Results for "Pet Mantis Records"

Operator

By Avi Granite

Label: Pet Mantis Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Crushing Beans; Voracious; My Sunken Ship; Ubiquitous Miles; The Long Tomorrow; Good Deal; Misanthropic Vindaloo; Many Bowls.

My Sunken Ship

March 15, 2023

Album: Operator
By Avi Granite
Label: Pet Mantis Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 03:58

Avi Granite 6: Operator

by Dan McClenaghan
February 25, 2023

Guitarist Avi Granite--in the company of his brash band Avi Granite 6--opens his Operator with “Crushing Beans," displaying a big bad attitude. The drums are explosive, the horns belt it out, the bass shakes the walls and Granite slashes and burns. The first impression is: “This must be a great live band." And indeed, the studio ...

Avi Granite's In Good Hands

By Avi Granite

Label: Pet Mantis Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Like A Magazine - Pat LaBarbera; 19 Seconds Or Less - Ted Warren; Wayne Winks At The Radio - Scott Peterson; Rigar Breaks The Cage - Jim Lewis; Like John - Ted Quinlan; My Sunken Ship - Brian Kobayakawa; Y Not - Peter Lutek; Basho - Neal Davis; Tricycle Dreams - Brian Dickinson; Boston - Tom Richards; Critical Eddie - Nick Fraser;

Avi Granite

Born: January 5, 1978

Avi Granite is a guitarist and composer best known for his Toronto based improvisational sextet Avi Granite 6. Granite calls New York City home where his work is performed by his quartet Verse and experimental project Graphic Tongue. His most recent effort “Together Song - The Improvisations of Daniel Carter and Avi Granite Vol.1” features Granite in duet with multiinstrumentalist and NYC free music scene legend Daniel Carter.

Granite has performed around the globe and studied with some of the best. He completed his undergrad at Humber College in Toronto and received his masters from NYU. As a composer he has been commissioned by play-writes and string quartets. He has composed for commercials, tv shows, and film. Honored as guest lecturer at several universities Granite has also developed creative workshops for corporate education. He is sole proprietor of Pet Mantis Records.

Together Song - The Improvisations of Daniel Carter and Avi Granite Vol.1

By Avi Granite

Label: Pet Mantis Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: No One Will Believe Your Clouds; Misty Threads; When We

Avi Granite 6 - Orbit

By Avi Granite

Label: Pet Mantis Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Undo Process; When The View Became The Way; Like A Magazine; I Enjoy Your Haircut; Knocking On The Door; Critical Eddie; Hortez The chihuahua; Ants To The Ocean; Over And Out/Ancestral Walkie Talkie; Boston; Musically Yours Bob Barker;

Snow Umbrellas

Label: Pet Mantis Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: O Blues; Y Not; Mortetia; Like John; Charlie's Shorts; Wayne Winks At The Radio; Four for 4; Tricycle Dreams; Barnacles.

Snow Umbrellas

By Avi Granite

Label: Pet Mantis Records
Released: 2012

Avi Granite's Verse: Snow Umbrellas

by Bruce Lindsay
August 1, 2012

Snow Umbrellas is guitarist/composer Avi Granite's third album as leader, as well as the debut from his New York quartet, Verse. Released on Granite's own Pet Mantis Records, the album features trumpeter Ralph Alessi, bassist Jerry DeVore and drummer Owen Howard on a set of Granite's original compositions that range from the free, improvised feel of ...