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Andrew's Collection

Isis   05/27/2007

The Bar Fly, Birmingham, UK
Source Sony ECM-719 Microphone -> Sony MZ-NH1 Hi-MD (in Hi-SP Mode) -> SonicStage -> WAV -> Audacity (Fades + Amplify) -> Wave Repair (Track splitting) -> Trader's Little Helper (FLAC conversion etc)
Media Flac   1 disc
Tech Notes "Details:

Recorded stage left approx 15' from speaker stack. Nice clear recording, the only set that really suffers is the Oxbow Duo which
needed a lot of boosting but came out ok nonetheless.



From Capsule Website:

Isis create their own universe and rules, they are compromisingly heavy, slow and brutal, but apply a deftness of touch that so
many other bands using the quiet/loud dynamic miss completely. They are hard to categories, but all the more interesting for it,
using vocals sparingly they approach the idea of a voice as another instrument in their cannon, they want to bludgeon you but they
also want you to see the inherent beauty in all that is ugly and while you imagine that a band playing ten minute slow burning
epics would be boring to watch they are hypnotising and entrancing and above all exciting.


KTL
Stephen O'Malley (Sunn 0)))/Khanate) and Peter Rehberg (PITA) are two of the most celebrated artists in the world of extreme music.
A collaboration taking in parallel worlds of Extreme Computer Music and Black Metal. A collision of the light and the dark. The
collab came about as the two were working on a theatre production by Gisele Vienne and Dennis Cooper, entitled Kindertotenlieder.

Oxbow Duo - Eugene Robinson and Niko Wenner, the singer/lyricist and songwriter/architect of Oxbow's mean mania, make the making
of Oxbow music a thing of rarefied beauty using little more than the rudiments of guitar and voice for the non-electrical rendering
of a terror no less absolute because of a lack of volume.

Exorcising demons, gang fights and classical guitars. From Milan to London to Berlin, The Robinson-Wenner Acoustic Duo, sits astride
the low-fi fence like an ogre of less than obvious intent with its renditions of Oxbow's musical back catalog, as well as music
created specially for these rare events. A must see, hear, now.


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I haven't played with the sound on these recordings but if anyone with the inclination and better software than myself wants to please feel free,
as long as you can up the results on dime. If anyone can assist with setlists it would be very much appreciated. Finally a very big thank you
to the Capsule ladies for making all this happen. If you're not familiar, they are responsible for staging some of the best shows in Birmingham and
without their efforts the city would be a cultural wasteland. Hope you don't mind me sharing these recordings.

Enjoy"
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A    Sound: A-
Owned by Andrew · Last Updated May 23, 2023