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Flying Lessons is the upcoming third album from LA-based Fool's Gold, officially out on May 19th via ORG Music. Each pre-order comes with an instant download of the first single, "I'm In Love", along with a remix by fellow Los Angelenos, Poolside. The vinyl includes a download code for the entire album. The first 50 orders will include a free Fool's Gold sticker.

"Flying Lessons encompasses everything we've been about for the last 7+ years, both musically and emotionally. It is the culmination of countless hours of travel, gigs, success, failure, darkness, joy, and the stubborn insistence to move forward and create our best work to date." - Luke Top (Lead Singer, Bassist, and Co-Founder)

Doctor Ross, also known as "Doctor Ross the Harmonica Boss", made his reputation as a bluesman in Memphis before moving to Michigan. During the early '50s, Ross recorded his first sides, including "Chicago Breakdown”, with Sam Phillips at Sun Records. This compilation, Memphis Breakdown, compiles the best of those early Memphis sessions all in one place, remastered for vinyl.

Track List:
A1 Chicago Breakdown
A2 Boogie Disease
A3 Polly Put the Kettle On
A4 Juke box boogie
A5 Terra Mae
A6 Feel So Sad
A7 Texas Hop
B1 That’s All Right
B2 Cat´s Squirrel
B3 Industrial Boogie
B4 Left Job Boogie
B5 That Ain’t Right
B6 1953 Jump
B7 Come Back Baby

Tracklist
Side A
More Than 2 Sides (Hillyard)
Measure of a Man (Sherley)
Now That You Know (Wheeler / Pitman)
The Giver (Hillyard / Wheeler)
Somebody Done Changed The Lock on My Door (Weldon)
Song of the Underground Railroad (Traditional arr. Hillyard)

Side B
Home is Where the Hatred Is (Scott-Heron)
Take a Chance on Me (Hillyard)
Ulysses (Hillyard)
Someone Else’s Love Song (Hillyard)
Dark Before Dawn (Hillyard)

Personnel:
David Hillyard – Tenor and Baritone Saxophones, Backing Vocals on 5
Larry McDonald – Percussion
Jimmy Boom – Drums
Chiquis Lozoya – Bass, Backing Vocals on 2-5, 8-10
Devin Morrison – Guitar
Ray Jacildo – Organ, Piano
Sean Wheeler – Lead Vocals on 2-5, 7-10
Alex Desert – Backing Vocals on 2-5, 8-10
Glen Pine – Trombone on 1-3, 7
Buford O’Sullivan – Trombone on 5, 8, 10,11
Luigi De Gaspari – Trombone, Bass Trombone on 4, 6, 10
Rich Graiko – Trumpet on 1, 6, 7, 8, 10
Rolf Langsjoen – Trumpet on 2,4, 5
Tommy Mattioli – Balafon on 6, Vibraphone on 7,10,11
Jayson Nugent – Pick Guitar on 4 , 7
Micah Nelson – Harmonica on 9

Recorded at Hen House Studios by Harlan Steinberger.

Additional overdubs recorded by David Hillyard at Studio Slack, Nico Leonard at Pum Pum Hotel, Luigi De Gaspari, Buford O’Sullivan, Ray Jacildo, and Rich Graiko.

All songs mixed by Harlan Steinberger at Hen House Studios.

Produced by David Hillyard, Andrew Rossiter, and Harlan Steinberger.

Mastering by Bernie Grundman.

Photos of Larry McDonald & David Hillyard by Kristin Laughter

Photo of Sean Wheeler by Brian Kasnyik.

Cover art design and layout by Jeremy Lublin

Special Thanks to: All our families, All the musicians who played on the album, Harlan Steinberger and Hen House Studios, Andrew Rossiter at Org Music, and all the Rocksteady 7 band members worldwide, past and present.

