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Limited Edition Vinyl Pressing taken from the Alex Maas LEVITATION Session!
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Official Vinyl Pressing taken from the band's LEVITATION Session!
Filmed and Edited by: Jonathan Horstmann
Recorded and Mixed by: Jonas Wilson
Mastered by: Erik Wofford
Filmed in historic downtown Bastrop, Texas
Part 1 filmed at Astro Records, Part 2 filmed at The Opera House
The LP features a selection of the full show, with the track-list and songs trimmed to the band's vision of an ideal vinyl listening experience across two 20 minute sides of a single LP.
In late 2020, Alex Maas - best known as the frontman for psych rock powerhouse The Black Angels - released Luca, an album of mellow, contemplative folk and psychedelia named after his son. With tours on hold, Alex and his band decamped to Bastrop, Texas 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.
“We shot this down in Bastrop, Texas 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 is a glimpse of what a tour on this record 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!”
- Alex Maas
The performance film premieres Saturday, March 27 at 7PM CST and features selects from Alex’s new album, Luca, along with three new tracks from his songbook, seen here for the first time, and performed with some of the all-star cast of 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. Today you can catch a sneak peek of the session and one of the new songs -- “Too Much Hate”.
Alex on “Too Much Hate”: "I tried to touch on a few things on this song that would attempt to identify things that make the world more beautiful. I’ve been trying to give solutions and not just speak about the cancer that is eating our culture. Some problems of society are rooted in how we raise our children, how we treat each other and quick uninformed decisions when people shoot from the hip as opposed to sitting back and thinking rationally about who to act instead of reacting."
