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Tribes: December 8, 2011 Mercury Lounge – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

December 9, 2011

[photo courtesy of Chris at Music Snobbery]

Tribes have hit it big in their native England less than a year since their debut. Its easy to see why. The two EPs the band has released in 2011 are both packed with irresistible power pop, which borrows from Big Star at its most inspired and Cheap Trick at its most polished — and adds a Brit flavor. Tribes arrived on the US shores just a few days ago, and played their first-ever NYC show last night at Mercury Lounge. Apparently, the brit-buzz has followed them as the venue was packed. As the band will release their debut full-length in January (Baby on Island Records UK), the forty-minute set consisted of only four previously released tracks from the EPs and five new ones. We are streaming “Corner of an English Field”, a mid-tempo rocker with hooks aplenty and a driving beat. Its not hard to foresee that Tribes will soon be playing much larger venues than Mercury, especially given the can’t-miss quality of the songs that will hit in January. Tribes plays at Glasslands tonight, before returning to England after a few more US dates.

I recorded this set with the Neumanns positioned at the soundboard booth and mixed with a soundboard feed. The sound quality is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “Corner of an English Field”:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/T1280Tribes2200/07.%20Corner%20of%20an%20English%20Field.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.

Tribes
2011-12-08
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH (level 7) > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2011-12-09

Setlist:
[Total Time 37:22]
01 [intro music]
02 Whenever
03 Girlfriend
04 Sappho
05 When My Day Comes
06 Himalaya
07 Corner of an English Field
08 Not So Pretty
09 Nightdriving
10 We Were Children

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Tribes, visit their website, and purchase their two EPs [HERE] and pre-order their debut album Baby (January 16 release) [HERE].

Daniel Wayne: November 17, 2011 Glasslands – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

December 7, 2011

By acidjack

[photo by David Andrako]

If you haven’t heard a truly great voice lately, you might want to check out Daniel Wayne. There’s no doubt that distinguishing yourself as a singer-songwriter can be difficult; it’s a style where it’s easy to be mediocre, difficult to be great. But that voice puts to rest the doubters – sweet through the middle and upper ranges and flawless on the high notes, Wayne is instantly recognizable as well as accessible. A good example can be heard on the haunting, lonely solo number, “Pub’s Crawl”, which also takes an abrupt turn into a religious hymn at the end. Humble and appreciative between songs, the Ohio native comes across likable as well (the Midwestern thing again?). As for his songs, many are tinged with a light country twang, and navigate both indie gloom and homespun folk themes with equal skill.

I will admit that I had not heard of Wayne before I caught this Glasslands Gallery set opening for Jessica Lea Mayfield (that recording here), but apparently I was behind the curve. A sizable crowd showed up to catch his opening set, and by the end, a pretty full house was paying rapt attention. Wayne split the set equally between solo acoustic and full-band electric numbers, and we have served up a streaming example of each below (along with the complete-set download, of course). When the full band comes in during the first chorus of “Birds,” you can tell that Wayne’s big voice is equally if not better suited to the full-band treatment. The full-band songs also give Wayne a broader palette for his arrangements, and he takes full advantage on songs like the countrified “Virgin Saint”, streaming below. Despite being the first opener of the night, Wayne put forth a full 50-minute set that alone was worth the show’s price of admission. As Wayne himself put it in a recent interview on the CBS News website, “Every time I get on the stage, I give it everything I have.” This was only my first Daniel Wayne performance, but that sure seemed to be the case.

I recorded this set with Schoeps MK22 “open cardiod” microphones and a flawless soundboard feed provided by Josh Thiel, the house engineer at Glasslands. The sound is outstanding. Enjoy!

Stream “Virgin Saint”
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/D1117DanielWayne2011/09 Virgin Saint.mp3]

Stream “Pub’s Crawl”
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/D1117DanielWayne2011/04 Pub’s Crawl.mp3]

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

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Daniel Wayne
2011-11-17
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

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

Schoeps MK22 (DFC, POS)>CMC6>Sound Devices USBPre + Soundboard >> Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audition (mixdown)>Audacity (set fades, tracking, amplify and balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 The Fool
02 The Dog
03 [banter]
04 Pub’s Crawl
05 Beautiful Day
06 Poseidon’s Drownin’ Son
07 [banter]
08 Birds
09 Virgin Saint
10 Far From Here
11 [banter]
12 My Bed
13 untitled

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Daniel Wayne, visit his website, and purchase his 4-song EP directly from Amazon.