Throughout a fifty year recording career, Glenn Copeland's music has defied categorization and genre. He is delighted to announce the forthcoming re-issue of his extraordinary but little-known album, 'Primal Prayer.' Primal Prayer was originally self-released in 2004 under the nom de plume 'Phynix' to a small but appreciative audience. It's 8 tracks are a rhythmically complex and wildly creative fusion of jazz, world, dance and classical genres.

Track List:
A1 La Vita
A2 Back to Bachland
A3 Heaven In Your Heart
A4 Between the Veils
B1 This Side of Grace
B2 In the Image
B3 A Little Talk
B4 A Song and Many Moons

Shamballa is the 1993 collaboration from jazz drummer William Hooker, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and composer Elliott Sharp. The release features Hooker performing duets with each musician. Hooker and Moore’s performance is littered with bursts of feedback and distortion, while the collaboration with Sharp is characterized by a more electronic sound, building a sense of technology. The pieces were released on vinyl for the first time as a double LP for Record Store Day 2023, limited to 1,500 copies.

Tracklist:
Side 1 "First Meeting"
A1 Sirius Part 1 - Wheels
B1 Sirius Part 2 - Wings

Side 2 "Continuous - Time ... Consciousness."
A1 The Hat... And Its Train (part 1)
B1 The Hat... And Its Train (part 2)

Buy four of ORG Music's Sun Ra LP releases at once and save! This bundle includes "Outer Spaceways Incorporated", "Calling Planet Earth", "Spaceways" and "Janus". The recordings were remastered for vinyl and pressed on audiophile-grade vinyl at Pallas Group in Germany.

Description:
Here Swings The Judge is Milt Hinton’s first LP as a band leader, and includes intimate, private recordings featuring Ben Webster on tenor saxophone before his departure to Europe in 1964. The remaining tracks consist of dynamic studio recordings produced by Harry Lim, and feature prominent players such as Jon Faddis and Budd Johnson. These sessions range from the swinging “Blue Skies,’ to the slow, serene blues of “Blues for the Judge.” This is truly an impressive collection of recordings from the group of early jazz musicians.

Track List:
A1 Blue Skies
A2 Blues For The Judge
A3 It Had To Be You
B1 Sophisticated Lady
B2 Stridin' With Ben
B3 All The Things You Are

Recorded live at Slim’s in San Francisco, Mindfulness is the brilliant soundscape created by drummer William Hooker, along with Glenn Spearman on tenor saxophone and DJ Olive. The five Hooker compositions flow into each other, one after another, seamlessly, as if to take the listener on a musical voyage through time and space. The layers of vibrant sound, accompanied by trashing drums and shrieking sax show the incredible ability of each musician to take their instrumental vocabulary to a new level. The album receives its first ever vinyl release with this clear 2xLP pressing, featuring two unreleased bonus tracks, preivously only for Record Store Day, but now widely available.

 

1. Solemn Breath: Knowledge/In This Earth-Body
2. Flow-RT. 1 (Awake)
3. Principle of Duality
4. Living Organs-Parallel Planes
5. Archetypal Space
History And Futures
Architecture (The Book Of Numbers)

Way Out Yonder is the second live release from Terry Riley & Gyan Riley, the duo comprised of iconic American composer and minimalist pioneer Terry Riley and his guitarist/composer son Gyan Riley. The album is comprised of spontaneous improvisations and compositions by both Terry and Gyan, captured during three performances in Canada, Japan and the US, and features the elder Riley on piano, voice, melodica and electronics. The album artwork was created by Barbara Falconer, who also painted the cover of Riley’s landmark 1978 release, Sri Camel.

 

Limited Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP. Mastered from the original analog tapes by Bernie Grundman.

Guitar legend and Television co-founder Richard Lloyd has had a profound influence on rock & roll, with people like Jeff Tweedy citing Lloyd as his “musical hero”. Yet Lloyd’s solo career has somehow largely been overlooked and under-appreciated.With the release of his critically acclaimed 2017 memoir, Everything is Combustable, there is a renewed interest in his post-Television work. Perhaps the most obscure of his solo releases is Lodestones, an album that was released in 2010 only as a digital download. The album came to vinyl with this 2018 pressing, available as a transparent orange LP.

