Lumo Records

15/12/2023

A backlog of thank yous... Very grateful for all the support!!! THANK YOU so much Troy Dostert and All About Jazz for the 4 star review!!! ❤️

Lumo Records

13/12/2023

Not just one, but 2 reviews of Canons in one of my favourite online publications (and huge supporters of the scene!), Free Jazz Blog. Wow, thank you Stef Gijssels and Sammy Stein!!! Much gratitude. ❤️

Lumo Records / Lina Allemano / Peggy Lee / Brodie West / Ryan Driver / Rob Clutton / Tim Posgate / Matthias Müller / Mike Smith

https://www.freejazzblog.org/2023/12/httpswww.freejazzblog.org202312lina-allemano-canons-lumo-records-1.html

https://www.freejazzblog.org/2023/12/httpswww.freejazzblog.org202312lina-allemano-canons-lumo-records-2.html

13/12/2023

Nice review of our new album Canons by Stewart Smith in the latest issue of We Jazz Magazine (Finland), Issue 10 / Winter 2023. THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT!!! ❤️

Lumo Records / Lina Allemano / Brodie West / Peggy Lee / Ryan Driver / Tim Posgate / Rob Clutton / Matthias Müller / Mike Smith

10/11/2023

LUMO_RECORDS Celebrating 20 Years of Adventurous Music from Toronto & Berlin
linaallemano.bandcamp.com

Check out our whole 20 year catalog with FEATURED_ARTISTS Lina Allemano . LINA ALLEMANO FOUR . Brodie West . Andrew Downing . Nick Fraser . OHRENSCHMAUS . Dan Peter Sundland . Michael Griener . BLOOP . Mike Smith . TITANIUM RIOT . Ryan Driver . Rob Clutton . and SPECIAL_GUESTS Peggy Lee . Tim Posgate . Matthias Müller . Mira Martin-Gray . Bryan Qu . Karen Ng . Nick Dunston . Tania Gill . David Occhipinti . Anthony Michelli .

07/11/2023

LUMO_RECORDS: linaallemano.bandcamp.com 😊

30/10/2023

TOMORROW Oct 31st! Special Event at the Tranzac Club in Toronto:"Lina Halloweena"...
LINA ALLEMANO FOUR + TITANIUM RIOT! Celebrating Lumo Records 20th Anniversary!

Lina Allemano Four:
Lina Allemano trumpet, compositions / Brodie West alto saxophone / Andrew Downing double bass / Nick Fraser drums

Titanium Riot:
Lina Allemano trumpet / Ryan Marshall Driver analog synth / Rob Clutton electric bass / Nick Fraser drums

22/10/2023

In a week! BLOOP at the Tranzac Club: Sun Oct 29 early show 7:30pm! Lina Allemano trumpet / Mike Smith live-processing, effects.

20/10/2023

Lumo Records Celebrating 20 Years ~ Preorder ‘Canons’ (for Trumpet and Creative Chamber Ensembles), Special-Edition Release! https://linaallemano.bandcamp.com

Cover Artwork: Lena Czerniawska. Design: Yesim Tosuner. Featuring: Lina Allemano trumpet/compositions, Peggy Lee cello, Brodie West clarinet, Mike Smith live-processing/effects, Rob Clutton double bass, Ryan Driver analog synth, Tim Posgate guitar, Matthias Müller trombone. With thanks to Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada.

17/10/2023

In 2 weeks! Special Event at the Tranzac Club in Toronto:"Lina Halloweena"... Lina Allemano Four + Titanium Riot! Celebrating Lumo Records 20th Anniversary!

LINA ALLEMANO FOUR:
Lina Allemano trumpet, compositions / Brodie West alto saxophone / Andrew Downing double bass / Nick Fraser drums

TITANIUM RIOT:
Lina Allemano trumpet / Ryan Marshall Driver analog synth / Rob Clutton electric bass / Nick Fraser drums

08/10/2023

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving from Lumo Records! This fall were celebrating our 20th anniversary an an artist-run record label promoting adventurous music from Toronto & Berlin! (Exciting new graphics series for our 20th designed by Yesim Tosuner!) ❤️

25/09/2023

BLOOP tomorrow Tues Sept 26 at the Tranzac Club in Toronto (one set at 9:30pm)!!! BLOOP is Lina Allemano trumpet / Mike Smith live processing, effects! (Opening set for Nick Fraser / Caleb Klager!)

https://linaallemano.com/bloop

23/09/2023

Fun gig last night with Lina Allemano Four at National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts NAC in Ottawa! Tonight Sat Sept 23 at La Poêle (presented by Mardi Spaghetti) in Montréal!!!

