John McLaughlin & the Translators
John McLaughlin: acoustic guitar
Katia Labeque: Synclavier II (keyboard)
Francois Couturier: keyboards
Jean Paul Celea: electric bass
Tommy Campbell: drums
(opening act the LaBeque Sisters is also included here, 1st 5 tracks)
Berklee Performance Center
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
April 16, 1982
LaBeque Sisters (Katia and Marielle) runtime: 42:03, 5 tracks
Translators runtime: 101:59, 9 tracks
setlist:

disc 1 73:32
LaBeque Sisters (piano duets)
1: 16:58
2: 3:58
3: 4:07
4: 2:57
5: 14:01
Translators
1: Belo Horizonte 7:45
2: David 15:45
3: La Baleine 7:58

disc 2 70:30
4: stardust on your sleeve 13:30
5: blues for L.W. (Lech Wolensa) 11:09
6: band introductions 1:15
7: Aspan 17:21
8: one melody 24:34
9: Loro 2:40
note: this break point is if you want to put the 5
LaBeque Sisters tracks before the 1st 3 of Translators.
This way, both CD's will fit on 74 minute discs.
lineage:
Sony 310 cassettte deck with auto levelling built in mikes >
Maxell XLII 90 min. cassettes >
played on Nak. 125 into soundforge (WAV) >
FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
mastered, remastered and posted by glasnostrd19 in April 2009.
comments:
tape flips after stardust on your sleeve
and during drum solo in "one melody".
I was going to try and slip by with the CD extraction
for this one- but NOT with a gappy, skippy CD!!!
Skippy peanut butter is good. Not skippy CD's.
when I found that out, CD > trash, and I did a
new transfer.
2 of the most dreaded words in uploading. But in
this case, worth it, since this is from my own master
and glitchy, gappy or otherwise unnecessarily crummy
sounding glasnostrd19 masters DO NOT get posted.
this does not sound glitchy or gappy or anything else
undesirable, I thought it came out well and now
it sounds like it came out well. the concert was
very nice and fresh, early in the tour (also the 1st
82 McLaughlin show date listed in etree.)
I don't know anything about the titles of the duet tracks
except they play some of Scott Joplin's Piano Rag. I
mainly included this set with the Translators because Katia
plays in both, it was the opening act set, and the
Translators show by itself needs 2 CD's anyway so why not
have it all? The opening set was good, but in very stark
contrast to what followed it, as is any act that opens for (or follows)
a band with John McLaughlin in it. (as Weather Report discovered
in 1976) I've put this in 3 folders for (hopefully) convenience,
to any preference of laying this out.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.