OFF:Roadburn Streams

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, SHLL (Scott Heller) wrote:

> Here are three of the great bands from this year's roadburn festival that you can hear in good quality streaming audio.
>
> Amon D??l II - http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/41972244
> Farflung - http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/41972269
> Vibravoid - http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/41972308
> Enjoy...

 	The list knows by now how rare it is for me to break my swearless 
practice so I trust you will take my word when I say that that Farflung 
set is *bloody excellent*, and endearing also for how glad Tommy was to 
have an audience of any size; mainly however it just hammers through the 
material without concessions to time or venue, and spreads the work across 
all the old albums as well as a good tranche of the new one. I would 
*recommend* this as listening.

 	Also, Carl, you entirely need to check out the 2008 set from Ira 
de Dios. I was there and the recording is as good as the set then, plus 
which, it ought to flip a number of your switches being (a) heavy, (b) 
jammed and stoning, (c) mainly vocalised in Latin American Spanish and (d) 
ornamented with numerous rather indulgent but not over-long guitar breaks. 
I tell you:

http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/39702919

Probably not just Carl, either,

 	Odd comparison to the set by Kruger, which I remember as being 
crushing and completely masterful, and comes across in proper recording as 
smug and rather go-nowhere. I suppose it makes a lot of difference when 
you can't hear the words, but I'm not used to the difference being in that 
direction. Also, of course, it was much louder than I dare play it at home 
and I was drunk and emotional, but even so, I just can't get into this one 
the way it was live. Odd. Oh well, that's why we pay for tickdts innit, 
yours,
 	Jon

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