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Bon Iver – Two Sold-Out Shows Tonight and Tomorrow, Many Live Recordings Available

July 29, 2008
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Bon Iver performs at two sold out NYC shows in the next two nights, tonight (7/29) at Bowery Ballroom and tomorrow (7/30) at Music Hall of Williamsburg. nyctaper was politely asked not to record these shows, as there are already many live recording options for Bon Iver fans.

For our readers who may be disappointed that nyctaper will not capture this outstanding artist in his triumphant return to NYC, here are the many available live recordings of Bon Iver already out on the web:

nyctaper recording of February 23, 2008 Glasslands performance [HERE]
Pitchfork.tv video of the same February 23, 2008 show [HERE]
NPR streaming audio of Bon Iver at SXSW on March 13, 2008 [HERE]
Bon Iver edition of the Black Cab Sessions [HERE]
Bon Iver Daytrotter Session [HERE]
Bon Iver Interview and 3-Song performace video at Take-Away Shows site [HERE]

Check out all the Bon Iver tour dates at his web site tour page and at his MySpace page.
Purchase For Emma, Forever Ago at the Jagjagwar website.

Matmos July 18, 2008 Le Poisson Rouge – Flac and MP3 Downloads

July 28, 2008
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Last night in Chicago, Matmos concluded their tour in support of the new CD Supreme Balloon. Last week, the tour came through NYC for two shows at Le Poisson Rouge, the first night of which we were fortunate to experience. If the virtual pioneers of modern electronic music can be said to have “departed” from their art, then their new CD composed entirely with synthesizers would be Matmos‘ new direction. In the live setting however, our wizards were back together with their gadgetry, as the opening two numbers were “experiments” with a theremin and with a computer-created “psychic”. If there is anything predictable about a Matmos performance — and last Friday was no exception — its that the audience will leave the venue entertained and amazed by the experience.

We recorded this outing at LPR from the floor area below the soundboard. We were centrally located among the many PA speakers strategically placed around the superb sounding venue, and as a result captured a fine full spectrum recording. The only flaw is the noise from the bar and its patrons during quiet moments. Enjoy!

Many thanks to Matmos for permission to record and for the setlist.

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Matmos
2008-07-18
Le Poisson Rouge
New York NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Recorded from In Front of Soundboard Booth
Dead Center on Floor

Neumann KM-150s (AK-50 Hypercardiod Capsules) > Apogee Minime > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack > 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge 8.0 (set fades, slight level boost, resample 16/44) > CD Wave 1.95 > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced
nyctaper
2008-07-29

Setlist
[total time 1:04:49]
01 Theremin Experiment
02 Psychic Experiment
03 Rainbow Flag
04 Public Sex for Boyd McDonald
05 Sun on 5/ The West/ Bo Diddleyesque
06 Supreme Balloon
07 [encore break]
08 Improvisation [with Leprechaun Catering]

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Matmos, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their official releases from the links at the music page on their website, or directly from the Matmos webpage at Matador Records.

Freedy Johnston July 25, 2008 Maxwell’s – Flac and MP3 Downloads

July 28, 2008
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Freedy Johnston performed his classic album Can You Fly on Friday night at Maxwell’s and brought along a cast of all-star friends in support. The original co-producer of the album, legendary bassist Graham Maby played on about half the songs, and the uber-guitarist Dave Schramm played pedal steel on a handful of numbers. Longtime Freedy collaborator Kevin Salem provided the primary lead guitar work, and the rhythmic backbone was drummer Linda Pitmon (also of the Miracle 3), and versatile bassist Jared Nickerson.

In 1992, Can You Fly established Freedy Johnston as a premiere songwriter and performer. The years have not tarnished his abilities at all, and in fact Freedy is significantly more at ease with the audience than when he first appeared on the scene in the early 90’s. The performance on Friday was a faithful rendition of the album and proved its value in surviving the test of time. For the final two encores, Freedy was joined by Steve Wynn, and while the Blue Oyster Cult cover was fairly goofy and sloppy, the band’s run through Dylan’s “Outlaw Blues” was quite inspired.

We recorded from the exact rig as the Steve Wynn set. The quality of this recording is somewhat compromised by an extremely chatty crowd, which contained a group of rude people at the bar area who were impatiently waiting for the late show. Other than the chatter, this is a superb matrix mix. Enjoy!

