Angel Bat Dawid's LIVE 2xLP/CD in stores EU/UK this Friday March 5th // in stores US/Canada on April 9th
Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood
LIVE
“stunning live album” – BrooklynVegan
“a brilliant document of how free jazz functions as both exploration and exorcism.” - Pitchfork
"merging spiritual supplication and free-jazz caterwauls with the raw confrontation of performance art." - NPR Music
“Dawid is a force who is not afraid to stand for what she believes in and puts it all into her music.” - Reverb.com
!!! 2xLP and CD in stores (very soon) !!!
Today we're happy to confirm retail street dates for the CD and deluxe gatefold double vinyl LP versions of LIVE by Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood.
LIVE is available in stores across Europe, UK, Australia and Japan starting this Friday March 5th (via our partners at !K7); and in stores across the US & Canada starting Friday April 9th (via our folks at RedEye).
((( Quick disclaimer/explanation: the reason for the disparity in the street dates... These records were pressed in Germany, and International shipping is a hot mess right now! Pretty sure we have the dueling nightmares of Covid and Brexit to thank for that... But anyways, yeah, moving these beauties across the ocean has been a quest. )))
The physical release of LIVE continues what has, against all odds, already been an industrious 2021 for Angel. As a regular member of Damon Locks' Black Monument Ensemble, she is heavily featured on the band's new single "Now (Forever Momentary Space)." Last month she remixed "Sunrise" from Alan Braufman's latest album, The Fire Still Burns, and collaborated with poet Ross Gay on a track for Jagjaguwar's 25th anniversary series Dilate Your Heart.
Angel has kept performing through it all, notably as an inaugural artist in residence for the groundbreaking new Oda platform, and recently at Elastic Arts in Chicago for her own MOTHERSHIP9 series.
Aside from performing, she can be found monthly on her NTS radio show.
LIVE was released digitally last October to widespread acclaim. It was named "Best New Music" on Pitchfork, and was included in "Best Albums of 2020" lists by WIRE Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, NPR Music, The Vinyl Factory, and more.
The album was recorded on November 1st, 2019, at Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin, Germany, during JazzFest Berlin. For Angel and Tha Brothahood – which includes Deacon Otis Cooke (vocals, synth), Viktor Le Givens (vocals, auxiliary instruments), Xristian Espinoza (tenor sax, percussion), Norman W. Long (electronics, synths), Dr. Adam Zanolini (double bass, bass guitar, soprano sax, flute, percussion), Isaiah Collier (drums), and Asher Simiso Gamedze (drums) – it was the first stop of their first European tour, and the site of several racially-charged confrontations.
Angel spoke about the show and her difficult experiences at length with Joshua Minsoo Kim in a powerful edition of Tone Glow last October, and more recently with Ted Gaier for the Swiss weekly-paper WOZ.
Angel says: “I hope that this album will uplift and raise awareness to the world that we are still not in a good place when it comes to the relationship between whites other races. Universities, festivals, organizations etc that were built over 50 years ago, even though they have changed outwardly, have not changed internally, and still uphold the principles of their founders, who were racists. We still got a long way to go. And music is a great place to start in repairing this age old, distorted reality.”
Listen to LIVE via our Bandcamp page.
*Deluxe Vinyl Package*
Gatefold Double LP
LIVE in vinyl form comes on TWO 33rpm 140 gram LPs (pressed by Pallas in Germany) in a heavyweight reverse board gatefold jacket with flooded black pockets, IARC obi strip and dome patterned inner sleeves. It's also available on CD in a 6-panel digipack.
The smoking cover art for LIVE was created by Raimund Wong. And the interior gatefold - which includes liner notes by Shannon J. Effinger and photographs by Cristina Marx - was designed by Craig Hansen.
Order a copy via our Bandcamp page today!
*** For folks who have already pre-ordered this record via our Bandcamp page ***
We're happy to report that the records will begin shipping to you very soon. For folks in Europe and the UK, you should be receiving imminently. If you're in the US, Canada, or anywhere else in the world, you should be receiving around the April 9th date. Thank you for your patience!
((( Big love to our man Leigh from !K7 in Berlin, who was kind enough to photograph this LP package to tide us over till we get our shipment in Chicago )))
Distribution via RedEye for
US, Canada, North & South America
This album will also be available on Classic Black Vinyl (same specs as above, sans color vinyl) and on Compact Disc (in a deluxe 4-panel digipack).
The retail street date for the LP and CD editions of Force Majeure is December 4th, 2020.
Retailers in the United States or Canada or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases of this album, or any other album in our catalog. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!
Distribution via K7 for
Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, and ROW
This album will be distributed by our friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, Asia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.
Again, the retail street date for the LP and CD editions of Force Majeure is December 4th, 2020.
If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!
((( all photos of Angel & Tha Brothahood by Cristina Marx / Photomusix )))
