Hey there, welcome to our new site. Here’s the backstory, cuz i know you’re fascinated by the minutia of the Interknob. Our last site was designed and built in 2006 when the Interweb was coal fired. So yes, it was about time for a little revision to all things web including our Facechat, Instabook and Tweeter accounts. We were told to see a company called Alkaline Design Group, which sounded like a really big international internet consortium, but it turned out to be a boutique web sweat shop run by Colleen Dauncey. Colleen Dauncey…hmmmm, Colleen Dauncey hmmm, that name sounds familiar… sounds like the songwriter/composer of musicals who we knew was in production on the musical Prom Queen. Turns out it’s the same Colleen. Well it’s always nice to work with other musicians…thanks for this Colleen, see you on Broadway!
So now we have a new blog space and what does one do in a blog space except brag while using a modest casual hipster tone…ok, that!
Start the brag in 4, 3, standby, brag go!
We have a new album in the can! It’s called “The Twelfth of Never” it’s our 12th (8 new original compositions) and will be released on September 23, 2016 on Pheramone Distributing. There are two tunes on the site here for you to hear, with the hopes that you say “Hear! Hear!”. We will not editorialize on how excited we are blah blah blah…you need to do only one thing…turn it up!
Our music is heading to China for the Shanghai Film Festival June 11. I wrote, co-directed and produced a film with Jean Francois Gratton (who also shot the video you can see on our swanky new site). The film is about my father, the 86 year old still photographer George Zimbel (georgezimbel.com) . Since I was one of the producers I got to pick the music and after lengthy consideration (3 seconds) I chose the music of Manteca. A son directing and producing a film about his father picks his band’s music to underscore… no nepotism here folks, none at all.
The film is distributed by the National Film Board and our executive producer is the Academy Award Winner Fred Bohbot…It played at Hot Docs in Toronto and was in the audience top 20 which was lovely. Doug Wilde, Manteca’s principal composer also wrote some original music meets atmospheric soundscapes for the film and of course we got our engineer Jeff Wolpert to mix it all up.
Here’s a trailer for you to see:
In the next few days we will be announcing our summer dates, but here is a top secret, just between us and youse….we will be headlining the opening of the Niagara TD Jazz Festival on July 29th in St. Catharines, Ontario at 8 pm in the brand new spanking First Ontario Performing Arts Centre. More, much more on this later…be well!mz
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