The Waiting Game was the unsung tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks’ final album, recorded in 1961 but not released until 1999. Tina Brooks: The Waiting Game (Tone Poet) (Blue Note) LP Being on your deathbed is perhaps the most psychedelic trip you can go on: in Lasek’s father’s case, he surfaced from a morphine dream to talk about “a window” on his blanket, with “a carpenter inside, making intricate objects.” That experience pervades the album, catching fire on the song “Christmas Can Wait” elsewhere the band pays tribute to the late Mark Hollis and, on “The Father of Time Wakes Up,” they mourn the death of Prince. It’s literally a journey into (and back from) the brink: the story of the Besnard Lakes’ own odyssey but also a remembrance of others, especially the death of Lasek’s father in 2019. “Death,” “After Death,” and “Life” follows next. “Near Death” is the title of the first side. Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is a double LP. At last, the Besnard Lakes have crafted a continuous long-form suite: nine tracks that could be listened together as one, like Spiritualized’s Lazer Guided Melodies or even Dark Side of the Moon, overflowing with melody and harmony, drone and dazzle, the group’s own unique weather.
Despite all its grandeur, Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings honors the very essence of punk rock: the notion that a band needs only be relevant to itself. Ignited by their love for each other, for playing music together, the sextet found themselves unspooling the most uncompromising recording of their career. Nearly five years after their last lightning-tinted volley, the magisterial Montreal psych-rock band has sworn off compromise, split with their long-standing label, and completed a searing, 72-minute suite about the darkness of death and the light on the other side. The Besnard Lakes have passed through death and they’re here to tell the tale. It may have been several years since their most recent studio effort, but they haven’t missed a beat.īesnard Lakes: Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Flemish Eye) LP The trio returns now with their second studio album, I Told You So, with even heavier grooves and more confidence. Founded by Larmarr’s wife and manager Amy Novo, the trio started from humble beginnings in 2015, but since then has released two Billboard charting albums and toured the world to sold out venues. Dan’s smoldering pocket-groove drumming locks in the trio’s explosive chemistry. From Reno, Nevada is drummer Dan Weiss (also of the powerhouse soul and funk collective The Sextones). On guitar is the dynamo Jimmy James who eases through Steve Cropper-style chanking guitar, volcanic acid-rock freak-out lead playing, and slinky Grant Green style jazz. The band features organist Delvon Lamarr, a self-taught virtuosic musician, with perfect pitch who taught himself jazz and has effortlessly been able to play a multitude of instruments. It’s a soul-jazz concoction that goes straight to your heart and head makes your body break out in a sweat. & The M.G.’s and The Meters and sprinkles Motown, Stax Records, blues, and cosmic Jimi Hendrix-style guitar. Limited pink vinyl or classic black! Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio-or as it is sometimes referred to, DLO3-specialize in the lost art of “feel good music.” The ingredients of this intoxicating cocktail include a big helping of the 1960s organ jazz stylings of Jimmy Smith and Baby Face Willette a pinch of the snappy soul strut of Booker T. Oh ya… if you don’t follow us on Instagram, WHY NOT?! And now you know.ĭelvon Lamarr Organ Trio: I Told You So (Colemine) LP We’ll be at the shop 11-6 Monday – Friday & Saturday 11-4. In the meantime, there’s some killer new stuff in, so take a look!Īs always, big thanks to everyone who’s been hitting up our webstore and placing orders! It’s getting competitive around 5pm when we post up fresh used stock. If you haven’t hit up the WEBSTORE, MAYBE YOU SHOULD! If you can’t figure out the site, or don’t like to use computers, you can always call the store and we can do an order over the phone. None today, but tomorrow we should have some tasty treats for your clicking pleasure. So that’ll help keep the daily used posts rolling, not that we were running low on great used slabs…. They shall be missed, but this is a nice parting ‘gift’. Anyway, I’m really swimming in it today… just bought another nice batch of used off a customer moving across the country. We had a good run though, so I guess we can’t complain.
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