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Deluge Grander   09/06/2009

Storybook Farm, Chapel Hill, NC
Source Panasonic RQ-A170 tape recorder connected to an audio-technica Midnight Blues microphone and a Shure PG57 microphone fed into PC via an Onkyo TA-RW311 tape deck, recorded and spit into tracks with Cool Edit '96 and converted to FLAC with FLAC Frontend
Media FLAC
J-Card Comment ProgDay '09
Day 2, Band 1 - Deluge Grander (ANALOG)
Sep 6th, 2009 ~10:30am - 11:45am
Storybook Farm, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Dan Britton - keyboards
Dave Berggren - guitar
Patrick Gaffney - drums
Brian Falkowski - clarinet, flute, saxophone
Megan Wheatley - vocals

1. Welcome to day 2 (1:25)
2. introduction & Orion info (2:01)
3. A Squirrel (7:56)
4. The Tree Factory (14:18)
5. Battalion (6:27)
6. Inaugural Bash (cut off) (13:30)
7. Inaugural Bash (ending) (6:27)
8. Gratitude (10:54)
9. Aggrandizement (18:11)

Total Time: 84:36 (1 hr, 24 min, 36 sec)

Panasonic RQ-A170 tape recorder connected to an
audio-technica Midnight Blues microphone and a
Shure PG57 microphone fed into PC via an Onkyo
TA-RW311 tape deck, recorded and spit into tracks
with Cool Edit '96 and converted to FLAC with
FLAC Frontend.

Notes:

The digital recording of this set was listenable but
suffered from some distortion problems, especially
during the second half of the set. This cassette
"back up" recording doesn't have as good overall
sound quality as the digital recording, but it doesn't
suffer from the distortion and seems louder during the
quiet parts (making it easier to hear stage annoucements,
audience comments, etc).

The band kept growing all through the set. They started
as a trio (guitar, drums, keys) for the first song, then
added the sax player, and finally added a vocalist for the
last two songs.

The "tap tap tap" noise you can occasionally hear early in
the set was a guy near the recorder setting up his tent
(you're hearing him pound stakes into the ground).

The epic-length "Inaugural Bash" got cut off when side one
of the tape ran out, but I quickly flipped the tape and
got the remainder on side two.

About ProgDay:

ProgDay is an outdoor festival of progressive rock
that has been held annually since 1995. In 1996 it
was expanded from one day to two and has been hosting
anywhere from eight to eleven progressive rock bands
each year since. The event takes place at beautiful
Storybook farm, unless rain forces it indoors (which
has fortunately only happened twice in the festival's
history). It's a relaxed atmosphere, where you can
view from anywhere you want - right up against the stage
for the bands you like, or back in the vendor tent while
CD shopping during bands you're not wild about. The
people are friendly, and the band members often hang out
all weekend taking in the show and chatting with fans
when they're not on stage. If you're a prog rock fan
and can possibly attend, it's well worth the effort.
The festival just barely breaks even (or sometimes
doesn't), so every ticket sold really helps. Go if
you can.

About Deluge Grander:

This band's music is hard to pin down. They were introduced
as this year's avant-prog band, but I'd say their sound
overall is more symphonic prog. They definitely like
epic-length compositions. When the vocalist joined them,
the music changed directions completely into a more
introspective, vocal-oriented sort of thing, but they
switched back to the prog-epic style for the last song.
The two studio albums that I bought at ProgDay (August in
the Urals and The Form of the Good) and this live performance
all continue to grow on me with each listen.


FLAC Fingerprints generated by Trader's Little Helper:

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Ratings Sound: A
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