LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Although every day is a great day to visit your local brick-and-mortar record store, a visit on Record Store Day/Black Friday (November 25th) is essential. Omnivore Recordings has four vinyl titles available that day at record stores only: Big Star’s Complete Third, Vol. 1: Demos to Sessions to Roughs; the Beach Boys’ Becoming the Beach Boys:Highlights from the Hite & Dorinda Morgan Sessions; the Bangles’ Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles!,; and J aco Pastorius’ Jaco: Original Soundtrack. In September 1961, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, and Dennis Wilson stepped up to a microphone together for the first time at the home of Hite and Dorinda Morgan to demo The Beach Boys’ first three songs, under the Morgans’ direction. Between that date and the following March, before signing a seven-year contract with Capitol Records in July 1962, the group committed nine songs to tape. Some of these tunes became iconic, others remained obscure. Omnivore recently released a two-CD set of this material, including various takes. Uncut noted, “This pastiche of past and present contains the seeds of a predominant strain of ’60s music.” NPR’s Fresh Air spotlighted the package. And now, available for the first time on vinyl will be Highlights From Becoming the Beach Boys: The Complete Hite & Dorinda Morgan Sessions, a distillation of the initial package. The set comes in blue, red, or yellow vinyl variations. In its 9.5-star review of Big Star’s Complete Third, Pitchfork said: “By presenting the demos, working sessions and final mixes in order, Complete Third makes plain that far from being an unwieldy jumble, Alex Chilton meant to have Third sound as tortured, haunting and beautiful as the darkest moments of the soul.” Available for Record Store Day/Black Friday is the first in a series of three volumes of double LPs that will contain the entire Big Star Complete Third box set. Vol. 1: Demos to Sessions to Roughs starts at the beginning, with demos of the songs that were all eventually cut at the sessions. All the chaos and, as producer Jim Dickinson put it, “deconstruction” are present in these early stages of recording. A second and third volume follow in short order in early 2017.
Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles!, featuring 16 tracks hand-selected by the band members from their personal music archives, is a collection of remastered ’80s-era rarities, demos, live recordings and more, including the band’s debut single and all of the tracks from their self-titled 1982 EP helmed by legendary Ramones/Blondie producer Craig Leon. The album was previously available as a download and a CD issued earlier this year by Omnivore Recordings. Due to popular demand, Omnivore is releasing the set again, this time on beautiful red vinyl for Record Store Day/Black Friday. A special first-time-on-vinyl, limited-edition release of Jaco: Original Soundtrack features music drawn from the critically acclaimed full-length documentary film chronicling the life, music and ongoing influence of the mythic electric bass pioneer Jaco Pastorius. Produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo and Jaco’s eldest son Johnny Pastorius, Jaco: Original Soundtrack brings together 16 essential recordings including solo tracks, Weather Report masterpieces and musical collaborations with Joni Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Herbie Hancock, and more. This special one-time vinyl pressing of the soundtrack (previously available on CD and digital) features three brand-new recordings including two riveting interpretations of Jaco classics. Trujillo and album co-producer Chuck Doom penned the liner notes. More information and track listings at http://www.omnivorerecordings.com Watch the Omnivore Recordings Record Store Day/Black Friday trailer: https://youtu.be/Q7uVIIfz8x0
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