tUnE-yArDs - 2011-04-26 - GAMH SF

Not sure if any of you have heard of Tune-Yards, or any of their previous shows either tomzero or I have taped, but if they ever make it out your way GO SEE THEM.  This was taped last month by myself and tomzero, but I've only been able to get to it in the last couple of days.

The blend of our recordings sounds incredible, and it's an amazing performance...we made the right decision to hang back...as the PA mix was perfect from where we were at....keep your eye on DIME in the next hour or two.

I'm really tempted to seed this as 48kHz/24 bit...as this is a superlative recording, if I may say so.

Grab it here (DIME login required):  
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=357564

For the standard 44.1kHz/16 bit, you can just grab it via the usual
means:


Download FLACs in ZIP archive

Links feature all the YouTube video footage, including a couple of my own iPhone 4 efforts.


Setlist  


Do You Want To Live?
You Yes You
Gangsta     [alt from balcony]
Es-so       [alt from back (mine)]
Powa
Fiya        [alt from balcony pt 1  pt 2]
Bizness
Doorstep
Hatari
Killa

Real Live Flesh
My Country

Wolly Wolly Gong (mine)

Photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11403855@N08/sets/72157626594505374/

http://mavieenbeats.com/?p=309

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagelradio/5662384473/in/photostream/

Reviews:  

http://www.redefinemag.com/music/reviews_concert_2.php?artist=tUnE-yArDs-Buke-And-Gass&id=2411

http://eventseekr.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/tune-yards-at-the-great-american-music-hall-426-review/

HRO: (oy vey)  http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2011/04/broad-tune-yards-next-female-indie-sex-icon.html

We also taped the two opening acts.

Man-Machine (Sonics > Edirol only):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UA4LB179

Setlist ...need help!

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Buke and Gass (dual audience blend):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XCRP21SP

Setlist

Medicina

Medulla Oblongata

Your Face Left Before You

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Sleep Gets Your Ghost

Page Break

Bundletuck

Red Hood Came Home

Revel In Contempt

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Outt

SFGate coverage of Buke and Gass:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/culture/detail?entry_id=87647

Bonus tUnE-yArds show after the jump...forgot that I had taped them twice last year, this is the second appearance which we saw during Popfest after being blown away at the Bottom Of The Hill show in late March.

Real Live Flesh: tUnE-yArDs - 2010-03-20 - Bottom Of The Hill, SF

credit: RecycleYourPets

Digging through this year's archives for this one.  Have to say this was my second-or-third favorite performance of 2010.

tUnE-yArDs is Merrill Garbus, on loopstation, drums, ukelele, and earth-scorching, soulful vocals.

I had the extreme pleasure of seeing her open along with Noveller (featured in a previous post) for Xiu Xiu back in March.

If Merrill Garbus is ever in your vicinity, RUN, not walk, to see her perform.  To be honest, not much that the legendary record label 4AD has signed over the past few years has caught my fancy...until tUnE-yArDs.  A web search should turn up all the raves she's getting for her live performances...very much well deserved.  She pretty much killed it, as the kids would say these days.  Utterly, unbelievably good, trust me on this one. :)  So good, I bought all the merch on offer, letting her pick the color of my T-Shirt (blue)...

She was joined by frequent cohort Nate Brenner on bass and a saxophonist who provided appropriate bleeting sounds at opportune intervals.  Even the most grumpy rump-addled punter (meaning yours truly) started grooving and shaking their butts to the rhythms on display.  Oh.  My.  Fucking.  God.  Just mind-blowing.

I felt sorry for Jamie Stewart, there would have been no way for Xiu Xiu to top what we had just seen here, short of acting out on the impulses which propel his quite extreme images in his lyrics...no fault of their own, but kudos to him for having her on board on tour to co-headline...even if he was Buzzcocks to her Joy Division.