MV & EE (Matt Valentine & Erica Elder)
Live Box Set

A Norman Records recommendation (24th July 2009)

Cover art for Live Box Set by MV & EE (Matt Valentine & Erica Elder) Description: Monster 12 cassette box set on Blackest Rainbow, limited to 250 copies
Format: Tape
Genre(s): Psychedelia / Space Rock
Label: Blackest Rainbow
Price:
£46.49
Availability: Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

4Rating: 4
...according to our on 24 July 2009.

MV & EE also known as Matt Valentine and Erica Elder fans are in for a real treat with the arrival of a gargantuan 12 x cassette box set. 'Road Trips, Live Road 2002-2009' is an intimate and compelling document of the couples live shows during that period. The recordings sound really fantastic and have a wonderful lo-fi quality that really makes you feel like you could have been present at the recordings. They're joined on various performances by Jeremy Earl, The Golden Road, The Wolfpack, The Bummer Road and Chris Corsano. The majority of the shows are from the US although there are also recordings from Paris, Toronto and various UK venues. This really is a joy to behold and I know that a lot of hard work has gone into its creation. For a fan of any artist something like this is a real gem and so for MV & EE fans I'd say this was totally essential. This is a collaborative release from Blackest Rainbow with top geordie lads Alt Vinyl. 250 copies for the world.

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The music is sounding sweet, and its pretty epic to say the least. The box set documents the MV & EE live experience in various incarnations between 2002 and 2009. The music is entirely unreleased material (with the exception of Barn Joint featuring J Mascis and Tom Carter, which was issued as a bootleg CDR in the Heroine style, but was actually unofficial, MV just received a stack in the mail with no return address). Highlights include a 2002 MV & EE Medicine Show performance, the Barn Joint jam with J Mascis and Tom Carter, a new band, MV & EE with the Wolfpack, a recent set with Jeremy Earl of Woods, as well as classic Bummer Road and Golden Road jams. The box set will be presented chronologically and culminates in a Pete's Pix Vol. 2 featuring 8 tracks from various dates mainly in the UK (including tracks from the Thurston Moore curated ATP in 2006, and Dylan Nyoukis' 2006 Colour Out Of Space fest - both of which feature Chris Corsano)

THE MV & EE MEDICINE SHOW

citybillies

my love for you has turned to life
york street blues
meditations on frankie
rank stranger
buck creek girls
ganga gurls

TRT: 25:41

MV/EE/TIM BARNES

FREE88point7 LOFT
brooklyn, NY 5/23/02

tapers pit: tom roe

some distortion was present on the only surviving source tape, the best efforts have made to remove all imperfections, we hope that what can be heard does not distract from the listening pleasure of this historical document


MV & EE with THE BUMMER ROAD
tonic
nyc 7/18/2005

the suncatcher blossoms a novatone

recorded by jim hildreth

1. suncatcher >
    other kinds rama >
    mountains of yaffa >
    death don't have no mercy

2. meditations on payday

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3. tea devil

4. environments > solestrial

5. cold rain

MV/EE/SAMARA/JIGGS

*VOLUME PEAK AT 10 MINUTE MARK TRACK ONE


MV & EE with THE BUMMER ROAD

abstract blues & egyptian mud

1. parchman farm >
2. suspended in the sky
3. poor boy variations
4. death is my friend >
5. who do you abort?

TRT: 43:40


MV/EE/WILLIE/SAMARA/NEMO/SPARROW/JIGGS/S.FREYER, ESQ.

campfire sounds
acra, NY 7/15/06

tapers pit: nemo/spectra/soundboard matrix


MV & EE with THE BUMMER ROAD

"pastis king"

cold rain > tea devil

----

boo woe
death don't have no mercy

TRT: 62:36

paris november 11th, 2006
en marge

mv / ee / samara / nemo / sparrow wildchild / mo' jiggs / afonso simoes / jorge martins


MV & EE with THE GOLDEN ROAD

"BARN JOINT"

1. I GOT CAVES IN THERE >
    THE BURDEN (15:59)
2. SUMMER MAGIC (6:07)

----

3. COLD RAIN > ENVIRONS (9:46)
4. EASY LIVIN' (6:29)

TRT: 38:20

MV/EE/TOM CARTER/J MASCIS

venue: red barn
amherst, MA
10/16/07

tapers pit: john shaw


MV & EE with THE GOLDEN ROAD

LOBSTORA vs. TONE CRABS

1. EASY LIVIN' (07:48)
2. GET RIGHT CHURCH (10:31)
3. LAZY LIGHT (06:09)
4. HAMMER > ENVIRONMENTS > EAST MOUNTAIN JOINT (23:46)

TRT: 48:15

MV/EE/WILLIE/DOC/MUSKOX

venue: floristree auditorium
baltimore, MD
6/14/08

audience tape


MV & EE with THE WOLFPACK

"yurt aspects"

1. you matter (23:17)

mv/ee/rafi/paul/bart/emory

goshen, MA 8/2/08
venue: the yurt
wickermania festival 2008


"rural centrifuge"

decade
drone trailer
tea devil
cold rain


8/3/08
mv/ee/paul/rafi

brattleboro, VT
venue: tinderbox


SIDE TWO IS LONGER, PLEASE TAKE NOTE


MV & EE with JEREMY EARL

"he's on tonight, saddleback"
"multiple gravitrons"

the hungry stones (06:27)
huna cosm > anyway (16:58)
valves rap (01:25)
tea devil > weatherhead hollow (21:11)
gravitron rap (03:34)
drone trailer (11:49)

TRT: 61:24

MV/EE/JEREMY "woods" EARL

venue: cake shop
nyc
1/20/09

tapers pit/matrix: spectra/jim hildreth

check out youtube - thx to theo angell & punkcast


MV & EE with THE WOLFPACK

"mamma zooed"

anyway
hungry stones
huna cosm
----
tea devil > cold rain

TRT: 42:50

mv/ee/rafi/paul

richmond, VA
the triple
1/23/09

tapers pit: spectra


MV & EE

"smoked bossier"

hungry stones
huna cosm
huna rap
anyway
martyn rap
freight train
erie cotten rap
cold rain
weatherhead > drone trailer

shreveport, LA
art space
1/29/09

tapers pit: spectra


MV & EE with THE GOLDEN ROAD

"sequential circuits & fiber"

1. the hungry stones
2. huna cosm
3. profile rap

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4. anyway
5. the burden
6. easy livin'

MV/EE/DOC/MUSKOX

tapers pit: ayal "glass tomb" senior
1234 bloor street
toronto, ON canada
venue: vintage by the pound
2/7/09

be sure to visit live footage from this on youtube captured in the pit by dreamweapon films


PETE'S PIX VOLUME TWO
compiled by pete coward 2/21/07

01. cocola moves thru the bizarre
      CB2 basement, cambridge UK 5/31/2005

02. really poor boy
       shaw library, london school of economics
       london, UK 11/14/06

03. codeine
       the port mahon, oxford, UK 12/6/04

04. solestrial (w/samara & nemo)
      albany bar, london, UK 12/20/04

05. special rider blues
      maximum arousal farm, guilford, VT 4/01/05
      (erika (space echo/live dub), mo' jiggs (harp))    

06. color out of the canned (w/samara & chris corsano)
      colour out of space festival
      the ocean rooms, brighton, UK 11/12/06

07. canned approximations
      ATP, minehead, somerset, UK 12/09/06
      (w/the bummer road - willie, samara, nemo, sparrow, jiggs, simoes, corsano)
      thx to j mascis and david keenan for loaning me their guitars

08. death don't have no mercy
       the red rose, london, UK 11/13/06