Owen: December 2, 2011 Glasslands – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

December 6, 2011

By acidjack

[Video stills courtesy of Ian Perlman and Oresti Tsonopoulos]

Mike Kinsella has been involved in many a highly-regarded project over the years – in particular, the Illinois native still does time in Joan of Arc with his brother Tim (our recent recording of them [HERE]), and before that, he and Tim were in Cap’n Jazz (our recent recording of them [HERE]). The man’s discography is longer than many artists twice his age – and most of it is quite good.

The latest Kinsella project to receive positive notice is his affecting solo effort, Owen, which he has been releasing albums under since 2001. Let me revise that – a lot of positive notice. I had not seen Glasslands this completely full in a long time, probably since the packed-to-the-rafters Yuck show last winter, or Bear In Heaven’s show there in 2009. Our friends at PopGun Booking knew what they were doing when they booked this for a Friday night.

Packed house or not, Kinsella made the show feel like an intimate evening in a family basement, with a freewheeling set that found him joking with the crowd during and in between songs, chatting with folks in the front row, riffing on fantasy football, hockey, airplane turbulence and (briefly) failed GOP contender Herman Cain, and making the best of some difficult technical issues. Alone onstage with his guitar (with audience members in his face on all sides), Kinsella delivered an hour’s worth of songs that were by turns melancholy, funny and whimsical, all in a trademark sweet voice that, for many of us, typifies the “emo” sound popularized in the 1990s. Even with such distractions as occasional PA buzzing and interference from Mike’s phone, his unadorned set was powerful and moving, and the crowd hung on every word. Much of his 2011 release Ghost Town was covered, but the set spanned the Owen catalog. Even Kinsella’s occasional flubs — a couple of songs ended prematurely — were greeted enthusiastically, to the point that he mocked the crowd for cheering for one aborted number. With some performers, this kind of thing could be annoying, but Kinsella is the type of amiable guy you can’t help but laugh with when things go wrong. The show ended on that kind of note, when a massive equipment problem during the encore sent waves of static blasting through the PA. “That’s cool,” Kinsella said. “Thanks for coming guys. I’m done. It was fun. Now it’s over.” Mike smiled as he walked off, and the crowd roared its approval. It was that kind of night.

I recorded this set with a soundboard feed and Schoeps MK22 “open cardioid” microphones in the usual location I use in the venue. After extensive post-processing to reduce or eliminate most of the sound issues (which, it should be added, were not the fault of the Glasslands house team), I am quite pleased with the quality of the recording. Hear it for yourself below, and enjoy!

Stream “The Armoire”:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/O0212Owen0211/12%20The%20Armoire.mp3]

Stream “No Language”:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/O0212Owen0211/24%20No%20Language.mp3]

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

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Owen
2011-12-02
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

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

Schoeps MK22 (DFC, NOS)>KCY>Naiant littlebox + Soundboard >> Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audition (mixdown, noise reduction, EQ)>Audacity (set fades, tracking, amplify and balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 [intro banter]
02 Too Many Moons
03 [banter]
04 O, Evelyn
05 Abandoned Bridges
06 [banter/tuning]
07 The Sad Waltzes of Pietro Crespi
08 An Animal
09 [banter]
10 The Anthropology Song
11 [banter]
12 The Armoire
13 No Place Like Home
14 [banter]
15 New Leaves
16 [banter]
17 Bad Backs and Hardwood Floors
18 [banter]
19 Bad News
20 A Bird In Hand
21 [banter]
22 Everyone’s Asleep in the House but Me
23 [banter]
24 No Language
25 [banter]
26 Broken Bones
27 [banter]
28 Good Friends Bad Habits

PLEASE SUPPORT Owen by visiting Mike’s MySpace page for the band, and buying the band’s records, including the 2011 release Ghost Town, directly from Polyvinyl [HERE]

The Loom: December 03, 2011 Mercury Lounge – FLAC/MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

December 5, 2011

By acidjack

Photo courtesy of Jill and For the Love of Brooklyn
[photos courtesy of Jill and For the Love of Brooklyn]

It’s been a busy month for Crossbill Record’s The Loom, a band that is no stranger to nyctaper.com. We were fortunate enough to catch them this weekend at Mercury Lounge while the band finishes up their recent tour, along with the band BOBBY, in support of the album Teeth which was released in November. The Loom also completed a Daytrotter session this past month and from what we saw during this Saturday night performance it was very clear that they are in peak form and as comfortable an ensemble as ever. In a superb 45-minute set, we heard much of the new album as well as two unreleased songs including an 8-minute, part a cappella epic, titled “Morning Song, Mountain Song” and the more gentle outro “Caretaker”.

