Mv & Ee

Toasted Cookie / Muy Alto / Toasted Clam

MP3 $9.90

07/19/2011 655035003207

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Nice vibe = a nice price 3 fer from MV & EE and all their open roads - lovingly restored for YOU from a sweet spot in the tapers pit. Dig this triad courtesy of Heroine Celestial Agriculture, THE spectrasound you've come to know and love from this division of Child Of Microtones. You are immersed and right there, right now:

TOASTED COOKIE: we respectfully call the goose/moloney rhythm section of the golden road "the toasted clam", partially in honor of the clamtones, always in honor of toasting and fully cos you never know where it is gonna open up with this unit. hard to net the sound and we always try to set sail. we'd been playing together as a quartet and beyond for awhile, even way before the "TOASTED CLAM" disc from which rounds out this trilogy...this set is lovingly referred to as the "toasted cookie" cos in many ways it is a reprise of the spirit found at the classic electric issue set. it was a wild evening, crystalline roses laid down some sik solo strings, zebu let it rip with high harmonix and the family underground were in town - KILLER - yeah that kinda nite! all synapses were firing on redemption and then some, we were gettin' gone. yeah we've been playin' together since even before THAT double LP. thurston was in the tapers pit, he said somethin' like "youse sound good in this room". we even pulled out the burden, burn den indeed. MV/EE/RONGOOSE/MO'LOW

MUY ALTO: a mellow autumn harvest duo set from the same room just a bit over half a year earlier, we really dig playing feeding tube records and tapes it is THE premier place for underground sound in the valley area, 'cept for bill nace's venerable thursday nite hang down the street. you can feel winter comin' on as erika and i get into the nocturne and warm fires. rare appearance of "death don't have no mercy" that hadn't been played live for quite some time. up close and personal. MV/EE

TOASTED CLAM: this was a heavy set as our friend suzanne who ran the issue project room had just passed away. we were lucky in that we had played EVERY issue space (there was an east village one and one in a brooklyn silo as well!). through those shows and other action we always feel like family when we play under their roof. we did two sets this night, one acoustic duo exchange and then we came back on for this electric blast off. "home comfort" from the 1st set made it on to our live LP on woodsist. for us it helps to play acoustic first, you get warmed up and used to the room. whether we get "better" is unknown. know this: we really get loose as only the clam can. open it up and matrix...this was the first show of our "L.A. turnaround" tour back in october 2009. enjoy the rides. MV/EE/RONGOOSE/MO'LOW