and a half and it’s a four year programme. You learn a lot of technical aspects of music that we still apply to everything that we do like just being able to analyse music in the kind of way a jazz musician would. I think the tools we got there were super valuable but we were at the point where we really wanted to do our own thing when we dropped out and ever since we’ve just been learning on our own.

=== Source March 2012 === But back to AssMilk. It was Hansen's Nikes, a footwear anomaly in a sea of jazz student boat shoes, that caught Sowinski's attention. In another class - ear training, they recall - Sowinski linked with fellow outlier Tavares over a mutual appreciation of digital classicist James Blake and meme-rapper Lil B. A few loose, convivial jam sessions later and, this time last year, that Odd Future remake was part of a performance test piece for a panel of jazz performance instructors.

...Last November BBNG opened for the righteous jazz-funk maverick Roy Ayers, stunning his audience in the process. But the ultimate big-up came in January when they travelled to London, UK, to play BBC personality Giles Peterson's Worldwide Awards alongside contemporary genre innovators like SBTRKT and Jamie XX...

Back at the pho spot, the "top-league" musicians seem more like some kids you'd see on the bus. They talk over each other, sometimes with their mouths full, often detouring between questions into a salvo of hilarious non sequiturs. Hansen, the quietest, reveals that as a teenage beatmaker he dreamt of forming a rap group called H Crew ("for Hansen") with his brothers.

Tavares, a multi-instrumentalist with no formal piano training, played in punk bands and obsessively recorded covers of Duran Duran and Talking Heads.

Affable smartass Sowinski stretches his arm to the street, a figurative sweep of the city bars where he's played "probably over 400 shows" drumming with high school bands.

Devout music nerdery led them to Humber jazz after high school, where they eventually felt too cloistered.

"[It's] a different world. No one knows what Pitchfork Music is," explains Tavares about the fusty codes inside jazz's breeding grounds. "People know Downbeat Magazine, and they know what, like, John Coltrane's solo on Giant Steps (Alternate Take) sounds like," he scoffs.

One artist with cojones, they concur, is Polaris Prize-nominated bass saxophone freaker Colin Stetson. It's the collaboration they want most, reveals Hansen. "He's changing music," adds Sowinski reverently. "He's doing the coolest thing in the world."

As for music school, the band no longer finds it necessary. Hansen and Tavares withdrew in February, while Sowinski's still enrolled, "but only for the dental plan."

played newport jazz fest Montreux Jazz Festival

Biographies
Andrew John Bartfay-Szabo ( Hungarian: Bártfay Szabó Andras Janos; born October 21, 1964, Buffalo, NY), commonly known as Andy Bartfay, is an American electrical engineer and co-founder of 908 Devices.

A first generation American, he is the son of two refugees from Hungary, Stephen John Bartfay-Szabo ( Hungarian: Bártfay Szabó Istvan Janos; born 1927?, Kingdom of Hungary) and Ava Maria Bartfay-Szabo (née Koepe; Hungarian: Koepe Eva Mária; born 1927?, Kingdom of Hungary). Raised in the Buffalo, New York-suburb of Williamsville by his parents and maternal grandmother, he was part of a small Hungarian-American community there, and his first language was Hungarian. He attended Williamsville public schools before graduating from the University of Rochester in 1986 with a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering. Following brief stints working for General Electric in Utica, New York, and the US Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, he moved to Boston to begin a successful career in electrical engineering.

In 1995, he married Patricia Foley Bartfay (née Patricia Anne Foley; born January, 20 1966, Rochester, NY) who, at the time, worked in international student programs and, like Bartfay-Szabo, was born and raised in Western New York and based in Boston. She was raised in a large, American Catholic family; her father was the son of Irish Catholics who immigrated to Rochester and mother was from Wisconsin and, like many Wisconsinites, had mixed German and Scandinavian roots. The couple's twin daughters Natalie Ava and Katherine Barbara Bartfay (born November 17, 1996, Cambridge, MA) were born a year after their marriage.

After living in the Boston suburb of Watertown for some time, the family moved to the North Shore of Massachusetts; they lived in the town of North Andover for a long period and later the coastal city of Newburyport.

Chad Hamilton
Chad Hamilton is a film and television producer. He is a partner at Anonymous Content and heads Esmail Corp, with Sam Esmail. In 2016, he was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama for his role as executive producer on Mr. RObot.

From missouri. graduated UNiversity of Missouri – Columbia in 1998 with a BA.

Hamilton began his career at talent agency Endeavor. In 2001, he joined Anonymous Content, which had been founded only a few years prior by career film producer Steve Golin. He became director of development. IN 2004, he became Vice President of Developemt.

In 2006, Paramount Classic rebradned to Parmaount Vantage. Hamilton joined the organization as VP of Production. Paramount Vantage was later consolidated back into the company. He later rejoined Anonymous Content.

In the mid-2010s, the work of Anonymous Content became prolific and critically successful. he worked on production and developing for a bit until his forst film was produced...

On management team of Anonyomous Content.

Sam Esmail's manager circa 2015 at Anonymos Content.

With Steve Golin, Hamilton executive produced Mr. Robot.

Credits

Collaboration with Sam Esmail.

Live in MAlibu.

Esmail Corp
Esmail Corp is an American television production company headed by producers Sam Esmail and Chad Hamilton. Its notable productions include Mr. Robot and Homecoming. Since its founding, Esmail Corp has had an exclusive production deal with Universal Content Production (NBCUniversal).

headed by producers Sam Esmail and Chad Hamilton.

banner first noticed second season of mr robot in July 2016.

First new project developing Homecoming in late 2016.

In Juky 2017 Bermuda Triangle.

Based in Culver City, CA.

Exists at Anonymous Content site

steve golin influence

History

Sam Esmail Inks Massive New Overall Deal With Universal Content Productions

New Media Mr. Robot inlcudes VR Experience and a tie-in book Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow

Catalog


 * Mr. Robot
 * Homecoming
 * Brairbatch

Upcoming projects: see sam esmail


 * battlestar gallactica
 * angylene
 * American radical
 * metropolis
 * faslse alarm

San Fermin
Name/ Years Active/ Instruments/ Release Contributions

Ellis Ludwig-Leone

Yale Music Comp '11 grad or undergrad?

Allen Tate

See: Allen Tate

Alan Tate is a singer-songwriter, best known for his baritone voice. He was the first member of San Fermin other than Ludwig-Leone, with Ludwig-Leone writing the male vocal part in San Fermin with him in mind. Tate has appeared on every San Fermin record.

While he had played in a few bands at the time, after graduating New York University with a degree in Philosophy, Tate was not planning to pursue music until his longtime friend Ludwig-Leone got him to be part of San Fermin in late 2011. While Ludwig-Leone almost entirely composes and produces San Fermin's music by himself, Tate co-wrote the band's non-album single "No Devil" with him.

Tate has released two albums as a solo artist, 2016's Sleepwalkers and 2019's In the Waves.

Stephen Chen

Stephen Chen is a saxophonist, primarily known for playing the baritone saxophone. He is an original member of San Fermin and is known for his high-energy performances and improvisational skills. Chen is also a music producer, arranger, and a multi-instrumentalist; he plays saxophones, flutes, keyboards, upright bass, and sings.

Chen attended Yale where he met Ludwig-Leone and performed some of his compositions. Chen was one of the early members recruited to San Fermin and has played on every San Fermin release.

Chen is an active part of the New York City music scene where he is part of and has contributed to many musical projects. Most notably, Chen played saxophones in the Brooklyn-based chamber rock band Great Caesar from 2008 until 2015 and has been the saxophonist of funk supergroup Ghost Funk Orchestra since 2016. In 2018, he recorded saxophone for Tall Heights new record Pretty Colors For Your Actions.

In March 2019, Chen released his solo debut EP under the moniker Behaviorist. The record features performances by Son Lux's Ian Chang, Rubblebucket's Adam Dotson, Julia Easterlin, as well as San Fermin's Tyler McDiarmid. As of mid-2019, Chen is working on his first full-length record.

John Brandon

John Brandon is a trumpeter and is an original member of San Fermin. He is known for his showmanship on stage. Brandon also acts as San Fermin's tour manager.

Brandon grew up in Columbus, Ohio where he started playing trumpet in elementary school. He graduated from Capital University in Ohio in 2007 with dual degrees in Music Education and Mathematics. Following graduation, he attended the Yale School of Music on a full scholarship. Brandon graduated in 2009 with a Masters in Music in Classical Performance. While at Yale, Brandon met Ludwig-Leon.

After graduating, Brandon moved to New York City where he taught music in the Bronx. He was recruited to the San Fermin project in 2012 during a period of time when he was focused on teaching, rather than performing.

Unlike most of the members of San Fermin, Brandon primarily works in a non-music related field. (IS THIS MISLEADING )

Michael Hanf

Michael Hanf is a percussionist, primarily known for playing the vibraphone and drums. He was recruited to San Fermin in 2012 by the collective's former drummer and has been with the band since. Hanf is also a composer, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist; outside of the drums, he plays mallet percussion instruments, auxiliary percussion, guitar, keyboards, and sings.

Growing up, Hanf played the drums and bells. He attended the College of Charleston and received an undergraduate degree in Music in 2008; at school, he studied composition and vibraphone performance. While still in school, Hanf played with Charleston's New Music Collective, was part of the Kevin Hackler Quintet, and sat in with many jazz groups.

Hanf has spent more than ten years working as session musician and musical collaborator. His contributions can be heard on records by the Dirty Kids, Joseph Keckler, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Sanda Weigl, Eleanor Friedberger, Jo French Camp, the Mona Dahls, Oh Land, The Soft News, Young Jean Lee's project Future Wife, as well as San Fermin vocalist Allen Tate's solo work. Hanf released his first solo record in 2010 under the name MdH. Around this time, he also joined the Danish project Hess is More as a producer and a performer; he has been a contributor since 2011.

He released a record with his band Manzana Carnal called Perfectly Flawed (and other lies) in March 2011. In mid-2012, Hanf and his former collaborator singer-songwriter Lindsay Holler joined came together as Oh Ginger and put out a series of three EPs. Since 2016, Hanf has released a series of singles his under own name. Beginning in 2018, Hanf has recorded and performed as one half of the duo Detective Logan with actress Kate Garfield.

Aki Ishiguro

Aki Ishiguro is a jazz guitarist and composer who has toured and been an unofficial member of San Fermin since 2014. Ishiguro has toured with the band when original guitarist Tyler McDiarmid has been unable to and contributed to the 2017 album Belong. In June 2019, with the release of San Fermin's single "The Hunger," it was indicated that Ishiguro had become a full member of the band though he would continue to switch off with McDiarmid.

Ishiguro grew up in Wisconsin where he learned to play guitar, trumpet, and piano. He attended Berklee School of Music where he received dual undergraduate degrees in Jazz Guitar Performance and Jazz Composition in 2006.

Ishiguro has been part of a series of New York-based groups. In 2008, Ishiguro released his first record with his contemporary jazz quartet Rhetoric titled Aki Ishiguro presents Rhetoric. Around this time he was also an early member of the indie group Lucius, though he does not appear on any of their records. As a session musician, Ishiguro has contributed to records by Jonathon Saraga, Matt Garska, Progger, Axel's Axiom, Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic, among others. He is also a touring jazz and pop musician.

Since 2016, he has been the guitarist for the jazz trio Mural. The group released their self-titled first album in 2016 and their sophomore album Shishi's Wish in 2018. That same year he also released two singles as part of the indie blues duo Little Fools.

