New Release: "Red Label: Hommage to Lester Young & the Basie-Ites" by Lester's Blues

A new album directly from Belgium.

Red Label: Hommage to Lester Young & the Basie-Ites

Release date: November 2, 2018

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

About The Album

Taken from their Bandcamp page

Recorded live in one-takes (no edits), in one room with the band centered around two main microphones, and mixed straight to analog 1/4″ tape on a two-track MCI JH-110 machine. No external effects other than compression were used during tracking.

The tapes were edited the old-school way – cutting and splicing – to prepare for mastering. The CD was mastered in Brussels with top analog gear and A/D conversion.

The tapes were flown to Dublin for separate mastering and cutting of the lacquers for vinyl, which was done in a fully analog signal path.

Personnel

Frederik Van den Berghe – drums
Sam Gerstmans – bass
Victor da Costa – guitar
Luk Vermeir – piano
Hans Bossuyt – trumpet
David Lukács – clarinet, tenor sax
Tom Callens – tenor sax, vocal
Delphine Gardin – vocal
Bart Vervaeck – rhythm guitar

Recording/Mastering

Produced by Tom Callens
Recorded 7, 8, 11 March 2018 at Robot Studios, Gent – Belgium
Engineer, tape-op, mix: Pieterjan Coppejans
Mastering for CD: Uwe Teichert at Elektropolis, Brussels – Belgium
Analog mastering & lacquer cutting: Aidan Foley, Hayley Connolly at Masterlabs, Dublin – Ireland
Lacquer processing and vinyl pressing: GZ Media, Loděnice – Czech Republic