[Cover photo credit to Dokk Savage]

Drummer/Producer/rapper Kassa Overall has announced his Live At Third Man Records LP, recorded direct-to-acetate at Third Man Records Nashville’s Blue Room venue on May 3, 2022.

The album, which is comprised of compositions from his first two albums, Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz and I Think I’m Good, will be available on both vinyl and streaming services on April 19, 2024.

Kassa Overall’s Live At Third Man Records features longtime collaborator, trumpeter Theo Croker, and the Detroit native Ian Finkelstein, a protegé of the late Geri Allen and Amp Fiddler. It also features Haitian-Canadian percussionist Bendji Allonce, son of Kompa legend Herman Nau, and Tomoki Sanders (they/them), a multi-instrumentalist from Japan and New York whose father was Pharoah Sanders. This diverse group of musicians has toured together throughout the US and Europe since the fall of 2021.

Kassa Overall says:

Cutting a record straight to acetate is an extreme experience. No edits, no post-production. What you hear is what we gave. This record is a raw document of a crazy time and captures a feeling of urgency and excitement we had for the music in the middle of a cross-country tour.

Third Man Records’ live direct-to-acetate recordings take place in the Blue Room in Nashville, TN and are cut exclusively on a 1955 Scully lathe that originally came from King Records in Cincinnati. Recorded live “in one-shot, with no overdubs, no redo’s, no starting-and-stopping”.