David Lee Jr - EvolutionDrummer and Composer David Lee Jr.s stunning and rare album Evolution (1974) blends the deep experimentalism of John Coltrane and Sun Ra with the pulsating second line and parade rhythms of New Orleans to create a stunning sonic and rhythmical tour de force. In a lineage of incredible New Orleans drummers that includes James Black, Idris Muhammed, Zigaboo Modeliste of The Meters, and stretching back to Earl Palmer and Baby Dodds David Lee Jr. stands

the pains of resource-fueled conflicts

How to Do Now

while consuming Absinthe and red wine like a true-doomed soul

Something struck him

from a period of quiet

” Cassandra Jenkins says

he is eager to let everyone hear what he’s been doing on the road since he re-took the global stage for his victory laps

infinite fusion of all the sounds their hearts

occasionally arresting lyrics tackled alienation

But mostly look for Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage to be playing at a venue near you

Featured vocalist Adam Torres soars over John Mark’s punctual arrangement of stomping drums and rapturous string-work to anthemic

We’re lucky that lead engineer Ron DeCorte saved the original master tapes