Lados B [Orange Vinyl LP]

Daniel Villarreal, Jeff Parker, Anna Butterss – Lados B [Orange Vinyl LP]

On October 15th and 16th, 2020, drummer Daniel Villarreal

was joined by guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for

two afternoons of recording in the backyard of Chicali Outpost

in Los Angeles. For all three musicians, it was the first ensemble

recording session they’d done in-person since the pandemic

locked the world down just seven months prior. Some choice

moments from these sessions made it onto Villarreal’s critically-

acclaimed 2022 album Panamá 77, but most of the music

remained unreleased.

Lados B is a deep dive into the high-level spontaneous music

made by Villarreal, Parker, and Butterss across those two days

in 2020. Villarreal is heard leading the group through various

rhythmic modes and structures for improvisation – flow as

informed by the Latin funk of Fania Records as it is by the

otherworldly humanity trance of Brain Records – while Parker

and Butterss draw on their extensive experience playing free

together (as heard on their ETA IVtet LPs) to build harmonic

buoys for their spontaneous melodicism. The result is a

beautifully vivid illustration of context, creativity, and collective

composition from a particularly rich moment in history.

A1. Traveling With A2. Sunset Cliffs A3. Republic A4. Chicali Outpost A5. Bring It B1. Salute B2. Daytime Nighttime B3. Things Can Be Calm B4. Rug Motif

Genre: Jazz, Latin Jazz.