[Photos courtesy of Sarah Dinkz Lu]
Shark? closed out the Gaza Benefit Show this past Saturday on a strong note, the perfect prelude to another few hours of drinking. If you had not been enjoying too many of “The Stoop” cocktails proffered at the bar, you would have noticed that despite the inevitable “lo-fi” tag earned by their Fear! (they love punctuation), Noise Maker and School Night! EPs, their live show is more straight-ahead rock, with frontman Kevin Diamond’s vocals out in front and not buried behind distortion. More like The Feelies, less like Blank Dogs or The Black Lips, if you will. The band covered surefire favorites from all of the aforementioned EPs, plus at least one song, “Slap Dash” that will hopefully appear on their fully Kickstarter-funded forthcoming full length album. Gifted with a healthy sense of humor and an ability to distill songs to their tuneful, head-bobbing essence, Shark? should be fixtures on the scene (and maybe beyond) for awhile. Just listen to the call and response of the main set’s closer, “Shark?” and the instantly catchy final number, “Tiny Violins”. Imagine that music, a dark club (or maybe a backyard), a few beers, and a weekend ahead of you. That, friends, is the simple pleasure of Shark?
I recorded this set in the same manner as the Soft Black recording, with a board feed for vocals and the mics right in front of the band, and the sound is excellent. All songs are properly tagged for easy importing into iTunes. Enjoy!
Stream “Tiny Violins”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/S2801Shark2211/Shark-TinyViolins2010-08-07.mp3]
Direct download of MP3 files [HERE]
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
Shark?
2010-08-07
Gaza Benefit Show
A Backyard in Bushwick
Brooklyn, NY USA
An acidjack master recording
Recorded and produced by acidjack for nyctaper.com
Equipment: DPA 4021 + stereo soundboard feed>Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) (24/44.1)
Position: Mics “onstage”, ORTF
Mastering: 2×24bit/44.1kHz WAV>Audacity (compress board track, mixdown, set fades, amplify and balance channels, light EQ, tracking, downsample to 16bit)>FLAC (level 8 )
Tracks [Total Time 31:04]
01 I’m An Animal
02 [tuning]
03 Oh My!
04 You Don’t Love Me Anymore
05 Pipeline
06 Fear!
07 Slap Dash
08 Hey Grrl
09 I’ve Got Friends
10 Shark?
11 [encore break]
12 Tiny Violins
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Shark?, visit their MySpace page, and download their official EPs directly from Bandcamp (here). And please, support the band when their forthcoming album is released as well!
Please also consider supporting the causes that were the reason for this show: UNRWA and the Free Gaza Movement.
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