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Canadian rock band Jonas & The Massive Attraction, featuring lead singer Jonas Tomalty, long time guitarist/band leader Corey Diabo, J.S. Baciu (Bass) and Martin Lavallee (Drums), have been creating quite a buzz this year in Canada and beyond, after their stellar performance at Popkomm in Berlin and Embassy London in the UK in September 2010.
Their highly anticipated new album, Big Slice, was released in Canada on September 14, 2010 on Big Slice Records/Select Distribution, and hit Top 15 in sales nationally on the Nielsen SoundScan Sales Charts in its first week of release. The title track and first single “Big Slice” cracked the Top 10 nationally, peaking at # 7 on the Canadian Mediabase Active Rock Charts alongside some of the biggest names in rock including; Ozzy Osbourne, Kings of Leon and Cage The Elephant. The song is featured on Canada’s bestselling sports DVD series, Don Cherry’s Rock’em Sock’em 22 DVD and in hockey arenas across the country. The band has just
released their second single, “Seize The Day,” which has already cracked Top 25 and
continues to climb the rock charts in Canada.
Jonas & The Massive Attraction’s new album Big Slice is the third album for Junonominated singer Jonas Tomalty. Since the release of his 2004 debut album Jonas, the singer’s popularity has skyrocketed. If Jonas seems at home onstage in front of thousands of people, he comes by it naturally. As an adolescent, his father, insisting on a rock and roll education rooted in the blues, used to sneak him into jams at local Montreal bars. His mom's response? She helped her fourteen year-old son iron his fake I.D. and came to support him at all of his shows!
Jonas gigged around Montreal in various bands until he met Corey Diabo (Playing Joe Perry to his Steven Tyler) and he knew instinctively that he'd found his musical soul mate. Jonas made his first major impact on the international music scene in 2004 when he was picked for the opening slot on Van Halen's North American tour. This was the ultimate school of rock.
The next year his debut album - Jonas - produced by Dale Penner (Nickelback/Matthew Good Band) was released, featuring the hit single "Edge of Seventeen." The near platinum-selling album was nominated as “Rock Album of the Year” at the Juno Awards (Canadian equivalent of the Grammy Awards) alongside Hedley, Our Lady Peace, Theory Of A Deadman and the eventual winners Nickelback. That same year, Jonas was also nominated as “New Artist of the Year.”
In 2006 Jonas released his sophomore album Suite Life with producer John Webster (The Cult/The Scorpions) at the helm. The album is approaching Gold status in Canada and spawned the hit singles “Here She Comes” and “Bows & Arrows.” In 2007 Jonas headlined his own concert at the Bell Centre in Montreal to over 7000 fans and followed it up with a national tour supporting Collective Soul in 2008. The iconic Bell Centre performance was released through Universal as a world class DVD entitled, Live At The Bell Centre, in 2009. The band made a triumphant return to perform at the Bell Centre in May 2011 to rave reviews, in support of iconic American rocker Kid Rock.
In the fall of 2009, Jonas and Corey went to L.A. to write with Simon Wilcox. Wilcox, the daughter of Canadian blues/rock guitarist David Wilcox, is not only a talented artist in her own right but an in-demand songwriter for EMI Music Publishing, who has penned tunes for Beast, The Kooks and Three Days Grace to name a few. The collaboration was an unqualified success and resulted in the songs for Big Slice.
For this release, Jonas took a much more personal approach, co-writing nine of the eleven songs and co-producing the new album. His goal was to write songs that were powerful with just a guitar and a voice. "We wrote this album with the intention that the songs stand strong in their most simple state. Great songs have a raw emotion at their core. We then layered the instruments to build up an album that’s big in sound and very much us in every way," says Jonas.
In the spring of 2010, the band met with producer Thomas “Tawgs” Salter (Josh Groban/Lights) and the chemistry was instant. It was decided there and then that “Tawgs” and Simon Wilcox would work together to produce Big Slice. The team worked fast and furious, feeding from each other’s enthusiasm. A fresh, more contemporary sound began to evolve that drew from Jonas’ extraordinary voice and the band’s raw power. To add to the magic, mixing guru Mike Fraser (AC/DC/Metallica) was brought on board to mix the singles, and mastering legend, Greg Calbi (U2/John Mayer/Deep Purple) at Sterling Sound in New York added the final touches to the album. It’s difficult not to expect something special from such a talented group of artists.
Based on the strength of the songs and outstanding production, Big Slice marks a candid step forward for Jonas & The Massive Attraction. Epic songs like “Seize The Day”, “Burn Bright” and “The Deep End” fit perfectly alongside hard nose rockers “What Type O’ Ride Are You” and “Addiction,” songs that are synonymous with the band’s past. Ed Roland of Collective Soul contributed “Not A Hero”, a song he co-wrote with producer Thomas “Tawgs” Salter. With both Jonas and Corey being involved in the songwriting, they were able to stretch their creativity to new heights. The result is a diverse yet decisive album with Jonas’ voice as the common thread that connects the songs like chapters in a book and clearly establishes Jonas & The Massive Attraction as a rock band to be reckoned with.
Through their commanding live performance and strong work ethic, the band is following in the footsteps of such great Montreal acts as Arcade Fire and Simple Plan, who have gone on to international success. With the release of their new album Big Slice, Jonas & The Massive Attraction will dig deep to continue that trend. |
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