For this recording, I mixed an excellent soundboard feed with a pair of Schoeps hyper-cardioid microphones from the audience. The sound engineers at Mercury Lounge always have it dialed in perfectly and this evening was no different. The resulting mix is a fantastic listen and I hope you enjoy!

Stream “Morning Song, Mountain Song”
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/L0505Loom1111/loom2011-12-03.morningsongmountainsong.mp3]

Direct download of MP3 files [HERE]

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

We’ll also be posting the set from BOBBY that was recorded on the same night, but are currently in the process of identifying the setlist. Please check back as we should have the recording up sometime this week!

The Loom
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY, US
2011-12-03

Recordist : hi and lo
Source : Soundboard + Schoeps Mk41 > E.A.A. PSP-2 > Sonic AD2k+ > Tascam DR-680 @ 24 bit / 48 kHz
Position : on-stand, roc by soundboard, DINa, 9′
Mastering : Wavelab 6 (Mixdown/EQ/Fades/resamping/dither) > Flac Level 8 with TLH v2.6.0 (Build 168)

Tracklist:

01. Song for the Winter Sun
02. The Middle Distance
03. For the Hooves That Gallop, and the Heels That March
04. Like Lamp Glow
05. The First Freeze
06. The Curtain Calls
07. Snowed In
08. Morning Song, Mountain Song
09. Caretaker

Running Time: 43:05

Please support The Loom by seeing them on their current tour and by visiting their MySpace. If you’ve enjoyed this recording, you may also purchase a copy of their new album directly from the band’s bandcamp page or from iTunes.

Avey Tare: December 2, 2011 Knitting Factory – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

December 4, 2011

By nyctaper

[photo courtesy of Melissa Neira]

Avey Tare (aka Dave Portner) has been a prime writer and performer for Animal Collective for more than a decade, and has participated in many other projects during that time. However, it wasn’t until late last year that the first proper Avey Tare solo album was released. Down There (Paw Tracks) is a very personal album, which related both in theme and sound a dark period in Avey’s life. At its release, he declared that these songs would not be performed live. But one year later, it was a bit of a surprise that an Avey Tare solo tour was announced. At Knitting Factory on Friday night, Avey performed an outstanding fifty-minute set. The show included four songs from Down There, and in the AnCo tradition, five new songs were featured. The set was played as a single suite, with each song naturally progressing into the next. Of the new songs “In Photographs” and “Slow Words” sound nearly complete and are very strong compositions. Its currently unclear whether these songs are contemplated for a new Avey Tare album or will be ultimately become Animal Collective songs. Of the Down There material, “Lucky 1” and “Laughing Hieroglyphic” were highlights, and we’re streaming the latter. At the conclusion of the set, Avey answered the encore chants by informing the crowd that although he had no more songs to play, he would return to NYC in the near future. Avey Tare’s current tour continues throughout this week and next with dates in the Midwest and three shows on the West coast.

I recorded this set with the DPA 4021s raised to eight feet on a pole in front of the soundboard booth and mixed with an excellent feed from the soundboard. Since the crowd was quite respectful during the music, the mix is about 70/30 in favor of the room mics and the quality is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Laughing Hieroglyphic”:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/A2020AnimalCollective8008/08.%20Laughing%20Hieroglyphic.mp3]

Direct download of complete show in MP3 files (HERE) or [HERE]

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE] or [HERE].

Avey Tare
2011-12-02
Knitting Factory
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + DPA 4021s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2011-12-03

Setlist:
[Total Time 49:50]
01 Song For Jerome
02 Lucky 1
03 [new song “Sometimes”]
04 In Photographs
05 Oliver Twist
06 Slow Words
07 3 Umbrellas
08 Laughing Hieroglyphic
09 Death Raga
10 [applause]

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Avey Tare, visit his Facebook page, and purchase Down There from Paw Tracks [HERE].

moe.: November 26, 2011 Terminal 5 – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

December 1, 2011

By nyctaper

[photo courtesy of Dana Lynne]

