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KHRUANGBIN
Italy 2018 [no label, 1CD]
Beaches Brew Festival. Hana-Bi, Beach Stage, Marina di Ravenna, Italy; June 6, 2018. Fairly to very good audience recording.
Khruangbin are on a mission to add their name to a long list of legendary bands that have come out of the nation’s fourth-largest city. In a lot of ways, Khruangbin are one of Houston’s most distinct bands. Made up of Laura Lee (bass), Mark Speer (guitar), and DJ (drums), they began their unique musical odyssey in a small barn in Burton, Texas, a speck on the map that sits on US Highway 290 between Houston and Austin.
Within this small town sat a barn, and it was here where Khruangbin developed their distinctive sound. That musical buffet contains such exotic ingredients as Thai funk and surf psych, which made Khruangbin (“engine fly” in Thai) a band that was instantly thrust on the radar of Texas music listeners.
With their sound pinned down, they needed a song that would be the fuel in their rocket, and the song that would deliver was 2014’s “A Calf Born in Winter,” a glorious tune that landed the band a deal with Night Time Stories, a subsidiary of Late Night Tales. From there, they recorded and released their debut LP, The Universe Smiles Upon You, which pays homage to the band’s long drives across East Texas. They released their second album, Con Todo El Mundo, in January 2018. - axs.com
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Thanks to Todtap for sharing the show at Dime.
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Sony ECM-MS907 > Olympus LS-10 (24 bit - 48 kHz) > Audacity 2.1.0 (downsampling to 16 bit) > CD Wave > Trader’s Little Helper > Flac level 8
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Track 01. Dern Kala/August 10 15:24
Track 02. Mr White, Two Fish And An Elephant 9:24
Track 03. Lady And Man 6:35
Track 04. Evan Finds The Third Room, White Gloves 9:18
Track 05. Medley 14:03
Next Episode [Dr Dre]/It Was a Good Day [Ice Cube]/Regulate [Warren G]/I Want’a Do Something Freaky To You [Leon Haywood] (aka Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang [Dr Dre])/Summer Madness [Kool & the Gang] (inc I Got 5 On It [Luniz] & Mary Jane [Rick James])/Maria También (inc Apache [Incredible Bongo Band])/Il Clan dei Siciliani [Ennio Morricone]
Track 06. Bin Bin (inc band intros) 7:41
Track 07. People Everywhere (Still Alive) 9:01
72 mins
Lineup:
Laura Lee - bass
Mark Speer - guitar
DJ - drums
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