modern lore

Artist: Julian Lage

Title: Modern Lore

Release Date: February 2, 2018

Format(s): 

• CD: 6 panel digipak

• LP: 1LP regular weight black vinyl; single-pocket jacket

• Digital: Standard Digital Audio

Genre(s): Jazz

Project Description: Modern Lore finds Julian Lage playfully flipping the script he followed on his acclaimed 2016 Mack Avenue debut, Arclight. That album — produced, like Modern Lore, by Lage’s friend and collaborator, the singer-songwriter Jesse Harris — was his first trio set on electric guitar and found Lage inspired by the sounds and the attitude of the freewheeling, pre-bebop jazz era, when, as he puts it, “country music and jazz and swing were in this weird wild-west period.” This time he incorporates the sensibility, if not the outright sound, of early rock and roll, a similarly hybrid form driven by rhythm, personality and a passion for the electric guitar.