Lina Allemano / Nick Fraser / Brodie West / Andrew Downing / Lina Allemano Four

20/09/2023

This weekend Sept 22-24, Lina Allemano Four is looking forward to a few really special shows in Ottawa, Montréal, and Toronto!!! We're excited to be premiering new music and playing at some fantastic venues! What's not special about playing at the NAC National Arts Centre in Ottawa?! Then we head to Montréal (where we have not played for many years!!!) to play at La Poêle / Mardi Spaghetti, yesss!!! Then we play at the new Hugh's Room Live venue in Toronto (PLEASE NOTE there are heavily discounted tickets for artists/students/under-employed!)... We hope to see you out!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Lina Allemano / Brodie West / Andrew Downing / Nick Fraser

14/09/2023

TONIGHT!!! Thurs Sept 14 at Guelph Jazz Festival... Lina Allemano Four premiering new compositions!!!
Info about the show here: https://guelphjazzfestival.com/2023/allemano/

Lina Allemano / Brodie West / Andrew Downing / Nick Fraser

Trumpeter Lina Allemano splits time between Berlin and Toronto, and this band is key to her ongoing connection with the latter. Despite a decades-long history and seven releases on Lumo Records, the band was named a ‘Rising Star Jazz Band’ in the 2022 Downbeat Critics Poll –– a fine achievem...

29/08/2023

Lumo Records is now on Instagram!

23 Followers, 56 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from LUMO RECORDS / Lina Allemano ()

03/08/2023

A warm and hearty THANK YOU to all the DownBeat Magazine critics for including Lina Allemano Four in the 2023 list of DownBeat’s Annual International Critics Poll for "Rising Star Jazz Group". Thank you! We are extremely grateful for the support and acknowledgement of our work. It means a lot to us.

Lumo Records / Lina Allemano Four / Lina Allemano / Brodie West / Andrew Downing / Nick Fraser

Photo by Claire Harvie

09/07/2023

Thanks to Ron Schepper & Textura for the indepth interview about Lina Allemano Four's new album Pipe Dream:

Like everyone else, Canadian jazz trumpeter Lina Allemano struggled through the pandemic and clung to her sanity as best as possible. For someone who lives in both Toronto and Berlin, however, the imposition of non-travel might understandably have driven her to even greater despair. Not so: she got....

29/06/2023

05/05/2023

It's finally out! New album Lina Allemano Four 'Pipe Dream' on Lumo Records now available in full! Listen and/or buy here:
https://linaallemano.bandcamp.com/album/pipe-dream

ALSO!!! To celebrate the release, wonderful Berlin artist Lena Czerniawska created a beautiful art video for us featuring her trademark live-drawing, set to an alternate take of 'Pipe Dream' (an outtake that's not on the album):
https://youtu.be/3mNubVW0sh4

Huge thanks to our wonderful and faithful graphic designer Yesim Tosuner for the wicked cover art for Pipe Dream! We love it!!! And to our wonderful and faithful sound engineer Jeff Fedge Elliott for beautifully recording, mixing, and mastering the album!!! We are so lucky to have Yesim and Fedge in our Lumo Records family... THANK YOU for everything that you do!!! None if this would be possible without the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada. We are forever grateful to them!!! Recorded at the lovely Union Sound Company studio in Toronto.

Lina Allemano Four: Lina Allemano / Brodie West / Andrew Downing / Nick Fraser

'Pipe Dream': Music composed by LINA ALLEMANO [SOCAN] & performed by LINA ALLEMANO FOUR. Drawing & video by LENA CZERNIAWSKA.LINA ALLEMANO trumpet / BRODIE W...

26/04/2023

Thank you FREISTIL Magazine!!! Great publication out of Vienna... Really nice interview, and a nice review of the upcoming new album on Lumo Records: Lina Allemano Four, Pipe Dream... Wow. THANK YOU for the support!!! Means a lot.
https://freistil.klingt.org/
Cover photo by Manuel Miethe / Inner photo by Jamie Croft

29/03/2023

Lina Allemano Four, 3 weeks ago at Brilliant Corners Festival in Belfast! What a time we had!!! Thanks to Mark Reid for the photo! The band's next adventure is an Album Release Concert in Toronto on May 13th for our new album Pipe Dream, just after the May 5th online release!!!

Lina Allemano / Brodie West / Andrew Downing / Nick Fraser