Music:
Member Since: 5/21/2006
Band Website: send email to [email protected]
Band Members: As a solo performer, I play bass or cello, guitar,vocals,sitar,dilruba,piano,mandolin,etc...
As a producer, I assemble the technical and creative team , focus an artistic vision... create the
atmosphere for best performances and sound, and offer editing, arrangement,
and presentation ideas...every situation is unique..
selected producer credits:
Big Miller Live in Calgary
Toronto Tabla Ensemble Toronto Tabla Ensemble
Molly Johnson Live at the Senator(cassette only)
Koller/Michels Singing Naked
Deanna Knight Shadow of a Star
Ken Whiteley Listening
Ani's Whisper Beauty
Patricia O'Callaghan Naked Beauty
Amanda Martinez Sola
Hali Schwartz Sadhana, Nitya Mukt
Eliana Cuevas Vidas
In a duo with Julie Michels, we both sing and i play double bass...
As leader of the GEORGE KOLLER QUINTET with regular members: Vito Rezza, Bob Brough, Lina Allemano, Russ Little, Hajile Kalaike, Davide DiRenzo...I compose and conduct a varied and eclectic type of
Jazz/World/Free music...melodic, yet inventive..like dixieland of a future time, where structures,songs,solos,interludes,poetic inspirations,backgrounds and textures are improvised and
spontaneously communicated from musician to musician to audience and back again..very challenging and most rewarding*
Listed below are some of the fantastic
artists I have toured extensively
with and/or recorded or performed with..*I love you all*, thank you
for the unending inspiration: I am filling in the names
of some great musicians and administrative and technical teams that I've worked with inside each artists' circle ...it will take
a bit of time and tweaking....but I will complete this list to the best of my abilities~GK
SHUFFLE DEMONS Richard Underhill, Perry White, Stich Wynston, Dave Parker, Kelly Jefferson and founding members including Jim Vivian, Mike Murley
LOREENA MCKENNITT Anne Bourne, Hugh Marsh, Rick Lazar, Brian Hughes, Oliver Schroer, Donald Quan, Bob Stamp
JULIE MICHELS Bob Erlendson, Davide DiRenzo, Kevin Barrett
HOLLY COLE Aaron Davis, John Johnson, Kevin Briet, Mark Kelso, Davide DiRenzo, Daniel Barnes, Jamie Oakes, Bruno Mambella, Tom Berry, Dan Erison, Jessica Moore, Mike Primeau, Tory Cassis, Glen Morely, Phyllis Brodeur, Ken Friesen, Volker Steppat, Petra Hanisch
BRUCE COCKBURN Colin Lindin, Ben Riley
SHIRLEY EIKHARD Bob Erlendson, Davide DiRenzo, Kevin Turcotte, Mike Murley
LAILA BIALI Larnell Lewis, Don Thompson, Guido Basso, Phil Dwyer, Rob Piltch,Claire Lawrence, Ruth Douglas
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Amy Sky
PETER GABRIEL Dominic Miller
SHAKTI KUMAR and all the wonderful Shyam musicians of Kullu Valley,Himalayas,India
JUDY SINGH TRIO Bill Emes
KIRANA ORCHESTRA Bill Emes, Mark Korven, Ian Sadler,Tom Doran, Tom Foster, Andrew Glover
FREEUNION COLLECTIV W.O.M.A.D festival
MECCA Ernie Tollar, John Gzowski, Matthew Fleming, Rick Lazar
SOLANA Shelly Berger, Brian Katz
DANIEL JANKE
CHANDRAKANT KAPILESHWARI Madalsa
RON KORB Elizabeth Shepherd, Larry Crowe, Ray Hickey Jr, the Oriental Angels
DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS Bruce Cassidy, Paul DeLong, Bernie LeBarge, Vern Dorge, Jason Logue,Lou Pomonti, Russ Little, Doug Riley, Bill Girdwood
JACKIE RICHARDSON
DOUG RILEY http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/tourism_riley.mov
view the above address...We miss you and love you Doug*
WILLIAM BEAUVAIS
BRIAN HUGHES Mark Kelso, Les Portelli, Rick Lazar
CATLIN HANFORD
ANDRE ROY
PENNY LANG
VALDY
ANHAI Don Kerr
DOMINIC MANCUSO
HARRY MANX
ELIANA CUEVAS Luis Guerra, Daniel Stone, Luicito Orbegoso, Gary Cristall, Emeira Jimenez
JANE SIBERRY(ISSA)
KEN WHITELEY
SHARLENE WALLACE Susan Piltch
GREGORY HOSKINS Gary Craig, Jonathan Goldsmith, Shawna Cooper
