Win Studio Gear In Our $11,000 Remix Contest – Gilad Hekselman – Long Way From Home

_{Contest Rules:}  

• _{Crafting a full-blown mix OR remix of Far Away From Home.}
• _{For a remix: Please be sure to include at least 2 original production elements in your track (e.g. Vocals & Bass).}
• _{This is not a loudness competition, all tracks will be level-matched by the judges before listening.}
• _{Please only submit your mix or remix once, multi-submissions will automatically be excluded from the contest.}
• _{Submission ends on October 7th, 2022 at 11:59 PM PST. Any mixes or remixes submitted after this deadline will be excluded from the contest.}
• _{The winner will be announced via email, as well as on Produce Like A Pro the week of November 4th, 2021.}
  

_{How to get in on the fun:}

• _{Download the Multitracks of ‘Far Away From Home by signing up here}
• _{Remix the song. Don’t be afraid to come up with something completely different!}
• _{Bounce your track to a 320kb/s mp3 file. Make sure the file name includes your first- and lastname (e.g. ‘Peter Pan – Far Away From Home Mix/Remix.mp3’)}
• _{Upload your track to Youtube, Soundcloud or another streaming platform of your choice and use the Tag ‘Gilad Hekselman – Far Away from Home Contest 2022’ in the description.}
• _{Submit your mp3, along with a link to your streaming track to support@ratemymix.com.}
• _{Please post your Soundcloud Or YouTube Link on the Competition Page and leave a comment on someone else’s mix!}
• _{Complete your submission before October 7th, 2022 at 11:59 PM PST}

About Gilad Hekselman:
Gilad Hekselman is one of the leading voices in jazz guitar. Only a few years after his arrival to NY in 2004, this native Israeli was already sharing stages with some of the greatest artists in the New York City jazz scene including Chris Potter, Eric Harland, Mark Turner, Anat Cohen, Ari Hoenig, Esperanza Spalding, Jeff Ballard, Ben Wendel, Gretchen Parlato, Ben Williams, Avishai Cohen, Tigran Hamasyan, Aaron Parks and Becca Stevens among many others. In May 2019, Hekselman featured his quartet at the legendary NYC venue The Village Vanguard. He has also been playing all other major jazz clubs in New York City, including the Village Vanguard, Blue Note, The Jazz Standard, Dizzy’s Club and Smalls.

He is constantly touring world-wide and has played most noteworthy jazz festivals and venues including Montreux, North Sea, Montreal & SFJazz and many more. Hekselman has released 10 critically-acclaimed records as a band-leader, many of which have made it into ‘best of the year’ lists on NY Times, Downbeat Magazine, Amazon, All About Jazz and many other publications.

His 10th upcoming record, Far Star, will be released on Edition Records in May 2022. It’s an all-original album in which Hekselman plays many instruments, and it features special guests such as Eric Harland, Shai Maestro, Ziv Ravitz and more. The record release was celebrated with a week-long engagement at the Village Vanguard in NYC at the end of March 2022. Gilad is the recipient of several prestigious awards and recognitions. In both 2022 and 2017, Gilad placed first in the Rising Star category of Downbeat Magazine. in 2017 he alsoB won the 7 Virtual Jazz Club international competition 2017. In 2018 Gilad was asked by guitar legend Pat Metheny to perform as part of his NEA Award ceremony at The Kennedy Center, alongside some of Metheny’s other favorite young guitar players.

Gilad is also the winner of the 2005 Gibson Montreux International Guitar Competition, which led to a string of performances including opening for guitar legend Paco de Lucia with his trio at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006. In 2009, Gilad recorded three tracks for Walt Disney Records, one of which was included in the record Everybody Wants To Be a Cat (2011). The album features versions of Disney songs played by a top-shelf lineup of musicians including Dave Brubeck, Joshua Redman, Esperanza Spalding, Diane Reeves, Roy Hargrove, Kurt Rosenwinkel, The Bad Plus and many other jazz legends.