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TRACKLIST:
01. Folding Chair
02. Time Is All Around
03. Eet
04. The Calculation
05. Machine
06. On The Radio
07. One More Time With Feeling
08. Blue Lips
09. Riot Gear
10. Laughing With
11. Bobbing For Apples
12. That Time
13. Après Moi
14. Poor Little Rich Boy
15. Wallet
16. Man of a Thousand Faces
17. Samson
18. Us
19. Ghost of Corporate Future
20. Fidelity
taped, tracked and collated by eclect - http://db.etree.org/eclect
Regina Spektor - 26 June 2009 Pyramid Stage Glastonbury
Zoom H2 > SD Card > Goldwave Tweaks > CDR
Recorded from the middle rail centre
Slight bass reduction and treble lift
Also removal of distorted audience noise between tracks
Appreciative audience in the main, shame about the few talkers
1.Intro
2.The Calculation
3.On The Radio
4.Folding Chair
5.Eet
6.Laughing With
7.One More Time With Feeling
8.Machine
9.Bobbing For Apples
10.That Time
11.Après Moi
12.Poor Little Rich Boy
13.Blue Lips
14.Us
15.Samson
16.Fidelity
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Support the artist if you can, all Regina's albums are truely excellent!
The Calculation
Eet
Blue Lips
Folding Chair
Machine
Laughing With
Human of the Year
Two Birds
Dance Anthem of the 80's
Genius Next Door
Wallet
One More Time with Feeling
Man of a Thousand Faces
Special Edition-only bonus tracks:
Time Is All Around
The Sword & the Pen
Online-only bonus tracks:
Riot Gear
The Flowers (live / preorders only)
Regina's 5th LP is scheduled to be released in June 2009, along with a 2-disc CD/DVD "Special Edition" featuring 2 bonus tracks, 4 videos, and other bonus material.
The downloadable version (via iTunes) features 2 additional bonus tracks (one of which is available only on orders placed prior to the release date).
Orders for the "Special Edition" placed directly from Warner Bros. Records also receive a 14" x 14" lithograph (first 1000 numbered).
She arrived at the building on a
drizzly afternoon in June, just back from a
promotional tour in Europe, where she
took 16 flights in 8 days. She seemed com-
forted by the sights of her hometown. Ar-
riving at the observation deck, she actu-
ally said, "Wow — the Statue of Liberty!"
For an hour or so she gleefully picked
out landmarks, until the rain drove her in-
side. Taking one final glance through the
windows, she said, "It's just nice being
able to look around and see things from a
new angle."
[...]
Ms. Spektor enjoyed a new kind of ex-
posure when the tough yet vulnerable love
song "Fidelity," from "Begin to Hope," was
used in an online video by the Courage
Campaign, in protest of last year's Propo-
sition 8 vote rejecting gay marriage in Cali-
fornia. [...]
Rick Jacobs, the founder and chairman
of the Courage Campaign, called "Fidelity"
the anthem of the movement. "Minds are
changed through storytelling," he said,
"and Regina's song is a great story." Ms.
Spektor said that she considers opposition
to gay marriage "as embarrassing as
white-only drinking fountains," and that
the video is "the nicest use of my song
ever."
[...]
"I've always been fascinated with faith
and religions," Ms. Spektor said over cof-
fee in a Gramercy Park restaurant, a few
weeks before the visit to the Empire State
Building. "Sometimes I'm sarcastic about
it, and sometimes I'm in awe. Sometimes I
feel very connected, and sometimes I feel
angry at it. I don't have a stance or a mani-
festo about any of it, but I'm perpetually
looking at it differently, like a kaleido-
scope."
In person Ms. Spektor often comes off
like someone who lives in her own world.
She remains close to her family and seems
overwhelmed by the machinery of her ca-
reer. Though she is a notorious perfection-
ist with her work, she sometimes gives the
sense that being a recording artist just
kind of happened to her. ("My world is so
weird," she said breathlessly while rushing
to an appointment.)
Asked about the new album's title, she
responded with typical expansiveness:
"I've been thinking a lot about space. It
was one of those slow-motion realizations
how little we are, how far we are from ev-
erything else in our solar system. This idea
of distance started kind of haunting me.
How do you go forth and accomplish
things but not end up leaving everything
you started out with in the dust?"
[...]
"I write a tiny fraction of what
I used to write," she said. "My
only job used to be to just write
songs, and that was a really nice
job to have, but only a tiny
amount of people heard those
songs, and I didn't make a living
from it, and eventually I begged
my parents to let me move back into my room."
With "Far" Ms. Spektor
worked with four different pro-
ducers and ventured into studios
outside of New York for the first
time. "I wanted a master class
situation," she said. "It hit me
that I'm not going to get to make
a record every half a year, so I
might as well work with a lot of
people when I do."
[...]
Ms. Spektor thought for a
minute when this was pointed out
then said that while the
shift wasn't intentional, it
seemed logical. "Maybe I am
skipping over the city and going
from very personal things to the
world, from internal experience
to giant, far-away-from-space ex-
perience," she said. "Maybe it's
because I haven't been in the city
so much because I've been trav-
eling and on the road. Also, I used
to be such a militant city-ist, but
more and more I've seen forests
and nature and oceans, and I
don't know anymore if this is the
awesomest way to live.
"I really thought it was the
only way to live. I grew up in
apartments, you know? I still get
freaked out just being in houses."
Regina kicks off her series of summer shows with a phee-nomenal show at the Beacon Theatre, featuring the live debuts for several songs from far, along with the previously unheard bonus track "Riot Gear" and the devastating "Ink Stains". The ushers haven't finished wiping the drool from my armrest before recordings are posted by both nyctaper and RespektOnline.
Thursday, June 18th
NPR begins streaming the new album in a bid to thwart the hackers. In related news, my biggest thrill remains that one time Björk brushed up against me at the Screening Room on Canal. ::sigh::
Friday, June 19th
Regina visits with John Schaefer at WNYC and plays "Laughing With", "One More Time with Feeling", & "Man of a Thousand Faces".
Saturday, June 20th
"[I have] daily arguments with myself...and I win" -- Regina confronts schizophrenia in a BBC interview (skip ahead to the 1:06 mark).
Sunday, June 21st
The Sunday New York Times reports that Jeff Lynne thinks "Regina’s music is high-class, bizarre and beautiful" and David Byrne is "a fan of Regina’s". I think those guys might be onto something.
Folding Chair
Lucky Penny
Time Is All Around*
Eet**
The Calculation**
Machine**
One More Time with Feeling**
On the Radio**
Blue Lips***
Riot Gear****
Laughing With****
Bobbing for Apples
That Time
Aprés Moi
Human of the Year
Poor Little Rich Boy
Ink Stains
Consequence of Sounds
Man of a Thousand Faces
Samson
Us***
Fidelity****
This show marked the live debuts for "Eet", "The Calculation", "Machine", "Riot Gear", and "Ink Stains". Regina's accompaniment throughout the evening consisted of:
