Nicolas Meier Group, new album "From Istanbul to Ceuta with a Smile"

Dear Sir/Madam

I hope that you are well.
I am Swiss guitarist Nicolas Meier living in the UK. I just completed my lastest album and I'm just contacting you to see if there is a possibility to program my group in your festival in 2013.
We will launch the album at Pizza Express Dean Street in London in March 2013 and looking to promote all over Europe.

It is now out on MGP Records, you can hear some samples: www.mgprecords.com
bios and more infos are available at www.meiergroup.com
and you can hear some video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQS_MF_TAC8

Nicolas Meier, "From Istanbul to Ceuta with a Smile"

The band features:
Asaf Sirkis on drums (Tim Garland)
Demi Garcia on percussions (Alec Dankworth)
Pat Bettison on bass and harmonica
Nicolas Meier on acoustic guitar, glissentar, baglama
Lizzie Ball on violin (Nigel Kennedy)
James Pearson on piano (Ronnie Scott artistic director)

I hope it'll be possible to sort out a date as it looks like to be a very exciting year in 2013 for the group.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Regards,
Nicolas Meier
meiergroup@aol.com

Nicolas Meier is a Godin-Guitar Artist
Jazz a Juan Revelations 2006
"Grand Prize of the Jury" and "Jazz Guitar Prize"

« ...Meier is elegant in tone and bubbling with ideas... his originality as a writer, a player and a team leader dispatches any doubts...» - John Fordham, The Guardian

« ...Guitarist Nicolas Meier leads the way through a complex composition that alternates brooding moments of unaccompanied alto sax from Gilad Atzmon and stretches of the intense ensemble work over which Meier unleashes fiery but meticulous rapid passages...» - Robert Doerschuk, Downbeat

« ...Exquisitely recorded, the four-piece band create a big sound with Nicolas’s (nylon-string) guitar taking centre stage as he effortlessly burns or languishes over the varied tempos and moods...» -Guitarist Magazine

«...Since John McLaughlin melted frets with the Mahavishnu Orchestra we have become used to frenetic guitar-led groups. None, however, quite mixes styles and sounds like that of Meier, a Swiss player as happy in flamenco and Arab melodies as he is in Western jazz...» - John Bungey, The Times

«...Meier's technique is phenomenal. Dextrous and vigorous, favoring giddily-fast fingered, serpentine single note runs, it is musicianly in the best sense of the word...» - Chris May, All about Jazz