My favorite moment of this moe. concert sort of encapsulates the dedication of this long-running prog-jam band and the allure that they offer dedicated followers. In a well-planned act of tribute to their friend, at the very moment when “Rebubula” returns from near silence to a resounding jam, two of taper T.J.’s buddies shouted for all of the microphones to capture “TJ Samulis 100th show!”. For those who think tapers are humorous killjoys, I thought this was not only hilarious but also a great little “watermark” on the recording. Its that kind of personal touch that comes directly from the band — guitarist Al Schnier reads fan-created “announcements” before the encore segment of every show, and the band themselves have always mingled among the fans when possible. Indeed for the last twelve years, moe. has hosted their own Labor Day festival, moe.down, which has also expanded to include a winter “snoe.down”. On this particular night, the second in a two-show Terminal 5 Thanksgiving weekend run, the band brought out all the stops. There were classics, some serious jam vehicles, some rare songs, and a full two and half hours of music. We are streaming “Brent Black”, which is pretty much a microcosm of the show itself. The song is a moe. classic and this version spans twenty-three minutes, contains a dual drum segment, and a bass solo. Pretty good for a 100th show.

I recorded this set from the front of the soundboard booth, which was caged at the rear of the floor. I raised the pole up to about 12 feet, and ran both the Neumanns and the DPAs, but also included the Apogee “Mini-me” A/D unit in front of the Neumanns to enrich the hypercardioid sound. Other than a consistent din of audience chatter, the sound quality is quite excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “Brent Black”:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/M9710moe3030/09.%20Brent%20Black.mp3]

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

moe.
2011-11-26
Terminal 5
New York, NY

Four-Track Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front Center of Soundboard Cage

Neumann KM-150’s > Apogee Mini-Me + DPA 4021’s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced by
nyctaper
2011-11-28

Set I:
[Total Time 51:53]
01 Paper Dragon
02 Wind It Up
03 Captain America
04 Blue Eyed Son
05 Big World
06 Lazarus

Set II:
[Total Time 1:49:34]
07 Blue Jeans Pizza
08 Puebla
09 Brent Black
10 Not Coming Down
11 Wormwood
12 Rebubula
13 Where Does the Time Go
14 Rebubula [reprise]
15 [encore break]
16 [announcements]
17 Together At Christmas
18 She Sends Me

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT moe. and buy their official releases at their website. moe. Live Downloads can be purchased directly from a link at the moe. site [HERE].

Real Estate: November 23, 2011 Bowery Ballroom – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

November 30, 2011

By acidjack

[Photo courtesy of Brian Stollery]

Another of the bands we make no secret of our love for is Real Estate. Over the past three years that we have been following the band, we have watched the mature and develop sonically, culminating with their release of the new album Days on Domino Recording Company – their first for the tastemaking label. Days continues a run of good news for the band, who have continued to tour hard and earn accolades from critics and fans alike. This show at Bowery Ballroom was the culmination of a two-month tour of Europe and the U.S., and it couldn’t have made for a better sendoff into the Thanksgiving holiday the following day. The respectful, excited crowd cheered through the longest set of Real Estate’s that we have seen to date at 70 minutes, which covered almost every song on Days and their self-titled debut, plus their cover of Felt’s “Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow”, a favorite on this tour. In a market crowded with bands following others’ lead, Real Estate have distinguished themselves with a laid-back, unique sound that always surprises. They have almost singlehandedly come to define their hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey where three of the band members grew up together, and which has served up great music from the band’s fellow travelers and other unique talents like Julian Lynch and tour openers Big Troubles. We closed out this show thankful not only for this great show, but for the band’s continuing support and future prospects.

I recorded this set with a combination of a soundboard feed by Kenny, the house engineer at Bowery Ballroom, and Schoeps MK22 “open cardiod” microphones. The results are excellent. Enjoy!

Special thanks to Domino Recording Company and Real Estate for their hospitality and for their continued support of NYCTaper.

Stream the full set:

Direct download of MP3 files [HERE]

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

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Real Estate
2011-11-23
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY USA

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

Soundboard + Schoeps MK22 (A-B, balcony, slightly LOC)>KCY>littlebox >> Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audition (mix down, balance)>Audacity (set fades, tracking, amplify and balance, very light EQ, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 [intro]
02 Easy
03 Beach Comber
04 Green Aisles
05 Municipality
06 Younger Than Yesterday
07 [banter]
08 It’s Real
09 Out of Tune
10 Wonder Years
11 Suburban Dogs
12 Kinder Blumen
13 Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow [Felt]
14 Three Blocks
15 Fake Blues
16 All the Same
17 [encore break]
18 Suburban Beverage

If you enjoy this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Real Estate, visit their website, and purchase Days from the Domino Records website [HERE].

