{"product_id":"reeds-mike-separatist-party-sing-the-color-blue","title":"Reed's, Mike Separatist Party - Sing the Color Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eMike Reed’s Separatist Party 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album reunites Mike Reed with Rob Frye, Cooper Crain, Dan Quinlivan (all of the trio Bitchin Bajas), Marvin Tate, and Ben LaMar Gay in a set that moves between composition, reconstruction, improvisation, and song form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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":"Translucent Blue LP","offer_id":51761358962966,"sku":"RMX-73461","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":51761358995734,"sku":"RMX-73462","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51761359028502,"sku":"RMX-73463","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/201375143780.jpg?v=1787741885","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/reeds-mike-separatist-party-sing-the-color-blue","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}