Vancouver-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer, Rob Malowany has over 25 years of experience working in various aspects of the music industry.
An impassioned live performer, Malowany has toured Canada since 1995 as both a bandleader and side musician, and has booked shows both locally, nationally and internationally.
His current music project, Parkland Music Project, is an ever-shifting cast of some of Vancouver’s leading roots and avant-garde players.
In its brief, productive existence Parkland Music Project has released seven albums.
A documentary film on the group’s synthesis of indie/alt-country songwriting and expansive improvisation titled ‘Bleeding Daylight’ was released in the fall 2018.
At present Malowany is working on a follow up to Parkland Music Project’s 2020 release ‘Eminent Ghosts’.
“Unmistakably sincere, with an emotional intensity reminiscent of Jason Molina” (Americana UK), Vancouver’s Parkland Music Project views alt-country roots through a kaleidoscope of textural improvisation, psych-rock energy, and thrillingly open-ended, uncommonly dynamic song structures.
Led by singer-songwriter Rob Malowany, the shifting cast of players is given complete freedom to continually reimagine songs; tempo, tone, intensity: everything is up for on-the-fly interpretation by the ensemble. In response, Malowany morphs and bends his stripped-bare lyrics and emotive guitar work to make each performance a unique, unrepeatable experience.
From wildly bombastic to pin-drop intimate, Parkland Music Project’s far-ranging sound “lends itself to both the breaking dawn or the darkening night” (The Vancouver Sun).
After the success of a showcase performance with Calgary Folk Fest as part of their Blockheater event in early 2021, Rob is set to head off to Europe for a string of shows in September/October 2021 followed by Western Canadian dates in November.