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Atlas Maior

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New Album “Palindromlar” Now Out.
4⭐️ review in Downbeat Mag & available on Bandcamp (Link in bio)🍉

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✨Happy New Year. We wish you peace, grace, and resilience as we approach life’s challenges in 2026. Let’s continue to build bridges and strengthen community. Let’s share ideas of growth and change. Continue to love, to collaborate, and to find your joy.

Don’t let anyone, any political apparatus, nor any institution take that away from you ✨

Thank you kindly for your support along the way.

• 2025 was a phenomenal year for the band and we are happy to announce that we have been nominated for an Austin Music Award within the category of Jazz.

• It was a thrill and so much fun releasing music and touring the Great Plains and Midwest with the new album Palindromlar.

• We are honored to be recognized twice in Downbeat Magazine, and for Palindromlar to have made their best albums of 2025.

• Thank you to the @austinchronicle for their support and editorial coverage. Thank you to our team @deadredqueenrecords & @pressjunkiepr

Finally thank you all the radio DJs, journalists, music industry folks, new friends, and old friends that continue to support us.

Be well 🍉 by @atlasmaior

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9 months ago

Atlas Maior’s Palindromlar has made DownBeat Magazine’s Best Albums of 2025….

✨What an honor to be in the company of so many great talented international musicians on this list… with the great Andrew Cyrille on the cover. Thank you for all of the love and continued support ✨ taken in Chicago, Illinois by @atlasmaior

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10 months ago

Big News - Atlas Maior’s new album “Palindromlar” has been reviewed by @downbeat_mag’s Frank Alkyer and is one of this week’s Editor’s Picks. It’s truly an honor to be featured in Downbeat Magazine. Thank you Mr. Alkyer for your words, and for listening.

Here is the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review:

When a band from Austin, Texas, drops music into the offices of DownBeat, there are expectations. The band Atlas Maior, hailing from that acclaimed music city, blows those expectations away. No Texas twang, no guitars, no songs about late nights and lost women. Instead, this quartet delivers art jazz from the edge and sound explorations of the highest order. The instrumentation is, well, unexpected. Josh Peters slings an oud or lutar instead of a guitar. Joshua Thomson performs on alto saxophone and flute. Josh Flowers finds open space on his upright bass fiddle. And Gray Parsons delivers the sparsest of grooves on drums. The music they perform pulls influences from around the musical globe. Latin tinge, Middle Eastern maqam and avant-garde jazz seep into the group’s sound, and it’s all on display with Palindromlar. The album offers a fascinating listen, always leaning toward sparse arrangements with plenty of room for exploration. Take, for example, “Las Conchas,” a sometimes foreboding yet playful composition where Peters and Flowers enter the tune with a quirky-cool call and response on oud and bass, respectively, before Thomson and Parsons join in, the drummer taking a slow groove for Thomson’s rapid-fire alto work. Nothing is hurried; each band member listens as much as they play, entering only to add or amplify what is being played in the moment. The band’s third album, Palindromlar grew out of a tour to Morocco, including a three-night residency in Essaouira. The music has a mystic, noir quality. It’s out there, no doubt about it, bridging culture and breaking down musical walls in a most beautiful way.

Downbeat Link: https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/palindromlar

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#downbeatmagazine #atlasmaior #albumreview #austintexas #jazz #freeimprovisation #newrelease #vinyl by @atlasmaior

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a year ago

Remembering Roberto Riggio: Here’s a rehearsal clip from late 2022 with Roberto & Indrajit Banerjee…We most certainly miss these moments…

Please donate to this GoFundMe to support the Riggio family during this extremely difficult time:
https://gofund.me/9724d7509 taken in Austin, Texas by @atlasmaior

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3 days ago

Here are some clips from Friday’s grieving of the loss of Roberto Paolo Riggio at Central Market….It’s been a week already….Roberto…. 😭❤️‍🩹

Please donate to this GoFundMe to support the Riggio family during this insanely difficult time:
https://gofund.me/9724d7509 by @atlasmaior

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3 days ago

Mohammad Firoozi’s videos from last night’s Roberto Riggio tribute community gathering. We are reposting for Roberto’s friends and community abroad and out of state. Please continue to reach out to one another to keep his memory alive. Thank you @of.tender.revolutions for hosting

@rpaoloriggio
@atash_musica
@atashmusic taken in Austin, Texas by @atlasmaior

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4 days ago

We’ve decided to keep playing as we process and mourn the loss of Roberto Paolo Riggio…

6:00-8:30pm tonight at Central Market North 4001 N. Lamar. We have invited some special guests to join us on the 2nd set…. taken in Central Market by @atlasmaior

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7 days ago

Roberto….you brought such immense joy and meaning to our lives….

@fur_elyseee & @estahhan’s big day Summer 2022
@rpaoloriggio & @charles.prewitt.cellist by @atlasmaior

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7 days ago

Shock, despair, devastation, bewilderment.…..We love you Roberto Paolo Riggio….
@rpaoloriggio by @atlasmaior

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10 days ago

Join Atlas Maior this Friday October 2nd at @central_market - North. 5001 N. Lamar ST 6:00-8:30pm.

See us before we represent our city in East Asia this fall. by @atlasmaior

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12 days ago

Japan & Festival Announcement 🇯🇵

Atlas Maior is honored to visit Oita City, Japan this fall for the Yumeiro Music Festival which will include a series of live performances and special cultural exchange events. Thank you to @austinoitasistercity @austinsistercities for their hard work and efforts to help bring Atlas Maior to Japan.

October 31st: Oita World Festa 2026
Cultural Exchange Activities

October 31st: Yumeiro Music Festival
Stage 2 Wakakusa Park Performance
Performance 4:20–4:50 PM

October 31st: The Hive, Oita, JP
Special Evening Performance
8:00 PM

November 1st: Yumeiro Music Festival
Stage 15 - Oita City Hall Performance
2:20–2:50 PM

November 1st: Yumeiro Music Festival Final Stage
6:40 PM

Atlas Maior is incredibly grateful for this opportunity to visit Oita City, Japan and participate in these events as part of Austin Sister City International’s longstanding partnership of cross-cultural exchange between Austin, TX USA and Oita City, Japan.

Design: @fumanstudios
Photo: @ismaelquintanillaiii taken in Oita, Japan by @atlasmaior

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14 days ago

Here’s a Fumihito Sugawara @fumanstudios appreciation post. Fumi’s art work can be seen on albums and flyers all throughout the US, Europe, and perhaps more importantly in his 1st home, the country of Japan. This is a throwback to the pandemic, where we partnered with Tokyo Jazz Site @kolradio1 to do a 5am CST livestream for Japan. We loved his work on this. Fumi has done work on many of our tour flyers throughout the years as well on our album RIPTIDE; singles Chamber of Mirrors, NAZUK, Ya Ali, 2025 US tour, Moroco & Spain 2024 tour. His May 2024 flyers of shows in Madrid and Barcelona were phenomenal. Siempre Fumando Sugarwater taken in Austin, Texas by @atlasmaior

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