POTTY MOUTH PREMIERE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "CREEPER WEED" ON i-D

PREMIERE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "CREEPER WEED" ON i-D  PRESS HERE TO WATCH     "It's a song that carries a tone of cool that can't be bought..." - KEXP Song of the Day

(Screenshot from Potty Mouth's "Creeper Weed" music video) "A little bit of Breeders, a little bit of Cars, and a lot of can't miss hooks." - Rolling Stone  "'Triumphant...gleams with bright, well-tuned hooks and guitarist/vocalist Abby Weems' crystal clear, melodic snarl." - Pitchfork "Textural upgrade...their hooky punk songs are actually bigger-sounding than ever." - The FADER "The oomph of 'Cherry Picking' can't just be chalked up to expert mimicry: It's the sound of a good band becoming great." - NPR Heavy Rotation "Standout self-titled EP...a fresh new twist on pop-punk." - i-D "It's not quite pop-punk, it's not quite indie rock...but it is fucking brilliant." - The Line Of Best Fit "Welcome to Valhalla. Potty Mouth's latest is a shred-fest with hair-flipping lyrics that feels like 10 Things I Hate About You for the millennial." - Entertainment Weekly  "It embodies the same kind of carefree-but-not-really attitude that was so in vogue in the '90s." - Stereogum  "alt-rock excellence" - SPIN   New England trio Potty Mouth has premiered their new music video for post-punk single "Creeper Weed." PRESS HERE to watch. Directed by Abby Banks and shot in Los Angeles with a crew of young female skaters, the video was captured on a classic 90s skate video camera (Sony vx 1000 DV tape), paying homage to a decade that Potty Mouth  is so deeply inspired by. The single is from their latest, critically-lauded offering, the Potty Mouth EP - a project that defined their raw sonic delivery to a new profound punk sound.   Potty Mouth is currently working on their new full length album. Lead singer and guitarist Abby Weems has been honing in on her impassioned songwriting skills, and was recently taking time to write with the band's idols Nina Gordon and Louise Postof Veruca Salt.     PRESS HERE to stream the Potty Mouth EP via Spotify.  PRESS HERE to listen to Potty Mouth make a hilarious prank call during their interview withBillboard's Alt In Our Stars    http://pottymouthgirls.tumblr.com/  www.facebook.com/pottymouthgirls https://twitter.com/pottymouthmass https://instagram.com/pottymouthband/

POP DUO CHAIRLIFT RELEASE NEW SINGLE ROMEO FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM MOTH

POP DUO CHAIRLIFT RELEASE NEW SINGLE ROMEO FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM MOTH MOTH TO RELEASE VIA COLUMBIA RECORDS ON JANUARY 22ND ROMEO PREMIERED ON PITCHFORK; AVAILABLE ON 12/1

(Columbia Records; New York, NY; November 30, 2015)  Critically acclaimed pop duo Chairlift has released new music in the form of their second single, the inspiring, upbeat groove “Romeo.” The track, which follows the much-lauded first single “Ch Ching” was premiered today on Pitchfork and will be available on all digital sales providers starting on December 1st. The lush, swaggering, running-themed single off their forthcoming album Moth will be released both physically and digitally on January 22, 2016 via Columbia Records. Stream “Romeo” here: http://smarturl.it/RomeoAudio Beginning 12/1: Download “Romeo” here: http://smarturl.it/Romeo Spotify – http://smarturl.it/RomeoSp Track list for Moth: Look Up Polymorphing Romeo Ch-Ching Crying In Public Ottawa to Osaka Moth To The Flame Show U Off Unfinished Business No Such Thing As Illusion As to “Romeo”, the unique song is based on the Greek myth of Atalanta, a heroine abandoned at birth who becomes an excellent runner: her father hears of her prowess and demands that she return to society to marry, however, she refuses and proudly announces that she'll only marry a man who can beat her in a foot race, and will behead those who lose. After hundreds have been killed and no winner emerges, a suitor named Melanion finally beats her in the race by throwing golden apples into her path to distract her, crossing the finish line first. “Romeo” is essentially told from the point of view of the braggadocio Atalanta, as her last race is about to start; hence the arrogant and aggressive nature. Producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wimberly describes that while in the nascent stages of “Romeo”, he and Caroline “started building a groove and it felt like a running beat. Caroline wanted the lyrics to stay true to that idea.” When asked to describe the songwriting of “Romeo,” frontwoman Caroline Polachek recalls, “I started studying opera two years ago, and immediately fell in love with Handel.  I tried to channel that same stately, baroque feeling in the chorus of “Romeo". Although the single is the second song to be released from Chairlift in three years, the duo – comprised of writer-producers and multi-instrumentalists Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly – has hardly been quiet.  They collaborated with Beyoncé on her groundbreaking self-titled album via the track “No Angel,” which was written and produced by Caroline and co-produced by Patrick.  Caroline released and toured Arcadia, a self-produced solo album under the alias Ramona Lisa and collaborated with SBTRKT, Blood Orange and others, while Patrick produced and collaborated with artists such as Solange Knowles, Wet, Kelela, and Tei Shi. An evolution from their last album, 2012’s Something, Moth proves to be an emotionally uninhibited and markedly stronger, more pop inspired body of work. A very New York City inspired album, listeners can expect to be led through an aural mix of big, rich pop inspired hooks, vibrating bass, lively brass and sensuous R&B inspired vocals, all anchored in the duo’s meticulously crafted instrumentation. Visit http://chairlifted.com for additional album and show information.

