Face Candy :: Jam City (Volume 1)

Here's a link to the torrent.

Face Candy
Jam City Volume 1
The West Bank Tapes

Tracks 1-8
The Triple Rock Social Club
Minneapolis, MN
Friday August 3rd 2007

Taper: empty (neveragain1980 AT yahoo DOT com)
Location: DINish, 20cm, right drink rail, 20' back, ~10' ^
Source: Studio Projects C4's > Mil Spec Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Conversion: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9 (fade in)

01. ...intro
02. Shedding Light
03. the First Step
04. Ground Meets Walls
05. Know The Inside
06. Grips of the Ego
07. ...banter
08. the Mayor

Michael Larsen - Freestyle
JT Bates - Drums
Casey O' Brien - Bass

A couple of days after the bridge collapse. Playing with Abzorbr and the Bill Mike Band.

Tracks 9-20
The Nomad
Minneapolis, MN
Thursday December 27th 2007

Taper: me
Location: AB, 20cm, ~6ft LOC, 10' back, ~10' ^
Source: Studio Projects C4's > Mil Spec Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Conversion: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9 (fade out)

09. Carnage beatbox set
10. Icicles
11. I'm Awake
12. It Happened on a Nice Sunny Day
13. A Path to Break
14. The Damage
15. Wired in Different Ways
16. Jam 1
17. Jam 2
18. Jam 17
19. Jam 16
20. Jam 14

Michael Larsen - Freestyle
Carnage - Beatbox
Casey O' Brien - Bass
Kristoff Krane - Freestyle (12-20)

Playing with Mel Gibson & the Pants and Cecil Otter from Doomtree. The last night of MG&TP's December 07 residency at the Nomad.

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Freestyle meets free jazz and now that I have permission to release whatever I want it's time to kick out the jams. Face Candy shows are always an experience because you never know who's going to be on stage or what you're going to get. I thought about doing a two disc compilation with the best tracks from six or so shows but realized people would probably prefer full sets. Since we're talking improv all of the song titles are made up.

In 2006 Rhymesayers released Face Candy's first and only album "This Is Where We Were." It's a live album comprised of recordings made during an 8 date Midwest tour. The line up for the album included Eyedea (vocals), Mazta I (vocals), Kristoff Krane (vocals), Carnage (vocals), JT Bates (drums) and Casey O' Brien (bass). Face Candy have since continued playing shows in MN/WI as a trio featuring Eyedea, Casey and JT. With that said, Chris has always been a member and he's joined them for at least half of if not all of the set at 95% of the shows I've seen. I've also seen two shows that brought Carnage back to the fold to provide percussion in JT's absence.

Michael, Casey and JT are also in Carbon Carousel. Chris and Casey are also in Abzorbr. JT is in a dozen bands at any given time and I'd have to say he's my favorite Twin Cities drummer. Check out Carnage's solo material or anything he's done in Ill Chemistry.

The next Face Candy release is going to be a studio album culled from a non-stop 48 hour recording session that has yet to go down.