Slow Season - Westing

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We are Back this month with the third installment of the RIdingEasy Records potcast.  Our special guest this episode has an exclusive DJ set from Thomas Jager of the all mighty MONOLORD who goes by the name of DJ Fatface.  Lots of new music from RidingEasy bands Electric Citizen, Slow Season, Salem's Pot, Mondo Drag, and a slew of other things.


Hour 1 - DJ Bong Hits
Mondo Drag - Ride The Sky (Instrumental)
Leslie West with Mountain - Intro/Never In My Life
Slow Season - Damascus
Beast Maker - You Must Sin
Ash - Warrant
Salem’s Pot - The Vampire Strikes Back
Spiny Normen - Bell Park Loon
Electric Citizen - Golden Mean
Torche - Minions
Saviours - Narcotic Sea
The Spits - Rip Up The Streets
The Spits - Shitty Wold
The Spits - Fire
Shooting Guns - Go Blind
Tool - No Quarter

HOUR 2 - Dj Fatface (Thomas from Monolord)
Arc - Let Your Love Run Through
Entombed - Wreckage
Pilgrim - Astaroth
Driller Killer - Alcoholo Caust
Electric Wizard - Master of Alchemy
Satyricon - The Pentagram Burns
The Devils Blood - Evermore
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
Astra - The Weirding
Mogul Trash - Sleeping IN The Kitchen
Gluecifer - Take It

Hour 3 - Rick Lighting 
Natural Child - Laid, Paid, and Strange
Roky Erickson- Two Headed Dog
J. Geils Band - I Don't Need You No More
Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Penetration (Iggy Pop mix)
John Lennon - I Found Out
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Ashtray Heart
Zipper - Let It Freeze
Pretty - Mustache In Your Face
The Osmands - Crazy Horses
Tide - I Wish It Hadn't Ended That Way
Public Nuisance - Love Is A Feeling
Flaming Groovies - Heading For Texas Border
The Spyrals - Lying
The Who - Summertime Blues (Live)
Triton Warrior - Sealed In A Grave

RidingEasy Potcast #3

Slow Season -  FLAG

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"The album’s fantastic, Jane’s Addiction-esque lead cut 'Y’wanna' signals new growth for Slow Season both as songwriters and recordists and these are by far their finest songs to date." -- Consequence of Sound 

Contrary to the band’s name, downtime is a rarity for Slow Season. Sandwiched between summer 2015’s extensive tour with their RidingEasy labelmates Mondo Drag and Electric Citizen, plus several short west coast jaunts, the hard-working quartet also found time to hammer out its most powerful and ambitious album yet. Written, engineered, produced and mixed themselves on their own equipment, entirely on analog tape, Westing is a hard-hitting and powerful reminder of how at one time a rock ’n’ roll band could be a transcendent experience.

While Slow Season’s sound continues to effortlessly nod to the great bands of the 60s-70s, Westing is truly the sound of a band coming into their own. The songwriting is tight, howling and hypnotic. The sound is classic, yet refreshingly new. 

“It's a different album,” says drummer and primary recording engineer Cody Tarbell. “But we never have wanted to find a particular sound or any one thing and be attached to it permanently. A big part of our records is experimenting.” The Visalia, CA band -- Daniel Rice (vocals, guitar), David Kent (guitar), Hayden Doyel (bass), and Cody Tarbell (drums) --  has recorded all of their albums on reel-to-reel at Tarbell's home studio in a cornfield. This affords them the time to experiment getting sounds, while maintaining focus on the most important notion that performance is key. As with previous albums, recording was pretty immediate, tracked between January 15th and the beginning of February 2016 to 16-track tape and mixed to 2-track tape. 

Equally as ambitious as the band’s self-sufficient production is the sprawling lyrical theme to the album.  Thematically picking up where the Slow Season’s previous full length Mountains left off, Westing tackles some heady issues.

“Westing follows a loose narrative about our nation's loss of innocence as it explores its frontiers,” vocalist Daniel Rice explains. “Re-contextualized in a story about an unnamed protagonist faced with choosing between different ideological allegiances and his own social identity.” From song to song, the album follows what Rice explains as, “the unholy trinity of greed+power+violence, the injustice wrought from this, persisting in willful ignorance, and reaping what is sown.” A deep conceptual arc, for sure, and one that adds further weight to the Slow Season’s intensity. 

Album opener “Y’Wanna” erupts from the speakers as if the band couldn’t even wait for the tape to start recording. it’s a full-throttle rocker reminiscent of Zep’s “Immigrant Song” with sly reference to “Four Sticks”, all groove and pummel. “Flag” keeps things rolling along with its bouncing, stop-n-go guitar riff. The 6/8-time blues sway of “The Jackal” echoes early Sabbath malefic boogie, while “Saurekonig” is a cavernous and volcanic mass driven by huge drums, ringing slide guitar and ominous drone. “Damascus” is a rollicking anthem driven by Tarbell’s syncopated hi-hat/snare interplay and Rice’s explosive wail proving just how much of a dynamic powerhouse Slow Season has become. Throughout, Westing is a smart and snarling rocker that sounds like rock ’n’ roll records should: massive, infectious and inviting repeat listens.

Westing will be available on LP, CD and download via RidingEasy Records on July 8th, 2016. 

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Slow Season - THE JACKAL

Full concert: https://invisiblesound.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/monolord-2016/

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