Magic Door

“In an age of people just writing songs to fit in to commercial formats, we feel we're making recordings for the connoisseurs, people who are into music on a deeper level… We're interested in songs that we feel fit into our version of the cosmic California boogie.”
--CHRIS ROBINSON

Just a couple of months after the July release of their acclaimed debut Big Moon Ritual album, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood will release the companion album The Magic Door. Both albums were recorded in two marathon sessions earlier this year at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles with producer Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Devendra Banhart, Papercuts) after the band wrapped up a 118-show 2011 tour during which the band road-tested all the material.
The Magic Door contains seven songs: six originals, plus a cover of Hank Ballard’s “Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go,” a CRB set list staple. The songs are all free flowing and some lengthy, with “Vibration & Light Suite” clocking in at 13:56. This is music that is in no hurry to reach its destination but firmly knows where it is going and the speed at which it is traveling.
The exclusive Australian edition of The Magic Door contains 3 extra tracks, including radical reworkings of Carl Perkins ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ and Jimmy Reed’s ‘Bright Lights Big City’.