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Born Gold: October 22, 2011 Cameo Gallery CMJ Show – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

November 2, 2011

[blackberry photo by nyctaper]

If the photo posted above makes no sense, then you have not seen Born Gold live. The performer formerly known as “Gobble Gobble” has a new album out called Bodysongs, and he played a series of CMJ shows last week to support it, including the Saturday day show at Cameo Gallery. However, the live Born Gold experience can not be anticipated by just listening to the new album — its an experience that must be seen to be believed. The band is the recording project of Canadian Cecil Frena, who occupied the front center of the stage at a ten-foot table layered with a series of digital effects, mixers, laptops, pedals and assorted gadgets. On the floor in front of the stage were the other two members of the band who provided not only percussion, but also contributed to the electronic gadgetry and the overall histrionics. The entire show was lit by two green-tinted stage lights and a liberal use of a fog machine. Oh, and the music. Frena is a wizard with his gadgets, as he produced an aggressive throbbing beat layered with hypnotic melodies and effects-laden vocals. Each song ignited the crowd into a frenzy — at six o’clock in the afternoon. Its hard to imagine the level of crowd participation at a wild 3am club scene. Born Gold seems made for that setting.

We recorded this set in the same manner as the Prussia set posted yesterday. However, Born Gold provided a full mix of their sound to the board, and that mix was meticulously balanced. We stressed the room mics in our mixdown to accentuate the atmosphere and the result is an excellent recording with plenty of room feel. Enjoy!

Stream “Wrinklecarver”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/B2101BornGold2101/10.%20Wrinklecarver.mp3]

Direct download of complete show in MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Note: All of the material on this site is offered with artist permission, free to fans, at our expense. The only thing we ask is that you download the material directly from this site, rather than re-posting the direct links or the files on other sites without our permission. Please respect our request.

Born Gold
2011-10-22
Cameo Gallery
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + DPA 4021s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, set fades, downsample) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2011-10-30

Setlist:
[Total Time 34:31]
01 [new song]
02 Alabaster Bodyworlds
03 End of Days
04 [brand new song]
05 Lawn Knives
06 Party Time
07 Wombstone
08 Boring Horror
09 [banter]
10 Wrinklecarver

If you enjoyed this recording from NYCTaper, PLEASE SUPPORT Born Gold, visit their website, and and purchase their new album Bodysongs from their Bandcamp page [HERE].

North Mississippi Allstars: October 28, 2011 Brooklyn Bowl – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

October 31, 2011

By acidjack

After hearing this site’s incredible capture of brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars back in June, I knew I needed to see what this Mississippi blues act was all about for myself. Brooklyn Bowl – now the obvious heir to Wetlands in terms of this type of programming – was the perfect place for the introduction. As is the norm for a Friday night, a lot of the drunken suburban crowd was mostly there to party, but those paying more attention were rewarded with some incredible guitar work from Luther, percussion from Cody, and bass from Chris Chew. The band gave us a veritable education in the blues, mixing in their own favorites with classic covers like Bob Dylan’s “Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again”, which appears on their latest record, Keys to the Kingdom. The record’s title is an homage to the brothers’ father, the blues legend Jim Dickinson, but it could as easily be a reference to their own place in the blues pantheon. NMAS are the honest heirs of this centuries-old American tradition, and they will no doubt do their best to make the genre as alive, fresh, and relevant as it was a hundred years ago.

The entire nyctaper crew was on-hand for this event with a slew of mics at full height above the crowd. This particular recording is a combination of AKG large-diaphragm mics to give “air” at the top end and edge to the guitar, combined with Schoeps supercardiods to add the direct sound. While there is no mistaking that it’s a Friday night crowd, the sound quality of the music is outstanding. Please help out with any setlist corrections – it was my first time seeing the band live and there were a a few songs I did not recognize or couldn’t figure out. Enjoy!

Stream “Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again [Bob Dylan]”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/N0409NMAS9002/09 Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again.mp3]

Stream “Rollin’ and Tumblin'”
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/N0409NMAS9002/20 Drinkin’ Muddy Water.mp3]

This Recording is now available for Download in FLAC and MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].

