Guitarist and oud master Gordon Grdina releases two diverse yet equally stunning new albums via his Attaboygirl Records label on February 16, 2024
Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow with Fathieh Honari melds Persian and improvised music with Hank Roberts, Mark Helias and Hamin Honari, while Duo Work is an exhilarating improvisational meeting between Grdina and drummer Christian Lillinger
“Gordon Grdina is] a player of unbridled musical ingenuity.” – Raul da Gama, World Music Report
Guitarist and oud master Gordon Grdina releases two diverse yet equally stunning new albums via his Attaboygirl Records label on February 16, 2024
Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow with Fathieh Honari melds Persian and improvised music with Hank Roberts, Mark Helias and Hamin Honari, while Duo Work is an exhilarating improvisational meeting between Grdina and drummer Christian Lillinger
“The Marrow is] nothing short of extraordinary, genuinely pushing the envelope in terms of how far an artist can take both Middle Eastern maqam music and American jazz.” – New York Music Daily
release date: 17.06.2022 on Attaboygirl Records
“Never content to follow one musical shape, as if following the hard winds of wanted or unwanted change, Grdina’s unerring investigative prolificacy hits on a new geometry each time out.” – Mike Jurkovic, All About Jazz
Pathways (Attaboygirl Records) is the second release by Grdina, legendary pianist Matthew Shipp, and bass innovator Mark Helias. Since their 2019 initial meeting on Skin and Bones, these three extraordinary artists continue their musical evolution with a tightly coiled, laser focused recording full of abundant ideas packed into concentrated, intense bursts of creative energy.
“[Grdina is] an accomplished free improviser and player with strong instincts for motivic improvising in the post-bop tradition… he crosses the borders of harmonic and rhythmic daring without much fuss.” – Will Layman, PopMatters
Vancouver-based guitarist, composer, and oud master Gordon Grdina is on a roll. After releasing two acclaimed albums in February, he returns on June 17, 2022 with two adventurous new trio albums, with the first featuring masters of improvisation Matt Mitchell on piano and Jim Black on drums,
release date: 18.02.2022 via Attaboygirl Records
The prolific Vancouver-based guitarist, composer, improviser and master oud player Gordon Grdina releases two extraordinary new albums February 18, 2022 on his Attaboygirl Records label. Each finds Grdina collaborating with one of modern jazz’s most innovative and creative minds. The second, Oddly Enough debuts a new collection of pieces written by
release date: 18.02.2022 via Attaboygirl Records
The prolific Vancouver-based guitarist, composer, improviser and master oud player Gordon Grdina releases two extraordinary new albums February 18, 2022 on his Attaboygirl Records label. Each finds Grdina collaborating with one of modern jazz’s most innovative and creative minds. The first to put your attention to is Night’s Quietest Hour documenting the meeting of guitar experimentalist Marc Ribot with Grdina’s Arabic music ensemble Haram.
release date: 22.10.2021 via Attaboygirl Records
JUNO Award-winning guitarist and oud master Gordon Grdina launches his new label Attaboygirl Records with a remarkable pair of inaugural releases, Pendulum and Klotski, due out October 22, 2021. Album download links are below.
Klotski is the studio debut of Square Peg, Grdina’s exploratory quartet featuring Grdina on guitar and oud, Mat Maneri on viola, Shahzad Ismaily on bass and Moog, and Christian Lillinger on drums. The album’s single, nearly hour-long piece moves through eight of these cellular pieces, each able to be initiated by any member of the group and bridged by captivating improvisations, vividly blurring the lines between the written and the spontaneou
release date: 22.10.2021 via Attaboygirl Records
JUNO Award-winning guitarist and oud master Gordon Grdina launches his new label Attaboygirl Records with a remarkable pair of inaugural releases, Pendulum and Klotski, due out October 22, 2021. Album download links are below.
Pendulum is Grdina’s third solo album and his second composed for classical guitar and oud. It intricately explores the harmonic possibilities of the guitar and oud in ways that bridge their Western and Arab
release date: 10.04.2020 via
“The prevailing ambience is one of dark mystery, but the ruggedness of Grdina’s tone makes for a palette of rich contrast.”
– David R. Adler, JazzTimes (review of Think Like the Waves)
“[Gordon Grdina is] a player of unbridled musical ingenuity.” – Raul da Gama, World Music Report
Resist, due out April 10, 2020 via Irabagast Records, unites Grdina’s long-standing trio with his East Van Strings quartet, joined by acclaimed saxophonist Jon Irabagon for a remarkable new suite blending progressive jazz and classical influences
release date: 10th of January 2020
Teaming Grdina with the limitless pianist Matt Mitchell and the playfully experimental drummer Jim Black, Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio refuses to set down stylistic roots throughout its debut album Nomad. Album Release Tour January 5-17, 2020 with stops in Seattle, LA, San Francisco, Vancouver, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Ann Arbor, Chicago and NYC’
“The prevailing ambience is one of dark mystery, but the ruggedness of Grdina’s tone makes for a palette of rich contrast.” – David R. Adler, JazzTimes (review of Think Like the Waves)
“[Gordon Grdina is] a player of unbridled musical ingenuity.” – Raul da Gama, World Music Report
