In late 2020, The Black Angels frontman Alex Maas released Luca, an album of mellow psychedelia named after his son. With tours on hold, Alex and his band decamped to Bastrop, TX to bring the live show they had developed for the album to the world via this performance film, shot in the city’s historic downtown.
Alex explains, “We shot this down in an old opera house built in 1889 and a 100 year old German tailor mercantile building in historic downtown, which is now Astro Records. This session is a glimpse of what a tour on Luca would look like had we not been in a pandemic. It was a joy to get out and get back with the friends and collaborators I created this album with, and bring these songs to life. For now this is the world tour, and a look at what we’re looking forward to being able to do on stage when we are back up and rolling! Thank you to Jonas Wilson of Mr. Pink records who asked me originally to film this in the beautiful city of Bastrop."
The performance film premieres this Saturday, March 27 at 7PM CT and features selects from Luca, along with three new tracks from his songbook, seen here for the first time, and performed with some of the collaborators he created the album with: Bryan Richie, Jake Garcia, Rob Kidd. These songs have been crafted over a decade in quiet moments between tours and albums with The Black Angels, are finally being released in the live setting on Levitation Sessions.
In addition to tickets to the streaming show, you can grab an audio download of the session, plus limited edition cassettes and t-shirts with art by Real Fun Wow, available exclusively as part of the stream. You can also grab a package that includes all that plus a limited edition vinyl pressing LP, signed by the band.
Alex Maas - Levitation Sessions will be released across digital retailers April 9 and vinyl early this summer. Luca is available now on Innovative Leisure and Basin Rock.
$3.98 | stream ticket
$9.98 | stream + lossless WAV + 320 KBPS MP3 download
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$100 | cassette + shirt + LP signed by the band
$49.98 | signed screenprinted poster
$37.98 | cassette + t-shirt
$23.98 | live album LP
$27.98 | t-shirt
$13.98 | cassette
The live LP pressing on bronze and turquoise colored vinyl, T-shirts, posters and cassettes are limited editions only available as part of the stream.
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