THE OLLIVANDERS is an innovative and evolutionary rock jam band with impressive credentials. In an age when old vinyl catalogue albums are outselling new music, this band’s inaugural album Two Suns hits all the right notes with its classic rock-inspired riffs and hypnotic melodies. Maybe that’s why it won the prestigious Native American Music Award for Best Rock Recording. The three-member group, all close friends since attending McKinnon Park High School in Caledonia, Ontario, Canada, consists of Marty Isaacs (lead guitar, vocals), Ryan Johnson (bass guitar, back-up vocals), both of Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario and “Little” Ryan Mickeloff (drums, percussion) of Caledonia. They came together at a time when a land claim conflict was broiling between their two communities; but they chose to focus on making harmony and peace at a time when others were trying to generate hatreds and divisions between peoples. Fittingly, they sign off their album “Peace and Love.” Also contributing to this remarkable CD is 2012 Juno Award winner for Aboriginal Album of the Year, Murray Porter (keyboards) and Emily Rose (vocals). This Ollivanders has impressive credentials, earned over a decade of nonstop musical growth and development. Here are a few highlights: The band performed at Al Gore's Global Live Earth concert in Washington D.C. and appeared across Canada on the national APTN music variety show Arbor Live. Rezolution Pictures also licensed the band’s music for the APTN hit series Mohawk Girls. In addition, from this award-winning album the song 55 Little Spiders went to #1 on the Aboriginal Music Countdown. And the Walt Disney Company licensed the band's music for use on its prime time sports television broadcast Saturday Night Football, featured internationally on ABC and ESPN. Album producer and critically acclaimed musician Rob Lamothe, who hails from the California music scene and found success with his band Riverdogs, had plenty to say about his experience producing Two Suns with the band. “The Ollivanders are amazing young men, really smart and funny,” Lamothe said. “There is a complicated story behind every one of their songs. I love that. I wish everyone listening to the CD could sit in a rehearsal room with these guys and hear about where the lyrics came from. Wild, funny, poignant stories behind every song.” The Two Suns album received a favorable and highly perceptive review from Kenny Lee Lewis of the Steve Miller Band. “I'm very supportive of The Ollivanders and am pleased with their success and happy that artists from different heritages can be such good friends while creating great music,” said Lewis. “This is in keeping with the spirit of all the historical treaties between both cultures,” he added. Read Kenny’s full review here: The Ollivanders — TWO SUNS by Kenny Lee Lewis | Steve Miller Band 10/31/14 Raw. Honest. The truth. Primitive. Rebellious. The truth. Dry. In your face. The truth. It’s always refreshing to hear production values that honor the artist, the poet, the songwriter and not the current trends, the producer, the studio, the music gadget business, and so on. Touché Rob Lamothe. Two Suns tells several tales of teen angst over broken love affairs, corporate greed, selling out, and buying in. I am a child of the 60s and the guitar tones, the dry in your face vocals and honest delivery harkens back to the garage bands of the summer of love…and protest…and a new paradigm shift in social consciousness. “Trash day was yesterday, you're still here, what went wrong.” I love that. Like an ancestral hippie that jumped up out of the overly-fracked ground it reminds us that we still have such a long way to go. As a lead vocalist, Marty Isaacs is no Adam Levine or John Mayer. But neither was Lou Reed nor Bob Dylan. This is a true poetic artist who is not trying to sell you on slick or trick. I hear you Marty. I see you. I know you mean what you say and have lived it. Your vocal performances are as clear and concise as your wonderfully clear guitar tones. Nice to hear the instrument for a change rather than being sucked through some awful digital floor pedal. Honest. Nia:weh. Great bass playing from Ryan Johnson, the rock of The Ollivanders, and spirited drumming from Ryan Mickeloff makes this band stand out as a great throwback to when guitar trios ruled the world. No machines, no samplers, and no loops. Just good honest playing, well...like the band I play with. I can relate. I hear Tom Petty, Green Day, and Buffalo Springfield influences in there. But also an original sound brought about by young men of mixed cultures coming together to beat the drum and cry out from their hearts and tell the stories for us to share with them. This CD will be in my car for a while. In the meantime, it’s “Time to live it up while I’m still free…rain or shine.” Kenny Lee Lewis has been a writer, producer, guitarist, bassist, and vocalist for The Steve Miller band of over 34 years. --- Content for this CD Baby listing written, assembled, and edited by Mike Burgess and Tim Johnson.