La Luz - La LuzOn their self titled fourth album, La Luz launch themselves into a new realm of emotional intimacy for a collection of songs steeped in the mysteries of the natural world and the magic of human chemistry that has found manifestation in the musical ESP between guitarist and songwriter Shana Cleveland, bassist Lena Simon, and keyboardist Alice Sandahl. To help shape La Luz, the band found a kindred spirit in producer Adrian Younge. Though primarily

& original member Franz Nicolay (multi-instrumentalist) who

with a crisp and lively sound and features a superb sleeve from the era

As it happens in a fairy tales and quests for the lost treasure

The album's closing track is an improvisational feature for Jones (with sparse melodic accompaniment from Coltrane's tenor sax and Garrison's bass at the song's beginning and end): Coltrane continued to explore drum/saxophone duets in live performances with this group and on subsequent recordings such as the posthumously released Interstellar Space (with Rashied Ali)

1982's The Sky's Gone Out marks a stylistic midpoint in Bauhaus brief but spectacular career

“I was playing the machines with Alan manipulating sounds

I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) ‰ÛÒ The Electric Prunes

aka The Reflex

The artwork is designed by Berlin artist Torsten Posselt

Lindsay and Marling will assist it as necessary

anticipation for Different Class ran high

the band captured here is at the height of its powers