Cat Power
2013-07-03
Gro�e Freiheit 39
Hamburg

Aud > Church CA 14 > Sony RH 1 > Hi-MD (PCM mode) > Sonic Stage > wav > Audacity1.3 (level adjustments, trackmarking, some limiter for close applause) > TLH > flac 8

recorded 10 meters from stage, center

TRT: 85:47 min

01 The Greatest
02 Cherokee
03 Silent Machine
04 Manhattan
05 Human Being
06 King Rides By
07 Bully
08 Angelitos Negros *
09 Always On My Own
10 Nothin' But Time
11 I Don't Blame You
12 Metal Heart
13 Shivers **
14 Peace And Love
15 Ruin



* Pedro Infante cover
** Rowland S. Howard cover


The show left me with ambiguous feelings. When you listen to Chan Marshal she seems so confident and powerful - watching her I had the impression that I rarely watched an artist who seemed to wish to be anywhere but on that stage - restless, with awkward movements, nervously fumbling her shirt with her unokupied left hand, mumbling her rare comments hardly intelligable - not that she didn't want to deliver the show, but she seemed pained in doing so making it painful to watch, at least at the beginning.
Whatever, a good show, though the sound didn't please me, the vocals sometimes buried under the 2 drumsets - but the same comment has been made regarding other shows of this tour, so that seems to be on purpose, not fault of the venue.

The recording sounds fine, not as bright as Kims recording from Bruxelles, little audience chatter (the venue was nicely filled but not sold out), I had exceeding limits on the right channel in a couple of places, when it was caused not by the drums but by Chans voice I replaced the right by the left channel for .1 - .6 sec a couple of times.

Chan Marshall - vocals,guitar
Greg Foreman - guitar, keyboards, harmonica)
Adeline Fargier (guitar)
Nico Turner (bass, percussion)
Alianna Kalaba (drums)