Bardo Pond: November 19, 2011 Death By Audio – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

November 29, 2011

By nyctaper

[iphone photo by acidjack]

Bardo Pond belongs to a select group of contemporary bands that are beyond categorization. Arguably their nearest contemporaries are Godspeed, but even that is an imperfect comparison. Bardo performs sweeping guitar based soundscapes, but within a song structure. At Death By Audio last weekend, the band performed a representative hour-long set to a modest but enthusiastic crowd. Along with 285 Kent, DBA has become a primary Brooklyn DIY venue with an upgraded sound system and excellent staff. The atmosphere was perfect for the Bardo show, as the relaxed approach and positive energy in the venue seemed to motivate the band. In fact, lead singer/flutist Isobel Sollenberger thanked the venue several times throughout the show. The highlight of the set was the finale, a thirteen minute version of “The Stars Behind”, which seems to encapsulate all that makes Bardo so compelling — melodic guitar intro, sweet vocals, and a slow-building powerful crescendo that crashes into an electronic outro. Its streaming below.

acidjack and I recorded this set by attaching a pair of DPA 4061 omnidirectional microphones to the low ceiling about ten feet in front of the stage, and mixed with a fine soundboard feed. The results are outstanding. Enjoy!

Stream “The Stars Behind”:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/B2011Bardo0210/10.%20The%20Stars%20Behind.mp3]

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

Bardo Pond
2011-11-19
Death By Audio
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + DPA 4061s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper and acidjack 2011-11-27

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:11:01]
01 [soundcheck jam]
02 Limerick
03 Just Once
04 Rumination
05 Tommy Gun Angel
06 Cracker Wrist
07 Isle
08 Fur
09 Don’t Know About You
10 The Stars Behind

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Bardo Pond, visit their website, and purchase Bardo Pond from Fire Records here or their earlier releases from their Merch store [HERE].

Jessica Lea Mayfield: November 17, 2011 Glasslands and April 1, 2011 Bowery Ballroom – FLAC and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs

November 28, 2011

By acidjack

[Photos from Glasslands by Dominick Mastrangelo]

Jessica Lea Mayfield sure is a heartbreaker. She has the affect of the pretty, reserved, stonerish girl in the back of the class – you always wondered what that girl was thinking. If that girl actually was Mayfield, well, that girl would have a hell of a lot deeper feelings than her air of ironic detachment might suggest. She’d be all-but-given-up on God (“Bible Days”), head-over-heels in love (“The One That I Love Best”), or maybe flat-out horny (“Grown Man”). And that voice of hers… well, it would hold your attention, if you weren’t already looking. More than a few gents at this Thursday night Glasslands show could be overheard discussing variations of “she’s hot!”

Lest you think the show was some kind of sausagefest, far from it – I’d say the majority of Mayfield’s fans at this show were women, and most of them seemed able to sing just about every word. This was the most packed I’ve seen Glasslands on a Thursday in ages, and it’s not hard to see why. Mayfield’s latest record, the Dan Auerbach-produced Tell Me, moves Mayfield beyond her neo-country confines and continues her tradition of strong songwriting – see for example “Run Myself Into the Ground”, which maintains a hint of twang but backs it with some solidly rock guitar work. That came courtesy of Nashville’s Richie Kirkpatrick, whose band Ri¢hie has also served as Mayfield’s rhythm section at several recent shows. This was my first introduction to Jessica live, and I was extremely pleased with both the show and the crowd. The only thing that could have made the night better would have been her performing her new cover of Nirvana’s “Lounge Act”!

Johnny Fried Chicken Boy had a similar experience with Mayfield this April Fool’s Day at Bowery Ballroom, where he recorded a somewhat different set before an equally pumped up audience. That show is also offered as a download here.

The Glasslands show was a fairly sophisticated recording for us, with a pair of DPA omnidirectional mics onstage, Schoeps “open cardiods” mounted an optimal distance from the stacks, and a soundboard feed running into two clock-synced decks run by myself and Johnny Fried Chicken Boy. It is an outstanding capture at the very top of the range for this site. John’s Bowery recording is an excellent four-microphone recording from our usual spot at Bowery that is also not to be missed. Enjoy!

