Playlist Week of 2014-06-28

* Hesperion XXI (Savall): Esprit d’Arménie (Alia Vox SACD)

* Siegfried Palm: Intercommunicazione (DG CD)

* Sun Ra & His Solar Akestra: Visits Planet Earth (Saturn LP)

* Pharoah Sanders: In The Beginning 1963-1964 (ESP-Disk’ 4CD)

* Andrew Hill: Black Fire (Blue Note CD)

* Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil (Blue Note LP)

* Wayne Shorter: Etcetera (Blue Note LP)

* Herbie Hancock & Foday Musa Suso: Village Life (Columbia EP)

* Billy Cobham: Crosswinds (Atlantic LP)

* Stanley Clarke: School Days (Epic/Friday Music LP)

* Lenny White: Venusian Summer (Nemperor LP)

* Jean-Luc Ponty: King Kong: Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (Liberty/Friday Music LP)

* Weather Report: Mr. Gone (Columbia LP)

* Derek Bailey/Pat Thomas/Steve Noble: And (Rectangle LP)

* Pat Metheny Group: Still Life (Talking) (Geffen LP)

* Ketil Bjornstad/David Darling/Terje Rypdal/Jon Christensen: The Sea (ECM CD)

* Marc Johnson: Shades Of Jade (ECM CD)

* Myra Melford The Same River Twice: Above Blue (Arabesque CD)

* Julia Hülsmann Quartet: In Full View (ECM CD)

* Vijay Iyer: Mutations (ECM CD)

* People: 3xaWoman: The Misplaced Files (Telegraph Harp LP)

* The Necks: Sex (Private Music CD)

* Buckethead: Colma (CyberOctave CD)

* Roni Size: Reprazent (d.1) (Mercury 2CD)

* Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (Columbia 2LP)

* Bill Laswell: Invisible Cuba (BMG CD)

* William Onyeabor: Who Is William Onyeabor? (Luaka Bop 3LP)

* Saturday Night Fever OST (RSO 2LP)

* Grateful Dead: Miami Arena, Miami FL 1989-10-26 (selections) (SBD 3CDR)

* Genesis: Selling England By The Pound (Charisma LP)

* Robert Pollard: Silverfish Trivia (Prom Is Coming EP)

* Slint: Spiderland (Touch & Go LP)

* Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino 2LP)

* Anathema: Distant Satellites (KScope 2LP/CD/DVD)

* Mastodon: Once More ‘Round The Sun (Reprise 2LP/CD)

* Ray LaMontagne: Supernova (RCA LP)

* Psychic Ills: One Track Mind (Sacred Bones LP)

* Beach House: Beach House (Carpark/Heart Break Beat LP)

* Beach House: Devotion (Carpark 2LP)

* Kvelertak: Meir (Roadrunner 2LP)

* Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar LP)

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Commentary:

We are in the home stretch in preparing the release of Cosmologies, my new limited-edition vinyl album with drummer Sam Byrd. Although I have not heard from United about a specific pressing date, I would expect to have my records in hand next week (or sometime after the July 4 holiday). So exciting! 

There is still a little bit of printing left to do on the first batch of covers, but I am loving how it is coming together. Griffin even cut some plates on Isle of Printing's nifty laser cutter to create additional imagery to layer on top of the red, which you can see above. Keep in the mind that the photograph is a detail from the center of print, where it will be folded, so not representative of what the final cover is going to look like (and there will be significant variations from print to print). In any event, it is truly going to be a one-of-a-kind work of art.

Please stay tuned!

In the meantime, you can download a FREE digital copy of Cosmologies and pre-order the vinyl over at Bandcamp. Thanks so much for your support!