ProgDay 2023, Sept 2nd - 3rd, 2023
Storybook Farm
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Disc 1: Saturday
1. Welcome to ProgDay (0:21)

Perfect
2. From Creation to Implosion (7:57)
3. Lifemen (or Lyfemenn) (2:57)
4. Crescent (6:58)

Moon Letters
5. On the Shoreline (4:13)
6. Sudden Sun (4:25)
7. Beware the Finman (7:55)

You Bred Raptors?
8. Bayonette (4:22)
9. Conclave (7:16)
10. Knight Rider theme (1:28)
11. Waltz (Shostakovic Waltz #2) (4:26)

tu-NER
12. soundcheck improv (12:43)
13. The Construction of Light (5:58)
14. Firepower (coda) (6:27)

Total Time CD 1: 77:26 (1 hr, 17 min, 26 sec)

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Disc 2 - Sunday

A Light Sleeper
1. Chrysanthemums (4:28)
2. Old Weird Fiction (3:50)
3. improv #3 (5:36)
4. Eggcom and Mondegreen, (4:28)
Attorneys of Law

Red Fiction
5. Pratfall II (1:17)
6. Clone 13 (3:06)
7. Antilla (5:07)
8. Selket (8:35)

We Used to Cut the Grass
9. Visitors Pomp II (2:35)
10. Putty Boy Strut (Flying Lotus) (6:03)
11. Dance of the Knights (1:35)
(from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet)
12. Shep's Anxiety (9:49)

Karmic Juggernaut
13. WKRM Announcement (2:18)
14. Flat Earthlings (4:11)
15. Be Careful Loading Camel (15:16)

Total Time CD 2: 78:14 (1 hour, 18 min, 14 sec)


Notes:

Back in the festival's formative years (1995-2001), they
regularly released CD sets of festival highlights (ProgDay '95,
ProgDay Encore, ProgDay '98, ProgDay 2001). Unfortunately,
that custom ended with the 2001 2-CD set. I started to miss
those releases after a while, so since 2013 I've been cobbling
together my own 2-disc highlight set out of audience recordings.

Note that as of this writing (Sept, 2023), the full recordings
of the sets that these highlights were drawn from are still
available on the Dime a Dozen site.

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In 2022 ProgDay returned to beautiful Storybook Farm after
being held as an online "virtual" festival in 2020 and cancelled
altogether in 2021, both due to Covid. To celebrate the return
of the live event, I upgraded the microphones I use for my
audience recordings to a matched pair of Shure SM57s. That,
combined with sitting a little closer to the stage, resulted
in some of the cleanest, clearest audience recordings I've
ever gotten, with a minimum of audience chatter. The recordings
in 2023 also came out really well for the most part.

With another great batch of recordings to choose from, I couldn't
resist making another one of these 2-CD "highlights" sets for 2023.

All recordings done with a Tascam DP-004 digital recorder.

Enjoy, and please help support the bands and the festival in any
way you can. Preferrably by buying tickets and attending the
next one, or failing that you can make a donation via:

https://www.progday.net/ProgDay-Support.html


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