Credit: Tim Barber

Best Albums of 2015

TOP 50 BEST ALBUMS 2015

1. PURITY RING “Another Eternity”

2. KENDRICK LAMAR “To Pimp A Butterfly”

3. FATHER JOHN MISTY “I Love You, Honeybear”

4. GRIMES “Art Angels”

5. BEACH HOUSE “Depression Cherry”

6. JULIA HOLTER “Have You In My Wilderness”

7. JESSICA PRATT “On Your Own Love Again”

8. IBEYI “Ibeyi”

9. SLEATER-KINNEY “No Cities To Love”

10. JOANNA NEWSOM “Divers”

11. WIRE “Wire”

12. HIATUS KAIYOTE “Choose Your Weapon”

13. NATALIE PRASS “Natalie Prass”

14. THE WEATHER STATION “Loyalty”

15. DEERHUNTER “Fading Frontier”

16. LIGHTNING BOLT “Fantasy Empire”

17. PAUL WELLER “Saturn’s Pattern”

18. THEE OH SEES “Mutilator Defeated At Last”

19. SPEEDY ORTIZ “Foil Deer”

20. TORRES “Sprinter”

21. ALABAMA SHAKES “Sound & Color”

22. UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA “Multi-Love”

23. GIRLPOOL “Before The World Was Big”

24. CHELSEA WOLFE “Abyss”

25. FAITH NO MORE “Sol Invictus”

26. WOLF ALICE “My Love Is Cool”

27. JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION “Freedom Tower”

28. DIANE COFFEE “Everybody’s A Good Dog”

29. MOURN “Mourn”

30. MOON DUO “Shadows of The Sun”

31. SWERVEDRIVER “I Wasn’t Born To Lose You”

32. BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE “Musique de Film Imagine”

33. SARAH BETHE NELSON “Fast Moving Clouds”

34. THE SOFT MOON “Deeper”

35. JOANNE GRUESOME “Peanut Butter”

36. MERCURY REV “The Light In You”

37. DEATH AND VANILLA “To Where The Wild Things Are”

38. JOHANNA WARREN “Numun”

39. TAME IMPALA “Currents”

40. JAMIE XX "In Colour"

41. THE BLACK RYDER “The Door Behind The Door”

42. LANA DEL REY “Honeymoon”

43. TODD RUNDGREN “Global”

44. CHASTITY BELT “Time To Go Home”

45. COURTNEY BARNETT “Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Jus Sit”

46. TOBIAS JESSO JR “Goon”

47. A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS “Transfixiation”

48. YOUNG FATHERS “White Men Are Black Too”

49. HOP ALONG “Painted Shut”

50. SOAK “Before We Forgot How To Dream”

    CHASTITY BELT

LISTEN: #NowPlaying http://spoti.fi/1U1VXOn 

All photos by Angel Ceballos

Love’s 1974 Studio Album Reel To Real Out Today

Love’s 1974 Studio Album Reel To Real
Released Digitally & on CD 

For First Time Ever Today



Vinyl Copies of the Record Available on
February 19 via High Moon Records

“Rich in soulful, unconventional details, masterful singing, crunchy-guitar rock, straight-up Stax-grounded soul, eccentric psychedelia and contemporary funk.” – David Fricke, Rolling Stone


“Lee was perfectly at ease stretching the boundaries of his music to encompass the sounds of the world at large.” – NPR Music

Reel To Real captures Arthur Lee and Love at the peak of their rock, funk, and soul powers. Originally recorded and released in 1974 on RSO Records, this beautifully packaged, deluxe reissue features re-mastered audio from the original tapes, a lavish, full-color book with a trove of candid, unpublished photos, and an illuminating essay by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke. Out today, November 27, the album is available digitally and on physical CD via High Moon Records.

