This item is now available for PRE-ORDER ONLY. Item is estimated to ship September 17, 2013.
• Mixed by Jeffrey Norman at TRI Studios
• Mastered by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering
• Audio tapes transferred and restored by Plangent Processes
• Lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
• Four 180-gram LPs housed in a lavish 4-panel “M-pack” jacket featuring original artwork by Steve Vance and tie-dye by Courtenay Pollock
• Limited Edition of 5,000
"The rock music group Grateful Dead is scheduled to perform at a 'potluck picnic' Sunday, sponsored by the Springfield Creamery." Eugene Register-Guard A "rock picnic." The Field Trip. Kesey's Creamery. August 27, 1972. The Springfield Creamery Benefit. Call it what you will, the sun was beating down hard and bright on that fateful day in Veneta, Oregon when the Grateful Dead heeded Ken Kesey's call to help save the family Creamery. The 100-degree and rising temperatures did not deter the band who were still riding high from their adventures across the pond. It did not discourage filmmakers John Norris, Phil DeGuere, and Sam Field who gained entry into the Dead's tight-knit world with their promise to capture the culture and integrity of the scene. And it certainly didn't inhibit the estimated 20,000 Dead Heads who could not believe their, well, pot...luck.
In fact, this blistering day turned out to be a near-perfect little piece of the Grateful Dead experience and it is with great pleasure, that 41 years later we can present Sunshine Daydream to you the way it was meant to be heard. Cut from the flawlessly preserved 16-track master, this 180-gram LP set of the "most requested" and "most revered" Dead show of all time promises to transport you back to the epic scene with definitive versions of the band's most beloved songs like "Bertha," "China>Rider," "Playing In The Band,""Greatest Story Ever Told,""Dark Star," and "Sing Me Back Home."
**Limited to just 5,000**
You can pre-order GRATEFUL DEAD STORE.
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Nonesuch to Release Chris Thile’s Solo Bach Album on Vinyl September 24Nonesuch Records released Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1, an album of Bach works recorded by mandolin virtuoso and MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile, to critical acclaim earlier this month. On September 24, 2013, the vinyl edition will be released, comprising two works written for solo violin: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001, and Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002. The album, pressed on a single disc in 140-gram vinyl at Pallas in Diepholz, Germany, was produced by Thile’s friend, mentor, and frequent collaborator, the double bassist and composer Edgar Meyer, and is available to pre-order now in the Nonesuch Store.
"There's the mandolin and then there's the mandolin when Chris Thile puts it to work," says NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin. "Chris Thile is stretching the limits of his instrument yet again, this time taking on Bach."
Thile explains his connection to the composer: “Bach was my first meaningful experience with—for lack of a better word—classical music. It was the second recording of Glenn Gould playing the Goldberg Variations. Gould plays with the kind of rhythmic integrity that I had previously only associated with non-classical music: music with a groove, with a pocket, that made you move. Gould was playing that music like my heroes play fiddle tunes. It humanized the whole thing for me and the heavens opened up and Bach came down. I started devouring all the Bach I could get my hands on.”
He continues, “This record to me is not about this iconic violin music played on the mandolin—like, ‘Oh boy, what fun, he’s playing a weird instrument!’ It's about Bach being one of the greatest musicians of all time, the solo violin music being some of his best work, and the mandolin having the potential to cast it in a new and hopefully interesting light."
Chris Thile, whom London’s Independent calls “the most remarkable mandolinist in the world,” is the founding member and lead vocalist of Punch Brothers. With broad influences including progressive bluegrass, classical, rock, and jazz, Thile transcends the borders of conventionally circumscribed genres, creating a distinctly American canon and a new musical aesthetic. Thile is currently touring with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, and Edgar Meyer, with whom he released last year’s The Goat Rodeo Sessions, which won two Grammys in 2013. He will perform works by Bach in solo recitals this fall; for details and tickets, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
As a soloist, Thile has released five previous albums. In 2011, Nonesuch Records released the Grammy–nominated Sleep with One Eye Open, an album of duets with guitarist Michael Daves.
Thile has also collaborated with a pantheon of musical innovators from multiple genres including Béla Fleck, Brad Mehldau, and Hilary Hahn. For more than 15 years, Thile played in the wildly popular band Nickel Creek, with which he released three albums, sold two million records, and was awarded a Grammy.
The New Yorker’s Alec Wilkinson said of Punch Brothers: “each musician has a deep command of his instrument … their technique and specific sensibilities have given Punch Brothers a sound that is strikingly coherent and singular, even if they haven’t yet settled on a genre … Each of the musicians … plays with grace, thoughtfulness, and force to a degree that is not duplicated by any band I am aware of.” Their latest album, the critically acclaimed Who’s Feeling Young Now?, was released in 2012 on Nonesuch Records.
