Wichita musician David Lord’s new album, “Way Over The Rainbow” is out Dec. 12 on Lord’s own newly launched label Cloud Ear.
This inaugural release will be pressed on vinyl. It will be limited to 100 copies, a measure that Lord says is informed by his previous experience running a label and finding himself with a surplus of physical media. Some other recordings, he adds, will be issued in slightly higher numbers on vinyl, though those, too, will top out at around 250.
The record was recorded in 2020 at the end of a period Lord had spent making four albums in his Forest Standards series in Los Angeles with producer Chris Schlarb and musicians either from that area or Chicago…