[Live MP3s] Shearwater in Cambridge, MA 2006
Posted on February 6, 2007 at 3:28 pm | No Comments
This shared live show was a long time coming, thanks mostly to a backlog of other bands and those huge Touch & Go posts I recently finished up. But I’ve been on a severe Shearwater kick lately, and I owe it to time spent with this excellent set, which they performed while opening for Bottomless Pit and the Magnolia Electric Co. last September at the Middle East Downstairs here in Cambridge, MA. Touring on their fourth full-length, the gorgeously dynamic “Palo Santo”, the quartet used sparse upward spotlighting to add to the already eerie, evocative mood their songs created. Frontman/guitarist/banjo-twiddler Jonathan Meiburg (who also spends time in the excellent Okkervil River) has a voice that is at one moment forceful, the next fragile, but always mesmerizing. As beautiful as the recordings can sound, they don’t hold a candle to hearing the man sing in person. After their set, even with two great bands to follow, I’d felt that my night out could have ended there and still been worth it.
Shearwater returns to the Boston area on Saturday night, April 7th with Xiu Xiu and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone at TT the Bears. I wouldn’t procrastinate on tickets for this one, especially given it’s a weekend gig.
Until then, have a listen to their set from that September show…
Live at The Middle East Downstairs
in Cambridge, Massachusetts
on Friday, September 15th, 2006
01. Mountain Laurel
02. Red Sea, Black Sea
03. Whipping Boy
04. La Dame et la Lincorne
05. Seventy-four, Seventy-five
06. White Waves
07. Nobody
08. Hail, Mary
Some Shearwater links…
- Their official site, Misra Records page, and MySpace page.
- Mp3s: “Red Sea, Black Sea (demo)“, “White Waves“, and “Seventy-four, Seventy-five“.
- More Mp3s: Check out the Shearwater Sounds page at Jound for many more mp3s, including demos and tracks from their previous releases.
- YouTube: The video for “Mistakes“, off their 2002 “Everybody Makes Mistakes” album. Find some live clips through a Shearwater search.
- Hang with other Shearwater fans over at Jound’s Shearwater forum.
- Remember, you can easily listen to all the music shared on the Almanac through the Hype Machine.the ever-loving fine print… If anyone has an issue with this live set being made available, just say the word (contact info in the ‘nac faq). Recorded with a Sony ECM-719 mic and a Sony MZ-RH10 minidisc, converted to .wav and then edited to 192kbps mp3s. Tracks are made available for a limited time, and are not reposted once removed.
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