To order Chris Thile's new Bach album on CD, MP3, and FLAC or to pre-order the vinyl edition, head to the Nonesuch Store where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the album.
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LANTERN: Announce North American Tour Dates (8/25 - 9/19)
Rock 'N' Roll Rorschach Available Now via Sophomore Lounge Records
Watch the Music Video for "King of The Jungle"
Risen in the form of neon fume from Philadelphia side-street sewer lids come LANTERN. Orbiting around the songwriter duo of Zachary Devereux Fairbrother and Emily Robb (with the auxiliary addition of Montreal-import Christian Simmons on skins, also of Sheer Agony), Lantern is what rock 'n' roll was - loud, oozy, inspiring, perspiring, pummeling directly forward yet cloaked in the arcane.
Over the course of three years and an impressive handful of releases (six EPs and a 7", for those of you studying the horses) on labels like Bathetic and Night-People, Fairbrother & Robb have spawned a sonically relentless dark-force, twisting, perverting, and penetrating open ears with the scent of rotten, sultry soul, fanged fuzz & wah, boogie-downers, jungle night-moves, exercises in exorcism, black leather, and sex. Inspired by their idols: The Rolling Stones, Stooges, Bo Diddley, Cramps, MC5, Bowie, and all the originators of R&B and blues, Lantern are taking their own whack at the punching bag that is the great American folk tradition/condition/religion -- Rock 'N' Roll music.
This summer, they fold it in on itself with the release of their latest album (and 12" vinyl debut), Rock 'N' Roll Rorschach into the stinking hot heat of early July A.D. With the help of fellow Philly engineering magick-maker, Jeff Zeigler (Purling Hiss, Kurt Vile, Clockcleaner) behind the boards, the record marks a shift in sound from the blown-out hiss of lo-fidelity, four-track home recordings toward a more balanced and discernable breed of raw, unflinching power.
Lantern's sound melts genres together, rockabullying weirdo blues into a frenzy of fuzzed-up soloing and glammed-down dance beats, ultimately resulting in a mound of grooves garnering moves from the '80s/'90s garage-rock rattles of Dead Moon, Gibson Bros, and Billy Childish to the '60s/'70s pre-punk lore of Hasil Adkins, Flaming Groovies, or even The Velvet Underground. Rorschach is a testament to the age-old odyssey of rock 'n' roll, searching for something "advanced" (dare we say "futuristic?") in paying homage to its primal whims and primitive-earth foundation.
The true treasure is the exploration itself. And with that, what are you waiting for? Let the needle dig into this slab of cold-black wax, bang your head unconscious, and wake to realize that boogie is a fuckin' bodily instinct, not an activity choice.
Available 7/9/13 on Sophomore Lounge. Limited-Vinyl-Edition of 500 copies.
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Coltrane completists, rejoice…..
John Coltrane: The Complete Sun Ship Session – Mosaic Records (3) 180gm stereo LP Box set MRLP 3005 - [Recorded 8/26/65] – (Single LP issued on Impulse AS-9211, Aug. 1971) – Remixed from the original three-track masters ***½:
(John Coltrane-tenor sax; McCoy Tyner- piano; Jimmy Garrison- bass; Elvin Jones-drums)
Mosaic Records has always been the label that jazz completists seek out to obtain the definitive work of both legendary and lesser known (to the general public) artists, who have helped define the many jazz idioms that collectors seek. Mosaic has sought out hidden and seemingly lost tapes of jazz giants, whereas other jazz labels have been satisfied to just issue readily available material.
Although the original issue on Impulse Records of John Coltrane’s Sun Ship consisted of only five master tracks, Mosaic Records was able to track down from the newly discovered original reels, the existence of unedited alternate takes, false starts, and edits, as well as recorded conversations between producer Bob Thiele, and Coltrane.
The Sun Ship session was recorded during 1965, among Coltrane’s most prolific years, at a time when his music was going through a period of extreme evolution. It was at the end of the period of his classic quartet comprised of the rhythm section of McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and the legendary Elvin Jones on drums. Sun Ship documents the group at the crescendo of their creative peak, just a matter of months before the departure of Tyner and Jones.
The music found on this session is powerful, sometimes chaotic, and at times somber, while seemingly prophetic, not knowing that Coltrane would pass away just two years later. Coltrane’s tenor invokes a spiritual tone, and is also wildly free, while Garrison and Jones swing with a loose groove. When Tyner has his moments he solos with thundering chords and commanding keyboard runs.
