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Afterdawn is usually a hard rock band from NYC, though this evening the band was pared down to an acoustic trio.

Afterdawn
Fletcher’s
Baltimore, MD
September 20, 2008

Source: Peluso CEMC6/ck4(card)>PS-2>AD-20>NJB3
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Taper: Jeff Mewbourn (jm292@yahoo.com)

1. Not Over Yet
2. Alchemy Runner (video)
3. Fates of Mourning
4. Amnesia
5. What the Thunder Said

Notes:
Lineup:Afterdawn>The Turning Point>DMFS
Baltimore Music Conference
*Bass guitar is too loud in the mix
Sound: James Briner
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Arrington de Dionyso is a member of Old Time Relijun, from Portland, OR. Touring as a solo act (with The Evolutionary Jass Band, look for their recording here in a few days), Arrington plays an assortment of instruments, including the bass clarinet and shruti box. He also plays homemade instruments, including among them is aluminum foil (either wrapped around his sax, at his feet, wrapped around a hand-held horn or stretched across his face). There’s really no talking in the set, though there are chants and Arrington does incorporate his mouthly talents with the foil and a snare drum.

The show was sparsely attended (it was a Monday night after all), though I doubt any of those who attended left disappointed (although I thought his set was a bit short for a headliner). Arrington had already played Baltimore’s High Zero Festival (Baltimore City Paper’s Best of Baltimore-Best Festival 2008) earlier that weekend, which might explain the lower turnout for a true innovative performance. No matter, I really enjoyed the set and look forward to catching Arrington again, either solo or with the full band.

Note about the recording: the audio recording is pretty good, though the set was performed on the floor in front of the stage without the PA, so some parts are alot quieter than others. In addition, the noise from the house air conditioner is very evident in the far background. In addition, the rustling sound heard pretty much throughout is the result of the aluminum foil.

Arrington de Dionyso
The Talking Head
Baltimore, MD
September 22, 2008

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Taper: Jeff Mewbourn (jm292@yahoo.com)

1. Bass Clarinet Improv (video)
2. Shruti Box Improv (video)
3. Aluminum Foil Bass Clarinet Improv (video)
4. Vocal Drum Improv (video)
5. Vocal Foil Drum Improv
6. Aluminum Horn Improv (video)

Notes:
Lineup:Nathan Bell Band>Evolutionary Jass Band>Arrington de Dionyso
*Steady buzz in background is air conditioner (>30 feet left & up)
*Show was acoustic, levels kept low
*Aluminum foil vibration mostly throughout
*Tracking is arbitrary/titles are taper’s creation
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Baltimore City Paper: Best Of Baltimore 2008 > Arts and Entertainment Winners
Best Music Promoter
Tax Lo

A Tax Lo party might not be your bag. We understand; something about a room full of sweaty, tragic hipsters–take that as a rough average and by no means an absolute–sometimes makes it a hard sell. So, how grand is it that party after party, the Tax Lo promoters, really just two dudes (Cullen Stalin and Simon Phoenix) with good taste in music doing it DIYstyle, bring in talent to sell it and then some. How ’bout flying in Glass Candy from Oregon for a two-night Baltimore/Philly run? Convincing MIA to play Baltimore on a midtour day off for one of her cheapest shows on said tour? Chromeo, Diplo, Switch, Blaq Starr (how many times?), Dan Deacon, the Juan MacLean, and it keeps going on from there. Unless they get muscled out of town by someone with bottomless pockets and years to build a new brand, it looks like Tax Lo will keep going and getting stronger.
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9/17/2008
Baltimore City Paper: Best Of Baltimore 2008 > Arts and Entertainment Winners
Best Community Arts Center
2640 Space

2640 St. Paul St.

This co-operative joint venture between the good people at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse and St. John’s United Methodist Church has quickly become an indispensable setting for all stripes of local arts events: craft meets, DIY conferences and workshops, experimental theater, film screenings, book talks, experimental music performance, and whatever else doesn’t fit into the normal box of crayons. Throw in its rock-solid jazz brunches, the down-to-earth demeanors of the people helping to run it, and the fact that, although not required, many of these events are socially conscious, politically aware, and light-years removed from the usual commercial gruel offered by prepackaged art, and you’ve got one of the more righteous DIY hives in town.
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I’m pretty sure this wasn’t a Taxlo event, though it was a Cullen Stalin promotion that brought Michael Muhammad Knight to the 2640 Space last year. Knight wrote a novel titled “The Taqwacores”, a fictitious tale of a Muslim punk rock scene. On this evening in August, Knight brought proof that the Muslim punk rock scene was no longer fictitious.

