Live music in SF/Oakland, and maybe elsewhere...
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This is an exercise in reconstruction, back in an era that wasn't seemingly extensively awash in photography or video footage...which is as just as ephemeral today, at least without the willful action of choosing to document, something I realize isn't for everybody...but as revealed in myself and tomzero's subsequent email, was something quite a few people partook in, as there are quite a few RGC recordings on archive.org. Going back through my emails, it seems tickets for this were $10/ea. which was a huge bargain...couldn't imagine this being less than $30/ea now.
In fact, this is the only photo which I have from this show...if I recall, the Hotel Utah's venue space was pretty dark back then. I only took this photo because we used to have the very same Belfast Sparkling Water clock in the grocery store my dad used to own...I sold it on eBay (in non-working condition!) for a few hundred dollars maybe five years prior to this date.
the only photo I could find from that night (thehappyone)
For Carta, "Santander" / "Hourglass" / "Sidereal" / "Descension" was released on 2010's An Index Of Birds. Perdido appears on 2007's The Glass Bottom Boat. As far as I know, first track "Sexton" (which is outstanding) has never been officially released.
04 Between Twilight and the Morning (new one) 4:35
05 Snow Angels 5:17
06 'Your Arms Around Me' 6:32
07 The Ballad Of Paper Ships 4:23
08 Small Birds 5:35
09 outro 0:52
Both of these acts have gorgeous instrumentation, and Odessa wass in fine voice here for this show. I remember the acoustics were weird because the bar was outside of the interior gig room but seemed to wrap around, so you could never quite forget that playing at the Utah was still in effect a bar show.
A couple of notes for songs played by Odessa.
"Between Twilight and the Morning" (which I had listed as 'Between Today and Tomorrow' and have amended) is on her 2013 EP Invisible Stories.
I'm not sure if 'Your Arms Around Me' was ever released.
She sang vocals on a couple of Carta songs on their first album.
I’m well aware of my shortcomings…so please hold any criticism and use it to inform the creation of your own work. - ODESSA CHEN
Well said. I can tell you having produced a few of my own original works... I am in no way qualified to inform my own works with any criticism I may have of others! That's not to say I can't critique the phenomenon of someone like Miley Ray Cyrus in terms of the lack of equilibrium in terms of her position in the mainstream or as a part of the machinery inherent in the sausage grinder of late capitalism (versus her own musical ability and muses), but what have I done compared to someone like that, much less someone like Odessa?
