Grand Hallway

Pop / Indie / Experimental

Seattle, WA

Billboard

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"Yes is the Answer" AVAILABLE NOW!
CD - $10.99
from CD Baby.com:

produced by Jeramy Koepping
12 page booklet w/artwork by PCP and Lacey Carnahan

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PRESS:

"Yes Is the Answer glows brightly with warm, delicate orchestration and thoughtful song structures. Smooth piano and swooning strings only slightly take the spotlight over Tomo Nakayama's tender crooning. The songs are sometimes sad ("Seward Park"), sometimes loving, and at times even playful ("Piano Room"). Slide guitar gives a light country flare to the otherwise poppy "Minimum Wage," while wind instruments and layers of plunking piano, violin, and guitar bring a slight Japanese folk sound to "Darling, Wife." - The Stranger

"I know of no singer that has a better voice than Tomo Nakayama. I also don't know of a more gorgeous record to be released in 2007, locally or otherwise." - Threeimaginarygirls.com

"Grand Hallway joins the departed Seldom and The Prom in the area's pantheon of talented, young, piano-based pop bands. Led by singer and songwriter Tomo Nakayama, the group has created an album of orchestrated chamber pop that manages to be simultaneously lush and delicate, all while maintaining Nakayama's personal and idiosyncratic vision" - WC Performer

"Just when you think you've settled into the gaunt beauty of drums and piano, a profusion of strings, pedal steel, and vibraphone slide, and then burst out of the seams of this recording, leaving their colorful trails over the tape until they disappear from earshot again...It's a nostalgia-inducing tearjerker of a record that makes you feel a little better for having heard it... and felt it." - CDBaby.com

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Grand Hallway is a band from Seattle, Washington. Their debut album, "Yes Is The Answer" was recorded in the summer of 2006. Produced by Koepping and engineered by Moe Provencher at Jack Straw Studios, the eleven songs which comprise the album feature Nakayama's warm tenor voice and inviting piano melodies, supported by layers of guitars, upright bass, drums, pedal steel and string quartet. Grand Hallway's music spans a myriad of genres, often within a single song, all the while evoking a sense of familiarity in its spacious structures and plain spoken words. "Yes Is The Answer" is released exclusively in Japan on Sideout Records (home to Bright Eyes, Cursive, Two Gallants, The Velvet Teen), and self-released by the band in the United States.

Locally, Grand Hallway has performed with artists such as Damien Jurado (Secretly Canadian Records), Dead Science (Absolutely Kosher), and Laura Gibson (HUSH), and in the fall of 2007 they completed a tour of Japan with Arthur & Yu (Sub Pop/Hardly Art Records) and Shugo Tokumaru (P-Vine).

Booking and Information: grandhallway@gmail.com