.
.
WELCOME TO
WE'RE LITTLE BUT LOUD
.
.
"Ok, this is a great idea, but who, what, where and when? Well, enter Booka Michel and his Loudhouse Records. Now we have the roux."
Beardo - BluesWax - January 2004
"Slowly and surely, Austin based Loudhouse Records is shaping up prestigiously."
Margaret Moser - Austin Chronicle - June 2005
.
.
.
Greetings:
We are pleased to announce the
release of another great Loudhouse Record on October 18th, 2011
'The Not So Meaningful Songs in the Life of Jeremy Fink'
This soundtrack was created for the feature film Jeremy
Fink and the Meaning of Life and was performed by
Booka and the Flaming Geckos. It was nominated in the
2012 Independent Music Awards for Best Instrumental
Album of the Year and Best Song for Film/TV, and the
track "Rubber Chicken Rag" was a finalist for Best Original
Song by the 9th Annual International Acoustic Music
Awards 2012.
Don't forget to check out Loudhouse Records' previous release, Music from
the Soundtrack of Baghdad Texas, performed by Booka and the
Flaming Geckos along with a few surprise guest appearances.Read more
about it here.
In the meantime, our artists continue touring extensively while enjoying great success both here and abroad, and all of our releases have done very well. We have a great fan base and really appreciate everyone's enthusiasm and support.
Mike Kindred's Handstand spent 23 weeks in the top 20 on the Roots/Blues charts and stayed at #8 for 11 weeks. Handstand received rave reviews from the press as well, including MSNBC, Associated Press, The New York Times and Harp Magazine.Ponty Bone's Fantasize has been equally well recieved - winning rave reviews both here and abroad. Fantasize was the Number One Song Of The Year in Canada on the World Music Charts, and a signature song for Dutch National Radio programs.
David Olney's The Wheel was received enthusiastically by radio and press, receiving four-star reviews from The Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, Philadelphia Enquirer and No Depression Magazine. The Wheel was in the Top Ten Americana Charts for 16 weeks.
David Olney's second CD for Loudhouse, Migration, reached #1 on the Euro-Americana Charts in May of 2006 and #2 in June; it was the #3 Album for the month of June on the U. S. Folk Charts, including the #4 Song and #5 Artist.
.R C Banks' Conway's Corner was Australia's Number One Blues Album of the Year and was named Texas Album of the Year by the Austin Chronicle (Jay Thrachtenberg) and Album of the Year (Margaret Moser). It has received outstanding reviews from Downbeat Magazine, The Austin American-Statesman, The Austin Chronicle and The San Antonio Express News, just to name a few.
Paul Metsa's Texas In The Twilight placed in the Top 20 on all three European Charts and received great reviews in Performing Songwriter Magazine, The Minnesota Observer, Austin Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Another one of our successful projects is the short documentary film Native New Yorker, a black and white silent movie shot on a 1924 Cine-Kodak camera. Native New Yorker received two Gold Medal of Excellence Awards at the Park City, Utah Film Festival as well as the award for Best Short Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival in 2006.
Loudhouse Productions is in post-production on Baghdad Texas, a feature film produced by Booka Michel, Directed by David Hickey and starring Al No'mani, Robert Prentiss, Melinda Renna and Barry Tubb. The film should be available in the fall of 2009..
where you can see track listings, download mp3 samples,
read their reviews and order their CDs online
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
