JEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS 'Liquid Donnon' Blue LP & CDR

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artist: JEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS
title: 'Liquid Donnon'
catalogue # REPOSELP161
format: Vinyl LP (Transparent Blue) & Bonus Exclusive CDR
release date: June 12th 2026

LP Tracklisting

A1. From Loch Raven To Fells Point (7:09)
A2. Calliope Wailer (10:01)
A3. Tightroping (4:26)

B1. Critical Masses (7:48)
B2. Reservoir Drop > The Summer Song (12:42)

CD-R Tracklisting

1. Donnon's Rhapsodia (The Man And The Journey) (27:12)
2. Die Kokosnuss (6:41)
3. Radiant Mirage (intro to Heavy Lidding on NQRA) (6:07)
4. Theme For The Fascist Reckoning (6:27)

EXCLUSIVE edition comes with a bonus CDR containing around 45 minutes of extra material only available on this disc. 100 copies total.

The LP is pressed on transparent blue vinyl, and comes housed in a matte finished outer sleeve with a black polylined inner bag

This LP is a co release with Feeding Tube Records (US)

"On the alternate timeline where the Meat Puppets inherited the bulk of the Grateful Dead’s tourheads when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, none of this would be necessary, because Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders are a household name for evolving their own musical space that overlays dusty folk, cosmic jazz, deep psych, free improv, and even (gasp!) indie rock, building an audience that ranges from open-eared curiosity seekers to deep committed music weirdos that’s also yielded the Heavy Lidders an infamous sub-cult of concert tapers that you’re already sick of hearing about. A lot of other things are better over on that timeline, too.

But in this consensus reality (and probably the other one, too), Liquid Donnon catches the Lidders at their heaviest, “heavy” in the Lidderverse being far from a monolithic musical idea. There’s heavy like the album-opening “From Loch Raven to Fells Point,” one of several tracks with elegant and gnarled conversational jams featuring the core Lidders lineup of Alexander alongside guitarist Drew Gardner and bassist Jesse Sheppard (both of Elkhorn) and drummer Scott Verrastro. But there’s heavy, too, like “Calliope Walker” and “Tightroping,” featuring Gardner shifted to dream-space vibraphone, the former with saxophonist Tacuma Bradley, the latter with Christina Carter of Texas noise-psych legends Charalambides on veil-crossing wordless vocals, her first collaboration with Alexander in some 20 years.

But then there’s also heavy like the cover photo of Alexander’s late friend and album namesake Donnon, taken at a Dead show at Rich Stadium in Buffalo in 1989, a spirit threading through the songs and weaving unexpectedly into Alexander’s life decades later, emerging especially when Alexander passed through a near-death experience of his own. But, taken together, the different heavies of Liquid Donnon add up into a state of musical grace, where all the Heavy Lidders from all the universes come together as one. Just, like, imagine.

Convened in 2019 on Alexander’s relocation back to his native east coast, the Heavy Lidders are the latest hard-touring expression for the guitarist’s music, joining a vast and tangled discography (and tape list) that includes the beloved long-running west coast Dire Wolves Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band and, before them, the Iditarod and Black Forest/Black Sea, as well as a bushel of solo play-all-the-instruments projects, a stint with Jackie-O Motherfucker, sessions with Kemialliset Ystävät and Avarus and others, and you’ll have to keep digging for the rest.

And while it’s not hard to find tapers at Lidders gigs (and they encourage you to be one), or to track themes and songs over Alexander’s many live releases, Liquid Donnon makes a new primary text, the original versions of six new pieces for the repertoire. The album closes with a devastating pairing of “Reservoir Drop” into “The Summer Song,” floating into a duo between Alexander’s guitar and Carter’s voice. Catch a half-dozen Lidders shows this summer, and you might not ever catch them playing it like that again, but you just might open the doorway back to that better place."

Jesse Jarnow (writer, WFMU DJ, producer+host of The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast)

JEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS UK TOUR AUGUST 2026

2nd SHEFFIELD- Alder Pub with Bobby Lee
3rd SOWBERY BRIDGE - Puzzle Hall
4th CAMBRIDGE - Portland Arms
5th STOKE ON TRENT - Artisan Tap
6th YORK - The Crescent
7th NOTTINGHAM - JT Soar
8th LONDON - Cafe OTO
9th BUILTH WELLS - Kozfest!
10th HEREFORD - Weirdshire

Jeffrey Alexander - guitar, voice
Tacuma Bradley - saxophone
Christina Carter - voice
Drew Gardner - guitar, vibraphone
Jesse Sheppard - bass
Scott Verrastro - drum kit

Mixed and produced by Jeffrey Alexander
Mastered by John McBain
Written by Jeffrey Alexander © 2026 Jeffrey Alexander (BMI) www.jeffreyalexanderlovesyou.com