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Evening Sky: One Mic, Two Weekends

Evening Sky

Label: NCM East
Released: 2021
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Tracks

The Good Fight; Montana Sky; Snake Oil; The Hope Street Shuffle; For Those We Lost; Slip n Slide; Living on the Moon; Time For You

Personnel

Album Description

The album name says it all: recorded with one mic over two weekends in 2020. The first session was right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit; the other, a couple of months later – with masks on. The group had released its debut album, a collaboration with different vocalists titled Guest Stars, early in 2020, and it wanted to approach the next record differently. For this release of all original, instrumental music, the musicians gathered around just one stereo ribbon microphone in drummer Eric Hastings’ studio, The Grapevine: no headphones, no overdubs, and “mixing” themselves as they recorded. A modern twist, though, was capturing the sessions on DSD (Direct Stream Digital), a high-resolution audiophile format with a presence and depth that gives the listener a feeling of being in the room with the musicians.

The result is an expansive yet intimate Americana-jazz hybrid. The dancing interplay between Chris Brooks’ pedal steel and Gino Rosati’s electric guitar evoke comparisons to Bill Frisell and Buddy Emmons while the rhythm section of Hastings and bassist Joe Potenza lays down grooves that wouldn’t be out of place on a Little Feat or George Benson record. Evening Sky describes its sound as everything from “Pat Metheny to Patsy Cline; Coltrane to train beats.” This set of originals confirms that the band is keeping that musical spirit alive.

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