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Freedy Johnston
2008-07-25
Maxwell’s
Hoboken, NJ USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard/Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Front of Board Neumann KM-150s > Edirol UA-5 (Oade Digimod) > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (set fades, slight level boost, downsample, dither) > CD Wave 1.95 > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by
nyctaper
2008-07-27

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:21:01]
Can You Fly
01 Trying to Tell You I Don’t Know
02 In the New Sunshine
03 Tearing Down This Place
04 Remember Me
05 Wheels
06 The Lucky One
07 Can You Fly
08 Responsible
09 The Mortician’s Daughter
10 Sincere
11 Down in Love
12 California Thing [false start]
13 California Thing
14 We Will Shine
15 [encore break]
16 Bad Reputation
17 Don’t Fear The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)**
18 Outlaw Blues (Bob Dylan)**
**with Steve Wynn vocals and guitar

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Freedy Johnston, visit his website, and purchase his official releases from the store at his website.

Mark Knopfler July 23, 2008 Central Park – Flac Download

July 27, 2008
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As the old adage says, without the rain, there would be no rainbow. When we canceled our outing to see Mark Knopfler in Central Park on Wednesday, the forecast called for the skies to open and at least an inch of rain to fall. Two tapers with more courage than I did attend the show and report that the rain held off almost exactly for the period of the concert. Knopfler went on a little early (before 8 p.m.), and the skies literally opened five minutes after his performance was over.

While we are extremely disappointed to have missed this show, we are quite fortunate to have a recording to offer our readers — the legendary taper Scott Brown has generously offered to permit nyctaper to host the 16-bit flac files of his superb recording. Odds are that if you have collected the highest quality unofficial live recordings offered in the NYC area in the last 10 years, you have more than one Scott Brown recording in your collection.

Scott’s mobile recording rig contains the same microphones as nyctaper (DPA 402X series) but his recorder is superior, as he captured with the pro-quality Sound Devices 722 digital recorder. He recorded Knopfler from the prime location and the quality of this recording is absolutely phenomenal. Enjoy!

There will be NO MP3 files for this Recording. Grab the FLACS!

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Mark Knopfler
7/23/2008
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park
New York, NY

Recorded by: Scott Brown
Source: DPA (B&K) 4023s (in hat) > Sound Devices 722 @ 24 bit, 96khz
722 > Apple MacBook Pro > Spark Xl 2.8.2 (tracking, normalize, resample to 44.1khz) > Sample Manager 3.1.2 (dither to 16 bit using MBIT+) > xACT 1.65 > flac
Location: about 20-30 feet from stage, dead center

Disc 1

01 Intro 00:42.11
02 Cannibals 05:16.52
03 Why Aye Man 06:47.71
04 What It Is 05:16.00
05 Sailing To Philadelphia 06:57.19
06 True Love Will Never Fade 05:06.73
07 Fish and The Bird 04:24.14
08 Hill Farmer’s Blues 05:02.43
09 Romeo and Juliet 08:49.37
10 Sultans Of Swing 08:52.74
11 Song For Sonny Liston 07:08.01

Disc 1 Total: 64:24.20

Disc 2

01 Band Introductions 04:25.18
02 Marbletown 10:12.05
03 Speedway At Nazareth 06:47.29
04 Telegraph Road 16:00.61
Encore:
05 Brothers In Arms 07:14.19
06 So Far Way 04:57.55
07 Going Home 05:27.67

Disc 2 Total: 55:05.29

notes:
-Mark went on a few minutes before 8PM, and I missed the first minute of Cannibals. I spliced in Dan Molda’s Audio Technica U853-C > Nady CBM-40T > Denecke PS-2 > Edirol R-09HR (24/96) source for the Intro track and the first minute or so of Cannibals.
-This is a 16 bit, 44.1khz recording for CD. The original 24 bit, 96khz recording exists in flac format.

compiled by scott brown on 7/27/2008

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Mark Knopfler, visit his website, and purchase his official releases from the Mark Knopfler Store at his website.

Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 July 25, 2008 Maxwell’s – Flac and MP3 Downloads

July 27, 2008
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The Dream Syndicate

“Welcome to 1983!” was Steve Wynn‘s facetious introduction last night before he and his current band The Miracle 3 performed the entire classic album The Days of Wine and Roses from Steve’s previous band The Dream Syndicate. Ultimately, the return to 1983 was not entirely accurate. The twenty-five years have given Wynn the maturity and perspective to perform the album — the title of which refers to the fleeting nature of time — with a sense of purpose and direction. Technically the performance was top notch, with all instruments tight and focused at the proper moments and loose and relaxed when the band opened up to flesh out the songs. Of particular note was the jam in “Halloween” that reached an energetic crescendo, and the closing title track where Steve brought the band down to silence before ending the song with a fury. We anticipated that this performance would be special, but Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 exceeded all of our expectations.

We recorded with the matrix mix we have used for each of our recordings at Maxwell’s this year. The Neumann microphones were mounted at the front of the soundboard booth and raised to eight feet, and were mixed with a feed from the board. The results are absolutely outstanding. We are extremely pleased to have captured this historical performance with a special recording. Enjoy!

