The Nationwide announce new stay album Juicy Sonic Magic
Only one month after releasing Dwell from New York’s Beacon Theatre, indie rock veterans The Nationwide are again with information of one other stay album. Titled Juicy Sonic Magic, it’s due out November 29th as a part of File Retailer Day Black Friday.
Packaged as a three-cassette field set, the brand new stay album captures the band’s September 24th and 25th, 2018 concert events on the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California. The pair of exhibits marked the final lap of The Nationwide’s tour supporting Sleep Effectively Beast.
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Producer and engineer Erik Flannigan taped the 2 Greek Theatre gigs using The Mike Millard Technique. This concerned using the identical classic analog gear the famed taper used throughout his ’70s and ’80s periods with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The Rolling Stones.
In an interview with Relix, The Nationwide frontman Matt Berninger praised Millard’s authentic course of,
“I noticed how he went to all of his favourite bands, had tons of of tapes from Bruce Springsteen and all of those totally different artists from that period—it was, like, holy,” Berninger says. “I’d heard a few of these recordings and listening to these, they do sound distinctive. Somebody like an audiophile, or somebody on the stereo retailer may inform you, ‘That is too improper about them,’ however you genuinely really feel extra current, I feel. I’ve heard quite a lot of stay recordings of issues, they usually’re wonderful. Loads of it’s the system you’re taking part in it on, however there’s one thing about Mike’s recordings that simply actually really feel such as you’re within the sync of it somewhat bit extra. It feels just like the the room is correct as much as your neck, you’re sort of soaking somewhat deeper contained in the house. It sounds such as you’re in one thing, both in an enviornment or an amphitheater or a membership. Some issues simply have a way to them, and it’s most likely audio and it’s exhausting to outline what it’s. Even the tapes themselves, the cassettes, in his handwriting, has a way to it, has some type of extra cosmic presence. The element he took to do all that stuff creates a better complete than simply the one or the 2.”
Accompanying Juicy Sonic Magic is a brief documentary of the identical title. Directed by David DuBois, it chronicles Flannigan’s use of the Millard technique. Watch a trailer beneath.
The brand new stay album comes amidst The Nationwide’s fall tour dates behind their most up-to-date album, I Am Simple to Discover. Discover your tickets right here.
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For years I’ve contemplated what made Millard’s recordings so good, and finally I had an concept: What in the event you recorded a live performance at the moment with the identical gear Millard utilized in 1977? Wouldn’t it sound like his tapes? Wouldn’t it faucet into his Midas contact?
The Nationwide was type sufficient to allow us to check the Millard Technique for 2 concert events on the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California final September. These stay recordings had been made with classic AKG 451E microphones and a restored Nakamichi 550 cassette deck that are an identical to these utilized by Millard circa 1975-81. The concept was to see if we might recreate what Matt Berninger calls the “juicy sonic magic” Millard captured in his 1970s subject recordings.
Along with my buddy and filmmaker David DuBois, we additionally produced a brief documentary about Millard, his recording strategies, and our try to recreate his work on the Nationwide exhibits in Berkeley, a venue that’s totally unchanged for the reason that ’70s.
With the arrival of smartphones, hundreds of individuals routinely file a part of the present once they attend a Nationwide live performance or another efficiency. Forty years in the past, when no one would dare do this, one synthetic it his life’s work to protect legendary concert events on tape.”