*announcing* Daniel Villarreal - Lados B /// LP, CD, Digital album out October 6th, 2023
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Daniel Villarreal
Lados B
LP, CD, Digital album out October 6th, 2023
On October 15th and 16th, 2020, drummer Daniel Villarreal was joined by guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for two afternoons of recording in the backyard of Chicali Outpost in Los Angeles. For all three musicians, it was the first ensemble recording session they’d done in-person since the pandemic locked the world down just seven months prior. Some choice moments from these sessions made it onto Villarreal’s critically-acclaimed 2022 album Panamá 77, but most of the music remained unreleased.
Lados B is a deep dive into the high-level spontaneous music made by Villarreal, Parker, and Butterss across those two days in 2020. Villarreal is heard leading the group through various rhythmic modes and structures for improvisation – flow as informed by the Latin funk of Fania Records as it is by the otherworldly humanity trance of Brain Records – while Parker and Butterss draw on their extensive experience playing free together (as heard on Parker's recently-released Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, and the LA side of Makaya McCraven's 2018 LP Universal Beings) to build harmonic buoys for their spontaneous melodicism. The result is a beautifully vivid illustration of context, creativity, and collective composition from a particularly rich moment in history.
"Sunset Cliffs"
The album's lead single ("Sunset Cliffs") is available on all digital music platforms today, along with a video directed and filmed by Burkie. In the video, LA-based DJ (and Dublab comms queen) Megan Pattison aka Mamabear goes for a cruise in her 1962 Chevy Impala SS. She encounters some legitimately unexpected issues under the hood, then stops off for some sparkling water before she's rescued by her good friend Stephanie Rivera, who has a sweet ride of her own (a 1984 Cadillac Seville to be exact). The two drive up to Culver City Park, where they pull over to hang and enjoy a hazy late summer LA-style sunset.
Daniel Villarreal Group
~ on tour ~
Wednesday, October 18th - Public Records - Brooklyn NY - tickets
Friday, October 20th - Solar Myth - Philadelphia PA - tickets
Saturday, October 21st - Solar Myth - Philadelphia PA - tickets
Friday, October 27th - Jack London Revue - Portland OR - tickets
Saturday, October 28th - Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts
- Beverly Hills CA - tickets
Monday, October 30th - Yoshi's - Oakland CA - tickets
Deluxe Vinyl Package
Lados B comes on a 140-gram vinyl LP (lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST, US orders pressed at Smashed Plastic in Chicago, Rest of World orders pressed at Pallas in Germany) inside a heavyweight matte jacket with spot-gloss photo print, hype sticker & dome-pattern inner sleeve.
And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 555 copies of *Cigar Smoke* color vinyl.
Distribution via RedEye for US, Canada, North & South America
Lados B is also available on Compact Disc (in a deluxe 4-panel digipack), and Classic Black Vinyl (same specs as listed above). 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, Australia, and ROW
On all the same formats mentioned above, this album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Australia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.
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!!!
