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With such an impressive body of work spanning various artistic mediums and collaborations with notable musicians, Lee Ranaldo continues to captivate audiences worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"electric-trim","title":"Electric Trim","description":"\u003cp\u003eLee Ranaldo releases a brand new album, \u003ci\u003eElectric Trim\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eElectric Trim\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded in New York City and Barcelona in collaboration with producer Raül ‘Refree’ Fernandez and extends the work of Ranaldo's solo canon, the most recent being his 2013 album, \u003ci\u003eLast Night On Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. Through his collaboration with Fernandez, Ranaldo moves into some rich new sonic territories and production techniques, experimenting with electronic beats and samples alongside live players Ranaldo is a co-founder of Sonic Youth, a visual artist, producer and writer. In addition to Fernandez, he worked with several special guests on \u003ci\u003eElectric Trim\u003c\/i\u003e, including Sharon Van Etten who sings on six of the tracks and duets on \u003ci\u003eLast Looks\u003c\/i\u003e and Kid Millions (aka Man Forever) as well as longtime friend and collaborator Nels Cline (Wilco). In addition, the album features Ranaldo’s band The Dust (fellow Sonic Youth member Steve Shelley, guitarist Alan Licht, and bassist Tim Luntzel). Ranaldo collaborated with award winning New York author Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn \/ The Fortress of Solitude) for lyrics on six of the songs and the American artist, Richard Prince, who previously painted the sleeve for Sonic Youth’s 2004 album \u003ci\u003eSonic Nurse,\u003c\/i\u003e created the artwork for the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Limited Double Black Vinyl with Lyric Book and Download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mute","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50441271181643,"sku":"1012924","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b35861ca-5801-435a-b8e3-d563901bdcbc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726976125"},{"product_id":"electric-trim-live-at-rough-trade-east","title":"Electric Trim Live At Rough Trade East","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a recording of a set from Rough Trade East in October last year, when Ranaldo played his 2017 album, Electric Trim, in full apart from one track. 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Originally released as one track as part of a collaboration with Lucien Jean for Le Presses du Reel, the music was featured on a mini CD that accompanied a book that featured 2 short stories. \u003ci\u003eIn Virus Times\u003c\/i\u003e, released by Mute, sees the track transformed into 4 pieces and is available on limited 12” with an exclusive poster designed, signed and individually numbered by Lee Ranaldo. 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For the world premiere of his latest book Linger On: The Velvet Underground — published by Eva and Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace Library — Catalan music journalist Ignacio Julià wanted to relive the New York band’s original dynamics, that creative friction between an American noise-guitar player and poet, Lou Reed, and a radical, lyrical European pianist and songwriter, John Cale.   Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and French maverick Pascal Comelade accepted the challenge and the concert took place in Banyoles, Catalonia, on April 28, 2022, as a non-nostalgic reinvention of a musical legacy that takes an influential past into the future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Comelade and Ranaldo met for the first time the same day the piece was created from scratch, at Banyoles’ Auditori del Ateneu, and after a few try-outs,  magic happened right away. Local drummer Ramon Prats joined in easily and the three constructed what Ignacio Julià had asked for, not a tribute concert made of more or less faithful covers, but a new thing.   Pascal came with a clear idea of the songs and laid them down with his minimalist, personal style at the grand piano and small keyboard, Lee painted — with guitars, acoustic and electric, used as cellos sometimes, and weird  percussion — the wide palette of emotions these classic songs carry. After months of imagining it, here it was, a fully realized Velvet Serenade. Spontaneous, vibrant and true to the band’s spirit.   \"See, I believe in giving back. I might be the only writer that has interviewed all The Velvet Underground’s members through the years, from 1978 to 2022, and all those conversations, articles and experiences are now collected in Linger On: The Velvet Underground, a book that I hope will be shared by next  generations. This Banyoles, Girona, concert was another way of giving back what the band and its members had given me since the mid-Seventies, not just great art in the form of rock’n’roll at its most deep and challenging, but an outlook on life and everything else, an invitation to seek the beauty in truth and try to understand human behaviour.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Staubgold","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50478879048011,"sku":"2016394","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50478879244619,"sku":"2016395","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/image003_344b1dd5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727493758"},{"product_id":"split-46","title":"Split","description":"\u003cp\u003eLee Ranaldo and Rob Menard have been friends and collaborators for years and this split cassette release on Important Records' Cassauna label amplifies their unique musical personalities and sonic compatibility. 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