LRQ ~ Louis Romanos Quartet 'Serenity' Album Release
Composer
and jazz musician Louis Romanos is gearing up with his bandmates
(Daniel Sumner, Dr. Alex Noppe, and Dr. Luca Lombardi) to embark on a
Southeastern tour pumping up music lovers for their upcoming album
release, Serenity.
Who
is Louis Romanos?
As
a composer, Louis writes for live bands, dance, TV, video games,
indie movies and commercials. His band, Permagrin,
released three albums co-written with Dan
Sumner. Permagrin performed in SXSW music conference,
the NOW music festival, the New Orleans Jazz Fest, the Indy
Jazz Fest, the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco, and were nominated
for best electronica band in New Orleans in 2005 Big Easy Awards.
Permagrin licensed Classical to the documentary
movie, Plane
Spotting.
Louis’ commissioned works include 5 works for the Confederacy
of Dances performance in New Orleans at the Contemporary Arts
Center, Take
Me There,
the University of Monroe guitar ensemble, and a piece for Mirari
Brass Quintet. Louis wrote Light Waves for
visual artist and Chicago producer, Nancy Bechtol, and together they
have a work on Culture T.V. Louis also composed about a dozen
pieces for C-E-N-T-E-R, a collaborative project between visual
artists and composers, in Los Angeles, California.
Additionally, his composition, Tyco
at the Gates, was
licensed to the major motion picture, Cool
It.
Recent
credits include a dystopian futuristic score for the short
movie, Odessa, an action score for Fira’s Game, and an
uplifting score for feature
documentary, Pink
and Blue: The Colors of Hereditary Cancer.
Louis has also scored live theater (The Bakkhai), video games (The
Dark Ages of Titan, Corpse Wagon), the modern ballet (Interior
Borders by choreographer, Joan Buttram, at University of
Georgia) and recording drums on the new theme song for the
Squidbillies on Cartoon network.
Currently,
Mr. Romanos leads and writes for his own
quartet, The Louis Romanos Quartet (www.louisromanosquartet.com),
which released its debut album, Take Me There, in 2015.
His quartet performs concerts and clinics in the mainland USA and
in Hawaii.
Mr. Romanos recently developed a workshop for Brenau University’s
Dance Department, teaching dancers basic music and communications
skills needed for cross
discipline
collaboration. Mr. Romanos is currently scoring the full
length
feature film, Above
the Fruited Plains.
Website: http://sonamormusic.com/works/
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The
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Romanos
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Visit
their website to preorder a copy of Serenity, listen to some tracks,
and check out the plethora of music video and photos of them in
action!
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