Al Di Meola & the Electric Band
2025-03-30 -
Ridgefield Playhouse,
80 East Ridge Road,
Ridgefield CT
"Land Of the Midnight Sun Tour"
Neumann km140 > Zoom h5 2496
recorded by fzmoi69
Set 1-
01. intro
02. One Night Last June
03. Beyond the Seventh Galaxy
04. Land Of the Midnight Sun
05. band intros
06. Ava's Dance In the Moonlight
07. The Wizard
08. Midnight Tango
Set 2-
09. intro
10. unknown tune #
11. Short Tales Of the Black Forest
12. The Romantic Warrior **
13. Drum Solo
14. Theme Of the Mothership >
15. Egyptian Danza
16. Señor Mouse
17.E: Flight Over Rio
**w/ "the girl from ipanema" tease after tune
Al Di Meola (Albert Laurence Di Meola) - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, synth, soprano guitar, handbells, slide whistle
Philippe Saisse (Philippe Paul Saisse) - keys
Elias Tona - bass
Tommy Brechtlein (aka 'Tom Brechtlein') - drums, percussion
Gumbi Ortiz (aka 'Gumbie Ortiz') - congas, percussion
#=w/ Amit Kavthekar - tabla
Doctorzappa Notes:
--listening now and somehow some way the order is reversed. sorry bout that.....
--so proper running order is starting with track014 to track 001
vg NOTES (2025-05-02):
--Thanks so much to fzmoi69 for recording & sharing this Al Di Meola 2025 show & to Doctorzappa for his mastering work on it & sharing it out to the world at large. Absolutely Appreciated!!
--in accordance with the Doctorzappa Notes above, I properly fixed the tracks so that they play in the correct order now & also fixed any carry over of little bits at beginning or end of those tracks so everything is in its right place now for your earholes
--retracked this a bit so everything starts right at the music & not speeches, etc.
--removed the dc offset
--applied fades at start & end of sets & show & between end of Set 2 & encore
--https://www.facebook.com/AlDiMeolaMusic/videos/2668946450160671
--https://www.facebook.com/AlDiMeolaMusic/videos/1635405213845455
--https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1204302067718590&set=a.260023442146462
--I added the band members info
--created a setlist...could not discover the name of t10 ("unknown tune") that he plays with Amit Kavthekar...if anyone out there knows the name of this tune, won't you please chime in & let us all know?? It's probably off of the album "Twentyfour" (2024)
--added more detail to the venue info
--this venue opened in 1938
--https://ridgefieldplayhouse.org/
--https://www.facebook.com/ridgefieldplayhouse
--created an md5 checksum file & also created a new ffp checksum file because of making new trax in the proper order for this, etc.
--added the ffp fingerprints & the md5 checksums to the text file
--added pics of the gig & the tour poster
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