Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Geordie Greep - Road to The New Sound (Live Recordings 2024-08-07 / 2024-10-06) / Bootleg Download

Alright so. Greep's solo endeavors were something I truly had not been expecting to be a thing so soon. He had always been my favorite black midi member, a vast number of my favorite songs from the band being mainly written and driven by him, but the break up of the band was something really unforeseen, being widely known from a livestream that had small responses in the form of tweets, but even more so was the fact that Greep would announce his solo album within a few days from that.

Greep had done a couple of sets before that, in March at the Windmill, along side his Swing Boys lineuo. But regardless, the build up to The New Sound was exhilarating, gig after gig right after the release of the first official single Geordie Greep managed to show everyone that he, in fact, was shaping his music to new horizons, blending all his influences in one place and delivering outstanding sets. In the midst of all this, and coming from someone who lives in south america, the black midi discord has been an outstanding source for all Greep related. While lurking in there one was able to see the full recordings shared week after week, delivering something wonderful to the eyes of people who couldn't manage to experience it first hand. In that vein I extend my hand, figuratively, as a thank you to all the wonderful users who shared these recordings (my heart goes out to all of you).

I have had a deep fascination towards this live period from Greep, towards all these songs and jams and his ever evolving guitar skills shining brighter and brighter the more he went into performing with these different ensembles, but more often than not what was shared were full unedited wav or video recordings of these gigs, so it became more of an inconvenience to go back to favorite moments or particular favorite tracks, so what I bring here is what I consider a sort of small nothing input to the community of simply editing and splitting up these recordings, as well as adding artwork to all of them, to the gigs that took place up to the release week of The New Sound. 

I have done some slight work on an attempt to clean up the audio as much as possible, within my tight schedule due to work and other life things, as well as making cover artworks using Toshio Saeki's wonderful pieces (which play really really well with the concepts of lust and obsession that are shown on the album), and I bring it all to be shared here. All exported on flac to avoid gaps between tracks (which for some gigs is justified and for others not so much but alas). 

I hope this brightens up your day as much as possible. 

Thank you oh so very much to the black midi discord for these wonderful recordings and to Geordie Greep for the wonderful sounds brought to the world due to The New Sound.

DOWNLOAD HERE:

2024/08/07 - MAP Studio Residency, MAP Studio Cafe, London, England

First Set - Geordie Greep & Daniel Rogerson

1. Bluesette (7:13)
2. Banter 1 (0:44)
3. A Tune From Geodie (3:23)
4. Banter 2 (0:39)
5. A Tune From Daniel (6:53)
6. Bongo Season (3:32)
7. All the Things You Are (7:55)
8. Banter 3 (0:43)
9. Another One From Daniel (6:11)
10. One Last Tune (5:28)

Second Set

1. Para Oriente (4:43)
2. Banter 1 (0:47)
3. Terra (3:53)
4. Untitled (4:20)
5. Untitled (7:10)
6. The Magician (14:45)
7. The New Sound (6:01)
8. Banter 2 (0:43)
9. Three Views of a Secret (7:15)
10. Banter 3 (1:03)
11. Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero (3:51)

Unedited Videos Uploaded on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/bMqvn3hmiUU

https://youtu.be/2bLf1Awvb10

2024/08/09 - MAP Studio Residency, MAP Studio Cafe, London, England

1. Geordie Greep and The New Sound Band Jam (16:38)
2. The New Sound (14:25)
3. The Colours of Chloë (21:56)
4. Bongo Season (9:19)
5. Outro (1:33)

Unedited Video Uploaded on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/xiqp2CebFDc


2024/08/14 - MAP Studio Residency, MAP Studio Cafe, London, England (Acoustic Solo Set)

1. Begins (4:40)
2. Terra (5:40)
3. The Defence (7:23)
4. Dangerous Liaisons (4:32)
5. The Magician (9:06)
6. Marlene Dietrich (3:03)
7. Aching Knees (4:36)

Unedited Video Uploaded on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/7XVwp4V6FXM 

2024/08/17 - MAP Studio Residency, MAP Studio Cafe, London, England

1. Introduction (0:42)
2. The New Sound (18:00)
3. Untitled Tune 1 (6:42)
4. Instrumental Crazy One We Did at Lexington (5:39)
5. Through a War (5:29)
6. Gearing Up & Banter (1:03)
7. Receipt, Please (4:48)
8. Untitled Tune 2 (4:54)
9. Tuning Up (0:30)
10. Bongo Season (8:00)
11. "We Have Time Left" (1:30)
12. Blues (5:43)
13. Untitled Tune 3 (6:21)
14. The Magician (12:46)

Unedited Video Uploaded on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/38HAR5MY37o

2024/08/29 - The Windmill Brixton, London, England

1. Introduction (0:54)
2. Blues (6:08)
3. Walk Up (3:34)
4. The New Sound (8:56)
5. Terra (4:58)
6. Holy, Holy (8:28)
7. Drinking Water Theme (1:23)
8. Through a War (5:51)
9. The Colours of Chloë (4:47)
10. Bongo Season (8:07)
11. As If Waltz (7:13)
12. The Magician (13:38)
13. Band Introduction & Outro (1:25)

