Lettuce’s ever-changing and all-inclusive musical palette is often praised for the way it blurs lines and smashes together genres into exciting and compelling art – drawing acclaim from everyone from NPR, New York Times, Consequence of Sound and Billboard to BrooklynVegan, Earmilk, HipHopDX and Relix.
See below for full list of upcoming tour dates and visit for ticketing details. Catch Lettuce at SweetWater 420 Fest, Summer Camp Music Festival, Camp Greensky, Sonic Bloom Festival and High Sierra Music Festival, among others, and look for their summer headlining tour plans to be revealed soon.
The road warriors return to the States this spring and summer for a selection of headlining shows and festival appearances, including their 5th annual Jazz Fest After Show RAGE!FEST taking place April 25th at the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans with support from The Motet and Louis Cole Big Band. Last night (February 18th), Lettuce kicked off an extensive 21-date European headlining tour, their largest outing overseas in the band’s nearly three decades together. Nearing the nine-minute mark, the closer and title track “Resonate” sees the band once again tread new territory with a more meditational, mood vibe.
Meanwhile, “Moksha” explores the edges of psychedelia with legendary sitarist Indrajit Banerjee blessing the tune with sitar conjurations floating in and out of ethereal guitar transmissions. Upheld by deft riffing, hummable horns, and “Tower of Power energy,” Resonate ignites with the boisterous “Blaze,” which the band has kicked around live for years. The 11-track album, available now for pre-order, finds Lettuce feeding the rich history of funk while combining it with jazz chords, psychedelic passages, big horns, strains of soul and go-go, and elements from the instrumental side of hip-hop for an eclectic and often improvisational sound all their own. I was really influenced by all of them heavily.Written and recorded during the same Colorado Sound Studio sessions that spawned Elevate, the six- member collective – Adam Deitch (drums, percussion, arrangement), Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff (guitar), Erick “Jesus” Coomes (bass), Ryan Zoidis (alto, baritone, tenor sax, Korg X-911), Eric “Benny” Bloom (trumpet, horns) and Nigel Hall (vocals, Hammond B-3, Rhodes, clavinet, keyboards) – brought Resonate to life alongside iconic producer and engineer Russ Elevado. This is how it needs to be.” They were making sure that I wasn’t being taken advantage of by the label’s ideas, A&Rs and all that kind of stuff.
I was new and all the guys were giving me all this different advice like, “Don’t change nothing. You can feel all this energy in the building. I was in one room, Wu-Tang was in one room, Common was in one room and Mos Def was in one room. I went into the studio to either add to it or refine it and the first studio I went into was Battery Studios in Manhattan, NY. You know, Baduizm was already finished by the time I got a record deal. The album itself charted at #2 on the Billboard charts and spent 58 consecutive weeks on the chart.Įrykah spoke on the process and effect of the record over a decade later during an interview with Billboard This album is responsible for some her most notable tracks, including “Tyrone”, “Next Lifetime”, and of course the classic “On & On”.īaduizm went on to earn Badu numerous awards, including Best R&B Album at the 1998 Grammy Awards. It was released on Februby Kedar Records and Universal Records. It’s known as the album that established and cemented her as one of the leading artists of her genre. The album is cited as one of the most iconic and reputable R&B albums of all time by many, and received praise and acclaim upon its release. Baduizm is the debut album from Neo-Soul singer/songwriter/producer, Erykah Badu.