UMR - 003
Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1. Nobody's Home
2. Pure Risk
3. Dirty Games
4. Immoral Guidance (feat. Keith Goodwin)
5. Ball and Chain
SIDE B
6. I Know What I'm Missing
7. Who Drives This Train
8. Have Inspiration Will Travel
9. Making Something Up
Black Ryno, mixed by Jason Cupp, is Danny Black’s 3rd solo album. Listeners will immediately hear a shift in musical style. The most noticeable is that there are no instrumental pieces. Danny is now the lead singer. Black reflects on the songwriting process: “I planned on making a heavier album with Ryno (Ryan Zimmaro) on drums and reaching out to singers to re-sing my ideas. Eventually, my placeholder vocals sounded good to me.” Fans of Good Old War will also enjoy a cameo appearance by frontman Keith Goodwin on the track Immoral Guidance. Zimmaro’s relentless, groove based drumming on the album is also notable. “Ryan and I only had to spend one day together. He came over and I recorded him playing beats off the top of his head. We had an absolute blast. He’s such an inspiring player that it was easy for me to write to.”
Danny Black is also the lead guitarist, and founding member of Good Old War, and is a touring guitarist with Josh Radin, Anthony Green, and more. Ryan "Ryno" Zimmaro also plays drums for Vacationer and Person L.
Credits:
Danny Black: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Percussion
Ryan Zimmaro: Drums
Peter Burton: Keyboards
Keith Goodwin: Vocals on “Immoral Guidance”
Produced and Engineered by Danny Black
Mixed by Jason Cupp
Mastered by Joao Carvalho
Additional Engineering by Andrew Torre
All songs written by Danny Black
Cover Artwork by Sophie Green
Layout by Erin Medlar
© 2020 Tzionamalka Music
Pressing Information
100 - Black Vinyl
PURCHASE
RELEASES
UMR - 002
Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1. It's A Long Way Back To Civilization
2. Quasarburn
3. IO & Europa
4. (Ron) Kokomo
5. Hemingway
SIDE B
6. Feelings Blade
7. Oh Nein
8. Re-Entry
9. Trash Truck
10. Landing Gear
Feelings Blade, recorded at Bright Light Studios, is a blistering ten track album featuring the band's first new material since their 2012 debut self-titled EP. The band is comprised of members from RX Bandits/The Sound of Animals Fighting, The Movielife/I Am The Avalanche/Constant Elevation, The Velvet Teen, and No Motiv/The Warriors. The album was produced by Steve Choi, Engineered by Roger Camero, mixed by Steve and Roger, and Mastered by Marcel Fernandez.
Vinyl is cut at 45RPM and is hand-numbered.
Peace'd Out is
Steve Choi - Guitar / Programming / FX
Casey Deitz - Drums
Roger Camero - Bass / Programming
Vinnie Caruana - Vocals / Lyrics
Pressing Information
250 - Clear w/ Black Smoke
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UMR - 001 / CMG 002
Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1. Not Giving Up Yet (04:55)
2. This Is Your Future (Lost in a Black Hole) (04:28)
3. The Pressure (05:06)
4. Mercury (And Opposite Planets) (04:33)
SIDE B
5. Time (05:30)
6. Worst Thing I've Ever Done (05:59)
7. Up Late (04:10)
8. Ride The Snake (06:13)
This Is Your Brain on LIVE, recorded in-studio at Rancho Recordo, is an eight-track album featuring crushing live renditions from RARE FUTURES' This is Your Brain on Love and Happy Body Slow Brain's Dreams of Water. The collection, engineered, mixed, & mastered by Marc Jacob Hudson and co-released by the band's own Cerebral Music Group and Somerville, MA based Umbrella Man Records, will bring fans of Happy Body Slow Brain into the RARE FUTURES universe.
The live album features
Matt Fazzi on Vocals / Guitar / Keys
Ari Sadowitz on Guitar / Vocals
Rich Bozek on Drums / Vocals
Alex Marans on Bass / Vocals
Pressing Information
250 - Clear Vinyl
250 - Silver Vinyl
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ROZ AND THE RICE CAKES - DEVOTION LP
Vinyl - March 2018
UMR - 000 / TL-105
Art Rock is a pretty broad term. Yet, when describing Providence, Rhode Island’s Roz & The Rice Cakes, the term Art Rock is not just appropriate, it’s dead center in terms of what they do and how they do it.
Under the stuttering time-changes, the crescendos and the complex arrangements, at the heart of these songs, there’s a simple pop quality that roots the band at a cross roads where Fleetwood Mac and Henry Cow mingle with Bettie Serveert and Gwen Stefani.
Roz & The Rice Cakes is equal parts experimental and catchy, energetic and bookish, daring and sugarcoated. This new album, Devotion is a sonic leap for the band. Roz Raskin from the band says: “Devotion was very different. We spent months working out the material, through multiple recording sessions at Big Nice Studio in RI with our good friend and engineer, and co-producer Bradford Krieger. This new writing process found us diving into a conceptual framework that explored the connections between humanity and the universe.”
If some of the sounds you hear on Devotion give you a cinematic sci-fi feeling, that’s not by chance. Roz continues: “Sonically we experimented with synthesizers and electronic drums, sounds that reflected a bigger story reminiscent of music that connected with our youth, music we grew up with. I have been a huge fan of sci-fi since I saw “The Thing” at age 5. The aesthetic of the supernatural and unknowns of science fiction and horror definitely have been absorbed in to this album.”
Subject wise, Devotion is a more personal album for the band, while at the same time staying consistent with some of the themes established by the album’s sonic qualities: “The record covers a wide range of subject matter in the human cosmos connection and is very much present in the current state of the world. ‘Do You’ unpacks the recent political climate and the complicit nature of silence and the long and painful history of marginalized peoples. ‘Somebody’ explores loneliness, a need for physical affection in the wake of heartbreak in the digital age. ‘NOVA’ discusses alcoholism and the need for escape. ‘East Coast’ examines the history of the world from the view of women, and watches civilization make the same mistakes again and again. “Revolving” unravels the affects of mass media production and absorption.”
Pressing Information
Devotion First Press:
100 - Transparent Purple
Unlimited - Pink Cassette
Unlimited - CD