Grand Analog | |
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![]() Grand Analog, November 2009 | |
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, fronted by Odario Williams. The project combines R&B, jazz, reggae and rock influences into a hip hop style performed mainly on live instruments instead of digital electronics. [1]
Grand Analog was first formed by Williams in 2002 as a short-lived rock-oriented side project from his main band Mood Ruff. After Mood Ruff's breakup, he revived the project with a new focus on reggae and hip hop in 2006. [2] Williams has told the press that "sonically, I knew that I wanted to dig into dub and rock and soul. I’ve always wanted to do that, but years ago I wasn’t free enough upstairs to know that I could." [1]
The band released their first album, Calligraffiti, in 2007. A follow-up album, titled Metropolis Is Burning, [3] was released on May 26, 2009. [4] [5] The album topped the Canadian community and campus radio hip hop chart for several weeks. [6]
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. [7]
The band's third album, Modern Thunder, was released in Canada on August 20, 2013. [8] [9] 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.
In 2015 the band released an album, Roll Dub Soul Rap, [10] and performed at a number of clubs in western Canada., [11] In 2016 they released a video, Love is a Battlefield. [12]
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