Jamie Janover

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"All Strings Considered"

This recording captures musical conversations between two innovative hammered dulcimer players, Jamie Janover and Michael Masley. The combination of their diverse and unique techniques reaches far into new realms of the timbral universe, from cascading symphonies of sound to spacious ethereal ambience.

"Realms"

This pioneering new CD has eleven tracks :1. Third Stone From The Sun (Jimi Hendrix)2. The Seventh Sea (Janover/Burhoe)3. Cello Suite #1: Prelude (J.S. Bach)4. Ride (Janover / Furtado)5. Alabama (John Coltrane)6. Perculcimer (Janover / Travis)7. Scribe (Janover / Quist)8. Amaxoxo (Trad. West African)9. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Charles Mingus)10. Dark Star (Grateful Dead/ R. Hunter)11. ADHD (Janover / Holstein)

There are 20 guest musicians on the CD ! :Artist / (Who they have played with)Darol Anger (David Grisman Quintet, Psychograss, Turtle Island StringQuartet)Ty Burhoe (Curandero, Soloist)Mark Diamond (James Moody, Peter Rowan)Kai Eckhardt (John McLaughlin, Trilok Gurtu, Al Di Meola, StanleyClarke)Cheryl Etu (Chupacabra, Tribal folk)Jon Fishman (Phish)Tony Furtado (Rounder recording artist, Sugarbeat)Aaron Holstein (Boogie Shoes, Squadzilla, Nederland Acid Jazz, Buem)Edwin Hurwitz (Shockra, Nederland Acid Jazz, Wendy Woo Band)Howard Levy (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Trio Globo)Tye North (Leftover Salmon, Nederland Acid Jazz, Zambiland Orchestra)Jeff “APT.Q-258” Sipe (Aquarium Rescue Unit, Leftover Salmon, Jazz IsDead)Beth Quist (Bobby Mcferrin, Serfe)Bakhane Seck (Baaba Maal)Michael Travis (The String Cheese Incident, Nederland Acid Jazz)Sally Van Meter (David Grisman, Jerry Garcia)Dave Watts (Shockra, Skin, The Motet, Mo Realms, Nederland Acid Jazz)The Jazz Mandolin Project with :Jamie Masefield, Stacey Starkweather and Gabriel Jarrett.

Jamie Janover is a hammer dulcimer player, drummer and percussionistcurrently based in Boulder Colorado.The hammered dulcimer is a stringedinstrument which is played with small mallets called “hammers”. It beganevolving from ancient Middle-Eastern Instruments and is now an AmericanFolk instrument that is also found in many other countries around theworld. Jamie Janover began his musical journey on the drums and soonbrought his percussive techniques to the hammered dulcimer. He has aunique approach to the instrument and employs several unusualtechniques.

Jamie Janover’s latest hammered dulcimer CD,”Realms” is a groundbreaking recording. Each track is from a different realm of music -styles that are not normally played on the hammered dulcimer such as :jazz, classical, African, Middle-Eastern, rock, bluegrass, hip-hop, acidjazz, Indian etc. The recording also features 20 special guests artistsincluding members of Phish, The String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon,The Jazz Mandolin Project, The Flecktones, Baaba Maal’s band, Jazz IsDead, Bobby McFerrin’s Circle Songs and The David Grisman Quintet.

“Realms” has received much critical acclaim. Here’s what the critics aresaying :

“An artist who scores heavily in the originality stakes is JamieJanover. He plays the hammered dulcimer, and boy, does he play it!Realms is his (fifth) album to date, and what a gem it is. Janover hasan all-star cast of heavy friends including members of Leftover Salmon,String Cheese Incident, Phish and The Jazz Mandolin Project, as well asDarol Anger, Sally Van Meter, Tony Furtado, (Kai Eckhardt and HowardLevy). But rest assured; it’s Janover’s incredibly diverse andimaginative playing that occupies the limelight. The music he tackles isfar more complex and experimental than of most hammered dulcimerplayers.” Mick Skidmore, Relix Magazine

“His newest disk, “Realms”, offers a vast array of instrumental settingsfor Janover to display his skill ... the disc is a surprisingly complexshowcase of unpredictability and ability.” David Surchuk, The Boulder Weekly

“Relaxation and beauty are to be found on this album, sided withtalented sidemen and an assortment of genres.” Christopher Orman , Jambands.com

“Jamie Janover takes both the idea of dulcimer as drum and idea oftravel through music to their logical extremes.” Carrie Crompton, Dulcimer Player News

