The Grandmothers of Invention - 2013-04-25 - Sankt Ingbert Jazz Festival exc aud

27. International Jazz Festival St. Ingbert Germany

Yeah. This is my first recording so I was a bit nervous. Luckily the Stadthalle has great acoustics and the audience (seated) was very disciplined (you can here Nappy make some jokes about this), so I'm very happy with it. My only mistake: I was afraid of distortion when they started with some loud pieces, so I decreased the input level in the midst of "apostrophe" and again in "debra cadabra". It should be fixed now - can anyone find it?

Anyway, a pretty cool show with some obvious choices and some surprises: Not a single note from "Uncle Meat" - which is the Don Preston signature album to me. But the lengthy "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" feature was a more than worthy substitute. I also liked the idea of focussing on a few albums instead of the 'one song per album'-strategy. Especially as these albums were "we're only in it for the money", "burnt weeny sandwich", "one size fits all", "bongo fury" and "roxy & elsewhere".

some additional facts:

- My 'songs I want to see live' list shrunk a lot this evening.
- It is still very long (excentrifugal forz please! even by Justin Bieber)
- I missed Tom Fowler and Miroslv Tadic (both announced) but of course the replacement guys made a great job.
- A good choice for a cd split would be after Track 17
- The Opening act, "Krassport" played a version of Gustav Holst's "The Planets", arranged for trio (p,g,dr). I recorded only one piece (soundcheck for my new zoom h1) which I will probably post later.
- The SR (Saarlaendischer Rundfunk) radio station recorded it as well and there might be a tiny chance for me to get a copy.

http://www.experience-jazz.de/

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Source: AUD

Size: 679.35 mb
Duration: 1:59:42

Lineage: Zoom H1 (wav 44/16) -> PC -> mastering (wavelab) -> flac

Mastering:
- repair of one ghastly pop, still not fully eliminated, but much better: "Apostrophe", 00:32
- level adjustment: reverting the level changes mentioned above
- overall volume increase by 4db with a limiter (doesn't affect the music, only some applause peaks)
- tracking

Recorded and mastered by Endoplasmat
(aka wannerl)
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01. [introduction by thomas debrand] (2:08) some seconds missing, sorry
02. preamble (0:27)
03. apostrophe' (5:54)
04. carolina hardcore ecstasy (5:55)
05. can't afford no shoes (5:02)
06. debra cadabra (4:02)
07. i'm the slime (6:48)
08. preamble (0:46)
09. peaches en regalia (4:29)
10. let's make the water turn black (1:57)
11. harry you're a beast (0:56)
12. florentine pogen (5:57)
13. [banter] (2:28)
14. penguin in bondage (6:33)
15. village on the sun (3:08)
16. echidna's arf (of you) (3:27)
17. don't you ever wash that thing? (9:15)
18. preamble (1:28)
19. sofa no. 2 (5:13)
20. holiday in berlin, full-blown (9:25)
21. aybe sea (1:27)
22. the little house i used to live in
(incl. blues interlude, loosely based on "what kind of girls...")(9:47)
23. [band introduction by thomas debrand] (1:40) = 1st encore break
24. drum solo (3:20)
25. t'mershi duween (2:14)
26. piano improvisation (1:06) = 2nd encore break
27. the idiot bastard son (7:40) is this version the greatest song ever recorded? gets close
28. san ber'dino (6:54)
29. [outro by thomas debrand] (0:16)


Napoleon Murphy Brock: voc, sax, flute
Don Preston: keys, voc, exploding smartphone (listen to the synth solo in "Holiday in Berlin" - played on a smartphone app via touchscreen)
Michael Miller: git
Dave Johnson: bass
Christopher Garcia: drums, voc

Feel free to remaster, don't sell. And: Have Fun.