Claire Wellin

Claire Wellin is a musician and actress. She is primarily a violinist and vocalist as well as plays the guitar, ukelele, and keys. She has also worked as an arranger and composer. Wellin joined San Fermin in 2017 at the beginning of their tour to support their record Belong, stepping into the role formerly held by Rebekah Durham.

Wellin grew up in North Dakota and attended Minnesota State University – Mankato, where she graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre in 2008.

Wellin leads the Queens-based "ghost folk" band Youth in a Roman Field. The group released their first record Of Grit and Grace in 2013 and their sophomore LP Storm Conductor in 2018. Outside of Youth in a Roman Field and San Fermin, Wellin plays with other New York groups including Nikkie & The Revivals, Haunting Renditions, and Kill The Whale. She has composed music for dance and theater works and has played on other artists records, including those of San Fermin members Allen Tate and Stephen Chen (Behaviorist).

Wellin is AEA/SAG-AFTRA actress who has appeared on stage and screen. Her most notable credit is as Réza in the Tony Award-winning musical Once; Wellin took over the role on Broadway in March 2013 and was part of the original cast for its first North American tour.

Karlie Bruce

Karlie Bruce is a singer-songwriter. She joined San Fermin in June 2019, replacing Charlene Kaye as the collective's lead female vocalist. Bruce is active in the New York City music scene and is a touring and session vocalist; she also plays the piano and saxophone.

Bruce is from Sydney, Australia. She studied classical music at university in Australia. She moved to New York City in 2005. Since 2008, Bruce has been an on-and-off background singer in Wheatus. During this period, Wheatus has released one album, 2013's The Valentine LP, and a collection of non-album singles.

In 2012, she wrote and produced her record Paperback Lover for which she collaborated with guitarist Chris Parello, bassist Derek Nievergelt, and drummer Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Other musical projects she is involved with include the post-disco group Escort and a the soundtrack project Psychedelephant with collaborator Chris Parello.

Eliza Bagg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/artistsweetsbecker/8748602793/in/album-72157633522286594/

http://www.elizabagg.com/

http://www.roomfulofteeth.org/roomful

https://www.newsounds.org/people/eliza-bagg/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/4605102-Eliza-Bagg / https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eliza-bagg-mn0003388172

Halldór Smárason

http://www.halldorsmarason.com/

http://www.halldorsmarason.com/uploads/2/3/2/1/23212420/halldo%CC%81r_sma%CC%81rason_-_cv__27.02.17_.compressed.pdf

played at Rockwood and some others

touring (2013)

TYler

was Allen's guitar teacher at NYU

January production

15 members... (plus Ellis?)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Uh1XRMAqdj/

Raymond James Mason (trombone)

Molly Yeh (glockenspiel)

http://mynameisyeh.com/mynameisyeh/nameisyeh.com/2012/12/best-sounds-2012.html

https://www.fromthetop.org/musician/molly-yeh/

Melissa Tong (violin) http://www.melissatong.com/html/news.php

WXPN notes:

John Brandon played in senior piece of ELL

[string quartet, trumpet, two sopranos]

undergraduate degree for ELL

ELL sent tracks to Alan from Banff

wrote Sonsick and Crueler Kind in New York, everything else in NY

played record front to back on first tour

called San Fermin: after graduation, ELL grappeling with adulthood. Found that now his peers would do crazy things to feel alive and melodramatic which he related to eg San Fermin. The Purple Land Victorian novel inspired visuals

https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2014/01/22/264873758/san-fermin-on-world-cafe

WSJ notes

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meeting-with-musical-friends-on-the-bowery-1450825276 / https://twitter.com/sanferminband/status/679769469678309376

ELL _ 15 musicians at Piano's, offered rcord deal next day

intended career as composer

on Stereotrashs:

http://mynameisyeh.com/mynameisyeh/2017/4/chocolate-chip-and-real-mint-cookies