Gato Get George's New Album! (August 24, 2012)

[ChrisReid]

Origin's composer of classic (WC3-Prophecy) music, George Oldizey, has released his first solo CD! The genre for the album is latin jazz, and it sounds very warm, fun, happy, and maybe even a little bit familiar to Wing Commander fans. You can listen to a preview at Mr. Oldziey's Soundcloud page, or pick up a copy at Amazon.com, iTunes and CDBaby. His band, Gato 6, will also be holding a release party on September 7 in Austin, Texas. Sounds like fun!

Hi guys! Hope all is great on your end! Just wanted to let the Wing Commander community know that, after decades of composing music for other people (games, films, documentaries, etc.) I'm finally releasing a project of my own original Latin Jazz music on my band GATO 6's new CD, "El Viento". Yours truly composed (except for ONE cover), arranged, recorded and mixed all the tunes on the CD. It hits CDBaby, Amazon, iTunes, and many other digital distribution outlets tomorrow (Thursday, August 23rd). If you'd like to get a preview you can check out my Soundcloud page.


Hope all is wonderful in the Wing Commander Universe!




George

www.oldziey.com

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GATO 6 - Latin Jazz Meets World Music in Austin

GATO 6, Austin's premiere Latin Jazz band, is a high powered, all-star ensemble that performs George's original music which draws on his myriad world music and jazz influences. The band features locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists such as Dennis Dotson on trumpet, John Mills on reeds, George Oldziey on piano, Wayne Salzmann on drums, Kris Afflerbaugh on bass, Luis Continho and Mike Longoria on percussion, and the incomparable Suzi Stern on vocals.

GATO 6's premiere CD, "El Viento", will be officially released on Thursday, August 23rd, and will be available at Austin's Waterloo Records as well as at Amazon.com, CDBaby and in digitally downloadable form from iTunes.

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September 7th CD Release Party!

The date is finally set! Don't miss the premiere CD release party of the season! Friday night, Sept 7th will be the long awaited release of GATO 6's CD "El Viento". This event will take place at Austin's premiere jazz venue, The Elephant Room on Congress and 3rd St. CDs will be available for sale at the event. Hope to see you there!

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Original update published on August 24, 2012

 

[Victorinox]

What an appropriate name for a band created by a former WC music composer. As you probably know, Gato 6 means Cat 6 in Spanish. Also the first song of the album is called Eye of the Cat, the second is called Cat Get it!, and the eight is called Cat's Claw. I can close my eyes and hear this music in the background of Shotglass' Bar

 

[ChrisReid]

Yeah, I immediately got a Wing Commander (TCS Victory) bar nostalgic feeling the moment I heard it. I'm assuming there's a more personal connection between George and the term 'cat/gato', but all of the references were amusing to me nonetheless. It's just a really nice lift-the-mood collection.