Oregon,
Palazzo Casalini,
Rovigo,
Italy,
22 July 2017

I think I sat on this one for too long. The fact is that I was hoping it would have turned out to be a better recording since there were all prerequisites: good sound, good volume, good band. Unfortunately, I fucked it up in a couple of ways. First of all I miscalculated the time it would have took me to get to the venue (they played at an open air festival, "Jazz Nights", in front of a villa and it was a free show too!) so when I arrived they had already started playing and as soon as I turned on my recording device, I lost all but the last minute of the first song. However, I also did an even bigger mistake, accidentally switching the gain mic to max: now you can imagine what that means. Luckily, the band wasn't playing at a very high volume so it mostly turned out very good but there's occasional distortion that spoils the fun. Some of the distortion is on one channel only so for a while I toyed of the idea of crossfading bits of this recording to mono but as it didn't solve all the problems and generally didn't sound that much of an improvement to me I aborted the idea so here it is in all of its raw glory. It's a pity because I feel like this could have been one of my best recordings if I had set the device accordingly. Oh well, again, after more than a year since then here it is. I see there are a lot of fans of Oregon here so hopefully you'll enjoy this good but flawed recording.

I'm not much familiar with their music but Oregon is one of the bands I just had to see live. I really enjoyed the concert and the band looked like they were too. Since they were in Italy, Paolino dalla Porta did most of the spoken word introductions. Thanks to him for saying the name of every piece of music they performed!

01 If [cuts in]
02 Anthem
03 The Glide
04 As She Sleeps
05 Creeper
06 The Water is Wide
07 Duende
08 Free
09 encore break
10 Dolomiti Dance

Ralph Towner: guitar, keyboards
Paul McCandless: winds
Paolino Dalla Porta: upright bass
Mark Walker: drums

Taped, transferred and edited by: JacoZappa

lineage: Zoom H2 w/internal mics -> wav (48.000 htz) -> SF10 (edited, volumes adjusted) -> wav (44.000 htz) -> Flac


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