What Arthur Lee began on Love’s Black Beauty (released by High Moon Records to wide acclaim in 2013), he brought to fruition on Reel To Real. Armed with a major label budget, and a powerful, intuitive band, he dug deep into the blues, soul, and rock grooves that first inspired him, reaching out to a new audience with his fierce and forward-thinking personal vision.

The album features Arthur’s beloved Black Beauty band: drummer Joe Blocker, guitarist Melvan Whittington, and bassists Sherwood Akuna and Robert Rozelle — who Lee referred to as “cats who can play funky and rock" — augmented by guitar-ace John Sterling and cameo appearances by legendary guitarists Harvey Mandel and “Buzzy” Feiten. To a palette of stinging guitars, explosive brass (arranged by Arthur Lee), deep funk bass and clavinet, splashes of spacey synthesizer, and dream-team female backing vocals, Arthur Lee brought his funkiest and most soulful collection of songs, channeling the most visceral vocal performances he ever committed to tape.

High Moon Records has unearthed 11 revelatory, previously-unreleased tracks from the original sessions, including alternate takes and mixes, live-in-studio rehearsals, and 4 newly-discovered Arthur Lee originals: “Do It Yourself,” “I Gotta Remember,” “Somebody,” and “You Gotta Feel It.” These songs (three fully-produced rockers, and a spare, jaunty, Imagine-era John Lennon, by-way-of Sly Stone studio sketch) were previously unknown to all but their original participants, and present a major addition to Arthur Lee’s catalog.

This ultra-rare bonus material fills out the picture of a fearless, agile and very funky ensemble, led by a masterful singer-songwriter at his feral, exultant best.

Original Album Tracks
 1. Time Is Like A River
 2. Stop The Music
 3. Who Are You?
 4. Good Old Fashion Dream
 5. Which Witch Is Which
 6. With A Little Energy
 7. Singing Cowboy
 8. Be Thankful For What You Got
 9. You Said You Would
10. Busted Feet
11. Everybody’s Gotta Live

Bonus Tracks
12. Do It Yourself [Outtake]
13. I Gotta Remember [Outtake]
14. Somebody [Outtake]
15. You Gotta Feel It [Outtake]
16. With A Little Energy [Alternate Mix]
17. Busted Feet [Alternate Mix]
18. You Said You Would [Single Mix]
19. Stop The Music [Alternate Take]
20. Graveyard Hop [Studio Rehearsal]
21. Singing Cowboy [Alternate Take]
22. Everybody’s Gotta Live [Electric Version]
23. Wonder People (I Do Wonder) [Studio Rehearsal]
All Bonus Tracks Previously Unreleased Except 18

The CD is packaged in a deluxe custom Digipak with a full-color, 32-page booklet while the LP is pressed on high-quality RTI vinyl with a 24-page, magazine-sized booklet. The LP release will also include a download card for 16-bit WAV files of the complete album and bonus tracks. These digital downloads include the full-color, 26-page PDF booklet.

Order the CD & Pre-Order the LP from High Moon Records
Order the digital download from iTunes

New Mute Signing, On Dead Waves, Shares First Single

ON DEAD WAVES BRAND NEW MUTE SIGNING WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THEIR DEBUT TRACK HERE

On Dead Waves, Mute’s latest signing, have unveiled the video and a free download for their debut track, “Blackbird.” Watch the video HERE. “Blackbird” is taken from On Dead Waves debut album, set for release in spring 2016. The album itself documents dark memories, and buried emotions. “Blackbird” gives us a taste of what to expect from the world of On Dead Waves. The video, directed by award winning Polish filmmaker Lukasz Pytlik, amplifies the song’s melancholic yearning with its vivid depiction of the changing of the seasons. “My dreams are like summer, and yours are like spring Let’s sleep until sunrise, sing blackbird sing”   On Dead Waves recently shared a mix of tracks, charting a few of their favorite things right now. Listen to the mix HERE.

