RE-UPLOAD: The Angels of Light - Session for VPRO, De Avonden, The Netherlands - 03.05.1999 (MP3)

Excellent FM broadcast from Michael Gira's Angels of Light. Thanks to cEnda for this one. Still looking for a lossless version.

Session for VPRO radio, "De avonden", recorded on May 3, 1999.
Broadcast dates: July 8, 1999 (1-9)
Broadcast dates: Sept 9, 1999 (10-12)

The band:

Michael Gira - guitar, lead vocals
Christoph Hahn - lap steel guitar
Thor Harris - vibraphone, percussion
Birgit Staudt - accordeon, piano
Dana Schechter - bass, melodica, keyboards

Notes:
* sometimes the song starts before the inteview is ended,
in that case I made the split so as to capture the full intro of the song
* the beginning of "Praise your name" is missing
* the DJ says the song "Two Women" is called "Home"

Setlist:
01 DJ intro
02 Praise your name
03 DJ talk and interview pt. 1
04 Forever yours
05 DJ talk and interview pt. 2
06 My true body
07 DJ talk and interview pt. 3
08 Two women
09 DJ outro
10 My suicide (Michael Gira solo)
11 DJ talk
12 Untitled love song

Total time: 52:58

Michael Gira - B2 Club, Moscow, Russia - 23.09.2004 (Flac)

This recording is a little rough, but even so quite enjoyable. Thanks to V.S. for sharing his recording through torrent.

Michael also played your brilliance 'Failure' as an encore, unfortunately i forgot turn the tape on side B.

Recording and digitization by V. S.

AUDIENCE RECORDING: with Panasonic RQ-L11GC-S (or similar tape-dictaphone, i
don't remember exactly how it was long ago and i was pretty drunk)

TAPE: TDK SA-X100 high (CrO2) position

TRANSFER: same tape-dictaphone via cable from headphone socket to line in socket
of SoundBlaster Live! (with kX audio drivers)

IN EAC: recording and saved as .wav file

IN COOL EDIT PRO 2: track splitting, deleting extended guitar tuning and adding
a little fade in/out, NO noise reduction or something like t


Setlist:

01. Destroyer (5:53)
02. The Provider (6:18)
03. To Live Through Someone (5:28)
04. Michael's White Hands (4:19)
05. The Family God (3:43)
06. Nations (5:35)
07. The Kid Is Already Breaking (2:59)
08. God Damn The Sun (4:16)
09. On The Mountain (5:03)
10. New Mind (6:24)


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