IPR to Release The Well Compilation on December 19, Previously Unreleased Track from Shiva Burlesque Out Today
Independent Project Records (IPR) announced today the release of a decades-spanning various artists compilation entitled The Well, featuring many rare and unreleased tracks from the label’s vaults, as well as music from forthcoming releases, available on all digital outlets on Friday, November 21 and physically on Friday, December 19.
The two-disc, forty-one song collection of genre-defying tracks features many previously unheard songs from IPR artists such as Barry Craig (A Produce), Camper Van Beethoven, David J, Lanterna, Middle Class, Savage Republic, Scenic, Shiva Burlesque, and more, as compiled by IPR co-owner and founder Bruce Licher. A Bandcamp listening party is confirmed for noon PST on Wednesday, November 19.
Today, which also marks the beginning of label’s two-day 45th Anniversary event at Gold-Diggers in Los Angeles, IPR releases lead single ‘Midnight Chapel’, a new song – the first in thirty-five years – from cult LA band Shiva Burlesque, formed in the second half of the 1980s by Jeffrey Clark and Grant-Lee Phillips. The track is available on all DSPs (here) and features David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets) on bass along with multi-instrumentalist Dana Gumbiner.