Super excited to share with you-all that pianist extraordinaire Gerald Clayton has been nominated for a Grammy in the “Best Improvised Jazz Solo” category! Gerald is a friend of vosotros; appearing on The Lazy Susan, as well as a subsequent Erykah Badu remix…

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To Do by How Long It Takes To Know [mp3]
[vosotros presents: the lazy susan]

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Real Thang (vosotros remix) [mp3]
[Erykah Badu remix contest]

Way to go, Gerald!

monday night vosotros bid Oscar Shedin adieu as he prepares to return to his homeland of Sweden- the land of beautiful people, free jazz, and nighttime. You-all may remember him from First Good Feeling, playing guitar and offering the vosotros plug—->vosotros musik feredalla

He is a wonderful guitarist and total sweedenheart and we wish him all the best.

if you haven’t used pandora, give it a try …. it’s a free online radio service that builds stations based on your listening preferences – their team of “senior music analysts” wade through thousands of records each month and add selected songs to the music genome project - using over 400 criteria, each song is categorized based on a number of factors designed to get at the “musicological elements of a song” – these criteria are used to hone in on your listening preferences.  here’s how it works –>> you type in a song or artist that you enjoy and pandora builds you a playlist of artists from the database that share similar criteria … here’s the cool part – the player will always explain why a song was chosen … and you can vote a song off the island if you’re not feeling it and the station will adapt accordingly.

i was excited to discover that a handful of tracks from the lazy susan have been added to the genome.  noelsson schmoelsson was tagged as “featuring jazz influences, heavy use of vocal harmonies, acoustic sonority, intricate melodic phrasing and use of a string ensemble”.  this gave me a lot of faith in the service … these guys are really taking the time to listen.  next I created a station around “PB&J … and g” … and I think gabe would be happy to know that they played me a T-Pain song because of its “modern r&b stylings, electronica influences, a subtle use of vocal harmony, mild rhythmic syncopation and extensive vamping.”  anyways, check out pandora – type in one of your favorite artists – and see where it takes you…

in other news, learning music continues their monthly residency at tangier tomorrow night at 10pm.  they’ll be playing for the next 3 wednesdays – go see this band!!!

:: John G (jay gee AKA J GILLA) 

Anthem Magazine just posted an interview with vosotros on their website – please give it a read! The article gives a nice overview of what we’ve been up to and our plans for the coming months. [Thanks to Nik for asking some really thoughtful questions!]

Thank you to everyone who made it out to LAND on Thursday!! To ring in the leap year, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of our residency in Little Tokyo and the release of our third album as a label – vosotros presents: the lazy susan.

The lazy susan was a year long collaborative effort, and features 32 musicians on 12 songs written by bassist Gabe Noel. The album introduces music by Noelsson Schmoelsson, Someone’s Piano, First Good Feeling, PB&J …and g, masunday, Saltar, My Moon Boots, The Carrot and Stick, Touhy, ump-off Pause Tape, How Long It Takes To Know, and Our Song.

Order the physical CD direct from vosotros!! Each album is handmade for you-all. Includes custom letterpressed packaging and a beautiful 28-page booklet with photos and lyrics. The album comes in 100% recycled, non-plastic packaging and is wrapped in biodegradable wood cellulose. Can you taste that piano?

On the digital front, we are excited to announce a partnership with one of our favorite Chicago labels, Thrill Jockey Records. They’ve built their own digital download store, offering high quality, DRM-free albums from a select group of independent labels. Visit FINA to see our catalog.

The Lazy Susan is also available from these fine digital retailers: Amazon | eMusic | iTunes

In other news, vosotros was recently featured on the Creative Commons blog.

Y en más otras noticias, LAZY SUSAN LISTENING PARTY at FOUND GALLERY in Silver Lake …. March 23rd … details at foundla.com.

And special thanks to Charles Altura, Aaron Arntz, Sam Barsh, Gene Coye, and PONG for playing on Thursday … kap kun krap…

[streaming at last.fm and iMeem]

And suddenly, it’s the end of January … and our 12th consecutive monthly residency at LAND in Little Tokyo. Come celebrate this Thursday! We have an amazing lineup of bands this month …

And be sure to visit lazy susan’s podcast – we’ve recently posted free downloads from Circus Minor, Readers, Tales of Banyan, and Restaurant.

We just posted two new free songs on lazy susan’s podcast – a track by Circus Minor (who played at LAND in December) and Tales of Banyan – a new project from Marcel Camargo, the lead singer of Saltar. Marcel will be performing next Thursday at our show in Little Tokyo alongside menage a moi, Readers, Restuarant, and at the speed of need.

Enjoy the rain – and the mountains while they last…

Visit the lazy susan podcast for a free download from Readers – part of the Community Pool Tapes project. We are very excited for them to perform at this month’s show at LAND in Little Tokyo… not to be missed. Stay tuned for details.

New podcast songs coming soon from Circus Minor, Restaurant, and more…