2017 LIVE GIGS: HS&TWI,+Mazzy Star,+Hope w. Acetone,+PHOTOS

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Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions - INTO THE TREES, Live, BERKELEY, 2017-10-13 (with Michael Masley​ joining the band on stage to play his nyckelharpa on the song) is on youtube now (sometime soon I'll add the audio file to the boots list here too):
https://youtu.be/ldfpti7YN14

AUDIO recorded by FB fan Group member Thomas Attenborough​ at the Berkeley show. Thomas sent me his audio file to share on his behalf. Thank you Thomas! I'll paste my lengthy youtube video description with Hope & Masley quotes below. Masley has been very helpful in answering questions I asked him about the show and about what he played there, etc., and in passing along useful links. I didn't even know that's him on this recording for sure till he confirmed it and added details.
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Thomas Attenborough recorded two songs at the Berkeley show but deems just this one suitable for listening to. It was recorded with his phone but is quite listenable. There are loud talkers in a few spots. Some seconds are missing from the song's beginning.

This live version of "Into The Trees" is unique as it's the only live performance of the song on the Oct. 2017 tour with Michael Masley joining the band on stage to perform. This resulted in the live version at Berkeley sounding quite different from versions of the song played at other dates on the tour.

Masley plays on the original studio version of the song found on the 2016 Hope Sandoval & TWI album, "Until The Hunter." He informs us he plays "mostly gong" on the album version, but plays nyckelharpa in this live version. The two instruments and the sounds he gets from them are very different. He says "Into the Trees" was the only song he joined the band on stage for in Berkeley, & that he took both his gong & nyckelharpa "into rehearsal but Colm thought nyckelharpa would work best @ UC Theatre."

Masley uses a self-designed "tribow" with three bow strands to play his nyckelharpa. He says some of the sounds of the nyckelharpa here are created using "a pair of [Pitchfork brand] octave pedals which sound (twice) at once below & above the source note," creating compelling sounds.

Thomas likened some of the nyckelharpa sounds here to the roar or growl of a jungle cat! Hope in her Oct. 17 Facebook post described Michael's nyckelharpa at the show as "sounding unearthly"! (Hope's full FB quote is found in the slide show).

The original recording of "Into the Trees" came from an hours long jam session with just Hope & Colm in Ireland. HOPE QUOTES: "“We had a really crazy jam session very late at night. The organ sounded amazing in that room [a historic stone Martello cannon tower]. Colm was going from really wild drums to really slow, hypnotic percussion" (-Jan. 2, 2017, Swench.net); "We just had wine, got stoned, and played non-stop. I got this new organ, and it was the first time I played it, and Colm played drums. It was crazy, wild, dark, and spooky. I think that song represents the mood of what was happening on the night." (-Oct. 31, 2016, Consequence of Sound).
Later, in San Francisco they asked Masley to add his sounds to their recording.

Here's a quote from Hope from Dec., 2016 BLITZ mag (Portugal, my translation), QUOTE:
HOPE: "I really like that song [Into The Trees]. I think it's my favorite...Colm and I got together in Berkeley where we met a street musician named Michael Masley. He's a very cool guy who reinvents his instruments, recreating them to make some very haunting sounds. When we returned to San Francisco, we invited him to lend the song some of his beautiful sounds. This song stands out because we are only the three of us on it: I, Colm, and Michael."

Here's part of a Hope & Colm interview from a Nov. 3, 2016 Jenesaispop (France) interview (my translation), QUOTE:
"COLM: I don't know what the story of 'Into the Trees' is, it's Hope's lyrics.
HOPE: Someone I knew in London took me to the forest. And if neither of you know what that means, you have to investigate..."

Michael Masley passed along some links to include here about him, his instruments, and music projects: https://www.pinterest.ca/artistgeneral/a-call-to-arts/
http://www.artistgeneral.com/Photos.html
Plus some "teaser" short videos about a documentary movie being made about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJsV52_2E_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2vgdcVW-k
Plus this video demonstrates how he got his unique & mysterious gong sounds on the studio version of "Into The Trees": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShuwAKNiOsc

On stage photos in the slide show are all from various shows from the Oct., 2017 U.S. tour. But none are from this Berkeley show as I've not seen any. The close ups of Hope on stage, plus the cowboy hat pic, are all by talented photographer Luz Gallardo whose Hope pics repeatedly "wow" me.

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Concert Review of Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions at Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, Oct. 22, 2017
https://diandrareviewsitall.com/hope-sandoval-brooklyn/

Concert Review: Hope Sandoval Is A Haunting Beauty With NO PHOTOGRAPHY!
October 24, 2017Diandra Reviews

I knew I would enjoy Hope Sandoval’s And The Warm Inventions’ show when it was clearly declared NO PHOTOGRAPHY! My reaction could pretty much be encompassed in this giphy!
[A GIF plays of comedy writer Larry David saying (with subtitle) "I cannot tell you how happy I am about that"]

Now, of course, you heard a few persons’ scuffle of “Yeah, right?!” and “Suuuure!”, but for the most part people were “game” and ended up feeling relieved. There was no Instagram that needed to be posted, and it was refreshing to not have sea of phones lit in recording Hope’s every move. Frankly, that rule alone, made Hope Sandoval’s show an experience. Of course there were those that “broke the rules”, but it was not enough to detract from the beauty of Sandoval’s voice, and the flowing peace of having everyone invested solely in her. You may not know not notice but recording a show can take away from giving your full energy/ attention to the artist before you. Often, we are so busy proving we were at a location, we cannot really tell its details after we have left its. Yet, here we had to peer into the world Hope was was making for us, and, honestly, it was ethereal and haunting.