Stream “Run Myself Into the Ground” from Glasslands:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/J1280JLM9002/10 Run Myself Into the Ground.mp3]

Stream “Kiss Me Again” from Bowery Ballroom:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/J1280JLM9002/jlm2011-04-01t03.mp3]

Stream “Seeing Stars” (solo) from Glasslands:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/J1280JLM9002/06 Seeing Stars.mp3]

MP3 Downloads: Glasslands 2011/11/17 [HERE] | Bowery 2011/4/1 [HERE]

Download the Complete shows in FLAC [Glasslands] / [Bowery]

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Jessica Lea Mayfield
2011-11-17
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

An acidjack master recording
Recorded by acidjack and Johnny Fried Chicken Boy for nyctaper.com
Produced by acidjack

Schoeps MK22 (DFC, POS)>CMC6>Sound Devices USBPre2 + Soundboard >> Edirol R-44 #1 + DPA 4061 (onstage, 2ft split)>Naiant PFA>Edirol R-44 #2 >>>6x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audition (mixdown, limit peaks, light EQ to MK22 source)>Audacity (set fades, tracking, amplify and balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 Blue Skies Again
02 We’ve Never Lied
03 Sometimes At Night
04 Kiss Me Again
05 Grown Man
06 Seeing Stars [solo]
07 Nervous Lonely Night [solo]
08 I’ll Be the One You Want Someday
09 For Today
10 Run Myself Into the Ground
11 Bible Days
12 Our Hearts Are Wrong
13 Trouble
14 Somewhere In Your Heart
15 [encore break]
16 The One That I Love Best

_______________________

2011-04-01
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY, USA

Source: AUD > AKG C 414 B-XLS’s + DPA 4021’s > Edirol R-44 (WAV @ 24-bit/48kHz)
Lineage: R-44 > USB > PC > Adobe Audition (mixdown, adjust levels, downsample, dither, tracking) > WAV (16-bit/44.1kHz) > Trader’s Little Helper (check/fix SBE’s, FLAC) > FLAC Level 8
Recorded and produced by: Johnny Fried Chicken Boy

Tracks:
01 Our Hearts Are Wrong
02 Run Myself Into The Ground
03 Kiss Me Again
04 I’ll Be The One That You Want Someday
05 [banter]
06 Sleepless [JLM solo]
07 Nervous Lonely Night [JLM solo]
08 Trouble
09 Bible Days
10 Sometimes At Night
11 We’ve Never Lied
12 Blue Skies Again
13 I Can’t Lie To You, Love
14 [banter]
15 For Today
16 [banter]
17 Somewhere In Your Heart
18 encore break / banter
19 Grown Man

If you enjoyed these recordings, PLEASE SUPPORT Jessica Lea Mayfield, visit her website, and purchase her latest record Tell Me and other merch from the store at her website [HERE].

Purling Hiss: November 18, 2011 Cameo Gallery – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Song

November 26, 2011

By nyctaper

[photo courtesy is Scott Troyan]

There is something completely natural and unassuming about Mike Polizze’s approach to music. He’s recorded under the name Purling Hiss for the last several years, but recently recruited a band to perform live. Purling Hiss is all about no-nonsense guitar-centered hard rock. Polizze is from the Philadelphia school of long-haired guitar, which includes Kurt Vile and Adam Granduciel of The War On Drugs. The common characteristic (besides the hair) is that each of these artists is a fairly mellow and unassuming person off-stage who immediately crank the volume and the energy when the amps are turned on. Last week at Cameo Gallery, we saw Purling Hiss for the first time since they opened for Vile at Bowery last June. This time, the band headlined and performed an outstanding forty-five minute set that never let up. Polizze’s guitar was front and center from the outset and each song provided an opportunity to stretch out and flex the axe. We’re streaming “Passenger Queen”, which switched to overdrive about halfway through the six minute song and provided one of the many Polizze peaks.

I recorded this set with the Neumann’s raised on a pole eight feet high directly in front of the soundboard and mixed with a soundboard feed. The sound quality is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Passenger Queen”:
[audio:https://www.nyctaper.com/P1160Purling1122/04.%20Passenger%20Queen.mp3]

Direct download of complete show in MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Purling Hiss
2011-11-18
Cameo Gallery
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, set fades, downsample) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2011-11-19

Setlist:
[Total Time 46:35]
01 Limerence
02 Lolita
03 Run From The City
04 Passenger Queen
05 The Hoodoo
06 Voices
07 [tech and tuning]
08 [untitled new song]
09 Don’t Even Try It
10 Been Teased
11 Almost Washed My Hair

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Purling Hiss, visit their Facebook page, and purchase Lounge Lizards from the Mexican Summer website [HERE], and their other releases from Woodsist Records [HERE].

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