North Mississippi Allstars
2011-10-28
Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn, NY USA

Recorded for nyctaper.com by acidjack, hi and lo, nyctaper and Johnny Fried Chicken Boy
Produced by acidjack

AKG C 414 B-XLS (cardiod)>Sound Devices USBpre2 + Schoeps MK41>NBox+ >> Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audition (mixdown)>Audacity (tracking, amplify and balance)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks [Total Time: 1:51:29]
01 Sitting On Top of the World
02 Across the Great Divide
03 Let It Roll
04 Shake What Your Momma Gave You
05 People Get Ready
06 Mean Ol’ Wind Died Down
07 Shake ‘Em On Down
08 [guitar jam]
09 Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again [Bob Dylan]
10 Meet Me In the City
11 Po Black Maddie>
12 Drum Solo/jam>
13 Jellyrollin’ All Over Heaven
14 New Orleans Walkin’ Dead
15 Harlem River Blues [Justin Townes Earle]
16 Sugar Hill
17 Teasin’ Brown
18 I’d Love To Be A Hippie
19 Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On)
20 Rollin’ and Tumblin’
21 [encore break]
22 Lordy Lord>
23 [unknown?]
24 All Night Long

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT North Mississippi Allstars, visit their website, and purchase Keys to the Kingdom and their other available releases through The Store at their website [HERE].

Arbouretum: October 14, 2011 Glasslands – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

October 28, 2011

By acidjack

[Photos by acidjack]

Thrill Jockey’s band page for Arbouretum describes them as a “taper’s dream”, and they could well be right about that. With open song structures, a hard-rocking, Southern-informed psych-rock sound an solid dose of showmanship, the band comes off a bit like an updated, thinking man’s version of bands like CCR and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and they play a hell of a good show that doesn’t belie that comparison. The band took the stage behind a veil of smoke, launching into a brief psychedelic intro before hitting full stride on “False Spring” the leadoff track to their 2009 record, Song of the Pearl. That led into “White Bird”, the sole song played from their latest Thrill Jockey release, The Gathering. The musical virtuosity only went up from there, with “Down By the Fall Line” leading directly into “Mohammed’s Hex and Bounty” in a combined 17-minute piece that found the band in top form. Frontman Dave Heumann puts a lot of thought into his dense, literary lyrics, and (somewhat unusually for an indie artist) actually sings them so you can hear them. As audience members called out various rarities and covers throughout the set, the band finally obliged with a ripping version of CCR’s “Long As I Can See the Light.”

I recorded this set with my usual mounted setup of DPAs on the center post plus a soundboard feed from Josh, the head FOH engineer at Glasslands. The sound is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “The White Bird”
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/A1014Arbouretum0211/03 The White Bird.mp3]

Stream “Long As I Can See the Light [Creedence Clearwater Revival]”
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/A1014Arbouretum0211/08 Long As I Can See the Light.mp3]

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

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Arbouretum
2011-10-14
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

An acidjack master recording
Recorded and produced by acidjack for nyctaper.com

DPA 4021 (DFC, ORTF)>Sound Devices USBpre2+Soundboard >> Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod] (24/48)>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audition (mixdown)>Audacity (tracking, set fades, amplify and balance)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks [Total Time 59:22]
01 [intro]
02 False Spring
03 The White Bird
04 Down By the Fall Line>
05 Mohammed’s Hex and Bounty
06 Ghosts of Here and There
07 Song of the Nile
08 Long As I Can See the Light [Creedence Clearwater Revival]

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Arbouretum by visiting their MySpace page and purchasing their official releases directly from Thrill Jockey [HERE]

Oberhofer: October 1, 2011 Monster Island Farewell BBQ – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

October 19, 2011

By nyctaper

[photo by Chris Becker courtesy of Impose Magazine]

On a rainy and dreary October day, with Monster Island padlocked behind it, River Avenue became the makeshift concert spot for a bittersweet celebration of seven years of perhaps the best DIY shows that Brooklyn has ever seen. Monster Island Basement was a venue that we visited often, and recorded everything we saw there. The excellent performances we experienced litter this site. We also presented a show there in the Spring of 2009. As he has for its entire seven year existence, the ubiquitous presence of ToddP was the first person we saw when we turned onto River Avenue that morning to record the entire event. Per his tradition, the ToddP Acoustic BBQ is a neverending parade of local DIY talent who perform brief ten minute sets. On this day, it was 36 bands, with everyone from the electronic noise of openers White Sun, to the slide-blues of Ezekial Healy, the poetry of Eliza and Parry, the folk of Katie Eastburn, the spoken word performance by DJ Dog Dick, and a million other genres. We recorded 29 acts, as the persistent rains brought the action inside for periods of time. Of those acts, perhaps the most impressive was the kinetic energy of Oberhofer, whose 3-song set was both entertaining and engaging for the obvious talent that Brad Oberhofer projects. In a raw acoustic setting without the benefit of the bells and whistles of sound effects, the artist and their talent stand naked. In that setting Oberhofer shined performing three songs — including two of his own compositions and a tongue in cheek cover of Kanye West.

