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Brent’s pop melodies summon the restrained beauty of his native Midwest. A fixture in Kansas City music, Windler’s pacific harmonies and intricate vocal and instrumental structures capture the polite malaise of Americana as it is lived everyday in mid-sized cities of the heartland. For more than a decade, Windler has explored this terrain that has grown into a more expansive identity that perfectly captures both the sticky sameness of a Midwestern evening, and Windler’s own embrace of a sound that is uniquely his own.
Brent’s first solo album “New Morning Howl” is an old friend joining you cross-country. As Windler narrates the tender sameness of the landscape, his arrangements and harmonies reveal hidden depths, casting the familiar in a sound that is lush, layered, and new.
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More stock currently in production and expected to ship at the end of May, 2021.
$ 20.00 USD
Yam Haus - Stargazer Sessions + Bonus Tracks CD
$ 10.00 USD
The official hard copy of The Band Is Gonna Make It EP
Tracklisting:
wOw!
The Thrill
Cute
Simplicity
Adriana
Wake Up
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Receive an immediate download of the track "Vacation" ft. Train when you pre-order.
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Dirty Heads - Any Port In A Storm Special Edition CD
$ 15.00 USD
Joshua Radin - The Ghost And The Wall CD
$ 10.00 USD
The Lyle Mays Estate is elated to announce the release of a thirteen-minute “mini symphony” entitled Eberhard—a composition completed by Mays in 2009 for the Zeltsman Marimba Festival, and recorded in the months before his passing on February 10, 2020, with a slate of notable names in jazz including Bill Frisell, Alex Acuña, and Bob Sheppard.
Due out on August 27, 2021, Eberhard is a long-form, multi-section work that is Lyle’s self-professed dedication to the great German bass player Eberhard Weber, a composer whose influence loomed large on Mays and his long-time collaborator Pat Metheny in the forming of the 11-time Grammy-Award winning Pat Metheny Group during the mid 70’s and throughout their careers. According to Steve Rodby (bass player of the Pat Metheny Group and Lyle’s best friend) who did double duty on this recording as co-associate producer and acoustic bassist, “…though he called it his ‘humble tribute’ to Eberhard, it is still 100 percent Lyle in every way.”
A steady, lilting marimba (Wade Culbreath) ostinato offers an ample bed for Eberhard’s ethereal opening piano melody, performed, of course, by Mays. Lyle’s unmistakeable orchestrational style is immediately on display as various shakers, rainsticks, and atmospheric synthesizer pads quietly make their way into the texture, rising and falling organically as an electric bass theme (played by longtime James Taylor cohort, Jimmy Johnson) emerges. Wordless vocals, a hallmark of the music of the Pat Metheny Group, supplied here by jazz singers Aubrey Johnson (Lyle’s niece and co-executive producer), Rosana Eckert, and Gary Eckert, are introduced—first as accompaniment to the bass melody and later as melodic “instruments.”
Vocal features give way to Bob Sheppard’s woodwind section, which gives way to cello section underscores (led by principal Timothy Loo), and soon the whole ensemble, including star drummer/percussionists Jimmy Branly and Alex Acuña, Steve Rodby (acoustic bass), Mitchel Forman (Hammond B3 Organ/Wurlitzer piano), and Bill Frisell (guitar) have made appearances. All sixteen instrumentalists/vocalists rarely play at the same time, instead playfully weaving in and out for various features (notably by Mays, Jimmy Johnson, Aubrey Johnson, and Culbreath) and accompanying textures. In a piece already abundant with aural decadence, Bob Sheppard’s extended tenor saxophone solo, which brings Eberhard to its climax, is perhaps the most thrilling. The piece ends as it began, with a sparse recapitulation of the introduction, rewarding the listener with the feeling of having experienced an incredible musical odyssey.
In typical Lyle fashion, this music reflects and honors his far-reaching influences, most obviously the bass playing and compositional style of Eberhard Weber (with whom Lyle recorded on two occasions), but continuing on through Philip Glass’ minimalism, Indonesian Gamelan ensemble, Brazilian music (notably the percussive and speech-like vocal techniques of Lyle’s friend and collaborator Naná Vasconcelos), to the blues, and to classical forms and structures. As in all of his compositions, Mays’ propensity for exploiting compositional material (or, its “DNA”) to the fullest extent is ever constant throughout Eberhard. Like a scientist, he would take a simple melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, or other kind of idea and experiment with it until he had discovered all of the different forms it could take—melody, counterline, background pad, bassline, rhythmic motif, and more—often using the same ideas in a wide variety of ways. Eberhard is utterly intentional, containing layer upon layer of depth, complexity, love, and care for the listener to discover.
While technically a posthumous release, Mays was engaged in the making of Eberhard from beginning to end—serving as composer, arranger, performer (piano, keyboards, and synthesizers), producer, and executive producer, and was actively involved in all of the recording and mixing sessions, which took place in Los Angeles during the latter half of 2019.
