THE SONIC DAWN
Freak Valley Festival Vol. 5
AWO Gelaende, Netphen-Deuz, Germany
May - 26 - 2016
Day # 1 - Act # 1 (16:00 -> 16:40)

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A BLUESHACKS, MIRO, RACKHIR, LORD DIE and SPACEBANDIT taping cooperation
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Rec. Info:
OKM2R -> ZoomH2n (@ WAV 16/44) -> MemoryCard -> HD -> Audacity (edit/remaster) -> WAV 16/44 -> TLH8 -> FLAC -> DIME -> YOUR EARS AND MIND...so far away in outer space...
Rcorded by dear BLUESHACKS close to the stage edge almost dead center. Very fine recording, a bit of swirling sound at the start, but that settles nicely.
A few pics and the poster are included, sorry, no setlist...


FREAK VALLEY FESTIVAL 2016:

Admission fee: 69 Euros in advance
Attendence: 2500 people from all over the world. Sold out since November 2015
Catering: A variety of food booths, breakfast tent on the campground (which was 3 kms UP away), prices slightly above last year. A slice of Pizza at 2.50, other food more expensive.
Some beer booths, a cocktail bar and - to my personal surprise - a small winery slot with "Met" (which I only discovered the last evening, so no chance to get full advantage of it).
Security: Very low, very mellow. Almost no controls at the gate, if you didn't try to roll a barrel of alcolhol into it...
Loos: Acceptable quality both on the festival and on the campground. This is something that makes a difference, if you're staying for three nights...
Weather conditions: Exceptional fine on thursday, some rain during the night, fine again on friday as well as the saturday until 19:45 (probably) when a massive rainfall (no, it was
buckets of rain washing over you) for 90+ minutes went down. Nice for the plants to be removed from those wild bushes pissers, but defintely not fine for tapers...
Crowd behavior: That's kind of serious thing to me. The later the day, the more rule and ruthless and agressive against others a few drunken assholes (please stay at the campground,
if you're already filled up) were. A real strange thing also happened to me and the Lord...never experienced that on during TOUNDRA...

Personal thanks...
To the crew at Freak Valley Festival...again another fine job done. Thank you.
To the reliable taping crew, friends Reinhard and Dietmar at the campground for the nice pavillion (who had gone for good, but survived 4 Burg Herzberg Festivals) and company.
Always been a pleasure and will be...forever...

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Very fine relaxed psychedelic 60's garage sounds from this young band from Denkmark was the perfect opening music to this year's fine Freak Valley Festival. Formerly known as
"The Mind Flowers" they had to change their name due to legal issues, and released their first full length album on exceptional fine german "Nasoni Records" label last autumn.
I'm really looking forward to seeing them again end of July at famous Burg Herzberg Festival, as well on PsychedelicNetworkFestival in late November...and, of course, with a
much longer set...SB.
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ALMOST FULL SHOW (38:47 min.)

01. Watching dust fall (4:25) *
02. All the ghosts I know (5:43)
03. ... (5:11)
04. ... (4:49)
05. The mustang (2:45)
06. Down the line (4:37)
07. ... (6:04)
08. Fading soul (5:10)

*fades in, unknown time missing...

http://www.sonicdawn.com
http://www.nasoni-records.de
facebook/bandcamp and other sites...

Support this fine band, go to their shows, buy all the merch your spaceship can carry.
Do not convert to lossy files, unless for personal use only. No lossy net use! Flac rules!
If you spread keep lineage/taper info intact. It's us tapers that give you this recording for free!
If you sell (this recording)...drink rotten gammeldansk forever...

THE SONIC DAWN are...

Emil Bureau (guitar, lead vocals)
Jonas Waaben (drums)
Neil Bird (bass guitar)

Uploaded to DIME by Spacebandit 2016/06/01

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