Al-Thawra-Box Cutter Surprise-The Kominas
2640 Space
Baltimore, MD
August 23, 2007

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Taper: Jeff Mewbourn (jm292@yahoo.com)

Al-Thawra:
1. Disorientation
2. Al Naura Al-Hamra
3. Wahdi

Box Cutter Surprise:
1. Hey, It’s Just Fertilizer
2. Green Bus
3. Storm The Cabin
4. ?
5. Wal-queda Superstore

The Kominas:
1. Ayesha
2. Sharia Law in the USA
3. Dishoom Baby
4. Suicide Bomb the Gap
5. Par Desi
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?

Notes:
Lineup:Box Cutter Surprise>Al-Thawra>The Kominas>Omar Wagar>Vote Hezbollah
Taqwacores Tour
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Beans
The Wind Up Space
Baltimore, MD
September 19, 2008

Band:
Sine Jensen-guitar, vocals
Lauren Woody-clarinet
Clayton Conn-violin

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Taper: Jeff Mewbourn (jm292@yahoo.com)

1. Tower of Light
2. Oh Brother!
3. I Am Machine
4. Boneless and Branching
5. Golden Thread
6. Happy Birthday
7. The Pickle I Got Stuck In

Notes:
Lineup:Beans>Impossible Hair>Yeveto>Baby Aspirin
Audience is very chatty
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9/17/2008
Baltimore City Paper: Best Of Baltimore > Arts and Entertainment Winners
Best Art Gallery
Maryland Art Place

8 Market Place, Suite 100, (410) 962-8565

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Yes, we’re technically cheating here, since MAP is a nonprofit art center and not a gallery proper in the sense of cultivating relationships with a stable of both clients and artists. But in a city with so few traditional art galleries, we try to spread the love around. Its efforts in both exhibitions and arts-related events and programming–from its annual critics residency and curators’ incubators programs to steady lineup of gallery talks–and continued interests in regional artists at different stages of their careers make MAP a key space in the local arts mix, even though its groups shows are often hit and miss.
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Personally, I think the Metro Gallery would have been a more appropriate winner for this category, or even Load of Fun…both of which are, technically-speaking, art galleries (and both have put on concerts that I’ve really enjoyed as well).

I’ve only been to the Maryland Art Place one time, on August 10, 2007 for The Ed Schrader Show. Ecstatic Sunshine (when the band was still a duo) played a very short set.

Ecstatic Sunshine
Maryland Art Place
Baltimore, MD
August 10, 2007

Band:
Dustin Wong-guitar
Matt Papich-guitar

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Taper: Jeff Mewbourn (jm292@yahoo.com)

1. Tropical #2
2. Perrier
3. Felt Flag

Notes:
Lineup: The Ed Schrader Show (Episode 5)
Band appears immediately after Ed Schrader Show
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9/17/2008
Baltimore City Paper: Best Of Baltimore
Best Place to Fake Rich
13th Floor

http://www.citypaper.com/bob/story.asp?id=16607

1 E. Chase St., (410) 347-0888

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Bars at fancy hotels have long been one of the best places to fake it. Something about the unfamiliarity, drinking next to folks who can drop the equivalent of your rent on a suite, the well-polished, overly welcoming service. So strange it is that maybe the most “hotel bar” feeling of Baltimore’s drinking dens isn’t that at all. At the 13th Floor you get the brass facade of the Belvedere’s front entrance, a marble-floored lobby, a long (trembling, jerking) ride up in a wood-paneled elevator, button-down classy service, and, of course, one of the best views of the city you can get with a Manhattan anywhere. And, best of all, you’re getting it all at apartment-building prices.
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This past Wednesday night, psychedelic prog rockers Bad Liquor Pond (of MT6 Records) opened the 2008 Baltimore Music Conference with, arguably, the best set I’ve seen yet from them. For whatever reason, Baltimore has yet to get hip to these guys and the show had a poor turnout (though it was a Wednesday). Metrophish opened and Stushido closed.

