RE-UPLOAD: Esben and the Witch - Wave Gotik Treffen, Volkspalast Kuppelhalle, Leipzig, Germany - 19.05.2013 (Flac)

Thanks to Time Bandit for sharing more of his recordings of This Years WGT!

2013-05-18
ESBEN AND THE WITCH
WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN - VOLKSPALAST, KUPPELHALLE
LEIPZIG, GERMANY
AKA "LUCIA'S SECRETS"


source/lineage:   

- Church Audio CA-11 (Omni Caps) mounted on glasses
- Tascam DR-05 @ 24 Bit / 44 kHz
- Cubase (Master, Tracksplitting, DC Offset Remove) -> WAV 16 Bit / 44 kHz
- Trader´s Little Helper 2.6.0 (FLAC Level 8, SBE Fix, Checksum)
- including artwork for Jewel Case


Setlist:

01 - Intro
02 - Iceland Spar
03 - Slow Wave
04 - Marching Song
05 - Lucia At The Precipice
06 - Deathwaltz
07 - Despair
08 - Yellow Wood
09 - Eumenides
10 - The Fall Of Glorieta Mountain
11 - Smashed To Pieces In The Still Of The Night
Encore Break
12 - Corridors


Band:

Rachel Davies - Vocals, Bass, Percussion
Thomas Fisher - Guitar
Daniel Copeman - Drums, Electronics, Guitar


Information:

Due to listening various torrents of Dime, EATW were on my list on WGT too.
Their sound landscapes formed with classic guitars, electronic and acoustic drums and lots of little electric gizmos on the stage was amazing.
Including the superb lights in the venue + the atmosphere another brilliant evening on WGT with high class music.
Their music can be filed under Shoegazing, when you like Alcian Blue or similar check them out.

The band was suprised by the audience by overwhelming cheering for encore so they did another one with Corridors. And nice they stayed after the gig on the bar talking with fans + me and another taper.


TIME BANDIT taped following events on Wave Gotik Treffen 2013

2013-05-17
- Terminal Gods
- The Breath Of Life
- Still Patient?
- Gitane DeMone
- Sex Gang Children

2013-05-18
- The Mescaline Babies
- The Spiritual Bat
- Bloody, Dead & Sexy
- Passion Play
- Skeletal Family

2013-05-19
- Sleeping Dogs Wake
- Esben And The Witch

2013-05-20
- Whispers In The Shadow
- In Mitra Medusa Inri
- I Like Trains


DISCLAIMER:

recording made by NorthernNephilim (DIME: TimeBandit )

Do not transcode to lossy formats or remaster!

Not for Sale !!! Sharing is Caring, do not trade the FLAC´s without info file, checksum

If you like the band, please visit their concerts and buy their records.

official homepages:
http://www.esbenandthewitch.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/esbenandthewitch

Thank You, Very Much

Esben And The Witch - Paradiso (Kleine Zaal), Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 12.02.2011 (Flac)

Thanks to ianmacd for sharing his recording on Dime.

RECORDING:

Type: Audience (master), recorded front of house, 3 metres back from
      the ceiling-mounted left PA stack.
Source: 2 x DPA 4060 mics -> DPA MMA6000 amplifier (100 Hz low-cut filter) ->
        Edirol R-09HR recorder (44.1 kHz/16 bit WAV)
Lineage: Audacity 1.3.12-beta (tracks split, fades added ->
         FLAC (compression level 8) [libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917]


SET LIST:


01. [intro]
02. Argyria
03. Marching Song
04. Chorea
05. Hexagons IV
06. Marine Fields Glow
07. Lucia, At The Precipice
08. Warpath
09. Battlecry/Mimicry
10. Eumenides
11. [encore break]
12. Swans

Running time: 52m 25s


NOTES:

I was back in the Paradiso's Kleine Zaal for the second time this week. This
time, however, it wasn't sold out. Esben And The Witch still have a low
profile in this country, something I suspect will change as the year wears
on.

Whereas Anna Calvi had performed one of the quieter concerts I've seen in the
Paradiso's small upstairs room, Esben And The Witch had other plans.

Ironically, for a band that uses virtually no bass guitar, they managed to
send a shock wave into the audience when the unimaginably and unrecognisably
bass-heavy intro to 'Argyria' kicked in.

Now, I like having my internal organs resonate in harmony as much as the next
bloke, but when you completely relax your jaw and find that your teeth are
chattering to the bass, somebody probably needs to turn the fucker down. If I
had been wearing dentures, they would have jiggled out of my skull. A few
Hertz one way or the other, and I probably would have involuntarily pissed
myself.

They say "if it's too loud, you're too old", but I beg to differ. This isn't
Motörhead and we weren't there to be pulverised. On the contrary, this
fledgling band's debut album, the freshly baked 'Violet Cries', is a layered
and textured affair, brittle and delicate in places. It lends itself to
considered listening with a keen ear.

Imagine being curled up on the couch with a glass of wine and a good book,
while someone shines a halogen lamp into your eyes and his accomplice sounds a
foghorn behind the settee. Such was the impropriety of it all.

With the songs by turns shrouded in a wall of noise and then obliterated to
the point of being unrecognisable as their fragile album counterparts, I found
myself a little bored after twenty minutes, listening to the fixtures and
fittings of the Paradiso vibrating like the dashboard of an old banger.

I persisted, though, and things started to get a little better. Only during
the set-closer, 'Eumenides', did the band come alive and show some of the
potential so plainly evident in the studio.

Daniel Copeman dropped a drum off the stage, then jumped down after it and
started to play it at the head of the audience. Whilst it may not go down in
the annals of rock as the most original stage antic ever lived out, it served
to invigorate an otherwise fairly static performance.

We got all but one song from 'Violet Cries' this evening, plus the non-album
single, 'Lucia, At The Precipice'. The encore comprised a single song, the
album-closing 'Swans'.

Esben And The Witch are unashamedly old-school Goth and there's nothing wrong
with that. They may have dug up a 25 year old time capsule detailing how it
was all done in the mid-eighties, but they've taken the template and updated
it for the digital age.

There are so many loops and layers here that it's no longer obvious which
instrument is making which sound or, indeed, whether it's still being played
by a human-being or looped back by a pedal. Unless you force yourself to care
about the means, you need care only about the end result.

This was a good gig, in spite of what you may now think. Esben And The Witch
are finding their feet as opportunity starts to knock and recognition comes
calling. They're growing up in public and that's never easy.

As I headed downstairs, I pilfered a poster off the wall for an upcoming gig
by The Joy Formidable. Sorry about that, Paradiso.

As usual, I haven't toyed with the recording to artificially enhance it. You
will hear it the way I heard it.

The sound quality is excellent and even the obtrusive bass has been somewhat
quenched by the low-pass filter of my pre-amp. As a result, this recording
actually sounds better to me than the live performance did.

If you put on headphones and turn up the sound, you can relive the bass
assault as if you had been there.

Enjoy!



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