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Sunday, June 26, 2011
With last month's release of David Bazan's great new record, "Strange Negotiations", and last week's arrival of the latest Centro-matic full-length, "Candidate Waltz", I've been thinking about how lucky Boston was to get a visit during the one-and-only tour from The Undertow Orchestra. The five-piece was an understated supergroup, with Bazan & Centro-matic's Will Johnson joined by American Music Club's Mark Eitzel, Centro-matic's Scott Danbom, and the tragically departed Vic Chesnutt. His absence on this plane makes this show even more special in retrospect - any time I listen to Vic now it's bittersweet, but hearing him make music with those who knew and loved him is a particular kind of beautiful pain. I was poking around the pedrothelion.org forums the other day and saw a fellow fan hunting for this recording of the Undertow Orchestra's magical Valentine's Day 2006 performance at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Hadn't realized it had already been five years since that perfect night, so it's passed time I re-shared this one for all. For my thoughts and details on the show, check out my original post. Oh, and stop by here tomorrow (Monday, 6/27), when I'll kick off a giveaway for a pair of tickets to see Will Johnson's Centro-Matic return to Allston's Great Scott this Wednesday, along with a CD of their new album, "Candidate Waltz". Any time a member of the Orchestra comes to town, file it under "gotta go".  The Undertow Orchestra download as a single 162MB .zip file Live at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 1. intro 2. Tent Of Total Mystery * 3. Vultures Await * 4. interlude 1 5. Just To Know What You've Been Dreaming * 6. interlude 2 7. Bands With Managers # 8. interlude 3 9. Priests And Paramedics # 10. Slow Car Crash # 11. interlude 4 12. Stupid Preoccupations ^ 13. I'm Through ^ 14. interlude 5 15. Iraq ^ 16. Sleeping Beauty + 17. St. Michael My Pet Rat + 18. Home + 19. interlude 6 20. Just Some Silence * 21. Closing Down My House * 22. I See Through You * 23. interlude 7 24. Criticism As Inspiration # 25. interlude 8 26. The Devil Is Beating His Wife # 27. I Do # 28. Ladies And Gentlemen + 29. interlude 9 30. Patriot's Heart + 31. interlude 10 32. Johnny Mathis' Feet + 33. The Pool ^ 34. interlude 11 35. In My Way, Yes ^ * - Will Johnson # - David Bazan ^ - Vic Chesnutt + - Mark Eitzel   |
 neil halstead live in cambridge, ma on november 14th, 2008 previously: joy formidable - boston 2011 recent posts on the 'nac...
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