Download show at The Live Music Archive

“Autopilot” by Bad Liquor Pond, The 13th Floor, Sept 17, 2008:

“Panther’s Den” by Bad Liquor Pond, The 13th Floor, February 1, 2008:

BALTIMORE CITY PAPER | 9/17/2008
Arts and Entertainment Winners
Best New Band
Crazy Dreams Band

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Uli Loskot

Dunno who saw this coming: Lexie Mountain going gut-soul diva–sounding kinda like Patti Smith with her hand planted on her hip–with a sorta funky, partially improvised rock band at her side. Seeing the project debut after a demure solo folk performance by Tom Greenwood at a nearly empty Talking Head early last spring was one of the bigger what the fuck? moments in Baltimore indie music this year. Rehearsed, considered, and more musical substance than spectacle, it just rocked. Yet, it’s still as free-form and absurdist as we could hope to expect from a woman who’s been slowly forming herself into a matriarch of Baltimore noise.

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Nearly empty….though Best of Baltimore’s Best Excuse to Stay Home was there. It was definitely a great set with “Nightcrawler” being my favorite jam. Check it out for yourself:

The Crazy Dreams Band
The Talking Head
Baltimore, MD
April 17, 2008

Band:
Lexie Mountain-vocals
Jake Freeman-bass, guitar
Nate Nelson-drums
Nick Becker-moog synthesizer, guitar
Chiara Giovando-keyboards, percussion, vocals

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Taper: Jeff Mewbourn (jm292@yahoo.com)

1. Intro
2. Untitled (Feels So Good)*
3. Untitled (Nightcrawler)*
4. Untitled

Notes:
Lineup:Joanne Robertson/Tom Greenwood>Crazy Dreams Band
*(taper’s title)
Recording has spots of distortion throughout
The sound at the show was below average
Tracking is arbitrary (probably more than three songs)
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Sadly, on Monday, September 15, keyboardist/pianist Rick Wright of Pink Floyd passed away. I wish I had a Pink Floyd live recording to share with you, but seeing as how I only tape (and post) shows from bands that allow taping, that’s not possible. I’m sure the resourceful among you can find live Pink Floyd recordings (there are many bootlegs, many that are amazing historical artifacts of one of the greatest rock bands in history).

In the absence of posting a Pink Floyd recording, I’ve decided to reach back to the beginning days of my taping for this fantastic show by The Machine, arguably, the best of the many Pink Floyd tribute/cover bands. Unfortunately, this show is missing the two songs that Rick is most commonly associated with: Astronomy Domine and The Great Gig In The Sky.

The Machine
The Funkbox
Baltimore, MD
November 13, 2004

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CD1:

1. Shine On
2. Welcome to the Machine
3. Mother
4. Breathe>
5. Time>
6. Breathe Reprise
7. Free Four
8. Another Brick in the Wall, parts 1-3
9. Goodbye Cruel World
10. Coming Back to Life
11. One of These Days

CD2:

1.
2. Pigs On The Wing, part 1
3. Dogs
4. Hey You
5. Echoes
6. One Of My Turns>
7. Young Lust>
8. Jam
9. Wish You Were Here
10.
11. E: Comfortably Numb

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“Remember A Day” (from “A Saucerful of Secrets” by Pink Floyd, written by Rick Wright)

Remember a day before today
A day when you were young.
Free to play alone with time
Evening never came.
Sing a song that can’t be sung
Without the morning’s kiss
Queen - you shall be it if you wish
Look for your king
Why can’t we play today
Why can’t we stay that way
Climb your favorite apple tree
Try to catch the sun
Hide from your little brother’s gun
Dream yourself away
Why can’t we reach the sun
Why can’t we blow the years away
Blow away
Blow away
Remember
Remember

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