This show was the most difficult circumstances under which I’ve ever recorded. The weather was an issue all day, and the “stage” was continually shifted, so that we were left with having the pick up the microphone stand and move it often. For this particular set, the artist remained in one location (you can see our microphones in the photo) and played at a decent acoustic volume. As a result, although you can hear some wind noise, the overall sound quality is quite excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “I Could Go”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/ToddP%20Monster%20Island%20Farewell/02.%20I%20Could%20Go.mp3]

Direct download of complete show in MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Note: All of the material on this site is offered with artist permission, free to fans, at our expense. The only thing we ask is that you download the material directly from this site, rather than re-posting the direct links or the files on other sites without our permission. Please respect our request.

Oberhofer
2011-10-01
Monster Island Farewell Acoustic BBQ
Brooklyn, NY USA

Four-Track Digital Master Recording
Recorded on Stage

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
2011-10-20

Setlist:
[Total Time 11:24]
01 Away FRM U
02 I Could Go
03 Runaway [Kayne West]

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Oberhofer, visit their Facebook page, and purchase their official releases from the White Iris Records store [HERE] and keep an eye out for future releases at Glassnote Records [HERE].

Eternal Tapestry: October 14, 2011 Glasslands – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

October 18, 2011

By acidjack

[Photo by acidjack]

Portland’s Eternal Tapestry brought their heavy left coast psych rock to Glasslands this past Friday night, performing three long-form compositions of their densely layered guitar, bass, and saxophone (an instrument that seems to be making a big comeback lately!). The first two numbers came from the band’s latest record, Beyond the 4th Door, but the final track, “Doing Your Own Being”, was my personal highlight. With its eastern-inflected sax melody, the song is not only compelling, but rare. Released only on the very-limited-edition box set, Not the Spaces You Know, But Between Them on North Carolina imprint Three Lobed Recordings, this was likely many audience members’ first exposure to this incredible tune. Eternal Tapestry have reportedly made several records by essentially culling down live in-studio sessions, so unsurprisingly, the actual live show is a thing of beauty, as the band reworks and expands upon their songs on the fly. They don’t make it out east as often as we would like, so don’t miss them on the next go round.

I recorded this set with the DPA microphones mixed with an excellent board feed from Josh at Glasslands. As usual for this venue, the sound is excellent!

Thanks to PopGun Booking for hosting us.

Stream the complete set and download individual tracks:

Direct download of MP3 files [HERE]

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

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Eternal Tapestry
2011-10-14
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

An acidjack master recording
Recorded and produced by acidjack for nyctaper.com

DPA 4021>Sound Devices USBpre2 + Soundboard>>Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod] (24/48)>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audition (EQ, mixdown, amplify)>Audacity (set fades, tracking)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 Cosmic Manhunt
02 Wave Without A Shore
03 [banter]
04 Doing Your Own Being

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Eternal Tapestry, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their latest record, Beyond the 4th Door, directly from Thrill Jockey [HERE]

Shinji Masuko: October 10, 2011 Knitting Factory – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Full Show

October 17, 2011

By acidjack

[still from this video]

Shinji Masuko is a revered cult figure among aficionados of latter day Japanese experimental rock. Perhaps best known for his work in DMBQ, and more recently as a guitarist for Boredoms, Masuko is a renaissance man of the scene, also making a huge contribution in music journalism. He was also instrumental in raising money for Japanese musicians who were victims of the tsunami, an effort in which Oneida and NYCTaper participated. It was a rare treat for us stateside to get to see Masuko in a “solo” (with a bassist, whose name I regretfully do not know) performance at the Knitting Factory, where he played a complex guitar-based piece that referenced Japanoise, psychedelia, and Japanese folk and tribal music. A rapt crowd of music fans stood in awe of a piece that in some ways echoed Boredoms’ “Boadrum” pieces without the drummers. Masuko has also put out a recent set of compositions, Woven Music, on Brah Records, which is a can’t miss for fans of psychedelic guitar work.

