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Livewire: Celebration @ The Patterson (2010.02.26)

Celebration Live

Photo: Valerie Paulsgrove
Words: David Carter

Celebration played a superb free show at The Patterson in February, courtesy of The Creative Alliance. I set out for this event early, or so I thought, until it became clear that the nearest parking space to this mobbed venue was a good mile away. So, I sadly missed their opening set, an acoustic percussion-centric jam in a densely crowded front gallery area. Happily, I did get the entirety of this electric set on the back stage. In keeping with Celebration’s insistence upon giving all of their music away for free lately, they have allowed us to hand this beauty over to you all in its entirety.

This is a fine representative Celebration set that rattles off many of the reasons why they draw such a massive local following (and create such miserable local traffic conditions). Cool, collected musical skill and raw intensity collide in a magical way, creating spiky contrasts that spin and swerve through the room. Their sound is defiant and stylized without ever coming off as stilted, never losing a grip on the groove factor. As usual, the visual cortex was not reglected, the stage dressed lavishly in white lace and murky colored light. Special thanks to photographer Valerie Paulsgrove for the image above, click through that picture for more of her fantastic stills from this session. These photos were originally featured on the excellent Bmore Musically Informed blog, another indispensible site tracking and nurturing the Baltimore music scene. Thanks for sharing!

Listen freely, and support Celebration back. They are subsidizing our (raging, problematic) music habits for miles around with these free shows, free tracks; unique goodness that we can’t ever get from anyone else.

Celebration
Live @ The Patterson
February 26, 2010
Baltimore MD, USA

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1. Pony (5:38)
2. Junky (5:30)
3. What’s This Magical (5:55)
4. Battles (6:18)
5. Honeysuckle Blue (6:01)
6. Great Pyramid (5:25)
7. Kilimanjaro (6:06)
8. I Will Not Fall (4:44)
9. Fly the Fly (4:18)
10. Heartbreak (7:39)
11. In This Land (5:25)

Total time: 1:03:05

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Entire set in mp3 format

Lineage:

AKG 414 mid/side pair -> Zoom h4n 48/24 -> Nuendo (stereo encoding, limiting) -> MP3

Recorded by:

David Carter (carteriffic@gmail.com)

Livewire: Matmos @ 5th Dimension (2010.03.26)

Photos & words: Greg Szeto

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MP3: Matmos – Complete Live Set

Matmos are a Puckish pair of experimental electronic troublemakers who played a fully quadrophonic set at this show, opening for UK trio Konk Pack and like-minded locals Leprechaun Catering. Fortunately, I think the set still translates very well after compression to 2 channels. They also swelled their ranks mid-set by recruiting a host of friends who layered real live instruments into their musique concrete offerings, including drums and most notably, local experimental catalyst John Berndt‘s saxophone. Matmos once again proved their deft compositional chops, and stand atop the hill as one of a select few experimental musicians who can get a crowd thinking as easily as they get them moving.

Total time: 44:07

Recorded by:

David Carter(carteriffic@gmail.com)

NoVo / Nouveau: Live Audio, Day 1 – Out Of Your Head (2010.03.02)

Photo credit: Heather Van De Mark

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  1. MP3: Intro
  2. MP3: Improv 1
  3. MP3: Improv 2
  4. MP3: Improv 3
  5. MP3: Improv 4
  6. MP3: Improv 5
  7. MP3: Improv 6

Download the entire set in FLAC.

Out Of Your Head – Set One

Personnel: Cam Collins-sax; John Dierker-bass clarinet; Brent Madsen-trumpet; Alan Munshower-drums

sax left – sennheiser 421
sax right – sennheiser 421
trumpet – sennheiser 441
kick – shure beta52
snare – shure sm57
overheads – shure sm81s
room – at4033

Recorded by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex ChampagneWindup Space
Mixed by Matthew Leffler-Schulman @ Mobtown Studios

NoVo / Nouveau: Live Audio, Day 5 – We Used To Be Family (2010.03.06)

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  1. MP3: We Used To Be Family – Rose
  2. MP3: We Used To Be Family – Choco Taco
  3. MP3: We Used To Be Family – This Shit Is Bananas
  4. MP3: We Used To Be Family – Jerkface Shipley
  5. MP3: We Used To Be Family – Who The Fuck Is Harold?
  6. MP3: We Used To Be Family – Smokestack

Download the entire set as FLAC.

