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Now there’s an aspect of the Tree that I never new … Richard Barbieri – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Passed on – with thanks to : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Really interesting interview with ‘the man from NIN’ – some great insights – good thoughts and sound advice. Trent Reznor Digg Dialogg from drawaside on Vimeo. Kettle Prime’s farewell concerts just keep going ! I saw the one currently promoted on their home page in September ’09. It is now available as a free download – and they are performing again soon on Maui at the same venue. 
Worth a trip to Diamond’s if you are on Island.
The boys are performing the music of ELP, King Crimson and The Nice – April 26th – The Regency Ballroom – San Francisco. Greg looks a little the worse for wear – but they say he still has the voice. 
 Picked up on Red Yellow Blue through Facebook – I know – the music is a light pop sound – nothing too complicated – but definitely good sounds. BUT the really interesting thing is their extension into full multimedia presentations as part of their show ….
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And on their Tumblr feed they have stuff like this : Passed on – with thanks to : Red Blue Yellow – definitely one to watch (if you’ll pardon the pun) A year ago (longer?) I caught a performance of Radiohead on a TV show called From the Basement. Its an amazing performance (in HD and all) but, alas, my Tivo died and I lost the recording. Well, a portion is available on their website From the Basement
From the Basement an incredible show if its available in your area of the world. And on the website you will find some great recordings from Beck, Andrew Bird, Seasick Steve, and a host of others From their web site: “The whole emphasis of the show is about being artist friendly and making our bands as comfortable as possible so that they can give great performances without the usual agony of TV promo which everyone has to do but no one seems to enjoy” I attended the recent Opeth show in NYC at Terminal 5. This was one of the stops in this limited tour to commemorate their twentieth anniversary – six exclusive shows across the globe. Tour stops included Stockholm; Essen, Germany; Paris; London; New York; and Los Angeles.
Opeth performed two sets and played for just short of three hours(!). It was a full frontal assault. For the first set, they performed Blackwater Park in its entirety. Not a word (during the entire set) was said by frontman Mikael Akerfeldt. They showed up shortly after 8 PM and simply played flawlessly. The tracks were 1. The Leper Affinity, 2. Bleak, 3. Harvest, 4. The Drapery Falls, 5. Dirge For November, 6. The Funeral Portrait, 7. Patterns In The Ivy, and 8. Blackwater Park . After a short break the band returned for the second set. And Akerfeldt became his typical talkative and funny self. They started with their first album and played a single track off each album. So, starting with Orchid they worked through to their recent masterpiece, Watershed. The track list included 1. Forest Of October (Orchid, 1995), 2. Advent (Morningrise, 1996), 3. April Ethereal (My Arms, Your Hearse, 1998), 4. The Moor (Still Life, 1999), 5. Wreath (Deliverance, 2002), 6. Hope Leaves (Damnation, 2002), 7. Harlequin Forest (Ghost Reveries, 2005), 8. The Lotus Eater (Watershed, 2008). Akerfeldt introduced each track with a comment on band members (who left, who joined), challenges in the studio, hooking up with Steven Wilson, writers block during Ghost Reveries, etc. Very entertaining. If you are familiar with their catalog, you will recognize these songs as some of their strongest metal songs. Its amazing just how good these guys have become in a live setting. PS, I’m not a fan of the club because 1) the acoustics can be very poor depending on where you are standing; 2) its a touch claustrophobic; and 3) there are much better choices in NY for a show. The club was sold out and when I arrived (an hour early); the queue was a city block long. It was great to see this type of turnout.
I have mentioned this very useful extension to iTunes before. Reposting now around two fronts. New friend, music aficionado and DJ Mat Dryhurst provided me with some sample music around the genres of metal, black metal, doom, modern composition, techno, electronic, dubstep – I mean I didn’t even know the genres – much less the bands. Anyway – took the samples, dropped them into iTunes and tried using Gracenote to identify the tracks …. FAIL. BUT – then I switch into TuneUp – and this track listing is identified.  Two were not identified – Mat – if you can help – I will manually enter them – and also would be interested if the rest have been correctly identified. However – to my mind a pretty amazing identifier – IF the cataloguing is right. More to come – post confirmation. The one I can confirm is right is ‘Farmer in The City’ by Scott Walker. Scott – being a personal favorite – I checked out, seemed an odd one in the middle of all this doom, metal and thrash. The track comes from an early 1990s album called Tilt. It could have been lifted from the Jacques Brel cover album he did 10 years before in terms of voice meets art meets meets dark. This one is even more depressing than the Brel covers – so now I get the inclusion. BobbyG – point of note – Mat knows Mikael Åkerfeldt. I am working through the music to see what’s what. So far – interesting. The live stuff. Yeah. I kid you not – and yours truly has a ticket .. Courtesy of my good friend Stephen (T) … He who spotted that they were playing a small gig in Foop – Camden Town – SW and 150 of his closest friends – well that is how I see it |
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