Infinita Records is an independent contemporary world music label started in 2008 by the award-winning, Billboard Top 10 ranked recording artist Lawson Rollins. Infinita Records presents global fusion music at its best, bringing together world-class recording artists from around the globe in a genre-defying confluence of Latin, Indian, Persian, Arabic, South American and European musical traditions. As the Portuguese word 'infinita' suggests, the music of Infinita Records embraces a spirit of infinite creative possibility and wide-reaching artistic vision.
Lawson Rollins
Ranked as one of the “50 Best Acoustic Guitarists of All time” by Guitar Player Magazine.
"The sound is impeccable, the compositions dynamic, and the technique dazzling."
~ Acoustic Guitar Magazine
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ORDER LINKS FOR ALL INFINITA RECORDS TITLES ARE HERE
2024 release:
Infinite Chill:
Vol 2
Featuring the Billboard #1 hit “After Twilight”
“After Twilight” from Infinite Chill Vol 2 hit #1 on Billboard
2023 release:
HEARTWOOD
Featuring the MediaBase top 50 chart jazz radio hit “Sunlight Bossa Nova”
2021 RELEASE:
RISE
With the release of RISE, Lawson Rollins offers a bold collection of ten original songs that showcase his signature virtuoso guitar style and eclectic compositional flair for melody and rhythm. Lawson states, “This album was forged during the unprecedented difficulties the world has seen over the past year, but as the Latin motto “Ad Astra Per Aspera” proclaims, we can reach the stars through difficulty. It is in that spirit that this album was made."
More info at www.LawsonRollins.com
2020 release:
True North
On True North Lawson Rollins offers 12 new original compositions that showcase the guitarist at the peak of his compositional skills with his melodic and daring improvisational flair on full display. From the electronic infused intensity of “With the Wind” to the plaintive bossa nova sway of “Bluewave Bossanova” to the delicate pulse of “Yearning to Know," the album explores the wide range of genres, emotions, and moods that have come to characterize the expansive musical journey Lawson has offered fans throughout the 20 years and 10 solo albums of his career.
Featuring the Billboard Top 30 jazz radio hit, “Bluewave Bossanova”
More info at www.LawsonRollins.com
Featuring the Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio hit, “Bluewave Bossanova”
2019 release:
Dark Matter: Music For Film
Released in 2019
25 tracks of atmospheric instrumental music designed to engender cinematic imaginings in the mind's eye of the Listener. Lawson Rollins crafts a mysterious soundscape of lush acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers, violins, and flute that transcends conventional song structure in favor of free-form musical impressionism ripe with emotional intensity.
More info at www.LawsonRollins.com
AIRWAVES: THE GREATEST HITS - RELEASEd in 2018
An 18 track collection of Lawson Rollins' Billboard Top 30 radio favorites from over the past decade, plus 2 new tracks featuring Grammy winner Mads Tolling and Billboard #1 charting band 3rd Force.
Airwaves: The Greatest Hits includes the Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio charting songs "Island Time," "Moonlight Samba," "Infinita," "Flight," and "Daybreak." Many of the tracks are "radio edits" that are markedly different from the album versions and feature performances not heard on the albums and never before made available until now.
Featuring the brand new song "World of Wonder (featuring 3rd Force)", a Billboard top 10 hit.
More details available at LawsonRollins.com
Featuring the Billboard Top 10 contemporary jazz radio hit, “World of Wonder”
3 Minutes to Midnight - Released in 2017
12 new original songs that capture the urgency of the moment, the exhilaration of the speed of sound, and the poignancy of the remains of the day.
Featuring Grammy winning violinist Charlie Bisharat (Shadowfax), bassist Randy Tico (Flora & Airto, Jeff Bridges, Strunz & Farah, Benise), and percussionist Dave Bryant (Ottmar Liebert).
Featuring the Top 30 Billboard contemporary jazz radio chart hit "Island Time", also on the major Americas Music Top 50 chart.
Featuring the Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio hit, “Island Time”
More details available at LawsonRollins.com
INFINITE CHILL (the remix sessions) - Released in 2015
10 classic world music tracks taken from Lawson Rollins' acclaimed solo albums, remixed and reimagined with a hip, modern aesthetic, incorporating elements of electronica/chill/downtempo into the world music fusion of the original songs.
Featuring remixing from Billboard chart ranked Persian-American musician/producer Shahin Shahida,
and an all-star cast of musicians including legendary Brazilian chanteuse Flora Purim.
Mastered at the world-renowned Sterling Sound studio in NYC.
Featuring the #1 RADIO HIT "Cafe Paris (chill remix)"
More details available at LawsonRollins.com
TRAVELER - Released in 2015
Featuring 2 time Grammy winner Mads Tolling, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy members Scotty Morris, Joshua Levy and Karl Hunter, and Grammy winner Charlie Bisharat.
Bridging countries, cultures, and continents, the music features Lawson's distinctive guitar-work backed by an eclectic, all-star ensemble. The expansive arc of the album reaches from the traditions of the Old World to the pulse of the modern metropolis with a boldly diverse, genre-defying mix of melody, rhythm, and improvisation.
Featuring the America's Music Chart top 50 radio hit "Berlin Bossa."
Winner of 3 Gold Medals in the Global Music Awards and 1st Place in the USA Songwriting Competition.
More details available at LawsonRollins.com
FULL CIRCLE - Released in 2013
After the global musical travels of his recent albums that explored the outer reaches of world music fusion, Lawson Rollins comes FULL CIRCLE on his latest release with 12 tightly focused tracks that feature his distinctive guitar work front-and-center, accented by a back drop of world beat rhythms and intimate ensemble instrumentation.