 

1. The Knockdown
2. Secret Words
3. King Of Fools
4. Fooling
5. Lowdown
6. Already Gone
7. Highway Signs
8. I Will Show You Mine
9. Shimmer
10. Oh Paige

Estrela Mágica is a starcrossed collaboration between Samira Winter (Winter) and Glenn Brigman (Triptides). Sighting influences from Brazil’s colorful Tropicalia movement as well as the phased out sunshine psychedelia of the American 1960’s, Winter and Triptides started blending together their favorite musical colors into a brand new sonic palette. Two years and a dozen home recording sessions later, they had crafted enough material to form Estrela Mágica.

 

A1 Tempo
A2 Amiga
A3 Desaparecidos
A4 Doce Violeta
B1 Raio de Sol
B2 Ele Dorme
B3 Te Levar
B4 Ontem
B5 I Just Wanna be With You

Pop The Clutch is a compilation of rare and obscure rockabilly tracks, carefully curated from the catalogs of iconic (and now defunct) labels such as Del-Fi Records and Atco Records. Many of the songs that appear on this one-of-a-kind LP are nearly impossible to find in their original 45RPM 7? form, making this must have for any serious collector of early Rock & Roll and/or rockabilly music. This limited release features brand new artwork and is pressed on a beautiful white color LP.

Track List:

Side A:
A1 Chan Romero - My Little Ruby
A2 Gerry Langford - Tell Me
A3 Buddy Knox - Swingin Daddy
A4 Ronnie Hawkins - Forty Days
A5 Jimmy Lloyd - I Got a Rocket in My Pocket
A6 Sonny West - Rave On!
A7 Dale Hawkins - Women - That's What's Happening!
A8 Jimmy Isle - Goin' Wild
A9 Arvee Allens - Fast Freight

Side B

B1 Johnny Strickland - She's Mine
B2 The Rock-A-Teens - Lotta Boppin'
B3 Johnny Rivers - Baby Come Back
B4 Baby Ray and the Ferns - How's Your Bird
B5 Mel Jackson - Move it Over Baby
B6 The Hawks - Fussy
B7 The Addrisi Brothers - Cherry Stone
B8 Ritchie Valens - Come on Let's Go
B9 Cecil Moore & The Notes - Diamond Back

Produced by Steven Haigler (Pixies). Debut studio album, available on CD.

 

1. Lost In The Woods
2. Lady Touch
3. Campfire
4. Ocean, I Love You
5. So Long, Goodnight
6. Song Holiday
7. Love Run Low
8. Water, Sunshine
9. Whole In My Heart
10. Baxolectro

 

The Ad Libs, a phenomenal yet under-appreciated American vocal group hailing from Hudson County, NJ, had their first and only smash hit within their first year as a group, with ‘The Boy From New York City.’ Though several other singles from the doo-wop group landed on the Billboard R&B chart’s, The Ad Libs never released a full length album. Presenting The Ad Libs is the group’s debut album that never happened. A collection of singles, b-sides, and unused studio cuts come together to show the 1960’s soul singers in a whole new light. The tracks were remastered for vinyl at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Pallas Group in Germany on purple color vinyl.

 

Cut from the Thatcher-era, post-punk cloth and steeped in the romantic chill of the Pacific Northwest, Pale Mirror is a catchy, melancholic ode to isolation and longing that only certain latitudes tend to produce. Owing to Influences like The Cure, The Cocteau Twins, The Chills, early OMD and The Wake - Blue Glass takes a step Into the ethereal on Pale Mirror. Seasick guitar lines and synth-laden melodies swim around the lean and pulsating edge-of-clean bass and drums to deliver a driving, energetic and introspective album.