I have a confession to make; I have a phobia of vintage photos. Yes, I know that this is weird, but any worn, black and white pictures from the 1800’s or early 1900’s horrifies me. Something about how the past was pictured appears freaky to me, especially, because people were told not to smile and to zero their eyes into the camera as if they could see the future faces of every person that would look at their photo. Yet, to Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions, such photos, along with pictures of dilapidated spaces/ worn films, were an opening to observe life and death. Sandoval’s voice is literally angelic. She sounds like light peering in through the lyrical cloudiness of songs such as, “Not All Our Tears”, “Day Disguise”, “I Thought You’d Fall For Me”, and “Antiquity”. Hearing her voice felt like a bell chiming through silencing themes like grief, rejection, self-loathing, dreams, joy, and love. Make note, I placed the highest and lowest of human plights and endeavors in one statement because, for Hope Sandoval, life feels like a gauntlet match between the opposing energies of light and darkness. Hence, her voice seesaws according the vocal notes and vulnerability she paints in tracks, “Around My Smile” and “Lady Liquid”. Whether it be in relishing love like a sweet fruit or a tossing of it as a rottener of one’s esteem, Sandoval sees life from a height we all wish we can attain.

I swear Hope Sandoval writes and sings her songs out of her body. She seems too blissfully distant, which furthers her concert atmosphere’s ghostly delicacy. Again, those “scary”, for me, pictures of humans long passed but emanating strong poses brought a strange loveliness to Hope Sandoval’s And The Warm Inventions’ show. Amongst instrumentals made to lag and lather is gorgeous discord, the images displayed, and Hope’s celestially bewitching voice, the crowd was able to absorb songs that should be categorized more as sung philosophies or musical anecdotes on what it is to invest in life while accepting its fleeting nature.

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Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions - LIVE, L.A., 2017-10-14 FULL SHOW, 15 songs, AUDIO now on YOUTUBE. https://youtu.be/yaqdg1G9kzc

Later edit: I've added an MP3 audio file of this show to the Boots list thread. The audio file has the same audio quality as you hear at youtube, no better, as these phone recordings were originally recorded at low bit rates, just as yt streams at. MP3 format will not diminish their audio quality. They're lo-fi but are very listenable and enjoyable, regardless!

Thanks go to Facebook fan Group member Stacy Knutsen​ who recorded 14 of the 15 songs of this audio, shared them via the FB Group page, and has kindly allowed me to share them elsewhere. There's just one song that comes from a different source. "I Thought You'd Fall For Me" is audio from a video of the song shot at the L.A. show by FB fan Group member William Magnolia​ and which he posted at this Group page. Thank you William. https://www.facebook.com/groups/6071129 ... oup_header

00 [Intro, band takes the stage and Hope speaks to the audience]
01 Not All Our Tears [new song], starts at 1:09
02 Salt Of The Sea 5:33
03 Around My Smile 9:37
04 Sleep 14:22 (Hope quits the stage less than two minutes into
the song. So it wasn't performed in its entirety)
05 Day Disguise 16:08
06 That Spider 20:43
07 Trouble 24:50
[Hope speaks to the audience after "Trouble." Her words are
included at the beginning
of track 08, before the songs starts]
08 I Thought You'd Fall For Me 29:45
09 Suzanne 35:05
10 Liquid Lady 39:17
(first encore):
11 The Hiking Song 44:12
12 Into The Trees 48:19
13 Antiquity 55:34
(second encore):
14 Let Me Get There 1:01:06 [Hope speaks to the audience]
15 Primitive (The Groupies/The Cramps Cover) 1:08:27

Stacy's phone recordings are quite listenable. As I did with my own Seattle recordings, I made some EQ adjustments to her original song files to try to bring Hope's voice out a bit more clearly and improve the sound.

Stacy recorded just the songs only so as not to over-tax her phone & its battery. She didn't record any of Hope's on stage comments, but William recorded two such segments, The intro at the start of the show, and some comments before "I Thought You'd Fall For Me." I've inserted those where they occurred during the concert. A third segment of on stage comments was recorded at the end of "Let Me Get There by youtuber "jjjijj" who upped several songs from this show to yt. Those comments are also included here.

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-Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions - 2017, Oct. 18, Philadelphia, Theatre of Living Arts
Audio file added to boots list:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/11qetex ... elphia.zip
Very good quality recording site member Yaz_Rock (Rob Y) recorded and shared with me so I could share it further with other fans here and elsewhere. Thank you Rob!

