Good news for fans of good music. According to our non-existent marketing machine, these days it's a good idea to give music away for free on the internet. So that being said, we'll soon have all 12 tracks from the new album posted here, along with accompanying vivid conecptual imagery, for your free downloading and listening pleasure. All songs are decent res 192k MP3, DRM-free. The only catch is that they'll be up for just a limited time, so grab the tunes while you can and check back often for more free shit. We'll probably throw a whole bunch of other stuff up here now that we have a new studio and are all totally unemployed. Woohoo! Don't forget to help us out and buy a song or two.
So for a nice treat for New Year's Eve Eve this year we got to see Tony Levin perform for a very small crowd in a somewhat intimate setting at the Acton Jazz Cafe , about 30 mins outside Boston.
Anyone who's ever listened to music has probably heard Tony Levin at some point, on some album, unknowingly. For others, like us, he's simply a bass god who can do no wrong and has propped up the lower end of some of the greatest rock bands and artists. Naturally, it was a small miracle we found out about the show and got tickets before this highly-under-the-radar show occurred.
It was put on by an org who I'd never heard of called NewEars . Apparently they promote local prog acts and try to generate interest for up and coming bands. Seems like a cool group of people; maybe we will break down and ask for their help around our next album release.
Anyway, Tony played solo for the first part of the night, doing some of his new stuff from his album Stickman (with stick of course), as well as playing some of his older stuff and some really good tunes from Liquid Tension Experiment. In between songs he took a lot of questions from the audience, which was a really eye-opening experience, and one of the highlights of the night in my opinion.
The catch was that Tony was invited by NewEars to support another prog band called IZZ , who save for some ridiculous fantasy style lyrics and synth heaviness not to mention sub par drumming (even for a non-prog band), were pretty decent.
After IZZ played a set they invited Tony back out to play some classics, including King Crimson's Elephant Talk, and Don't Give Up & Red Rain by Peter Gabriel. I was so excited to actually see Levin playing these songs, but the backing by IZZ left something to be desired. Don't get me wrong, it was still great (especially Don't Give Up), but I wished they were a little tighter for this. Check out Elephant Talk below.
We were able to get audio and video recordings of the entire show. Since I'm lazy I haven't really chopped any of it up yet, but I'd like to get around to posting Tony's Q&A session and his solo tunes, which were very cool. I also got some decent still photos that can be found here.
Good news for fans of good music. According to our non-existent marketing machine, these days it's a good idea to give music away for free on the internet. So that being said, we'll soon have all 12 tracks from the new album posted here, along with accompanying vivid conecptual imagery, for your free downloading and listening pleasure. All songs are decent res 192k MP3, DRM-free. The only catch is that they'll be up for just a limited time, so grab the tunes while you can and check back often for more free shit. We'll probably throw a whole bunch of other stuff up here now that we have a new studio and are all totally unemployed. Woohoo! Don't forget to help us out and buy a song or two.