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Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees Covers Karen Dalton’s “Same Old Man”

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Celebrating Light In The Attic’s 10 year anniversary in 2012, we are releasing a series of very special colored vinyl 7”s and digital downloads. The series features contemporary artists covering a track reissued by Light In The Attic on the A-side, plus the original version on the B-side.

On this release, Screaming Trees man Mark Lanegan applies his tobacco-flavored tones to ‘Same Old Man’, a traditional made famous by the haunting New York singer-songwriter Karen Dalton. What Dalton achieves with the traditional instruments of America (notably her celebrated banjo) in her 1971 arrangement, Lanegan re-imagines with strings, droning Indian tones, sitars and sub-continent-sized production.

Available now! Head to LightInTheAttic.net to snag a copy!

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V/A “Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973″ OUT NOW!

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Oh yeah, just in time for Summer, we give you the much-anticipated Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973! Available NOW! This release, the first ever Mowest anthology, features 16 tracks–with lovingly re-mastered audio (from the original tapes!)–and extensive liner notes by Kevin “Sipreano” Howes with rare photos. The deluxe 2xLP set is housed in an old-school gatefold Stoughton “tip-on” jacket (with a 4-page insert), as it should be.  And the CD edition gets the same treatment with a heavy card-stock Digipak and a 32-page booklet! Featuring Odyssey, Syreeta, The Sisters Love, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The Commodores, and more, this is a slice of Motown like you’ve never heard before.

For more info, audio samples, and to order v/a Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973 (LITA 064 CD | 2xLP) click HERE!

****Pssst! – there’s more…****

To celebrate the release, we’re offering one free copy of either the 2xLP set or the CD to a lucky winner. To enter the contest, follow us on Twitter and tweet some love, along with your name, our way. This Thursday, June 16th at 12PM PST, we’ll announce the winner via Twitter. So keep them eyes peeled!

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V/A “Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973″ PRE-ORDER

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

It’s almost too much to believe…a project years in the making and there’s less than two weeks before it’s released unto the world. That’s right, on June 14, 2011, Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973, the first ever anthology of Motown’s funk/hippie/rock label Mowest, will finally be released! Can’t wait to get dibs on a copy? Well, you may pre-0rder the CD and the 2x LP NOW!

Here’s the back story: in the early 1970’s, Detroit-native and Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. brought his musical family to the left coast, one piece at a time. He began by launching the Mowest subsidiary in 1971, a new L.A.-based label dedicated to coastal grooves and an eye towards the top of the charts.

"Mowest" LP - Check the gloss!

Regardless of talent, quality, and financial backing, Mowest faced an uphill battle. With the majority of Motown’s focus on the already established names of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross,Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, and their latest chart dynamos, The Jackson 5, there wasn’t as much attention being given to the diverse Mowest roster. Acts like Syreeta, Sisters Love, and G.C. Cameron seemed to get lost in the shuffle. Though the label released over forty singles and close to a dozen albums from up and comers like Odyssey to established veterans Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons the expected hits never materialized and the imprint quietly folded in 1973. While Mowest artists The Commodores, Thelma Houston, and the aforementioned Cameron continued on with Motown proper, the sub label’s catalogue quickly gathered dust in the cut-out bins of record stores throughout the States.

"Mowest" CD - No skimping on this!

Forty years later, it’s time for the rest of the world to rediscover what a treasure trove of soulful sounds Mowest left behind. Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love is a lovingly prepared 16-track CD, 2 LP set with epic re-mastering from the original master tapes by engineer Dave Cooley (Blue Note, Warp, Stones Throw, Now Again), extensive liner notes from project curator Kevin “Sipreano” Howes (Jamaica-Toronto series, Doug Randle, Rodriguez, Monks), and Strath Shepard’s (Pacific Standard) impeccable graphic design. This is a slice of Motown like you’ve never heard or seen before.

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Pre-order Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973 (LITA 064 | CD, 2x LP) now from LightInTheAttic.net

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Kearney Barton: Legendary Recording Console on eBay

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Friends,

As you may have seen in our Twitter feed this week, Dave Segal wrote a great piece on Northwest recording engineer Kearney Barton (as in Wheedle’s Groove Kearney Barton) in the latest edition of The Stranger. Check it out online HERE!

Sadly, Kearney’s health is quickly deteriorating and he had to retire after over six decades of recording Northwest music.  Our friend and mastering guru Dave Cooley has been helping Kearney sell his music gear to cover health bills.  The man’s legendary custom build, one-of-a-kind, Langevin recording console is now on eBay – check out the listing for full info and photos. It’s pretty incredible–The Kingsmen, The Standells, The Sonics, Earl Hines, Paul Bley, and many others recorded on this very console.

Kearney has arguably recorded more music than anyone in the entire Pacific Northwest, dating back to 1958, including rock, jazz, sitar music, country, psych, folk, operas, classical, radio jingles, the list goes on and on – Quincy Jones to The Sonics.  His significance to Northwest music history cannot be understated.

We’re currently working with Kearney, his family, and the University of Washington to digitize thousands of analog reels from Kearney’s endless audio archive, and eventually release some of this material on CD/LP/Digital. The University is now preserving over 1,500 reels, but we’re looking to find a safe place – ideally a local Seattle museum – to house the remainder of the archive and then locate funding to pay for months of professional digitizing.

Please spread the word.  We could use your help.

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AROUND THE ATTIC: Dave Cooley (Production Guru)

Monday, November 12th, 2007

You know, with all the high quality music we put out each year, some people have started to think that we’ve just had mad inventors build us an army of indestructible robot musicians. And, while yes lurking in the wings of our palatial estate are many a robots, they’re for other … things.

To prove to you that we’re cranking out these hits with the help of real, live, oxygen breathing humans, we’ve wrangled our good friend LA-based music producer/engineer/mastering guru Dave Cooley. Mr. Cooley has done work on the music of The Black Angels, Karen Dalton, Jackie Mittoo, and Betty Davis for us. Aside from generously helping us on occasion, he also produced the new Silversun Pickups album “Carnavas”, mastered Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album, worked with The Polyphonic Spree, and done a shit-ton of work with Stone’s Throw’s impressive catalogue. Yeah, he’s kind of a big deal.

In the words of venerable co-owner Matt Sullivan, “Our records would sound like shit without his masterful ear.”

 

For your enjoyment, Mr. Dave Cooley.

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What I’m Eating: Omega berry/ flax oatmeal at Le Pain Quotidian (NY and LA). Unclogs your arteries.

What I Like In Culture: The medical marijuana phenom in LA right now. I don’t even smoke pot but this place is now officially Amsterdam. More weird music to mix/ master now.

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