NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: CARLOS SANTANA AND JOHN MCLAUGHLIN'S INVITATION TO ILLUMINATION: LIVE AT MONTREUX

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August 20, 2013 - DVD and Blu Ray , On Sale - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

On July 1st, 2011, Montreux hosted the reunion of two master guitarists, Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, with their Invitation To Illumination concert. Both musicians have been regulars at Montreux across the years but this was the first time they headlined their own concert together. The show features most of the tracks from their classic 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender mixed in with a wealth of other material. The evening was a showcase of supreme musical virtuosity and spirituality and typified the approach of these two great artists. It is certainly a performance not to be missed.

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THE VINYL WORD: NO AGE'S 'AN OBJECT'

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August 20, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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Los Angeles art punks No Age have always strained uneasy ambience out of the energy of hardcore and vice versa. In their earliest recordings, the duo landed somewhere between the sloppy youthful explosions of Void, My Bloody Valentine’s fuzz-buried pop, and the churning ambient darkness of Gas. As they developed over increasingly well-produced albums like 2008’s Nouns up until 2010’sEverything in Between, No Age sought to either smooth out the edges or play up the contrasting elements of their sound, moving through phases of riff-heavy punk and unexpectedly open and sophisticated songwriting alike as they went on. Siphoning equal influence from the disparate scenes of dead-broke D.I.Y. culture and the art world, all of the impossible angles in the No Age equation find their culmination in third proper album An Object. A marked return to the experimental clouds of formless ambient sound is one of the first things fans will notice about the album, but where early EPs and subsequent singles compilation Weirdo Rippers moved between defined songs and humming dream-sequence fuzz, tracks like “Running from A-Go-Go” and “An Impression” successfully incorporate noise and waves of distortion as instruments in their lonely arrangements. Tracks like these represent one character that An Object takes on, finding No Age at their most introspective and subdued. The incredible “I Won’t Be Your Generator” falls into this side of the album as well, finding the same propulsive balance between emotional vulnerability and caustic noisiness that made Sonic Youth’sDaydream Nation a perfect album. Amid these roaming lucid dreams are Ramones-meets-Ride blasts of punk like “C’mon, Stimmung” and the one-chord Krautcore of album opener “No Ground.” Marrying the airy heaven-sent guitars of the Durutti Column with both the abrasive immediacy of hardcore and the patient unfolding of classic shoegaze acts like Medicine and Loop only works because No Age have been coming to this point with their dream punk sound since the beginning. The series of dichotomies that makes their music as appropriate for all-ages shows at skate parks and stark white-walled gallery backdrops reaches its apex here, and even the relatively short running time of less than a half hour makes sense for the overall statement. Unlike earlier releases, no sound or idea lingers too long or whips by too quickly and nervously. The clashes in sound become the very skeletons for the songs, and the songwriting is more fearless and honest than ever before, marking a distinct maturity for No Age and resulting in their best work to date.-All Music

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND'S 'MADE UP MIND'

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August 20, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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If “Revelator,” the Grammy-winning debut from the Tedeschi Trucks Band, was the sound of a group of musicians getting to know each other, the follow-up, “Made Up Mind,” is that of a fearsome, well-oiled machine. Named for Norwell native Susan Tedeschi and her husband, guitarist Derek Trucks — of his own namesake group and the Allman Brothers Band — it is indeed a splendid marriage. Her scorching vocals, his mind-bending guitar work, and the support of nine top-notch players coloring in the rest make for a tasty stew of rock, R&B, blues, and roots music that is as alluringly melodic as it is rhythmically brawny. The title track is a manifesto for decisiveness. The defiant “Do I Look Worried” makes it abundantly clear that the person being addressed is the one who should be concerned. And “Idle Wind” is a gorgeous ballad that makes the most of Tedeschi’s gifts as vocalist who can swoop from fierce to delicate within a single phrase. While they may stretch out for improvisational flights in concert, “Made Up Mind” is concise and compelling.-The Boston Globe

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 8/20: NO AGE, LUMINEERS, TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, JOHN MAYER, TYPHOON AND MORE!