The album features Grammy-winning violinist Charlie Bisharat, bassist Randy Tico (Strunz & Farah, Benise, Jeff Bridges, Jake Shimabukuro), percussionist Dave Bryant (Ottmar Liebert, Baba Olatunji) and saxophonist/flutist Richard Hardy (Dave Matthews Band).
The album landed on the Billboard Top 10 World Music album chart and features the Billboard contemporary jazz radio top 25 hit "Flight."
More details available at LawsonRollins.com
Featuring the Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio hit, “Flight”
ELEVATION - released in 2011
ELEVATION marks an expressive high point for composer and guitarist Lawson Rollins. The 13 original compositions feature lush instrumentation recorded on location in Iran, Nepal, and the U.S., and a roster of stellar musicians from around the world. Guest artists include guitar legend Buckethead, Persian-American producer/musician Shahin Shahida, Nepali flute master Ruben Kumar Shrestha, Iranian santur virtuoso Pejman Eckhtiari, and many more.
Featuring the Billboard contemporary jazz radio top 25 hit "Daybreak."
More details available at LawsonRollins.com
Featuring the Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio hit, “Daybreak”
ESPIRITO - released in 2010
ESPIRITO showcases a global cast of Grammy Award winners and music legends.
Featuring the Billboard contemporary jazz radio top 25 hit "Moonlight Samba".
More details available at LawsonRollins.com
Featuring the Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio hit, “Moonlight Samba”
INFINITA - released in 2008
Lawson Rollins guitar is supported by an all-star ensemble of 18 musicians,
including Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Shahin Shahida, Charlie Bisharat, and many more.
Featuring the Billboard contemporary jazz radio top 30 hit "Infinita."
Recorded, mixed, and edited at Santa Barbara Sound Design
More details available at LawsonRollins.com
Featuring the Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio hit, “Infinita”
RADIO PLAY:
- “After Twilight” from INFINITE CHILL VOL.2 was a Billboard Top 20 contemporary jazz radio hit
-“Sunlight Bossa Nova” from HEARTWOOD was a MediaBase top 50 chart jazz radio hit
- “Free To Fly” from RISE was a Billboard #1 charting contemporary jazz radio hit,
- “Bluewave Bossanova” from TRUE NORTH hit the Billboard Top 30 contemporary jazz radio chart.
- "World of Wonder" from AIRWAVES: THE GREATEST HITS landed on the Billboard top 10 contemporary jazz chart.
- "Island Time" from 3 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT spent 10 weeks on the Billboard top 30 contemporary jazz chart.
- "Cafe Paris (chill remix)" from INFINITE CHILL was a #1 MOST ADDED RADIO HIT in its debut week on radio.
- "Berlin Bossa" from TRAVELER was a top 50 hit on the America's Music Chart.
- "Momentum" - the debut single from Full Circle was a top 40 hit on the major national America's Music Chart and #1 most-added song on contemporary jazz radio in the U.S. The second single "Flight" was a Billboard Top 25 hit on jazz channels in the U.S.
- "Daybreak" - the debut single from the 2011 album ELEVATION - was a Billboard top 25 song and also landed on the major MediaBase top 50 Radio Chart.
- The first radio single from ESPIRITO entitled "Moonlight Samba" set airwaves afire, entering the Billboard top 30 jazz radio chart and hitting #1 on the Billboard Recurrent Chart.
- The radio singles ‘Infinita’, ‘Cafe Jobim’, and ‘In Motion’ from the 2008 album INFINITA climbed all major jazz radio industry charts across the U.S., including the Billboard top 30, Mediabase top 50, and Smoothjazz.com top 50 charts.
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING:
Lawson was included on the “50 Best Acoustic Guitarists of All Time” list by Guitar Player Magazine.
"Lawson Rollins is a bona fide star...The key to Rollins' mass appeal is his signature artistic balance between classically influenced compositional refinement, infectious exotic rhythms, and the unbridled intensity of full-on shred.."
- Guitar Player Magazine
Full interview and review here.
"It's not often that a Latin jazz/flamenco/samba guitarist generates millions of views on YouTube with short instrumental pieces, but Lawson Rollins is used to defying expectations."
- Guitar World Magazine
"The sound is impeccable, the compositions dynamic, and the technique dazzling.."
- Acoustic Guitar Magazine
"Sparkling, intricately finger-picked acoustic guitar."
- Jazziz Magazine
"Even 'world music' seems an inadequate blanket to wrap around what Rollins has created here. But whatever it is, he is a master of it."
- Vintage Guitar Magazine
"Provocative and seductive...[a] masterful genre-busting collection."
- The All Music Guide (review of INFINITA)
"One of the great instrumental guitar albums of 2011...a masterpiece of high guitar art."
- Music Web (review of ELEVATION)
"A truly 'world music' journey across styles, countries, and sounds. The intrinsic musical abilities of all involved shine through
on every track."
- Inside World Music (review of ESPIRITO)
"With Rollins' guitar at the helm of a
topflight musical crew, the result is layered, sophisticated, evocative pieces that combine styles and cultures craftily
and expertly.."
- World Music Central (review of ESPIRITO)
"Easily one of the year's best."
- All About Jazz Magazine (review of INFINITA)
"This is right in the center of the winner's circle of adult listening albums to come out this year... it doesn't get any better than this."
- Midwest Record (review of ELEVATION)
INTERNET VIRAL VIDEO HITS:
- Infinita Records produced three popular videos of Lawson Rollins performing on guitar entitled "Locomotion", "The Fire Cadenza" and "Santa Ana Wind", garnering over 10 million combined views on Youtube to date. View on LawsonRollins.com
Contact
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