DOWNLOAD “BLACKBIRD” HERE

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PINS Premiere 'Got It Bad' Video On Wonderland || Announce SXSW Appearance

Premiere Video For 'Got It Bad' On Wonderland

 Announce SXSW Appearance

Wild Nights LP Out Now On Bella Union

Photo credit: Shannon Kurlander

"The Manchester, England-reared all-female quartet Pins may be the talk of the indie scene - and look magazine-ready, to boot - but their ascent has been as uncontrived as their fuzzed-out, slightly melancholy sound."-The New York Times

"Citing '90s groups like My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain as influences, the band takes a jangly, straight-ahead approach to alternative rock on "Young Girls" --NPR

" They're just a very good rock band making very good rock music, taking a familiar stew of influences and just nailing the fuck out of them." --Stereogum

"Sonically it's indie-pop edged out with a feeling of questioning melancholy, and just a smidgen of menace, and from the second they hit the screen you wanna be part of their gang"--NOISEY

"Young Girls," a sunny-day indie shuffler that flows perfectly in time for the gentle winds of spring" --FADER 

The likes of Haim should take note of how it's done"-Under The Radar (8/10)

Still on the heels of their successful second album Wild Nights, Manchester five-piece PINS have announced the release of a free download single 'Got It Bad', which is available now on the Bella UnionSoundcloud Page. Additionally, they have debuted the video for the track via Wonderland. With this video, PINS stick to their strengths, invoking feelings of a hazy summer night complete with sparklers, cigarettes and a youthful sense of adventure. It was shot in the Northern Quarter and Ancoats districts of the band's hometown by Sarah Jenny Johnson. "The song is wonderfully melancholic but its also, essentially, a love song so I wanted this to reflect in the way it was shot," says the director. "Dipping in and out of focus constantly, blurry lights, handheld camera - almost "drunk" in a way. Drunk in love."

'Got It Bad' is a standout track on Wild Nights. A love song, but in PINS own style, it is a slow-paced, exposed and honest track that showcases lead singer Faith Vern's sultry vocals and the tight musicianship of the band.

Faith says; "This is the song where when we were recording, I said to Dave (Catching) 'can we make it more Velvet Underground?' He said 'sure thing' and that's just what we did. Got It Bad is myfavourite song to play live, it's the only song I have chance to breath and take it all in"

This year has seen a packed touring schedule for the band supporting the likes of Sleater-Kinney, Drengeand Wire, as well as celebrated shows with Best Coast, Gang Of Four and Stealing Sheep.

They now have announced a February UK and European headline tour along with their inclusion on SXSW's 2016 official lineup.

PINS earlier this year released their second album Wild Nights, receiving great acclaim across media in the UK and US. The album was recorded in Joshua Tree at Rancho De La Luna with Dave Catching (QOTSA, Eagles of Death Metal) and Hayden Scott, and mixed in New York with Ben Baptie at Atomic Sound NYC (Mark Ronson).

This year has seen a packed out touring schedule for the band. Along with performing their own sold out headline shows, they have supported the likes of Sleater-Kinney, Drenge and Best Coast and will be supporting Mythopeoia III: Legs later this month, aswell as performing at Bilbao's Bilboloop Festival. Already announced for next year's SXSW festival, PINS have also confirmed a February UK and European headline tour. Full live dates below.

Listen To 'Molly' On Stereogum

Watch 'Young Girls' On NOISEY

Listen To 'Young Girls' On FADER

Watch 'Too Little Too Late' On Dazed

THE DØ Premiere "Trustful Hands" Video via Stereogum!

THE DØ Premiere "Trustful Hands" Video Via Stereogum PRESS HERE to watch!