LENKA LICHTENBERG
IAN THOMAS Bjorn Anderson
LOUISE PITRIE Diane Leah, Tom Jestadt
DIANE LEAH MCC Choir
MARC JORDAN Dave Restivo, Kevan Mackenzie
CINDY CHURCH
JOE SEALY Judi Cooper-Sealy
AUTORICKSHAW Suba Sankaran, Trichy Sankaran, Ed Hanley, Rich Brown, Deb Singh
MURRAY MCLAUGHLIN
IAN TYSON
EVE GOLDBERG
SYLVIA TYSON
JOEL KROEKER Larry LeBlanc
RICK FOX Lion King Orchestra, Lord of the Rings Orchestra
JACKIE WASHINGTON
JANE FORD
JANI LAUZON
SOMERSET RECORDS Brad Rogers, Gordon Gibson, Steve Wingfield
DECIDEDLY JAZZ DANCEWORKS Vicki Adams-Willis, Kimberly Cooper
LARRY CORYELL Claude Ranger
TOM COCHRANE
RITA CHIARELLI Papa John King
BOB STROUP
FERN LINDZON
ALLANAH MYLES
SUSAN CROWE Danny Greenspoon
GORD SHEARD
COLLEEN ALLEN
SERAFIN Waylen Maki, Great Bob Scott
ADI BRAUN
AMANDA MARTINEZ
DK IBOMEKA Elaine Waisglass, Serge Sloimovits, Glenn Smith
JAKE LANGLEY
SONNY STITT
SWEETS EDISON
DIZZY GILLESPIE
ART FARMER
HERB ELLIS
PHIL WOODS
MOE KOFFMAN
BIG MILLER
KARL BERGER
FRED STONE Jonnie Bakan, Steve Donald, Dianne Stone
SUBHAJYOTI GUHA
DEBAJIT CHAKRABORTY
BOB MOSES
LOCKJAW DAVIS
EDDIE HARRIS
MOLLY JOHNSON
CAROL WELSMAN
AMY SKY
DANIELA NARDI
BEVERLEY MAHOOD
DAISY DEBOLT Paul Benedict
PATRICIA O'CALLIGHAN
KRISTEN SWEETLAND
NEHRING/KOLLER/ BRAID trio
MARY WILSON of THE SUPREMES
many more to come....just getting this list together,in random order,I love you all dearly....George Koller with Eliana Cuevas at Toronto's Mod Club....her new cd,"VIDAS", which I recently produced,
is scheduled for a november 2007 release
Influences: Flora Purim,Airto, Bach, Schubert, ECM, Oregon, Eberhard Weber, Keith Jarrett, Ali Akbar Khan, Ravi Shankar, Ram Narayan, Abdul Karim Khan, Kirana Gharana,Kirana Orchestra and Chandrakant Kapileshwari, Swami Shyam,Ying Mak Po, Chin-Shek Lam, Inayat Khan, Elton John, Elvis, Beatles, John Cage, Africa, INDIA, South America, Tai Chi, the Avant Garde, freeform jazz, third stream jazz, fourth stream jazz, fifth stream jazz, the jazz OCEAN, those who create in the now .....Sun Ra, Ron Carter, Ray Brown, Dave Holland,
Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Fred Stone, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, CANADA, wind in the trees,the rainforest, Castaneda, sweetgrass,my parents,my sons Matt and Yuri,SAMASHTI*Hali*, people with a SPARKLE in their EYES, laughing a lot and loudly,
oriental caligraphy, more to come
here is a review of my first CD
Music for Plants, Animals and Humans
October 24, 2004
Reviewer: inloveinfrance
Overall: ***** 5 stars
Pros: creative. brave. beautiful. earthy
Cons: must actually listen to understand - like Art Blakey
I first met George Koller when he was touring Alberta with the Shuffle Demons. Not only is he an interesting man but I found his bass-playing to be incredibly unique. He's such an amazing musician, he's performed and recorded with many Canadian greats in both jazz and pop as well as everything in between. I'm very surprised that I'm the first to review him for Yahoo!
Music for Plants, Animals and Humans is not an easy listening album; without reading the liner notes I'd guess that his biggest influence is mother earth. (He uses western and world instrumentation to emote her depths into translated sound.) It is raw and lovely - evocatively subtle meets primal scream therapy.
You should own Music for Plants, Animals and Humans because:
1. It's both meaningful and skilled music - these two attributes are not necessarily easy to find in a single artists capabilities
2. It makes for great conversation
3. You are supporting the finer elements of Canadian musical art
4. It's obscure enough (yet well connected) to have a fantasic "cool" factor.
Sounds Like: He is not seperate from the sound that is created
Record Label: ZSAN zenith~science~art~nature
Type of Label: Indie
