Delta Nove again – the albums. I take back what I said….

Andre Shoumatoff — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:52:50 +0000

In typical format I was just cruisin’ along the other day and low and behold Delta Nove’s latest album ‘the future is when’ comes on my iPod and it is just crankin.’ I’m not really sure why I remembered their album isn’t “polished” as these three songs just kill it. Track 1 is an intro for Track 2 which is just a killer song.. Track 3 sort of shows some of their diversity and ability to throw up some killer songs… And again, that Brazilian flair. You should hear the whole album. It is really, really Brazilian. Again for friends, I have a few extras copies of it from when they played at Club Suede a few years ago who’s website I managed before they were forced out of business by the Utah DABC for “excessive liquor violations” (hehem hehem loudly — the state of Utah put them out of business on purpose – it is really messed up).

Anyway, enjoy. These guys just rip…

The best band you’ll see live… (Delta Nove)

Andre Shoumatoff — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:41:18 +0000

I thought I’d do some recollection on a band we’ve seen a couple times now called Delta Nove from Long Beach, California. Live recording from 2006 (details below):

Mostly testament to the despicable music industry (as it really is sad – so many good artists and such utter crap on the radios most of the time), I’d bet, being that these guys are from Long Beach, that many a record label guy has seen them play live. When I first saw them, at 2006 Desert Rocks Music Festival in Moab, these guys just killed it.

According to me, of the 20-something bands that played that festival, they were definitely the best out of the whole damn festival. Fresh, diverse, basically looked like complete and utter rock stars. Some sick Brazilian Samba flair. That, and they are just killer live performing artists.

I have a couple of their albums but I hate to say it, the albums according to me sort of lack that ‘polished album flair” where maybe someone like Rick Rubin says, “play that rip 8 beats longer” and “turn down the distortion on this measure but come back harder next rif..” Things like that. So admittedly their (at least this album) “The Future is When?” recording is a little bland. What happens when you’re self produced. That said, I have maybe 3 or 4 extra copies of it brand new in the wrapper, if anyone local wants one (or shit, shoot me an email, I’ll mail it) let me know. And they’re still pretty good.

But because of this, I’m going to play a live recording of theirs from 2006 from sounds like their resident location off of archive.org called The Blue Cafe in Long Beach. This is a killer recording, probably one of many…

By the way, did I mention that archive.org rules? Here is the link to the recording if you want to download it (for free). Choose your format. FLAC is really high quality but a bitch to deal with (at least for me) over MP3 so I download MP3.

Enjoy!

By the way, this post goes out to all my children… (Really, I don’t think I have any children, except for maybe Rebecca, though she’s a couple years older than me)…

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Delta Nove again – the albums. I take back what I said….

The best band you’ll see live… (Delta Nove)