[photos taken for nyctaper by Kate Ehle – more here]
In her set opening for the Antlers at Bowery Ballroom, Sharon Van Etten exhibited her playful side. As she becomes more comfortable playing before larger crowds, Sharon has allowed her charming personality to amplify the quality of her songs. At Bowery, the fan gift of a tiny paper crane became the object of a wonderful performer-audience interplay that Sharon then incorporated into her terrific brand new song “Heart in the Ground”.
This set was recorded from the same location as the Antlers and Uninhabitable Mansions sets and the sound quality is excellent. Enjoy!
This Recording is now available for Download in FLAC and MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].
Sharon Van Etten
2009-12-15
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY USA
Four-Track Digital Master Recording
Recorded Behind 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 by nyctaper and acidjack
Produced by nyctaper
2009-12-26
Setlist:
[Total Time 35:30]
01 Give Out
02 Much More Than That
03 Oooh Love (Blaze Foley)
04 Consolation Prize
05 [banter – paper crane]
06 Heart in the Ground
07 Call It A Joke
08 [new song]
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Sharon Van Etten, visit her website, visit her MySpace page, and purchase her new CD Because I Was In Love from InSound [here] or Amazon [here] or directly from the Language of Stone website [here].
I made the paper crane! I made it it out of a receipt I had cause I got there super early and was bored waiting for the opener to come on. Sharon came on and she was so charming I didn’t have a choice but to give it to her. It absolutely made my night that she accepted it and BLEW my mind when she dedicated the next song to me. Ever so grateful. Glad me and my buddy drove from NH to see The Antlers and were lucky enough to catch her as well. =) =) =)