{"id":254,"date":"2015-02-18T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourlabelrecords.com\/wordpress\/?p=254"},"modified":"2017-04-19T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T20:19:11","slug":"gruvoria-jazzfunk-from-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlabelrecords.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Gr\u00fcvoria &#8211; Jazz\/Funk from Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the demo from <a title=\"Gr\u00fcvoria Website\" href=\"http:\/\/gruvoria.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gr\u00fcvoria<\/a> (yes, with dots above the &#8216;u&#8217;) arrived in the post. Despite Soundcloud and other digital ways of sharing demos, we still receive a fair bit of them\u00a0in an envelope by snail mail. So today&#8217;s package from Toronto included a personal covering letter, with reference to Our catalogue and Our recent release from a Canadian band, therefore full points for addressing us.\u00a0But let&#8217;s focus on the important part: The music&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I like it very much. A mix of Funk induced Jazz that I would listen to. Not quite dancefloor Funk enough to feature it on a Funk 45 by Our Label Records, but I would definitely buy the album. Obviously, I therefore hope Gr\u00fcvoria\u00a0finds a suitable label soon so that this music can be released into the global wild.<\/p>\n<p>Find out for yourself here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gr\u00fcvoria Website\" href=\"http:\/\/gruvoria.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.gruvoria.com<\/a><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F54506466&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true&show_comments=true&color=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the demo from Gr\u00fcvoria (yes, with dots above the &#8216;u&#8217;) arrived in the post. Despite Soundcloud and other digital ways of sharing demos, we still receive a fair bit of them\u00a0in an envelope by snail mail. So today&#8217;s package from Toronto included a personal covering letter, with reference to Our catalogue and Our recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,3,7],"tags":[40,62,139],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-bands","category-music","tag-demo","tag-gruvoria","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlabelrecords.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gr%C3%BCvoria.jpg?fit=1462%2C1949&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7rpNx-46","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":562,"url":"https:\/\/ourlabelrecords.com\/?p=562","url_meta":{"origin":254,"position":0},"title":"Finding the Funk","author":"Tom","date":"20th January 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It is a small and sweet label, that we created almost 13 years ago. 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