[still photo from this video]
The video linked above is from the Bowery Ballroom last night, the second of two shows the Fiery Furnaces played this weekend. After trips to Europe and the West coast, the Furnaces returned home to play Music Hall on Friday night. In a venue with which the band is intimately familiar — they’ve played here going all the way back to its existence as North Sixth, and friends of the band actually live in the building — Fiery Furnaces displayed the incredible musical interplay that has developed within the band. Throughout the night, Matt on guitar and Jason Loewenstein on bass prodded and cajoled each other, at times jokingly misplaying the downbeats (“Automatic Husband”) and during other number expanding the music to newer and deeper places (“Japanese Slippers”). The setlist was somewhat similar to the November show at Maxwell’s, and while this is the eleventh time we have recorded Fiery Furnaces for nyctaper, its the first time we have ever seen “Crystal Clear” and only the second time for “Asthma Attack”.
This set was recorded from the front left corner of the soundboard with the four-microphone rig and the sound quality is outstanding. Enjoy!
Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
Fiery Furnaces
2009-12-11
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NY USA
Four-Track Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front of Soundboard Booth
Neumann KM-150s + DPA 4021’s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2009-12-12
Setlist:
[Total Time 1:23:28]
01 Rub Alcohol Blues
02 Charmaine Champagne
03 Duplexes Of The Dead
04 Automatic Husband
05 Ex-Guru
06 Chris Michaels
07 The End Is Near
08 Keep Me in the Dark
09 Up In The North
10 Staring at the Steeple
11 Drive to Dallas
12 Evergreen
13 Crystal Clear
14 Cut The Cake
15 Ray Bouvier
16 Worry Worry
17 [encore break]
18 Japanese Slippers
19 Navy Nurse
20 Two Fat Feet
21 Asthma Attack
22 I’m In No Mood / Candymaker’s Knife / I’m In No Mood
23 Tropical Iceland
24 Here Comes The Summer
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I think that was the best version of Here Comes the Summer I ever heard. Great closer. Thanks NYC Taper.