I recorded this set with the AKG large-diaphragm microphones and a nicely balanced soundboard feed from the Knitting Factory team. There is a bit of DI hum on the board feed in quiet parts, but the recording is overall outstanding. You can stream the entire performance below, along with the usual downloads. Enjoy!

Stream the entire performance:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/S1010ShinjiMasuko0211/shinjimasuko2011-10-10knit_acidjack-01.mp3]

Direct download of MP3 file [HERE] (right-click the link and go to “Save As”)| Direct download of the FLAC files [HERE]

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Shinji Masuko
2011-10-10
Knitting Factory
Brooklyn, NY USA

An acidjack master recording
Recorded and produced by acidjack for nyctaper.com

AKG C 414 B-XLS (cardiod, slightly ROC, ORTF)+Soundboard>Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod] (24/48)>Audition (mixdown)>Audacity (set fades, tracking, amplify and balance)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 [single track]

If you enjoyed this recording, please support Shinji Masuko, visit the DMBQ website, and purchase his latest record, Woven Music from Brah Records [HERE]

Trans Am: October 8, 2011 Union Pool (playing “Futureworld”) – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

October 10, 2011

By acidjack

[Photo by acidjack. The photos are bad, but the recording is great.]

The band Trans Am reintroduced themselves in a big way with their seminal 1999 album, Futureworld nine years into their career. For the first time, the post-rock band introduced vocoder-enhanced vocals to their rock/krautrock hybrid. In many ways, this record, with its Atari graphics cover, augured the chiptunes genre, with its propulsive, fast-paced rock attack and robotic vocals. It also showcased a little bit of the band’s sense of humor, which you can get a dose of on their band page at Thrill Jockey. As is all the rage these days for classic bands, Trans Am did a two-night stand at one of my favorite venues, Union Pool, to close out their tour celebrating this classic record by playing it straight through.

With the smoke still clearing from The Psychic Paramount’s thunderous opening set, Trans Am kicked off the opening track “1999” to roars of approval from the crowd. By the time they hit the title track, “Futureworld,” the crowd was singing along to the vocoder-enhanced vocals, dancing, and sweating like hell – the show was completely sold out, and the room was packed. The band tore through the record with virtuosity and aggression; I can’t imagine this show being better in ’99 than it was today. The band even gave us an unexpected dose of (slightly) newer flavor when they ended the set with “I Want It All” and “Play in the Summer”, both from their 2000 record Red Line. Expect a followup to the band’s 2010 record, Thing, soon, and go see them live for an unforgettable experience.

I recorded this set from the balcony with the DPA microphones split wide, and an excellent soundboard feed. The quality is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “Futureworld”
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/T0018TransAm2011/03 Futureworld.mp3]

Stream “Play In the Summer”
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/T0018TransAm2011/13 Play in the Summer.mp3]

Direct download of MP3 files [HERE] | Direct Download of the FLAC files [HERE]

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Trans Am
2011-10-08
Union Pool
Brooklyn, NY USA

An acidjack master recording
Recorded and produced by acidjack for nyctaper.com

Soundboard + DPA 4021 (slightly LOC, ORTF)>Naiant littlebox>>Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod] (24/48)>Audition (mixdown)>Audacity (set fades, tracking, EQ, amplify and balance)>FLAC Level 8

Tracks
Futureworld
01 1999
02 Television Eyes
03 Futureworld
04 City in Flames
05 Am Rhein
06 Cocaine Computer
07 Runners Standing Still>Futureworld II
08 Positron
09 Sad and Young

Additional Songs from Red Line
10 [banter]
11 I Want It All
12 [encore break]
13 Play in the Summer

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Trans Am, visit their website, and purchase their official releases directly from Thrill Jockey.