Unedited Video Uploaded on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/6gPVZqfTT6Y

Original WAV Recording (Taken From the Black Midi Discord):

2024/10/03 -  The Windmill Brixton, London, England

1. Introduction (0:52)
2. Bongo Season (7:46)
3. Blues (6:43)
4. Terra (4:16)
5. Banter (0:32)
6. Through a War (5:49)
7. Holy, Holy (11:31)
8. Getting Set (0:27)
9. Walk Up (5:27)
10. The New Sound (8:35)
11. "One More Song?" (0:56)
12. As If Waltz (10:05)
13. Band Introduction & Outro (1:05)

Unedited Video Uploaded on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/Ua__CSicv3E

2024/10/04 - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

1. The Long Good Friday Theme / Introduction (1:28)
2. Untitled Tune (7:48)
3. Band Introduction (1:07)
4. Blues (6:10)
5. Walk Up (3:37)
6. The New Sound (7:51)
7. Banter (0:44)
8. Holy, Holy (10:22)
9. Terra (4:33)
10. The Colours of Chloë (7:37)
11. Bongo Season (11:18)
12. Through a War (6:04)
13. Motorbike (feat. Seth Evans) (7:34)
14. Blues Jam / The Dance of Maya (3:42)
15. Banter 2 (0:34)
16. As If Waltz (9:46)
17. The Magician (15:53)
18. Outro (1:23)

https://archive.org/details/2024-10-04-institute-of-contemporary-arts-london-england

Unedited Video Uploaded on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/PaBgPyDKu0E

Original WAV Recording (Taken From the Black Midi Discord):

2024/10/05 - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

1. The Long Good Friday Theme / The Show Begins (1:56)
2. Band Introduction / Untitled Tune (6:13)
3. Walk Up (3:46)
4. Bongo Season (10:20)
5. The New Sound (6:44)
6. Terra (6:41)
7. Through a War (5:48)
8. Banter 1 (0:41)
9. Blues (6:47)
10. Banter 2 (0:31)
11. Holy, Holy (13:44)
12. Banter 3 (1:05)
13. The Colours of Chloë (14:52)
14. Banter 4 (0:48)
15. Motorbike (feat. Seth Evans) (7:44)
16. Banter 5 (0:41)
17. As If Waltz (8:45)
18. The Magician (14:19)
19. If You Are But a Dream (3:09)
20. Thank You For Coming (0:55)

https://archive.org/details/2024-10-05-institute-of-contemporary-arts-london-england

Unedited Video Uploaded on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/HAlMvREWjkA

Original WAV Recording (Taken From the Black Midi Discord):

2024/10/06 - Rough Trade East, London, England

1. The Long Good Friday Theme / The Show Begins (1:59)
2. Opening Jam (4:02)
3. Walk Up (3:52)
4. Terra (6:40)
5. Through a War (5:29)
6. The New Sound (8:45)
7. Tuning & Warming Up (1:05)
8. As If Waltz (9:20)
9. Band Introduction (0:25)
10. Bongo Season (9:19)
11. Banter (1:38)
12. Motorbike (feat. Seth Evans) (5:30)
13. One More Tune (0:21)
14. Holy, Holy (11:07)
15. Thank You For Coming (0:28)

https://archive.org/details/2024-10-06-rough-trade-east-london-england

Unedited Video Uploaded on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/5JXK1pAmdBg

Original WAV Recording (Taken From the Black Midi Discord):

Monday, November 4, 2024

Samla Mammas Manna (Zamla Mammaz Manna) - 1979-03-21 Mariahissen, Stockholm / Bootleg Download

 

High Quality Live Radio Broadcast Recording

Definitely one of the most unique bands to come out of the RIO movement... as if any of them weren't unique in their own way. Anyways, Samla were always groundbreaking in how startling they were with their music. Their compositions truly lived up to the name of the scene they were a part of, heavy distorted and progressive improvisations that were clean in their structure and execution, with albums like Schlagerns mystik and Familjesprickor being the true keypoint where they came to their creative and musical peak, but at the cost of filtering a large part of their audience. This recording is from that period, meaning that I fancy it a whole ton. Absolute gem, worthwhile and praiseworthy. Nothing much to be said really. 

If you haven't listened to them from 1977 to 1980 then you ought to (or if you haven't listened to them at all really, just do yourself a favor). What an amazing moment in history.

1. Radio Intro (1:01)
2. Ikarien (18:47)
3. Knapplösa (3:46)
4. Proffession är amatörens lim (2:43)
5. Nya lunken (8:23)
6. Allsångsparodi (4:17)
7. Tredje rumänen (2:03)
8. Ryssland (3:35)
9. Ödet / Radio Outro (17:02)

Download Here!!! - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ud3lEzoSFy8VevoUQ1b-yuIUtSP4GomM?usp=sharing



Geordie Greep - Road to The New Sound (Live Recordings 2024-08-07 / 2024-10-06) / Bootleg Download

Alright so. Greep's solo endeavors were something I truly had not been expecting to be a thing so soon. He had always been my favorite b...