David Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7

The Giver

ORGM-2114-G

$25.00

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.

Zachary Cale returns with Next Year’s Ghost, out 5/24 via Org Music. The eight-song album, the follow-up to 2022’s Skywriting, marks Cale’s first turn to piano-based songs and includes contributions from Shahzad Ismaily (Bob Dylan, Marc Ribot), Jeremy Gustin (The Ah, Delicate Steve, Okkervil River), Uriah Theriault (Woodsy Pride), and others. The album is informed by the isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic, possessing a stillness that recalls those lost, lonely days spent in quarantine. It meditates on the strange elasticity of time, but at the edges a tense pulse beats, capturing what it felt like to have to live without urgency in a deeply urgent time.

Tracklist:
A1 Heart of Tin
A2 Fragile Line
A3 House on Fire
A4 My Mutineer
B1 Doom Loop
B2 Shatterstar
B3 Beyond Belief
B4 Rough Devotion

Zachary Cale: Songs, Vocals, Piano, Wurlitzer
Shahzad Ismaily: Bass, Korg, Arp, Mellotron
Uriah Theriault: Electric Guitar
Jeremy Gustin: Drums, Percussion

Guests:
JR Bohannon: Pedal Steel on 3
Jill McKenna: Upright Bass on 3
Brent Arnold: Cello on 2, 7, 8
Anni Rossi: Viola on 2, 7, 8
Alfra Martini: Harmony Vocals on 1, 3, 4, 7

Mastered by Josh Bonati at BONATI MASTERING.

Shirley Horn

Softly

ORGM-1030

$24.00

Never before been pressed to vinyl, Shirley Horn’s Softly is reflective of the album’s late night recording sessions at Peirre Sprey’s home recording studio in rural Maryland, aptly named Mapleshade Studio. The 1988 release is commonly referred to as one of Horn’s most introspective and emotionally intensive records to date. With her sidemen Charles Ables (bass) and Steve Williams (percussion) gathered into a quaint, pastoral living room full of recording equipment, the trio plowed through the tunes, tracking almost until dawn. The album was remastered for vinyl at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed on audiophile-grade vinyl at Pallas Group in Germany.

Track List:
A1 Since I Fell For You
A2 You're My Thrill
A3 My, How The Time Goes By
A4 Dindi
B1 Forget Me
B2 I Watch You Sleep
B3 Softly, As I Leave You
B4 Estate (Summer)

Qui / Mike Watt + The Secondmen

Awkward Human Interest B/W No One

QUI0SPLTGN-LP00

$8.00

Limited edition bright green color vinyl, limited to 100 copies. Includes instant grat download of both tracks and music video for "Awkward Human Interest".

Qui is back with new music for the ?rst time since 2007. The song “Awkward Human Interest” is the ?rst glimpse at their new album, which is due out in early 2014 and is produced by Toshi Kasai & Dale Crover (The Melvins).
Mike Watt and his Secondmen cover a fellow San Pedro band, Toys That Kill, for an amazing take of “No One”.

Qui - "Awkward Human Interest"
Mike Watt + The Secondmen - "No One"
Qui - "Awkward Human Interest" Music Video (via digital download)

J Marinelli

Putting The World To Rights

ORGM-2238

$22.00

Putting the World to Rights is the latest album from folk-punk one-man-band J. Marinelli. This full-length features a more fleshed-out sound than the majority of his vast discography, while keeping the DIY ethos intact and prevalent. Marinelli's tried and true lo-fi aesthetic is as effective as ever, invoking comparisons to Guided by Voices, Billy Childish, or The Magnetic Fields. Putting the World to Rights will be available on vinyl and digital formats beginning August 19th, courtesy of Org Music.

TRACKLIST:
A1 Your Economy
A2 Human Size
A3 Cilium Plank
A4 Are You Terrified?
A5 Hate Your Freedom
A6 Mostly Ghostly
A7 Everything Begins
B1 Where They'd Have Us
B2 What Columbus Wants
B3 Insider Art
B4 Antifa Grandpa
B5 Dinosaur Dan
B6 Dopamine Dealer
B7 The Year of Fucking Up
B8 Worker & Parasite

Album Release Date is August 19th

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