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"Stars on the Rise in 2015" - Entertainment Weekly   "...the band have proven itself big time." - Billboard   "['Lick My Wounds'] is at once grand and intimate, like all the best pop." - Pitchfork   "['Despair, Hangover & Ecstasy'] is an invigorated, emotionally savvy cut of synth pop..." - The FADER   "Divine." - Noisey   "Paris electro-pop duo the Dø tamper with upbeat synths and catchy, irresistible choruses...all-around delightful." - Stereogum Today Franco-Finnish duo The Dø - a.k.a. Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy - share a new music video for "Trustful Hands." Filmed during the band's first tour in Japan earlier this year, the music video for "Trustful Hands" beautifully complements the hypnotic, electro-pop tune full of luxurious synths and draws inspiration from a culture that has long fascinated The Dø. This music video - following the band at first dancing through the packed streets of Tokyo, then on-stage in front of a packed crowd - is the band's homage to the country, with a tip of the cap to their love of karaoke. PRESS HERE to watch "Trustful Hands" now viaStereogum.   "This video for 'Trustful Hands' is our postcard from Tokyo," says Olivia Merilahti. "We wanted images that would be faithful to our life on tour. Chaos is our second home, but the road is our main address, for a few more months ahead!"   The Dø's genius third album Shake Shook Shaken was released earlier this year, has been certified gold in France and has garnered massive international praise. This has resulted in an MTV European Music Awards nomination for Best French Band, "Best Rock Album of the Year" at the French GRAMMYs (Les Victoires de la Musique), and the title of Best Alternative Album on iTunes. PRESS HERE to get your copy of Shake Shook Shakennow.   PRESS HERE to watch a 12-minute short film entitled "Miracles" - an absolutely stunning visual interpretation of Shake Shook Shaken that was directed byReynald Gresset and produced by Iconoclast - via Pitchfork now.   International Tour Dates - PRESS HERE for tickets 11/24/15              Bordeaux, France @ Krakatoa 11/25/15              Toulouse, France @ Le Bikini 11/26/15              Rennes, France @ Liberté Haut 11/27/15              Alençon, France @ La Luciole 12/1/15                Caluire/Lyon, France @ Le Radiant 12/2/15                Annemasse, France @ Chateaurouge 12/3/15                Besançon, France @ La Rodia 12/4/15                Avignon, France @ Salle de Montfavet 12/7/15                Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Paradiso North 12/8/15                Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique 12/9/15                Strasbourg, France @ La Laiterie 12/10/15              Nantes, France @ Stéréolux - SOLD OUT 12/12/15              Lille, France @ Aeronef 12/16/15              London, England @ Brixton Electric    thedomusic.com facebook.com/thedoband twitter.com/thedoband youtube.com/TheDoBand

Lilys Premiere "High Writer at Home" Video (Dir. Stephen 'Espo' Powers, Joey Garfield) On Juxtapoz

Lilys Premiere "High Writer at Home" Video (Dir. Stephen 'Espo' Powers, Joey Garfield) On Juxtapoz

Eccsame the Photon Band Reissue Out Now On Frontier Records

Watch "High Writer at Home" Video On Juxtapoz Lilys share a new video for "High Writer at Home" from the limited 21st anniversary vinyl LP pressing of the 1994 album, Eccsame the Photon Band. You can watch the video, directed by Stephen "Espo" Powers and Joey Garfield, on Juxtapoz and visit Frontier Records for more information on the release. Order Eccsame the Photon Band Reissue On Frontier Records The highly influential indie rock band LILYS is the constantly changing concept vehicle of Kurt Heasley, the group's frontman, founder and sole constant member. His harmonically complex songwriting has resulted in six albums and five EPs. Originating in Washington, D.C, the nomadic Heasley refers to LILYS different periods as Epochs I, II and III. Through him and the rotating players in LILYS, the musical style and approach shifts continually. The early recordings or Epoch I, including 1992's stunning, noise laden debut album In the Presence of Nothing and the etheric sophomore album Eccsame the Photon Band, were strongly influenced by MY BLOODY VALENTINE. Epoch I continues in the same year with the mini LP, A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns, on which LILYS refashion themselves as a dream infused experimental noise pop group. Shortly thereafter, Epoch II is born as a now Boston-based Heasley delivers Better Can't Make Your Life Better, and with it evidence of a strong British Invasion. The album's single, "A Nanny In Manhattan" rose to #16 on the UK Charts after being used in a 1998 advertising campaign for Levi's directed by Roman Coppola. The following year LILYS perform the first fully live performance on Top of The Pops in almost twenty years. Epoch II recordings go on to include The Services (For the Soon to Be Departed) EP,Zero Population Growth EP and The 3-Way. The new millennium dawns and with it a Philadelphia based Epoch III including the Selected EP,  Precollection and Everything Wrong Is Imaginary. By 2008 and 2009 a post-Epoch version of LILYS performs live shows in and around San Francisco and Los Angeles, the All Tomorrow's Parties festivals curated by My Bloody Valentine in the abandoned city retreats of New York and London and open for MBV at some of their other US shows. A meticulously remastered vinyl version of LILYS’ second full-length album, Eccsame The Photon Band is currently being re-issued through the legendary FRONTIER RECORDS. In Fall of 2015 LILYS performed a one-time-only, “big band” show called “Corruption Wrecked My Life”, that featured never before or rarely performed early material by LILYS - EPOCH I, circa 1990 - 1995. With Don De Vore (LILYS, Sick Feeling) as musical director alongside James Richardson (MGMT), Will Berman (MGMT), Travis Roseberg, Matt Werth (RVNG Intl. founder), Chris Colley (School Of Seven Bells), and Alex Craig (Limited, Ducktails, Big Troubles). The expanded format of “Corruption Wrecked My Life” is just another development in the Lilys’ ever-revolving lineup that has included more than 72 different musicians since 1991, as well as a myriad of collaborators. Heasley is always pushing the boundaries of his music.

