September 5 /08 - The film Les femmes de la Brukman, for which Roberto López composed the music, will be playing between Sept. 5-11 (press here for schedule) at the Cinéma Parallèle (Excentris).
June 12 /08 - The ROBERTO LÓPEZ PROJECT will be playing this year's Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, with their unique Nu Afro Latin style, from Cumbia-Funk, Guajira-Rap to Salsa-Soul! This Latin ensemble explores Colombian and Cuban grooves with a Montreal sound!
January 26 /08 - The ROBERTO LÓPEZ PROJECT presented a sold out show at the Tohu in Montreal, warming a cold winter night!
December 20 /07 - The film Les femmes de la Brukman, for which Roberto López composed the music, is in the Oficial Selection at the SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.
October 22 /07 - Curura musique has signed a distribution deal for all it's music catalog with Select distribution for all of Canada.
October 9 /07 - Roberto López Project will be featured on CANADA LIVE (CBC radio 2), on Monday October 15 at 8PM. You can listen to the show on radio or on your computer, to find out how, visit CBC RADIO.
October 7 /07 - Guy A. Lepage played the song PSICODELI AMINOACIDO by Roberto López during the TV show Tout le monde en parle (Radio-Canada) this Sunday!
June 11 /07 - The ROBERTO LÓPEZ PROJECT will be on stage for the opening show of the 19th FrancoFolies de Montréal. This « trip de gang » that unites several musical currents and artists, will be presented on Thursday July 26 at 9PM, on the stage l’Aire Ford Focus. The concert will be hosted by Daniel Boucher with Lynda Thalie, H’Sao, Taima, Marco Calliari and the Roberto López Project together! The show will be filmed for TV and it will air the next day on ILLICO and later on ARTV.
June 1 /07 - Curura
Musique is proud to announce that we will be producing the music for the film Les femmes de la Brukman (Productions ISCA), a documentary produced for RDI / Radio-Canada .
Mars 16 /07 - Curura
Musique is producing the soundtrack for the film Tele-Sur (Altau Tuttifrutti / Cité-Amérique), a documentary produced for TV5.
February 21 /07 - Today is the premiere of the documentary film "Midnight Ballads" (Peripheria Productions) for which Roberto C. López composed and performed all the music. The film is presented in the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2007.
February 12 /07 - The Roberto López Project is invited to perform at the TV show Belle et Bum on Tele-Quebec, live from the Plaza Theatre in Montreal. The show airs at 9pm on Saturday the 17 of February and again on Friday the 23 at 10pm.
December 14 /06 - The year is coming to an end and we are happy to share some great news: the album QUE PASA? was included in the TOP 25 best world music albums by Rhythms International: MIX96 (Montreal). The album also reached #1 position for 4 weeks at CIUT's (Toronto) International charts, and stayed on the TOP 10 for several weeks. We want to thank everyone for their support and we want to wish everybody happy holidays. See you next year!
August
23 /06 - The
animated feature film MANGA
LATINA, for which Roberto López composed original
music, will be playing at the Montreal
World Film Festival. The film will also be airing
on MTV LATINO in several countries this Fall.
May
23 /06 - Roberto
López Project will be performing at the FRANCOFOLIES
DE MONTRÉAL on Monday, June 12 at 7PM and again at 10PM on the Monde
Multiculturel de Hydro-Québec scene.
May
23 /06 - Roberto
López is the recipient of the Prize organized
by the FONDATION
DU MAIRE DE MONTRÉAL POUR LA JEUNESSE and
the LES
FRANCOFOLIES DE MONTRÉAL!
May
2 /06 - The
album "Qué Pasa?" of the Roberto López
Project is now available on all record stores in the
Quebec area - Archambault, Renaud-Bray, HMV, Music World,
and others.
March
15 /06 - Curura
Musique signs a distribution agreement with DISTRIBUTION
BROS (a
division of Productions Bros) for the Roberto
Lopez Project album "Qué Pasa?". This
deal covers Canada.
February
24 /06 - Curura
Musique is pleased to announce that we will be producing
the original music for the soundtrack of MIDNIGHT
BALLADS (Peripheria Productions), a one-hour documentary
for Omni TV, which follows the lives of a group of new
Canadians who quietly toil through the night in Montreals
flourishing cleaning industry.
January
30 /06 - Curura
Musique signs a distribution agreement with Millenium
Representaciones de Colombia for the Roberto
Lopez Project album "Qué Pasa?".
