Brian Rolland

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Magellan

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Released: Jul 28, 2010

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Magellan
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Flying Into The Sunrise
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Kick it
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Catch Me If You Can
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Ask Me To
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Genre: Acoustic / Lyrical / Nu-Jazz
Location Boston, Massachusetts, Un
Profile Views: 65369
Last Login: 1/4/2012
Member Since 7/25/2006
Website BrianRolland.com
Record Label On the Full Moon
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Brian Rolland's Guitar Driven Gentle Jazz draws on a wide range of American, Latin, and Brazilian guitar styles splashed with world, new age, and rock hues. Lots of colorful sounds and voices. A virtuouso guitarist from Boston, he was trained in classical composition along with jazz, while also pursuing blues, rock, flamenco, and renaissance all of which coalesced in a unique soundstyle rooted in acoustic nylon string guitar with many and varied electric branches. His compositions and playing carry the hallmark of instant recognition.
Members
Brian Rolland: guitars, an occasional vocal .... Bob Weiner: percussion .... John Lockwood: stand up and electric bass .... Dave Mattacks: drums and percussion .... Hope Carpenter, Marianne Murphy, Katy Auburn: singers with the vocal band (most lead vocals are Hope, 'Kick It!' is all Marianne)
Influences
~APRIL 2009: Finalist in the influential International Songwriting Competition (ISC is 'THE songwriting competition to take note of' says The New York Times) for the tune 'Catch Me If You Can', which you're probably listening to right now............................................................................. ~MAY 2008: 'The Tide's In' debuted at #3 on the New Age/World Music/Ambient charts (NAR) for the month of April 2008. 'Doliber's Cove' from 'The Tide's In', spent 28 weeks in the Top 10 New Age singles Charts at Sirius Satellete (Dogstar) Radio through 2008 The disc also crept onto college top 10 charts - Jazz and World Music- across North America, with plenty of momentum and airplay both in the US and abroad............................................................................... ~JANUARY 2007: 'Dreams of Brazil' was honored as one of 25 albums qualifying for nomination as Best Instrumental Album - Acoustic for 2006 in the highly regarded New Age Reporter awards, and is fast becoming the Soundtrack of Choice for Artists and Lovers worldwide. The CD's recent success on the charts in the USA and ongoing international radio airplay is borne of a broad and deep creative background........................................................................................ ~JUNE 2006: 'Dreams of Brazil' hits #12 on the New Age Reporter charts.................................... ~Both 'The Tide's In' and 'Dreams of Brazil' were named by The Zone Music Reporter as among the TOP 100 ALBUMS of their year of release .............................................................................................................................................................. Rolland is a native of Cambridge MA, where his early years were filled with every imaginable kind of Music, Art, and Architecture. On the Music side, Blues and folk greats like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Tom Rush who he heard at the Club 47 in the '60s, a constant stream of Jazz greats like Ahmad Jamal, Miles Davis - sharing a billing with Tina Turner at one wonderful event- Weather Report and Keith Jarrett through the Jazz Workshop, Greater Boston's exceptional classical music scene bringing Stravinsky, Bach, Mozart, Mahler and Webern, to John Cage, Leon Kirchner, and Philip Glass, and a vibrant rock scene that created The J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, and Hendrix live at the old Boston Garden - then from further afield, Kenny Burrell, King Sunny Ade, AC Jobim and Milton Nascimento, among many others, were his creative influences. And let's not forget the Gamelans or the Pygmies of the Ituri, or John Dowland, or Jim Hall's guitarwork.
Sounds Like
Drawing broadly from Nature - the sounds of surf, winds, water, and birdsong, a visual palette freely translated from the colors of the skies, clouds and their movements, Sun, Moon, stars, the everchanging light from Dawn to Dusk, and an emotional palette of forest and beach, mountains and desert, and what they bring to the heart - Rolland is a Master at fashioning rock, blues, jazz, Spanish, Brazilian, Latin, and West/South African musical flavors for acoustic and electric guitars. Usually with plenty of percussion and often some beautiful, cooking voices .........................~'.~'.~'A DIFFERENT MIX OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN SENSIBILITIES.~'.~'.~'

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