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Louis

About Me

Louis Romanos began his career in music in West Hartford, CT winning first chair in Hall High School’s award-winning Pops ‘n’ Jazz band. This opportunity led to region competitions where Louis won awards for outstanding musicianship. He was also offered a scholarship to attend the Berkley School of Music which he turned down to go to the birthplace of Jazz, New Orleans, to study music and philosophy. He was a professional musician in the Big Easy for 15 years. In that time he performed and recorded with a number of renowned musicians including Charles Neville, Stanton Moore, Al Hirt, Brian Seeger of Moore and More, Dave Easley of Brian Blade’s Fellowship Band, Charlie Miller of Dr. John’s band, Jazz Legend Earl Turbinton, Mark Mullins of Harry Connick Jr.’s Band, Tricia Boutte of Galactic, Rich Vogel of Galactic, Skeric, and Dave Anderson of the Louisiana Philharmonic. Louis also extensively toured Europe with New Orleans R & B singer, Marva Wright. In 1997, Louis formed the live electronica band, Permagrin, with co founder, Dan Sumner. They have performed in SXSW music conference, the New Orleans Jazz Fest, the Indy Jazz Fest, the NOW festival, the Boom Boom Room in San Fransisco, and were nominated for best electronica band in New Orleans in 2005 Big Easy Awards. In 2004, Permagrin licensed “Classical” to the documentarty movie “ Plane Spotting”. While continuing to write for Permagrin, Louis began writing for his own jazz quartet, as well as for various musicians and choreographers. In 2005, Louis was commissioned to write 5 works for the “Confederacy of Dances” performance in New Orleans at the Contemporary Arts Center. Louis's music has been featured several times on National Public Radio and WTUL, WWNO, and WWOZ radio. In 2006, 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.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who are actually capable of listening...and who are funny.

My Blog

Rocket

Last night I went to Bimbo Town in Leipzig.  Ray has been telling me about this place for over a year, a crazy fantasy world with couches and whole living rooms that can drive thorough different ...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:28:00 GMT

LRQ Germany

The Band I'm playing with in Germany is composed of a few different configurations of players.  Mostly in there early 20's, one man, Rene, in his 50's, they are from Germany, Russia, and Australi...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 12:13:00 GMT

Workshop

Taught a workshop at the university in Leipzig today for the students interested in second line drumming.  I was a bit nervouse at first because it is a difficult subject to teach.  How does...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 12:31:00 GMT

Polizei

Had a long day yesterday.  Started out with a rehearsal in the morning.  The band was composed all German musicians.  We went through some of my new tunes that I have spent months scori...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 03:29:00 GMT

Ghost Notes

The Sophie Shcoll was a smashing success.  Over 300 people showed up along with some politcal big wigs and other important influencial peole who need to be seen at such events.  Ray was busy...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 14:49:00 GMT

Sophie Scholl

Holgar stands 6' 5" tall, a slender blond German of 48 years of age.  He is a journalist for a political magazine here in Berlin.  He is a soft spoken, sensitive intellectual with a remarkab...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 18:14:00 GMT

Miguel-number seven

I went to the New Olreans Center for the Creative Arts on Saturday to retrieve the remaining percussion equipment I had left there prior to evacuating to Atlanta during the Katrina fiasco.  The p...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 00:13:00 GMT

Funky

Fuckin' closed down Frenchmen Street again tonight.  My schedule is totally backwards right now.  It's 10:30 pm, I am sitting around hanging out in my room thinking about going to sleep when...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:54:00 GMT

the wee hours

I feel better today.  I love spending my nights out till the sun is just about to rise.  Basically, I closed down Frenchmen street tonight.  Barely a soul on it when I left, and that's ...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:24:00 GMT

could have been, should have been

I went to a gig tonight in the Marigny, right outside the French quarter, I was supposed to play drums part of the time and the other percussionist was going to work his laptop  and create sound ...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:56:00 GMT