Hearing this music over thirty-five years later, the impact is no less stunning and contemporary in an avant-garde fashion today than it was when first recorded. The unedited tapes with both complete alternate takes, false starts, and inserts provide a window into Coltrane’s creative musical imagination. The short conversation snippets found throughout the LPs, though not containing any historical significance, remain interesting, as John can go from a humorous aside immediately into a burst of passionate playing like he was plugged into a high current electrical outlet.
Record 1, Side A, has three takes of “Dearly Beloved,” including a false start. Side B has the first two takes of “Attaining.” Record 2, Side A, continues with takes 3 & 4 of “Attaining” plus the first three takes of “Sun Ship.” Side B of the 2nd LP features the released version of “Sun Ship” as well as the album version of “Ascent” (Take 1). Jimmy Garrison’s extended bass solo is the lion’s share of this track, and is masterful.
The third LP has five takes of “Ascent,” on Side A, and they are incomplete versions and inserts. Side B is made up of a full alternate version of “Amen” and the same released 8:17 track from the Impulse issue.
The acoustics on these records is stunning with kudos going to Kevin Reeves for the remix, and to Kevin Gray for the remastering. Listening to Jimmy Garrison’s solo on “Ascent” makes you feel like he is just a few feet away…
The Complete Sun Ship Session box set is tailor-made for the hardcore John Coltrane enthusiast, a special prize for the chosen few who would savor every note recorded by John. Though the music presented here can sound jagged and dissonant to the general public, there remains an audience of Coltrane fans and young inspired musicians, who will find great pleasure in the exploratory, wildly creative emotional roller coaster ride that Coltrane leads as chief engineer. Limited to only 3500 box sets, it would be wise to contact Mosaic Records through their web site (www.mosaicrecords.com) to purchase your set before this issue sells out.
—Jeff Krow
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I want to thank John over at www.audaud.com for the exclusive rights to reprint this great review!
AUDIOPHILE AUDITION focuses on recordings of interest to audiophiles and collectors, with an accent on surround sound for music, and on all hi-res disc formats. Over 100SACD, DVD Video/Audio and standard CD reviews are published during each month, and our archives go back to January 2001.
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Czech firm hits right tune with vinyl records in fashion
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Vinyl’s not dead, long live vinyl
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All Hale Vincent and his home of records
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One for the record: For the love of vinyl, LPs sneaking back in
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The Replacements’ final album, All Shook Down, to receive first-ever US vinyl pressing
Paul Simon Box Collects All of His Albums
The Beach Boys Look Back With 'Wendy' - Six CD 'Made in California' collection available August 27th
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from our friends at vinylcollective.com
This Weeks Top 10 Albums – August 19, 2013
Here are the Top 10 albums at Shop Radio Cast for the week of August 13 – 19, 2013:
1. Far – Water & Solutions LP
2. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist (Deluxe Limited Edition Box Set)
3. Far – Tin Cans With Strings To You 2XLP
4. Moving Mountains – Moving Mountains LP
5. Silverchair – Frogstomp 2XLP
6. The White Stripes – Elephant 2XLP
7. Faith No More – Album of the Year (IMPORT) LP
8.)Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue Acoustic LP
9. John Mayer – Paradise Valley 2XLP
10. At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (Reissue) 2XLP
1. Far – Water & Solutions LP
2. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist (Deluxe Limited Edition Box Set)
3. Far – Tin Cans With Strings To You 2XLP
4. Moving Mountains – Moving Mountains LP
5. Silverchair – Frogstomp 2XLP
6. The White Stripes – Elephant 2XLP
7. Faith No More – Album of the Year (IMPORT) LP
8.)Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue Acoustic LP
9. John Mayer – Paradise Valley 2XLP
10. At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (Reissue) 2XLP
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GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 8/12 - 8/18, 2013
Vinyl Top 25:
1. The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars
2. Washed Out - Paracosm
3. The Wild Feathers - The Wild Feathers
4. Amanda Shires - Down Fell The Doves
5. Explosions In The Sky - Prince Avalanche OST
6. Guy Clark - My Favorite Picture Of You
7. The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
8. Pond - Hobo Rocket
9. Elvis Presley - Elvis At Stax
10. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
11. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
12. Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
13. Valerie June - Pushin' Against A Stone
14. Pokey LaFarge - Pokey LaFarge
15. Mac DeMarco - 2
16. Thundercat - Apocalypse
17. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
18. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
19. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
20. Sigur Ros - Kveikur
21. Father John Misty - Fear Fun
22. Big Star - Third
23. Big Star - Radio City
24. Rodriguez - Cold Fact
25. Diarrhea Planet - Loose Jewels