“(The) instrument is a hammered dulcimer and Janover is its master.” David Surchuk, The Boulder Weekly

“I’ve never seen anything like it - amazing! A very great musician!” Trey Anastasio, guitarist, Phish

A self-taught master of improvisation, Jamie Janover has developed aunique percussive style. He began playing music on the drums at agefourteen and has gone on to become a diverse instrumentalist, familiarand comfortable with many different styles of music. Jamie plays thehammered dulcimer, drumset, percussion, tabla, udu, bongos, congas,timbales and didjeridoo. Since moving to Boulder Colorado in 1995, Jamiehas played with a diverse group of bands and solo artists including TheString Cheese Incident, The Dave Watts Motet, Keller Williams,Zestfinger, Stewart Lewis, Bruce Hayes, The Zambiland Orchestra,Butterhead, The Dude of Life, Squatnik, Tribal Folk, Black Dog,Nederland Acid Jazz, The Hip-Bop Workshop, Beth Quist, Chupacabra, SoulJazz Massive, One Flight Up, Squadzilla and his own band, Jamie Janoverand the Realms Ensemble. He has also performed on stage with Phish,Stanley Jordan, Bela Fleck, Govt’ Mule, Leftover Salmon, The Slip, KarlDenson’s Tiny Universe, Babatunde Olatunji, The Hanuman Trio, JoulesGraves, The Tony Furtado Band, Skin, Paul McCandless, Darol Anger, MikeMarshall, Dr. Didg, T. Lavitz, Count M’butu, Jimmy Herring, John Cowan,Derrek Trucks, The Jazz Mandolin Project, Future Man, Sandip Burman,Shockra, Acoustic Junction, Gib Droll, Stanton Moore, Fat Mama, ShantiGroove, Jive, Tha Muse Meant and Peter Rowan. Jamie has appeared on over20 official commercial recording releases including CDs by The StringCheese Incident, Keller Williams, Zestfinger, Stewart Lewis, Wendy Woo,Bruce Hayes, Chupacabra and Stephen Halpern.Jamie is reinventing the hammered dulcimer. Having come from a drummingbackground, he recognized the incredible potential of the instrument andfocused on the percussive techniques of playing the strings. Over time,Janover has developed his own approach to the instrument and a uniquestyle characterized by the intricate interplay between rhythm andmelody, the use of odd time signatures, metric modulation and dynamicchanges of volume and tempo. He has done extensive exploration into therealm of improvisation, often creating extended spontaneouscompositions. He later began playing the tabla, congas and bongos andexpanded his percussive reach into the world of hand drumming. He alsolearned to play the didjeridoo while living in Australia in 1990. JamieJanover released his first solo hammered dulcimer recording “StellarConversations” in 1988 followed by a multi track recording in 1989 thatfeatured Janover on hammered dulcimer, drums and percussion called“Trapezohedron”. “Streams of Consciousness” was released in 1989 andalso featured Janover on the didjeridoo. Having acquired one of the bestinstruments one can find (a fully chromatic, four plus octave hammereddulcimer complete with a dual damper pedal system built by Sam Rizzetta)Jamie put out his first CD called “Evolutions” which consists of 12solo improvisations recorded in the summer of 1993. His most recent CDis called “Realms”. Released in Oct. of 1998, the recording marks theexpansion of Jamie’s musical directions. Each song was inspired by adifferent style of music. The CD features twenty guest musicians playinga wide variety of instruments. Jamie plays hammered dulcimer on everytrack and drums, percussion, tabla, udu, tamboura or didjeridoo onseveral. The next CD called “All Strings Considered” is scheduled to bereleased in 2000 and is an album of duets with the innovative bowhammercymbalom player Michael Masley. Jamie has traveled all over the U.S. playing his dulcimer in publicwhenever possible. He has also played in Canada, Africa for the Masai ofKenya and in Australia.In 1998 Janover launched Realm Music, an independent record label thatcarries his music and CDs of artists with whom he has worked. Based inBoulder, Colorado, Realm Music’s mission is to spread the musicalvisions of independent artists. Music that is unique and moves the mindand the body. The label has a web site where one can listen to and orderCDs at www.realmmusic.com. One can learn more about Jamie at his website: jamiejanover.com. Jamie is also a professional photographer. You cansee examples of his work at photorealms.com. Janover’s music has been featured on the NPR radio program New Soundsand has been used for television soundtracks and theater and danceperformances. Jamie plays for weddings and private parties and has donemany presentations on the hammered dulcimer, tabla and didjeridoo forschool assemblies.

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