{"product_id":"mike-reeds-separatist-party-sing-the-color-blue","title":"Mike Reed's Separatist Party - Sing the Color Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMike Reed’s Separatist Party\u003c\/strong\u003e sophomore effort and Thrill Jockey debut \u003cem\u003eSing the Color Blue\u003c\/em\u003e is a recording assembled over numerous sessions, and a testament to persistence and transformation. The album reunites \u003cstrong\u003eMike Reed\u003c\/strong\u003e with \u003cstrong\u003eRob Frye\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eCooper Crain\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eDan Quinlivan\u003c\/strong\u003e (all of the trio \u003cstrong\u003eBitchin Bajas\u003c\/strong\u003e), \u003cstrong\u003eMarvin Tate\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eBen LaMar Gay\u003c\/strong\u003e in a set that moves between composition, reconstruction, improvisation, and song form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart of what gives \u003cem\u003eSing the Color Blue\u003c\/em\u003e its character is the unusual length and shape of its creation. Elements of the album reach back across nearly a decade, starting in January 2022 at Constellation in Chicago and the majority of the recording completed between November 2023 and April 2024 at Electrical Audio. The record unfolded gradually, with Reed returning to the material repeatedly until the album’s final structure revealed itself. Reed reassembled fragments of Tate’s words and performances into new lyrical structures, often changing their original meaning completely. The results are a record where authorship feels layered rather than singular: songs emerge from live interaction, archival excavation, editing, rearrangement, and re-composition at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title \u003cem\u003eSing the Color Blue\u003c\/em\u003e also reflects that spirit of transformation. Reed has said the phrase grew partly out of a friend’s critique of his nearly all-blue wardrobe and his longstanding attraction to Bauhaus aesthetics. He was also struck by a phrase from a documentary in which a historian described people being instructed to “dance the color blue.” Reed reshaped that line into \u003cem\u003eSing the Color Blue\u003c\/em\u003e, a title that suggests synesthesia, instruction, abstraction, and also a subtle relation to the blues and to Chicago’s musical history. In that sense, the title names the album’s larger purpose: turning mood into form, color into sound, and fragments of lived time into music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thrill Jockey Records","offers":[{"title":"Indie Exclusive Translucent Blue Vinyl LP","offer_id":59196539470169,"sku":"SDZ-51341","price":41.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":59196539601241,"sku":"SDZ-51342","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":59196539634009,"sku":"SDZ-51343","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/369_20260826_1055_095933_962_v_0790377662115_004.jpg?v=1787911226","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/mike-reeds-separatist-party-sing-the-color-blue","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}