This deal covers the Republic of Colombia.
December
2 /05 - Roberto
López travels to Colombia to begin his research
in traditional Colombian music. He has received a Grant
to Professional Musicians from the
Canada
Council for the Arts to
research traditional music from Colombia and to use
this research in the composition of a series of pieces.
November
6 /05 -
Roberto
López wrote all the original music for the
film Souvenir
Kids (Souvenirs d'Acapulco) that is playing at the
film festival: 8es
RIDM in Montreal. Besides all the original music
of the film, Roberto co-wrote the closing theme for
the film with
Daniel Russo Garrido. The opening theme is the song
"Ayer Soñé" from the Roberto
López Project latest
album "Qué Pasa?" available on Curura
Musique Records after November 11, 2005.
November
1 /05 -
The Roberto
López Project
album "Qué
Pasa?" has been finished. The commercial release
of the album will be on November 11. The cover art design
and photos were done by Juan
Madrigal, the box back cover photo & Roberto's
photo were done by Jocelyn
Michel, the
mastering was done at
the 'E' Room in
Toronto by Peter
J. Moore and the mix was done by Roberto López
& Claus Frostell at Curura
Musique studio in Montreal.
September
30/05 - The recording
sessions for the Roberto
López Project
album "Qué
Pasa?" took
place between August 2 and 15. Most of the material
was recorded on location at the Oscar
Peterson Concert Hall in Montreal by Roberto López
& Claus Frostell and additional recording was done
at Curura
Musique studio between
September 8 and 11.
May
27/05 - Curura Musique
will do on-location recording sessions at the Oscar
Peterson Concert Hall, in Montreal, for the production
of the Roberto López Project new album "Qué Pasa?".
May
25/05 - Recording engineer Claus Frostell
is lending his talents for the recording sessions of
the new album by Roberto
López Project.
Claus has worked with artists such as Moist, David Usher,
Jean Leloup, Gaia, The Planet Smashers, The Gruesomes
and The Snitches just to name a few.
May 16/05
- Roberto
López has received a Grant to Professional
Musicians from the Canada
Council for the Arts to research traditional music
from Colombia and to use this research in the composition
of a series of pieces.
May
12/05 - We finally have our
site up and running with almost all the basic information.
More updates to the site will follow soon, as well as
music exerpts of our work will be on line in anear future.
April
20/05 - Curura Musique produced the music for the
trailer-ad of the 13th
New Latin American Film Festival of Providence.
The festival takes place between the 24 and the 30 of
April 2005 in Providence (Rhode Island).
April 5/05 -
Curura Musique is proud to announce that the Roberto
López Project has been approved for the Independent Record Loan
by FACTOR.
The recording will be done this summer. More updates
on the recording and the official launch date will follow.
January 10/05
- Curura Musique will be producing the original
soundtrack for the documentary Souvenir
Kids produced by Peripheria Productions in
Montreal and shot in Acapulco, Mexico. This is a documentary
about the struggle of a resort town dealing with the
impact of child sex exploitation in the heart of its
community.
September 01/04 - Curura Musique, who produced the main theme and background
music, is pleased to announce the recent release of
the documentary film: Musiques
rebelles Americas (Productions Multi-Monde),
directed by Marie Boti & Malcolm Guy, produced by
Lucie Pageau.
August 01/04 - Curura Musique has finished the music production for
Manga Latina: Killer on the loose, Piñatas
and Monica: made in America, the 3 feature
animation films produced by Manga
Latina Productions & H2V Entertainment.
December 15/03 - The film "L'argent
(Money)" (ISCA) by Isaac Isitan has won the
Public's choice awards at the Rencontres internationales
du documentaire de Montréal 2003. Roberto C.
López composed the original music for this film.
Congratulations to everyone who worked on this project!
December 10/03 - Curura Musique has signed a contract with Voice Art
Productions for the composition of the original music
for their three upcoming animation productions: Manga
Latina: Killer on the loose, Piñatas
and Monica: made in America.
November 15/03 - Curura Musique is pleased to announce that the production
of the soundtracks for Open
Secrets (ONF), Chronique
urbaine (Peripheria Productions) and L'argent
(ISCA) has been finished.
October 20/03 - The song Oye Latino composed by Roberto
C. López has been chosen to appear in the movie
of the week Hollywood
Wives (CBS) starring Farrah Fawcett, Melissa
Gilbert, Robin Givens & Jack Scalia.