I've also upped this entire Philly show to yt, here: https://youtu.be/CFZXYycIDkA

00 [Intro, band takes the stage]
01 Not All Our Tears [new song]
02 Salt Of The Sea
03 Around My Smile
04 Day Disguise
05 That Spider
06 Trouble
07 I Thought You'd Fall For Me
08 Suzanne
09 Into The Trees
10 Liquid Lady
11 Let Me Get There
12 Antiquity
13 Primitive (The Groupies/The Cramps Cover)

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Waiting for the record of the DC show. Hopefully someone recorded it.

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A youtuber, Tom Scanlan, contacted me to say he has a complete recording he made of the Oct. 13 Berkeley show he would share - which he's done. I have his audio file. Once I get it ready, I'll share it here and on yt. The audio quality is better on it than on the recording of "Into The Trees" we hear on Thomas Attenborough's recording of that one song from Berkeley. So, I plan to replace Thomas's "Into The Trees" with Tom Scanlan's.

The Boston show recording is on its way. The guy who recorded it, for certain reasons is unable to upload his file somewhere where I can DL it, so he's mailing it to me on a disk instead - which could be slow, especially as Canada Customs can sometimes be very slow to process parcels large or small. I'll share it here & elsewhere once I have it.

That will mean at least five out of ten October, 2017 Hope tour shows will have surfaced and be hear-able by fans, not a bad ratio. I think that's about the same ratio as for the 2013 Mazzy Star tour. Recordings turned up of about half those 2013 shows...With luck, drugstore, a 2017 DC show recording may turn up too!

[Emma]

That's a Seattle show pic you found, Emma? Many thanks! It's the only one I've come across. My only consolation up until now is I had lots of L.A. show pics and those looked very similar to Seattle's stage including that Hope wore the same outfit. But this is excellent having an actual Seattle show pic.

Here's another picture of the Seattle show.



Signing CDs and tickets at the New York show (Instagram).


Although Luz Gallardo says it's always a challenge for her to take pictures of Hope with so little light, her photos are gorgeous. (Instagram)

If I post photos here again as attachments (rather than embedding them from a photo hosting site) is there a way I can accomplish what you did with them, i.e. making them immediately 100% viewable, plus enlargeable? I'd like to learn how to do that.

I use a hosting site to upload your resized pictures and link them to a larger picture that was also uploaded to the hosting site. Sadly, I don't think the Upload Attachment function of this board can do the same if the picture is too big. If it does, I don't know how it works.
You can keep on posting your pictures as attachments and i'll resize and link them to the hosting site for you if they overlap.

It often feels lonely posting here anymore. The site's so quiet much of the time I don't even hear crickets! The popular Facebook Group is the polar opposite. People love Facebook nowadays for fan Groups, apparently, and that site is always hoppin' with fan posts, comments, & reactions. I'm over there a lot. However, this .fr site remains by far the most valuable site of the two as a resource & archive for information, live recordings, interviews, etc.

Sorry for not posting very often. I've been through personal difficulties over the past two years and I've mostly come to the board for maintenance/backup tasks only. I haven't had anything really interesting to post anyway. I know I owe you a lot for keeping this board alive with valuable information. Thanks a lot for your regular and informative contributions.

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I also find these on instagram



Click and use the magnifier to enlarge - Emma



Click and use the magnifier to enlarge - Emma



Click and use the magnifier to enlarge - Emma

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Oh,no, I still failed figure out how to fix the pics to the appropriate size.

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That's a Seattle show pic you found, Emma? Many thanks! It's the only one I've come across. My only consolation up until now is I had lots of L.A. show pics and those looked very similar to Seattle's stage including that Hope wore the same outfit. But this is excellent having an actual Seattle show pic.

Here's another picture of the Seattle show.
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Signing CDs and tickets at the New York show (Instagram).
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Although Luz Gallardo says it's always a challenge for her to take pictures of Hope with so little light, her pictures are gorgeous. (Instagram)
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If I post photos here again as attachments (rather than embedding them from a photo hosting site) is there a way I can accomplish what you did with them, i.e. making them immediately 100% viewable, plus enlargeable? I'd like to learn how to do that.

I use a hosting site to upload your resized pictures and link them to a larger picture that was also uploaded to the hosting site. Sadly, I don't think the Upload Attachment function of this board can do the same if the picture is too big. If it does, I don't know how it works.
You can keep on posting your pictures as attachments and i'll resize and link them to the hosting site for you if they overlap.

It often feels lonely posting here anymore. The site's so quiet much of the time I don't even hear crickets! The popular Facebook Group is the polar opposite. People love Facebook nowadays for fan Groups, apparently, and that site is always hoppin' with fan posts, comments, & reactions. I'm over there a lot. However, this .fr site remains by far the most valuable site of the two as a resource & archive for information, live recordings, interviews, etc.

Sorry for not posting very often. I've been through personal difficulties over the past two years and I've mostly come to the board for maintenance/backup tasks only. I haven't had anything really interesting to post anyway. I know I owe you a lot for keeping this board alive with valuable information. Thanks a lot for your regular and informative contributions.

Actually you guys work to maintain this site is amazing! As a Mazzy/Hope fan, I absolutely appreciate that .