NOVANEWS:
What a year it’s been!
- Launch of debut album PRESENCE OF MIND online and 10” EP vinyl editions, March 2024
- PRESENCE OF MIND album finalist at the 2024 Hawaii Na Hoku Hano Hano Music Awards, for Best instrumental Jazz Album
- 2024 Commencement of the RED NOVA six-month Artist Residency at BOXJELLY, Honolulu’s leading creative work and innovation center
- Co-hosting of special Honolulu events with legendary free jazz bassist/composer/poet William Parker
- Featured BLUENOTE Hawaii debut, April 2024
- International Jazz Day 2024 broadcast performance at Odesa Jazz Festival, Ukraine in partnership with New Odyssey, UNESCO and International Jazz Day
- Featured performance at Palace Theater, Hilo
- Partnership performance with Chamber Music Hawaii and Galliard String Quartet with introductory keynote by 10-time Grammy Winner Billy Childs at BoxJelly
- Recorded second album May 2024 for November 2024 release (LP)
- Recordings now available on Spotify, Bandcamp, Apple Music, Distrokid, and RED NOVA YouTube Channel
- Jazz education workshop at primary educational institutions, Honolulu, HI
- Return BLUENOTE Hawaii show, October 1, 2024
In Their Own Words... from our fans:
“I have never enjoyed a jazz trio as much as the performance last night. It took me right out of my body and into my musical soul.”
“I absolutely loved your gig last night.”
“You have to be in the moment, to drop the thinking mind, and let pure awareness take over, where there is no ‘I,’ then the musical experience transports you. It seems that that only happens when the musicians reach that place as well. ”
“I told (my son) the show would be mind blowing and afterward he said it was ‘mind opening’.”
“The sound affects made me imagine being blindfolded. Such an incredible journey!”
“The stories you can convey with one single note are rippling down centuries.
Thank you …thank you … so much gratitude”
“The last tone sound vibe of your concert brought me to the edge of all encompassing…”
“I heard you blowing the shofar…
I took it as the ultimate tribute…”
“When you brought out the castanets I wanted to jump up and dance…percussion sounds so intriguing ….”
“You took me to Seville and among prisoners I was sorting out cigars…. I danced and moved through the air, parting, no beginning … no end….Turning into a spinning Dervish…. Landing into the middle of Marrakech…
I saw an incredible display of colors and my senses were filled with the smell of the Spice market….”