Eli Winter - A Trick of the Light *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 2nd May 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

"A Trick of the Light" is the new album by Chicago-based guitarist Eli Winter, an elegantly crafted and vibrant collection that finds the composer and bandleader at the height of his powers. The album opens with a dazzlingly intense arrangement of Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell’s “Arabian Nightingale” – a statement of intent that whips up a sonic storm. From there, Winter showcases his own compositions, from the muscular “Cracking the Jaw” to the dreamy expanse of the title track. Elsewhere, an abstract and concentrated rendering of Carla Bley’s masterpiece “Ida Lupino” forms the literal and emotional centerpiece of the record. Winter remains a natural collaborator, and "A Trick of the Light" welcomes star turns from David Grubbs, Mike Watt, Kiran Leonard (on a left-handed cittern, no less), among others. It’s testament to his restless curiosity and omnivorous musical sensibilities. In his own words, it’s a record that has “nothing to do with genre or idiom or homage or pastiche. It has everything to do with learning what the music wants, how it feels, and trusting when it wants something or doesn’t want it.” This LP follows on the rave reviews received for his prior (self-titled, TLR-140) album on Three Lobed Recordings. That LP featured coverage in Pitchfork (album review, inclusion on “Great Records You May Have Missed Summer/Fall 2022”), Aquarium Drunkard (review, Lagniappe Sessions), The Guardian (editorial coverage from Laura Snapes), Stereogum (reviews, named album of the week), Fader, NPR Music (covered on All Songs Considered podcast), Uproxx, Chicago Reader, The Vinyl District, Raven Sings the Blues, Treble, Podcast appearances (Watt from Pedro, etc.) and many more.

Track Listing:

Arabian Nightingale

For A Fallen Rocket

Cracking the Jaw

Ida Lupino

A Trick of the Light

Black Iris on a Burning Quilt

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