Grand Analog | |
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Grand Analog, November 2009
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Background information | |
Origin |
Winnipeg, Manitoba Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Genres | Canadian hip hop |
Years active | 2006 – present |
Labels | The Shadow Cabinet Music Group, Ferryhouse Records (GER) |
Members | Odario Williams Warren Bray Ofield Williams TJ Garcia Aubrey McGhee Catalist |
Grand Analog is a Canadian hip hop band, formed in 2006 and fronted by Odario Williams. The group was conceived as a project combining R&B, jazz, reggae and rock influences into a hip hop style performed mainly on live instruments instead of digital electronics.
The band released their first album, Calligraffiti, in 2007. A follow-up album, titled Metropolis Is Burning, was released on May 26, 2009.
Grand Analog won two Western Canadian Music Awards for Best Rap/Hip-Hop Recording in 2009 for Touch Your Toes EP and 2010 for Metropolis Is Burning.
The band's third album, Modern Thunder, was released in Canada on August 20, 2013.Modern Thunder was also released in various European countries on German label Ferryhouse Records; and released in the U.S. on Brooklyn label Feel Up Records.