Track List:
A1. don’t think twice
A2. sleep
A3. we loved the rain
A4. hometown highs
A5. don’t call
B1. all night
B2. incantations
B3. out of time
B4. you won’t stay

Description:
Hank Jones has a reputation for being one of the most flexible and dynamic piano players of the jazz genre. His playing on Arigato is a fantastic example of such and gives the listener insight into Jones' unparalleled talent. Appearances by Ronnie Bedford on the drums, Jay Leonhart and Richard Davis - both on the bass, and Ray Rivera on guitar help to round out this fantastic 1976 recording.

Track List:
A1 Allen's Alley
A2 I'm Old Fashioned
A3 Night Sadness
A4 Arigato
B1 Majorca
B2 What Am I Here For
B3 Medley: The Bad And The Beautiful; But Beautiful; You Are Too Beautiful
B4 Gerry's Blues

Description:
Luke Top was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He has dedicated the last two decades to recording and performing music. A majority of that time (2008-2015), was spent as the lead singer of Fool’s Gold, a band that has enjoyed international acclaim for their cathartic live shows and seductive experiments in global psychedelia. When Fool’s Gold disbanded, Luke shifted gears musically, going solo with the release of his full length album “Suspect Highs” in 2016. SPIN magazine called the album “a deeply earnest and deeply honest confessional.” The opportunity to play as a touring member of the band Electric Guest presented itself in 2017, so Luke joined up in support their second album, “Plural.” It was during this period that Luke partnered with longtime friend, Jason Quever of Papercuts, to open a recording studio in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles. In this space, Luke found the freedom to explore a variety of bold new musical tangents, further refining his unique brand of songwriting and producing. The resulting body of work is collected in a new 5 song EP entitled “The Dumb-Show”. It features guest musicians Kyle Crane on drums (Daniel Lanois/Neko Case) and Seth Ford-Young (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) on upright bass.

Track List:
A1 I’ve Been Workin’
A2 I May Never Leave
A3 The Dumb-Show
B1 Relics
B2 Seemed So Natural

Album Release Date is October 19th 2018

Venice Beach California’s Insects vs. Robots have been carving out an experimental and boundary-less musical vision since 2008. The band is known for their high-energy live shows and unique visual universe. The band has shared the stage with Neil Young, Jack White, Tinariwen, Primus, and Willie Nelson, among many others. Their latest album, Theyllkillya, was recorded at Hen House Studios in Venice Beach, mastered by Bernie Grundman, and pressed at Pallas in Germany.

Tracklist
1. TheyllKillYaa 6:21
2. Infection (Time Grows Thin) 6:06
3. Become A Crow 4:49
4. Matilda's Galavant 3:51
5. Fukushima 5:48
6. Nothing 3:52
7. Ole Lukøje 10:28

1. The Edge of Forever Scene I
2. The Edge of Forever Scene II
3. The Edge of Forever Scene III
4. The Edge of Forever Scene IV
5. The Edge of Forever Scene V

[Limited edition vinyl includes a special booklet insert with synopsis, libretto, photo documentation, and text by the librettist, composer and The Industry's Artistic Director Yuval Sharon. This release will harken back to opera recordings of the 1960’s – a collector’s item appealing to those interested in the best quality recordings and documentation of music.]

The Edge of Forever is a chamber opera in five scenes inspired by the ending of the Mayan Long Count Calendar. It is a time-responsive opera, written for one moment in time and performed once on December 21, 2012, the final day of the Mayan Calendar.

The Edge of Forever explores the nature of consciousness and its relationship to time through a prophecy of divine love. It is the story of an ancient astronomer and a distant beloved, a cosmic union that will begin a new, undocumented era of time. Pesacov's score manifests his journey from dark emotional states of yearning to the warm glow of infinite love. The sound world balances imaginary ancient and future musics, from conch shell to electronic oscillations: Deep earth sounds ripple, murmur and surge into shimmering ritualistic music.