We Used To Be Family

kick – shure beta 52
snare – shure sm57
overheads – shure sm81s
guitar amp left – shure sm57
guitar amp right – shure sm57
cello – di
violin – di
trumpet – at4033
tom – sennheiser 421
center stage – apex 460 tube (set to omni)
stage – mxl 990 (angled at 45 deg in towards the middle of the stage on top of pa)
mid room – oktava 012 (x/y)
back room – AT boundary

Recorded by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex ChampagneWindup Space
Mixed by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex Champagne @ Mobtown Studios

NoVo / Nouveau: Live Audio, Day 5 – Moscow Telephone (2010.03.06)

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  1. MP3: Intro
  2. MP3: Driven Revelry
  3. MP3: Lo-Fi
  4. MP3: Mia Farrow
  5. MP3: End Theory
  6. MP3: Entierre El Toro
  7. MP3: King Alcohol

Download the entire set in FLAC.

Moscow Telephone

kick – shure beta 52
snare – shure sm57
overheads – shure sm81s
vibes – at4033
guitar amp left – sennheiser 421
guitar amp right – sennheiser 421
bass – DI
center stage – apex 460 tube (set to omni)
stage – mxl 990 (angled at 45 deg in towards the middle of the stage on top of pa)
mid room – oktava 012 (x/y)
back room – AT boundary

Recorded by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex ChampagneWindup Space
Mixed by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex Champagne @ Mobtown Studios

NoVo / Nouveau: Live Audio, Day 5 – Holy Fingers (2010.03.06)

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  1. MP3: Sunbleached
  2. MP3: Untitled
  3. MP3: Desert Amps
  4. MP3: The Brazen Bull
  5. MP3: The Trees Bowed Deeply And Roared
  6. MP3: Watchtowers Burning
  7. MP3: The Bell Jar
  8. MP3: The Yearling

Holy Fingers

Download the entire set in FLAC.

kick – shure beta 52
snare – shure sm57
overheads – shure sm81s
guitar amp left – shure sm57
guitar amp right – shure sm57
tom – sennheiser 421
center stage – apex 460 tube (set to omni)
stage – mxl 990 (angled at 45 deg in towards the middle of the stage on top of pa)
mid room – oktava 012 (x/y)
back room – AT boundary

Recorded by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex ChampagneWindup Space
Mixed by Matthew Leffler-Schulman @ Mobtown Studios

NoVo / Nouveau: Live Audio, Day 5 – Dustin Wong (2010.03.06)

Photo credit: Mika Smith

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  1. MP3: Untitled 1
  2. MP3: Untitled 2
  3. MP3: Untitled 3
  4. MP3: Untitled 4
  5. MP3: Untitled 5
  6. MP3: Untitled 6
  7. MP3: Untitled 7
  8. MP3: Untitled 8

Dustin Wong

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guitar amp shure sm57
center stage – apex 460 tube (set to omni)
stage – mxl 990 (angled at 45 deg in towards the middle of the stage on top of pa)
mid room – oktava 012 (x/y)
back room – AT boundary

Recorded by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex ChampagneWindup Space
Mixed by Matthew Leffler-Schulman @ Mobtown Studios

NoVo / Nouveau: Live Audio, Day 4 – Jason Urick (2010.03.05)

Photo credit: Tedd Henn

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  1. MP3: Untitled

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Jason Urick

stereo DI’s of Jason’s laptop
stage – apex 460 tube (c12 modded clone-set to omni)
stage – mxl 990 (angled at 45 deg in towards the middle of the stage)
mid room: Oktava 012 (x/y)
back room: AT871R Boundary

Recorded by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex ChampagneWindup Space
Mixed by Matthew Leffler-Schulman @ Mobtown Studios

Tracked with Logic 9.1

NoVo / Nouveau: Live Audio, Day 4 – noteNdo (2010.03.05)

Photo credit: Tedd Henn

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  1. MP3: Untitled

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noteNdo

stereo DI’s
stage – apex 460 tube (c12 modded clone-set to omni)
stage – mxl 990 (angled at 45 deg in towards the middle of the stage)
mid room: Oktava 012 (x/y)
back room: AT871R Boundary

Recorded by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex ChampagneWindup Space
Mixed by Matthew Leffler-Schulman @ Mobtown Studios

Tracked with Logic 9.1

NoVo / Nouveau: Live Audio, Day 4 – Microkingdom (2010.03.05)

Photo credit: Tedd Henn

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  1. MP3: Untitled
  2. MP3: Untitled
  3. MP3: Untitled
  4. MP3: Untitled

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Microkingdom

rhodes amp – sennheiser 441
cello – sm57 in bridge
guitar – sennheiser 421
kick – beta 52
snare – sm57
overheads – sm81s
sax – sennheiser 421
scwelch – sm57
electronics – sm57
stage – apex 460 tube (c12 modded clone-set to omni)
stage – mxl 990 (angled at 45 deg in towards the middle of the stage)
mid room: Oktava 012 (x/y)
back room: AT871R Boundary

Recorded by Matthew Leffler-Schulman & Alex ChampagneWindup Space
Mixed by Matthew Leffler-Schulman @ Mobtown Studios

Tracked with Logic 9.1

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