John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters" - impulse! Records

 

Available Now on impulse! Records:

A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters from

impulse!/Verve Celebrates 50th Anniversary

of John Coltrane's Magnum Opus

Every Take & Overdub from Two Sessions of

Landmark Album Offered in Two and Three-CD Editions

Most Accurate Picture of the Making of the Iconic Recording

"'A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters' illustrates, John Coltrane was,

and remains, a gift, one that not only keeps on giving, but one that's

worth the same ongoing examination, and re-examination..." - Esquire.com

"If you only own the original studio release of John Coltrane's 

'A Love Supreme,' then the new three-disk release "A Love Supreme:

The Complete Masters" of the classic album by Coltrane's classic

quartet will be a revelatory experience." - The New Yorker

Listen to Track Premiers at Pitchfork and Wall Street Journal

On December 9th, 1964, John Coltrane and his classic quartet (Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrisonand McCoy Tyner) went into the legendary Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey and recorded A Love Supreme--the four-part suite that has influenced musicians and reached generations of fans far beyond the jazz world. Far less known is the fact that Coltrane, his classic quartet and two additional musicians--the legendary saxophonist Archie Shepp and second bassist, Dr. Art Davis--returned to the studio the next day to cut the opening part of the suite again. Until now, the complete picture of what happened on those two days, including all takes, overdubs, and even studio chatter, has been unavailable.

That will change on November 20th when Verve Music Group proudly releases A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of this seminal recording. It will include this alternate version, taken from reels from the personal collection of John Coltrane and originally recorded in incredible sonic detail by Rudy Van Gelder, along with revised notes and detailed information on these amazing lost sessions. This release will kick off a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Verve label, which will include myriad catalog releases, digital exclusives and box sets through the end of 2016. (Verve includes the catalogs of legendary imprints like Impulse!, Decca, MGM, Blue Thumb and many more.)

With the availability of long-lost session reels, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters brings together all existing recordings and written outlines for the first time to paint the most comprehensive and accurate picture of the A Love Supreme story. It reveals how Coltrane's masterpiece came together, from its initial conception as a nine-piece performance--it turns out the original plan was for a nine-piece band, including three Latin percussionists--to how it changed and developed in the studio. While the 2002 edition of A Love Supreme did include some of the music recorded at the second session, The Complete Masters is the first to feature all six takes of "Acknowledgement," the opening section of the suite, in their entirety, providing a deeper understanding and appreciation of how Coltrane would allow music to mature in the studio. The box also presents takes one and two of the track "Acknowledgement" from the sextet sessions in stereo for the first time.

A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters will be available in two formats: a 2-CD set, including the original best-selling album, along with unreleased mono "reference" versions of two tracks, owned by Coltrane himself, and seven unreleased performances from the two sessions. A 32-page booklet features an extensive essay by Ashley Kahn, noted producer, instructor and author of A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, rare photographs from the sessions and all of Coltrane's surviving musical sketches and written elements for the groundbreaking, four-part suite, including the words that would become the poem, "A Love Supreme."

A 3-CD "Super Deluxe Edition" of A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters adds what is currently the only documented live recording of the album, a spirited, impromptu performance from the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes in July 1965, which had been previously available on a 2002 edition of the album. This 3-CD set is presented in a larger format that includes additional information about the live material and a personal introduction by Carlos Santana.