Mt. Eerie: September 21, 2011 285 Kent

September 29, 2011

By acidjack

[photo by Juliet Eldred courtesy of Impose Magazine]

Phil Elverum is one of those elusive and otherworldly presences in music, who can take the simplest organ line or bell tone and build a surprising, hauntingly beautiful song around it. Best known for his work under the moniker The Microphones, Elverum rechristened the project Mt. Eerie in the middle of the last decade, but continues with many of The Microphones’ themes and sounds. This show at 285 Kent, presented by the legendary ToddP, had the type of intimate feel that echoed the very bedrooms where Elverum has made many of his compositions. This nine-song set showcased material new and old, and represented Elverum and the touring band’s triumph over what had been a very finicky PA system earlier in the evening. The band followed this show with a Monday performance at Le Poisson Rouge – another venue of considerable charm – but really, what better place to see a bedroom recordist than one of the Brooklyn scene’s coolest living rooms?

I recorded this set with the DPA microphones near the right stack, coupled with a soundboard feed. Other than some light noise from a fan near the mics during the first couple songs, the sound quality is outstanding. Enjoy!

Download the MP3 and FLAC files on the Live Music Archive [HERE]

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Mt. Eerie
2011-09-21
285 Kent
Brooklyn, NY USA

An acidjack master recording
Recorded and produced by acidjack for nyctaper.com

Soundboard + DPA 4021 (X/Y on post 3ft from right stack, 8ft)>Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod] (24/48)>Audition (effects, mix down, normalize)>Audacity (tracking)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 I Felt Your Shape
02 Between Two Mysteries
03 Ancient Questions
04 No Inside, No Out
05 [banter]
06 The Place I Live
07 Lone Bell
08 [unknown]
09 Stone’s Ode
10 [unknown]

If you enjoyed this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Mt. Eerie, visit their website, and purchase their records directly from them at their online store.

Caveman: September 17, 2011 Beekman Beer Garden + August 19, 2011 Cameo Gallery – Flac and MP3 Downloads and Streaming Songs

September 28, 2011

By nyctaper

[photos courtesy of Amanda Hatfield]

In the last six weeks, we have twice had the pleasure of seeing one of Brooklyn’s brightest new bands — each time supporting an nyctaper-favorite band. In August when Caveman opened for War On Drugs at Cameo Gallery, we were unfamiliar with the band. Their sound features prominent keyboards, which naturally draws comparison to 80s bands, but its the heavy rhythmic elements that align them with contemporaries like The Dodos and Local Natives. Following the Cameo show, Caveman played a sold-out CD release show for their debut album CoCo Beware at Mercury Lounge. We caught them again after the Mercury coming-out party, this time at the Beekman Beer Garden with The Hold Steady. Perhaps it was my imagination, but it seemed that in a month since the Cameo show, Caveman was playing tighter and with more confidence. “Old Friend”, which flows live from the instrumental “Vampirer” was a strong end of set number that features a driving beat and the sweet melancholy vocals of Matthew Iwanusa, and we are streaming it below.

I recorded the Cameo show in the same manner at the War On Drugs recording, with the Neumanns supplemented with a mono board feed. The Beekman show was recorded with the four-microphone rig directly in front of the soundboard cage. The sound quality of both sets is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “Old Friend” from Beekman Beer Garden:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/C1908Caveman1020/09.%20Old%20Friend.mp3]

Stream “Thankful” from Cameo Gallery:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/C1908Caveman1020/09.%20Thankful.mp3]

Direct download of complete show in MP3 files:
Beekman Beer Garden [HERE]
Cameo Gallery [HERE]

Download the Complete shows in FLAC
Beekman Beer Garden [HERE]
Cameo Gallery [HERE]

Caveman
2011-09-17
Beekman Beer Garden
New York, NY USA

Four-Track Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Inside Soundboard Cage
Thirty Feet from Stage

Neumann KM-150s + DPA 4021’s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2011-09-22

Setlist:
[Total Time 41:11]
01 Easy Water
02 A Country’s King of Dreams
03 My Time
04 December 28th
05 Thankful
06 Decide
07 My Room
08 Vampirer
09 Old Friend
10 Wheres The Time

**************************

Caveman
2011-08-19
Cameo Gallery
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard (mono) + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 16bit 44.1kHz 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
2011-09-21

Setlist:
[Total Time 41:13]
01 A Country’s King of Dreams
02 Pricey
03 December 28th
04 My Time
05 Vampirer
06 Old Friend
07 Easy Water
08 My Room
09 Thankful
10 Decide

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Caveman, visit their website, and purchase CoCo Beware directly from their website [HERE].