Many thanks to Steve Wynn for permission to record this performance and for his invitation to the soundcheck. The quality of this recording is a tribute to this artist.

This recording is available for download as FLAC or MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].

Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3
2008-07-25
Maxwell’s
Hoboken, NJ USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard/Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Front of Board Neumann KM-150s > Edirol UA-5 (Oade Digimod) > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (set fades, slight level boost, downsample, dither) > CD Wave 1.95 > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by
nyctaper
2008-07-26

Setlist:
[Total Time 55:28]
The Days of Wine and Roses
01 [introduction]
02 Tell Me When Its Over
03 Definitely Clean
04 That’s What You Always Say
05 Then She Remembers
06 Halloween
07 When You Smile
08 Until Lately
09 Too Little, Too Late
10 The Days of Wine and Roses
11 [encore break]
12 Season of the Witch (Donovan)

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Steve Wynn, visit his website, visit his MySpace page, and purchase his official releases from the Steve Wynn Store at his website.

Freedy Johnston June 15, 1997 Randall’s Island Fleadh – Flac and MP3 Downloads

July 25, 2008
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Steve Wynn and Freedy Johnston Perform Complete Albums at Maxwell’s Tomorrow (July 25)

July 24, 2008
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We posted about the Steve Wynn set a couple of months ago. The former frontman for the Dream Syndicate will perform the complete The Days of Wine and Roses with his band Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 at Maxwell’s. Steve has graciously permitted nyctaper to capture this historic concert in its best possible light and even invited us to the soundcheck.

Today we learned that we will be permitted to also record Freedy Johnston‘s set. Freedy will be performing his album Can You Fly in its entirety. We also recorded Freedy more than a decade ago at the Fleadh Festival and we’re going to dig into the archives and try to post that show before tomorrow.

Deer Tick June 10, 2008 Bowery Ballroom – Flac and MP3 Downloads

July 23, 2008
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[photo by Matt, links to full resolution photos below]
[photo 1] [photo 2] [photo 3] [photo 4] [photo 5] [photo 6] [photo 7]

When we posted yesterday about the Dirty on Purpose gig at the McCarren Pool Afterparty, the day time pool bands were TBA for August 10. We did not realize that just a few hours later the bands would be confirmed for that date. Felice Brothers are the headliners, and our old friends Deer Tick are also on the bill.

We figure this is good time to offer a download of Deer Tick‘s (John solo) performance from the Bowery opening for Jaymay in June. This recording was captured by Matt from brooklynvibes, and he reports that John was very well received by the crowd who also included Jaymay in the audience for this set. To bring this post full circle, Jaymay also supported her friends in Dirty on Purpose with a guest vocal on “Like Bees” earlier this year.

Matt recorded this with his high end AKG microphones and the sound is spectacular. Enjoy!

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

John McCauley of Deer Tick (Solo)
New York, NY
Bowery Ballroom
June 10, 2008

Taper: Matt Casey
Source: AKG 414’s> Sound Devices 702
Conversion: Matt Casey
Source: CF> USB> Wavelab (normalizing)> CDWAV (tracking) >FLAC

Setlist:
01 [introduction]
02 Straight Into A Storm > Spend The Night
03 Live Fast Love Hard Die Young (Faron Young)
04 Art Isn’t Real
05 Mexican Home (John Prine)
06 Baltimore Blues No. 1
07 The Ghost
08 Dirty Dishes
09 Little White Lies
10 Ashamed
11 Poor Poor Pitiful Me (Warren Zevon)
12 These Old Shoes

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Deer Tick, visit their website, visit their myspace page, and purchase the War Elephant release from Itunes, or emusic, or order it directly from Feow Records when its back in stock.

Sharon Van Etten acappella in the Secret Garden

July 23, 2008
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Sharon van Etten / Secret Garden from sarahana on Vimeo.

From our friends at Hooves on the Turf comes two amazing clips of Sharon Van Etten singing two of her songs acappella in the secret garden at Prospect Park. Please click on the Hooves link and read their wonderful write-up and for an additional video.

Sharon has also added a new performance date, Monday July 28 at The Annex.

Mark Knopfler in Central Park – A nyctaper Rainout

July 23, 2008
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In March, when guitar virtuoso and former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler was announced for a July 23 Central Park gig, we bought a ticket forthwith for the full ticketmaster price. Sadly, the forecast (see above) for this early evening event has become worse as this week has progressed. Essentially, early tonight the skies are going to open and the massive rains will prevent a nyctaper recording of this show despite Knopfler’s permissive taping policy. Apologies to the readers who have been anxiously awaiting this one.

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