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Atlas Maior

Atlas Maior creates original music that combines elements of Progressive Jazz, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Indian music traditions.  Band members Joshua Thomson (alto saxophone, flutes) & Josh Peters (oud, lavta) create a unique sound that balances intimate moments of sincerity with powerful melodies and incendiary rhythmic passages, bolstered by a top-notch rhythm section, Atlas Maior writes original melodies exploring maqamat (Middle Eastern modal system) and harmonic progressions found in American jazz. The group composes with a wide variety of rhythms and incorporates traditional instruments including the Indian tablas, Middle Eastern dumbek, & Peruvian cajón.  

Thomas Strønen, Gard Nillsen, Things Of This Nature & Atlas Maior

by Maurice Hogue
December 29, 2025

Norway is a country that punches way above its weight when it comes to producing excellent jazz musicians, and two of the best drummers from that country have released excellent recordings of late: Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide's Off Stillness and Gard Nilssen with an expanded Acoustic Unity, celebrating their tenth anniversary. The ...

Hadal Deluxe Edition

By Atlas Maior

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Basalt; Ignis Fatuus; Hadal; Fata Morgana; Ya Ali; Nazuk; Jah Ali - Doctor Phono Remix; Ya Ali - Félix 3AM Remix.

Palindrome

By Atlas Maior

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Disc One: Mists of Our Past; Vengo Quote; iddaa!; The Street Slitherer; ouduo; Sea Beast; Booted and Looted. Disc Two: High Heat; Micronesian Sm*t Jazz; Parlay; Burcu's Blues; Half-pipe Blowhole; The Birds of Bhutan; oodaqq.

Keyif

By Atlas Maior

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015

Cynthia's Tears

October 25, 2015

Album: Keyif
By Atlas Maior
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Duration: 4:16

Atlas Maior: Palindrome

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 14, 2015

Open the package for Atlas Maior's debut CD and here's the first line you read: “Palindrome was completely improvised and recorded live with no overdubs." How you respond to these words will greatly shape how you respond to this music. A mainstay on the vibrant Austin (Texas) music scene since 2010, Atlas Maior boasts ...

Checking in from Global Outposts

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 8, 2015

Atlas Maior Palindrome Self Produced 2014 Open the package for Atlas Maior's debut CD and here's the first line you read: “Palindrome was completely improvised and recorded live with no overdubs." How you respond to these words will greatly shape how you respond to this music. A ...

Four Shades

By Atlas Maior

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012

Atlas Maior EP

By Atlas Maior

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011