NEW RELEASES - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ROOTS, SANDRA ST. VICTOR, ADAM LANE TRIO

ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ROOTS - WISE UP GHOST AND OTHER SONGS 2013

Elvis Costello and The Roots' highly anticipated collaborative album entitled Wise Up Ghost is out now on Blue Note Records. Most of the sessions for the full-length took place in secret at Feliz Habitat Studios in the dead of night, while others were in plain sight at Costello's Hookery Crookery Studios. In addition to the Roots crew and friends, the record features a guest vocal appearance on "Cinco Minutos Con Vos" from La Marisoul, lead singer of the Los Angeles group, La Santa Cecilia. Wise Up Ghost was produced by longtime Roots associate, Steven Mandel, together with Elvis Costello, and Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson. You can catch Elvis Costello and The Roots performing live on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Tuesday, 9/17 and Thursday, 9/19 this week.

SANDRA ST. VICTOR - OYA'S DAUGHTER

Trained opera singer, Dallas born, Holland based singer/songwriter, Sandra St. Victor makes her Shanachie debut with Oya's Daughter, produced by Mark de Clive-Lowe and mixed by producer and mixologist Ty Macklin. The album further solidifies Sandra St. Victor as a one of the most unique, exhilarating and free-spirited musical forces of her generation. Oya's Daughter is musical proof. "I've always sang my life in my songs. These most recent years, in relative silence, I've raised two beautiful daughters. This time was for me more creative observation at life and my place in it as an artist," shares St. Victor. On Oya's Daughter, these new stories and songs reflect this new sight. The singer and songwriter confesses, "Lyrically, I'm more blunt and still positive. I'm less concerned with opinions, more protective of my own preferences and realities." "Why Oya?" explains St. Victor, "Oya is the Orisha of change, storms. She is the owner of the winds. Wind is symbolic of the power of thought. My daily movement asks Oya to lift the words of my songs into the breeze, on the air." ~ giantstep.net

ADAM LANE TRIO - ABSOLUTE HORIZON

Adam Lane's bass is superb here – really shaping the sound in a sublime way right from the start – brooding and bold up from the bottom – never too heavy-handed, but a force that directs the recording beautifully, and really gives shape to the alto of Darius Jones and drums of Vijay Anderson! The approach is quite different from the usual free trio date – as there's these subtle song structures on most tracks – sometimes more sonic than tune-based, but always full of feeling at a level that's extremely evocative, and which makes the album a superb achievement for all players involved. Titles include "Run To Infinity", "Bioluminescence", "Absolute Horizon", and "The Great Glass Elevator". ~ Dusty Groove