Idiosyncratic albums and art projects from this Vancouver-based label.

www.offseasonrecords.com

Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” composer-pianist VIJAY IYER has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, shape-shifting presence in twenty-first-century music. He received a MacArthur Fellowship, a United States Artist Fellowship, and a Grammy nomination.

Composer, Guitarist, Songwriter.
https://www.facebook.com/gregoryuhlmannmusic

Tabla and Saxophone Multi-Instrumentalist Performer-Composer


After a long hiatus from playing professionally, I had a sudden meeting with a certain tárogató. This changed everything. 
One day, a Hungarian cellist friend from Kelowna rung me up and asked if I would head up to the Okanagan to perform a concert for the Okanagan Hungarian Society. To facilitate this happening, he shipped me his prized Stowasser tárogató, a German-made instrument considered the king of tárogotós. I was smitten. 
What followed was a round-the-world search for a tárogató to call my own. I called my favourite clarinet maker in Chile, Luis Rossi, who said he didn’t make tárogatós and suggested I try a maker (and former repairman of mine) in Toronto. Steve of Toronto said he couldn’t retool his clarinet shop to make me a tárogató, but he did suggest I contact Tóth & Tarsa of Budapest. Of course. Why didn’t I think of that first? Budapest!”
So, now I play a custom Albert-system cocobolo tárogató made by Toth & Tarsa of Budapest, Hungary, a replica Stowasser mouthpiece by Pillinger Mouthpieces of Middlesex, UK, a Kodama II ligature by Ishimori Wind Instruments of Tokyo, Japan, and Légère Signature synthetic reeds formulated by Guy Légère of Montréal, Canada.

saxophonist, composer, author, producer. Jazz is the perfume of the ear.

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