Funky Meters: September 14, 2011 Brooklyn Bowl – FLAC / MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

September 23, 2011

By acidjack

[Photo by Jill for fortheloveofbrooklyn]

NOLA’s legendary Funky Meters, the successor to the even-more-legendary Meters, put on one of their now-regular multi-night stands at Brooklyn Bowl earlier this month, and this Wednesday night show was a standout. While the band’s shows back in February faced some hiccups, the band was fully on point this night as they delivered an almost two-hour set of nearly-continuous music. Along with NOLA classics from themselves, the Meters, Allen Touissant and others, the band showed their virtuosity with rock n’ roll as well, with numbers like the opening “Down By the River” (Neil Young) and the Dylan classic “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”, stretched into a 7-minute funk number. “Just Kissed My Baby,” which we had seen covered by Soulive at this very venue earlier this year, was positively on fire, but with apologies to that fine band, the (almost) original blew the newcomers out of the water. As the best shows at this venue tend to, this one got the dance floor packed and the brews and good times flowing. Sure, we were a long way from the Treme – but at least the Funky Meters could make us feel a little closer.

hi and lo, Johnny Fried Chicken Boy and I recorded this set with six high-end microphones and preamps from a close-up spot in the venue. The sound is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 [Bob Dylan]”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/F1904FunkyMeters2101/funkymeters2011-09-14t04.mp3]

Stream “Fire On the Bayou”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/F1904FunkyMeters2101/funkymeters2011-09-14t10.mp3]

Direct download of the complete show in MP3 [HERE]
Direct download of the complete show in FLAC [HERE]

If either of the links are no longer working, email nyctaper with a request for the download location of the files.

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Funky Meters
2011-09-14
Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn, NY USA

Recorded by hi and lo, Johnny Fried Chicken Boy and acidjack for nyctaper.com
Produced by acidjack and Johnny Fried Chicken Boy

Schoeps MK5>littlebox + DPA 4021>Sound Devices MixPre + Schoeps MK41>CMC6>Sound Devices USBpre2 >> Tascam DR-680 > 3x24bit/48kHz WAV > Audition (mixdown, normalize) > FLAC > Audition (tracking) > FLAC ( level 8 )

Position: ROC, miss at 15ft, DPAs and MK41s PAS, MK5 DIN

Tracks
[Total time: 1:53:23]
01. intro
02. Down by the River [Neil Young]
03. Sing a Simple Song [Sly Stone]
04. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 [Bob Dylan]
05. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [Sonny Boy Williamson]
06. Iko Iko [James “Sugar Boy” Crawford / The Dixie Cups]
07. No More Okey Doke
08. Just Kissed My Baby
09. He Bite Me
10. Fire on the Bayou
11. I Walk on Guilded Splinters [Dr. John]
12. Marie Laveau [Bobby Bare]
13. Hoochie Coo
14. Africa
15. Africa outro / Cissy Strut intro
16. Cissy Strut
17. Get Out of My Life, Woman [Allen Toussaint]
18. Big Chief [Earl King / Wardell Quezergue]
19. Big Chief Got a Golden Crown [George Landry / The Wild Tchoupitoulas]
20. Ride Yu Donkey [The Tennors] (> Shake, Rattle and Roll tease [Charles E. Calhoun])

If you enjoy this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT The Funky Meters, visit their website, and purchase their records from their online store [HERE]

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Born Gold: October 22, 2011 Cameo Gallery CMJ Show – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

North Mississippi Allstars: October 28, 2011 Brooklyn Bowl – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

Arbouretum: October 14, 2011 Glasslands – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

Oberhofer: October 1, 2011 Monster Island Farewell BBQ – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

Eternal Tapestry: October 14, 2011 Glasslands – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

Shinji Masuko: October 10, 2011 Knitting Factory – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Full Show

Trans Am: October 8, 2011 Union Pool (playing “Futureworld”) – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

Mt. Eerie: September 21, 2011 285 Kent

Caveman: September 17, 2011 Beekman Beer Garden + August 19, 2011 Cameo Gallery – Flac and MP3 Downloads and Streaming Songs

Funky Meters: September 14, 2011 Brooklyn Bowl – FLAC / MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

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