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August 19, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:

CD

John Mayer – Paradise Valley

The Lumineers – The Lumineers Deluxe Edition

Tedeschi Trucks Band – Made Up Mind

Blue October – Sway

No Age – An Object

Earl Sweatshirt – Doris

Typhoon – White Lighter

Ricky Scaggs and Bruce Hornsby – Cluck Ol Hen

Superchunk – I Hate Music

Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe

Laura Veirs – Warp and Weft

Fleetwood Mac – Then Play On

Zola Jesus and JG Thirlwell feat. Mivos Quartet – Versions

White Lies – Big TV

Watain – Wild Hunt

Born of Osiris – Tomorrow We Die Alive

Blessthefall – Hollow Bodies

Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue Acoustic

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Jimi Hendrix Experience (deluxe box set)

Mark Kozelek and Desertshore – Mark Kozelek and Desertshore

Charlie Worsham – Rubberband

Fleshgod Apocalypse – Labyrinth

Propagandhi – How to Clean Everything (reissue)

Sarah Vaughan – Sophisticated Lady: The Duke Ellington Songbook Collection

Fit for Rivals – Steady Damage

Julia Holter – Loud City Song

Ty Segall – Sleeper

Various Artists – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Soundtrack

Various Artists – One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das Soundtrack

TGT – Three Kings

Soil – Whole

Shigeto – No Better Time Than Now

Richard Pryor – The Warner Bros. Albums (1974-1983)

Saint Vitus – C.O.D.

Saint Vitus – Die Healing

Underoath – Act of Depression

Underoath – Cries of the Past

Tosca – Tlapa: The Odeon Remixes

Tisziji Munoz and John Medeski – Beauty As Ugly

Tisziji Munoz and John Medeski – Ugly As Ugliest

Andrew Belle – Black Bear

Willie Sugarcapps – Willie Sugarcapps

Between the Buried and Me – Snapshot

Trapt – Snapshot

JJ Doom – Keys to the Kuffs Butter Edition

Tim Easton – Not Cool

Lee Dewyze – Frames (deluxe edition also available)

Crosby, Stills and Nash – Box Set

Dio – Snapshot

Willy Mason – Carry On

Buffalo Killers – Ohio Grass

John Coltrane – Afro Blue Impression

Big E – A Salute to Steel Guitar

Asap Ferg – Trap Lord

August Alsina – Downtown: Life Under the Gun

Charlie Daniels Band – Snapshot

Bob James – Snapshot

Mannheim Steamroller – Snapshot

VINYL

No Age – An Object

Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe

Julia Holter – Loud City Song

Superchunk – I Hate Music

Fleetwood Mac – 1969-1972

Their/They’re/There – Their/They’re/There

Zola Jesus and JG Thirlwell feat. Mivos Quartet – Versions

Ty Segall – Sleeper

Telekinesis – Telekinesis

Pelican – Deny the Absolute

Bill Callahan – Expanding Dub/Highs in the Mid-40s Dub

Tosca – Tlapa: The Odeon Mixes

Propagandhi – How to Clean Everything

White Lies – Big TV

Typhoon – White Lighter

Typhoon – Hunger and Thirst

Typhoon – A New Kind of House

Robert Randolph – Lickety Split

Barenaked Ladies – Grinning Streak

Yes – Yesterdays

Saint Vitus – C.O.D.

Saint Vitus – Die Healing

The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate

The Black Dahlia Murder – Unhallowed

Soil – Whole

Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue Acoustic

Neneh Cherry and The Thing – Cherry Thing

Todd Rundgren – The Hermit of Mink Hollow

Amorphis – Privilege of Evil

Scorched Earth Policy – Going Thru’ a Hole in the Back of Your Head

DVD/BLU-RAY

Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin – Invitation to Illumination: Live at Montreux 2011 DVD and Blu-ray

Captain Beefheart – The Lost Tapes: 1966-1970 DVD

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THE VINYL WORD: VALERIE JUNE'S DISARMING 'PUSHIN' AGAINST A STONE'

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August 14, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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Valerie June‘s first album for a proper record label (after three earlier, self-published efforts) is all about her voice. In an era of identikit R&B “divas”, June has the most strikingly individual delivery I’ve heard in ages, a reedy, piercing intonation that cuts straight to the quick.

Significantly, it owes little or nothing to contemporary R&B mores, but instead is grounded as much in bluegrass and Appalachian singing as in Southern soul, gospel and blues. It’s utterly disarming in its directness: when she sings “I’ll be somebody/If you need somebody/To love”, the almost childlike simplicity of the lyric and the plaintive banjo and fiddle arrangement is echoed in the sincerity of a performance entirely bereft of disingenuous slants or ironies.

It’s music that slips between the generic niches favoured by broadcasters; but isn’t that exactly where the most interesting music comes from? — The Independent