Gallo, Ron - Checkmate (Indie Exclusive, Cream Vinyl) IMT3998482.1

Gallo, Ron - Checkmate (Indie Exclusive, Cream Vinyl) IMT3998482.1The very last day of recording the album that became checkmate, Ron Gallo wrote and recorded the title track. Which, in his words, half jokingly, is "my first true love song that also happens to be the best love song ever written". It encapsulates the entire purpose of the album which takes his previous motto "The world is fucked, but the universe is inside you" and changes it to "The world is ending, what can I hold on to?". After years of navigating

Cut from the Absolute Original Analog Master Tapes

Yet somehow this masterful quintet session from April 1961 (which also features Herbie Hancock

Delicious female backup vocals and a few serene French horn lines give no clue that this trip is gonna leave the laid back porch behind soon

The vocals are taken care of by guitarist Michael Karoli and keyboardist Irmin Schmidt

reaching for a sense of commonality

1 Bird Song

L7 wasn't just one of the best all-female bands of the late '80s and '90s

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Cocaine Dream

but the SoCal pair have shared a preview with the release of "New Year's Eve"

Elvis 3:08

a sparkling and stoic track sung by Mona D