[photo courtesy of Self-Titled Magazine – more here]

Its been almost a year since we last saw Fiery Furnaces live, at East River Park last July. In that time, the band has produced a new CD I’m Going Away, due to be released on July 1. At Le Poisson Rouge last night, the Furnaces performed “in the round”, or the center stage at LPR that permits the crowd to surround the performance area while the band can project in any direction — a set-up appropriate for this band.

The band consisted of the core touring band for the Furnaces, with Bob D’Amico on drums and Jason Loewenstein on bass, with Eleanor limited to vocals and Matt exclusively on guitar. It was strange to see the Furnaces without any keyboards on stage whatsoever (it was just 14 months ago at Southpaw when they were a two keyboard band!). As a guitar band, the quartet offered a straightforward rock version of the new I’m Going Away in its entirety, along with stripped down versions of nine other classics.

We recorded this set as a digital XLR plug-in to the state of the art multitrack digital soundboard at Le Poisson Rouge. We captured with the R-44 and the sound quality is superb, if a bit heavy on the vocals. Enjoy!

Exclusive: The next Fiery Furnaces concert in NYC will be the Williamsburg Waterfront Concerts on August 9.

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Fiery Furnaces
2009-06-11
Le Poisson Rouge
New York, NY USA

Multitrack Digital Stereo Soundboard
Master Recording

Multitrack Digital Soundboard > XLR Monster Cables > Edirol R-44 > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, set fades, downsample) > CD Wave (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2009-06-12

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:28:48]
01 Here Comes the Summer
02 Leaky Tunnel
03 Chris Michaels
04 I’m Going Away
05 The End Is Near
06 Charmaine Champagne
07 Cut the Cake
08 Ray Bouvier
09 Staring at the Steeple
10 Even in the Rain
11 Keep Me in the Dark
12 Lost at Sea
13 Cups and Punches (Charmaine Champagne – alternate version)
14 Take Me Round Again
15 Drive To Dallas
16 Duplexes of the Dead
17 Automatic Husband
18 Ex-Guru
19 Worry Worry
20 Wolf Notes
21 [encore break]
22 Single Again

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The Decemberists concert at Radio City Music Hall tonight ended just a couple of hours ago. For the first encore, in a really nice surprise Colin Meloy brought Peter Buck on stage and the band performed a near-perfect rendition of the REM classic “Begin The Begin”, the opening track on 1986’s Lifes Rich Pageant.

Download a flac or mp3 recording of this first time cover:
Decemberists (with Peter Buck) Begin The Begin – FLAC
Decemberists (with Peter Buck) Begin The Begin – MP3

We recorded the entire concert tonight, and it will appear on nyctaper within a couple of days.

[photo by ceptorceptor]

Love Is All make up for their mistakes — however unintentional — with class and humor. Last night, near the end of their set, Love Is All welcomed Hamish Kilgore from the legendary New Zealand band The Clean for a rollicking version of “Wishing Well”, the Love Is All song that bears an uncomfortably striking melodic resemblance to The Clean’s 1981 song “Tally Ho”. The balance of the set, which also featured the Gary Olson (from Ladybug Transistor) on trumpet on several tracks, was an energetic run through highlights of the first two Love Is All albums, but also featured four new numbers.

We recorded with the four-mic mix from the balcony rail, about 20 feet from the stacks. While the spot was off-center, the closeness to the PA and the spread of the mics avoids any feeling of unbalance, and as a result this is a really excellent listen. Enjoy!

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Love Is All
2009-06-05
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NY USA

Four-Track Digital Master Recording
Recorded from First Row Balcony Rail

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
2009-06-06

Setlist:
[Total Time 53:14]
01 Early Warnings
02 Give It Back
03 Ageing Had Never Been His Friend
04 Talk Talk Talk Talk (w/ Gary Olson)
05 Last Choice
06 Sea Sick
07 Jessica
08 King
09 Wishing Well (w/ Hamish Kilgour)
10 Busy Doing Nothing
11 Dust
12 Make Out Fall Out Make Up (w/Gary Olson)
13 [encore break]
14 New Beginnings
15 Spinning and Scratching
16 [second encore break]
17 Used Goods

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