New Albums - Page 125

Bassist Alissia Benveniste, who The Huffington Post called “the future face of funk music” and leader of a 14-piece funk project called Alissia & The Funketeers, has released her debut EP, Back to the Funkture. “My vision for my music is to inspire people and spread positivity by pairing authentic funk music with a twist of modern pop,” Alissia said...

Extreme metal band After The Burial’s fifth album, Dig Deep, is getting high marks from metal fans. Metal Injection magazine says the album is its favorite since the band’s 2008 offering, Rareform. “The adjectives pummeling and relentless come to mind when listening to the album,” the magazine says. Lee Foral continues to handle bass on the album, just as he...

Brazilian bassist Fernando Molinari has released the album, Built By Elements. The instrumental album combines fusion, prog rock, and Brazilian music. We’ve been aware of Molinari’s talents for quite a while here at No Treble. Take a look at how we’ve featured his work in our archive. Just check out the track “Tropical Rain” in the video below. Built By...

Pop-punk band Simple Plan has released its first studio album in five years, Taking One for the Team. David Desrosiers handles bass duties on the album, the band’s fifth, as he has since the beginning of the band’s recording career. How does the band sound after five years? Take a listen to the album’s opener, “Opinion Overload” in the video...

Gospel and soul legend Mavis Staples’ latest album, Livin’ on a High Note, sees Staples, now in her 70s, performing tunes written just for her, by a wide variety of contemporary songwriters. Songwriters include Nick Cave, Justin Vernon, tUnE-yArds, Neko Case, Aloe Blacc, Ben Harper, Benjamin Booker, Valerie June, and M. Ward, who also produced. Of course, Jeff Turmes is...

Fans of the late bassist Jimmy Bain, who passed away in January, can hear and see his final work on the deluxe edition of the band Last in Line’s album, Heavy Crown. Last in Line featured original Dio members Bain, Vinny Appice and Vivian Campbell, along with vocalist Andrew Freeman. Bain, who died on Jan. 23 of previously undiagnosed lung...

Prong has released its 10th studio album, No Absolutes. Featuring Jason Christopher (Black President, Stone Sour, Sebastian Bach, Corey Taylor) on bass, the metal band’s latest album is one that bandleader/singer/guitarist Tommy Victor says exhibits ever greater technical proficiency and progress. “We feel the listener needs to be excited about every lyric, performance, sound, etc. for the duration of the...

If you’re a Rush fan and haven’t encountered this 1975 live recording of the band in Cleveland, Ohio, you’re in luck. It’s now available as an import as Beneath, Between and Behind: F.M. Broadcast 1975. According to the site, Rush Is A Band, the show by the Canadian trio with Geddy Lee on bass and vocals was recorded to air...

Trumpeter Avishai Cohen (not to be confused with the bassist of the same name) has released Into the Silence, featuring Eric Revis (Betty Carter, Branford Marsalis) on bass. The album, dedicated to the memory of Cohen’s father, was recorded in July 2015 at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France and produced by Manfred Eicher founder/producer of the ECM...

The Distance is jazz double bassist/composer Michael Formanek’s latest, this time featuring his 19-musician big band, Ensemble Kolossus. “I wanted a large, rich, chewy sound with this music – and the ensemble’s rhythm section is particularly big, with piano, marimba, guitar, bass and drums,” Formanek said of the album, which was recorded in December in Brooklyn, New York. “I also...

Snarky Puppy joined with a host of vocalists and musicians in February 2015 in New Orleans to record an album in front of a live studio audience. Now, that album, and an accompanying video, documenting the performance is available to hear and watch as Family Dinner, Vol. 2. The project from Snarky Puppy, led by bassist/composer Michael League, aims to...

Mostly Other People Do the Killing’s leader, bassist and composer Matthew “Moppa” Elliott has released his solo bass album, Still, Up in the Air. The jazz album was recorded live in one day — Feb. 15, 2015 — at St. Stephen’s Pro Cathedral in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Elliott favors a non-linear approach to his work, using authors David Foster Wallace and...