***Yucca Alta Records is thrilled to present a limited, beautifully packaged three-sided double LP edition of Raven Chacon + Present Music's Voiceless Mass, originally released on CD by New World Records in April 2025.Raven Chacon is a Diné composer, musician and artist, born in Fort Defiance, Arizona within the Navajo Nation. For this LP, Chacon worked with Present Music, one of the nation’s leading ensembles dedicated to the performance and commissioning of new music, to bring 3 of his compositions vividly to life. The LP's title track, "Voiceless Mass," was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2022.The double-LP's gorgeous packaging includes artwork etched directly into the vinyl on Side 4, making each copy a truly unique work of art.
2XLP $52.95
10/17/2025
***Yucca Alta Records is ecstatic to present our inaugural release: the debut, self-titled LP from the Corsano Baiza Watt Trio. This is an all-improvised, mind-blowing, punk AF mind-meeting between Chris Corsano, one of America's premier avant-garde drummers, and two legendary SoCal punk pioneers: guitarist Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of) and bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE). The bulk of this LP consists of studio recordings made deep in the Mojave Desert (Landers, CA to be exact) in December of 2023. The Corsano Baiza Watt Trio had never played, or even entirely met, before this session; what you hear is the surprise and fierce delight of 3 great musicians coming together in real time. The first track, "51 Card Solitaire," begins abruptly in mid-flight, capturing the exact moment that recording began, as the trio played together for the very first time. The LP's explosive last 2 tracks are taken from the trio's first-ever live show, in Watt's long-time home base of San Pedro, CA, in front of a joyous, fully lit audience. The level of group interaction revealed in these 7 tracks is truly startling. Corsano's buoyant multi-dimensional kineticism is in full effect; Baiza effortlessly mixes noir-ish, bopping single-note phrases with feral string scrapes and vicious chord-flailing; Watt holds down strong anchoring bass lines like the sailor he is, then flies abruptly, thrillingly off-script.
LP $21.95
09/27/2024