To remain true to the concept and experience of the work, this recording is the only documentation of the production. It is comprised of both live and post-performance studio recordings, produced by the composer with the utmost sensitivity to creating the best possible representation of the live experience.

The Edge of Forever was site specific to the historic Philosophical Research Society, a Mayan Revival architecture style building in Los Angeles. The audience entered the opera in Act III, at that present moment in time on December 21, 2012 at 8pm—an event that has been recorded in stone since the 9th century by the Mayans as the end of their calendar. The opera was staged as an immersive experience that begins with a procession of chorus members leading the audience into the theater with their voices. Once inside, the audience was immediately transported to the cenote where the action is already taking place. credits

Music by Lewis Pesacov
Libretto by Elizabeth Cline


Produced & mixed by Lewis Pesacov
Engineered by Nick Tipp, Lewis Pesacov & Clinton Weelander
Mixed at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, CA
Additional mix engineering by Clinton Weelander
Mastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering in Los Angeles, CA

Scenes I & V recorded at Ahata Sound Studios, Los Angeles, CA 8
Scenes II, III & IV recorded live at the Philosophical Research Society,
Los Angeles, 12/21/2012 O

La'akan: Ashley Faatoalia 8 O

Scribes, Scene I: Abby Fischer 8
Scribes, Scene II, III & IV : Jessica Basta O, Tany Ling O, Christine Morse O, Argenta Walther O
Scribes, Scene V: Ariel Downs & Lauren Davis 8

Conductor: Christopher Rountree 8 O
wild Up:
violin, Andrew Tholl 8 O
violin, Javier Orman O, Andrew McIntosh 8
viola, Andrew McIntosh O, Linnea Powell 8
cello, Derek Stein 8 O
conch shell, Allen Fogle 8 O
conch shell, Jonah Levy 8 O
soprano sax, Kathryn Olson O, Brian Walsh 8
english horn, Claire Brazeau O, Claire Chenette 8
percussion, Yuri Inoo O
percussion, Corey Fogel O percussion, Derek Tywoniuk 8 O percussion, Matthew Cook 8 oscillators, Richard Valitutto 8 O

Qui & Skating Polly Black Split 7" Vinyl
- Limited to 500 copies world wide

Track Listing
Side A: Qui - Spectacle D'Horreur
Side B: Skating Polly - Chipper on Ezastar

Sentidos Saturados is the sixth studio album from alternative rock band, Pastilla. The album was first released as a limited edition cassette via Burger Records, and is now getting its wide release in the US on CD and digitally. With nearly 20 years of playing under their belt, Pastilla is sounding better than ever.

1. Amantes En Friccion
2. Ayer y Hoy
3. Control
4. Each Other
5. Herido
6. Junto a mi
7. No Me Dejes Caer
8. Nube
9. Particula H
10. Pienso
11. Sad
12. Sentidos Saturados
13. Siempre
14. Ya No Siento

 

1. Marble Floors
2. Avalon
3. Reunion Island
4. On The Shore
5. Chariot
6. Head for the Grass
7. My Uniform
8. Lucky Penny

Together with Tom McFall (R.E.M., Weezer, Stars) AFM finished their fourth album Ask Me This in the fall of 2011.

 

1. Down From Here
2. Alaska
3. Into Pieces
4. Statement
5. I'm Not Evil
6. Running With Insanity
7. Ask Me This
8. Reconstruct My Love
9. We Need Fear
10. Throw Us To The Wolves

 

Includes 18 panel fold-out poster. Shrink wrap is screen printed by the band.

 

1. Big Fork Lift (For My Soul Baby)
2. REAP
3. Dead Is GOD
4. My Boredom Is Bored
5. Nostalgia
6. Claire Doesn't Care
7. Laugh/Cry
8. Ballad Of Yawn And Joko (Broken Hipster)
9. Q & A
10. It's Summer Now
11. I Don't Care
12. Twist And Shout
13. Guilty Again