Fans will know that Lyle had been on hiatus from his enormously successful touring and recording career with the Pat Metheny Group and as a solo artist (Eberhard will be his seventh release as a leader) since 2011, choosing instead to pursue his myriad non-musical passions. Then, “Lyle’s health took a bad turn in 2019, and at about the same time, he decided to try to get Eberhard recorded.The relationship between those two events is complex. What’s clear is that he would continue writing and extending this music, as was always his process: to try to find every bit of what the material suggested, every note and harmony, and sound it evoked for him. He added parts, expanded orchestration, imagining it all on an even grander scale,” Steve Rodby explains. “The result is this recording, and what he was able to hear in his final days. This wasn’t meant to be Lyle’s last piece of music, and if he had lived longer, he had plans for more.”
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A Mild Case Of Everything on compact disc: The masterpiece concept album from Killers guitarist Dave Keuning.
$ 12.99 USD
2021 new album from Low Roar: maybe tomorrow on CD
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Tyler Smith - Feel You Walking CD
$ 15.00 USD
2 LP product: 3 sides music, 1 side etched artwork
Includes immediate digital download at the time of purchase.
$ 30.00 USD
Limited to 100 copies
$ 12.00 USD
Modern English - After The Snow Live at Indigo CD
$ 15.00 USD
Asking Alexandria - See What's On The Inside CD
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Asking Alexandria - See What's On The Inside Signed CD
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Sixx AM - Heroin Diaries 10th Anniversary Edition CD
$ 10.00 USD $ 20.00 USD
2 Disc CD with four previously unreleased tracks.
Also includes an immediate mp3 format download at the time of purchase.
$ 4.99 USD $ 10.00 USD
Includes immediate download of the single Lifeline.
$ 35.00 USD
Limited to 150 units!
Also includes immediate download of the album in mp3 format.
$ 15.00 USD
$ 24.98 USD
Track Listing:
1. That’s How I Got My Start
2. Necessary Evil
3. That’s the Kind of Guy I Dream Of
4. The Gentleman Is A Dope
5. You’d Be Surprised
6. Love For Sale
7. Skylark
8. Medley: Long Ago And Far Away/You Stepped Out Of A Dream
9. An Occasional Man
10. Out Of This World
11. Hooray For Love
12. Personality
13. My Foolish Heart
14. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
15. Wasting My Love On You
16. Just Give Me A Man
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Tracklisting:
1. Coke (Naked with My Girl) -226 Version
2. Got a Feeling
3. Right Way to Fly
4. Open Up Your Eyes
5. Blue
6. Miss Missing You
7. Believe
8. Supersonic Dreamer
9. International (Eyes Are Wide Awake)
10. Hollywood ‘98
11. The Fever Comes as Soon as You Are Gone
12. Telling All of The World
13. Coke- Rick Beato Version
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Digipak CD
Embossed Bad Wolves Logo
Orange and Black
$ 14.99 USD
Driftwood - Rock and Rock Heart CD
$ 14.99 USD
Driftwood - Live A The Purple Fiddle CD (Summer 2018)
$ 14.99 USD
Driftwood - Live At Grassroots CD (2014)
$ 15.00 USD
Course Of Empire - Fields Of Discipline CD
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Featuring Thrust and We Got The Beat
$ 20.00 USD
Limited Edition collectible from the 10/25/21 event.
Signed by Mike, Michael, Kyle, and Paul.
Featuring Thrust and We Got The Beat
$ 20.00 USD
Aubrey's Latest Christmas EP, hand-signed!
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$ 9.99 USD
Out of Print - Original 2002 CD in jewel case.
$ 15.00 USD
Andrew W. K. - You're Not Alone CD
$ 15.00 USD
Trip The Witch’s remastered self-titled album is now available on CD with 2 exclusive bonus tracks that can only be heard on CD or Trip The Witch’s official Bandcamp page.
Tracklist:
1. Saturn We Miss You (feat. Jon Anderson)
2. Dressed To Kill Myself
3. Wall Of Sound
4. Fell From The Floor
5. Planet TD1
6. Surfside Lounge
7. We Lived Here
8. Space Wagon
9. The Bird Returns
10. Black Light / Reclaim My Time
11. Surfside Lounge (feat. Mick Nickens) (BONUS)
12. The Bird Returns (With Outro Strings) (BONUS)
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Five Finger Death Punch - F8 CD
$ 15.00 USD
Nothing More - The Stories We Tell Ourselves CD
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Limited to 100 additional units signed by Dean and Tom
Trip The Witch’s remastered self-titled album is now available on CD with 2 exclusive bonus tracks that can only be heard on CD or Trip The Witch’s official Bandcamp page.
Final sale item: These may have some ink smudges or bent corners due to being shipped back and forth for signatures.
Tracklist:
1. Saturn We Miss You (feat. Jon Anderson)
2. Dressed To Kill Myself
3. Wall Of Sound
4. Fell From The Floor
5. Planet TD1
6. Surfside Lounge
7. We Lived Here
8. Space Wagon
9. The Bird Returns
10. Black Light / Reclaim My Time
11. Surfside Lounge (feat. Mick Nickens) (BONUS)
12. The Bird Returns (With Outro Strings) (BONUS)
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