This week we have not one but 2 MV/EE LP's. And they're both live! They're also different so don't think they're both the same album or anything! There's one called Live Road on Blackest Rainbow (you may remember the 12 cassette live box they put out a while back?) and there's one on Woodsist. The BR features tracks recorded from a number of shows in the US from November 2009. The Woodsist one 'Home Comfort' features tracks from 2008 and 2009 also recorded in the US. It's a bit weird getting 2 live albums in one week but listening to them they're quite different to the album tracks. The songs sound even more laid back and drawn out (almost dubbyon one of them)...But you get the usual mix of stoned hippy jams, some psychey raggae workouts and some hearty blues rock. Both albums are great and I much prefer 'em to the last album they did on Ecstatic Peace... it makes more sense live!
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What their label says...
Here is the first ever all live LP
of "MV & EE" material and it is the perfect example of the scene in
the tapers pit. The familiar tunes which have become staples in their
set shine with an unheard intensity with killer solos and sonic
excursions into the unknown, and then there is the deep of their
singular 'environments', their space which manages to showcase the
pastoral freakouts and cosmic raga forms so singular to this unique
band. Just as their recent run of releases on Ecstatic Peace! and
Dicristina consolidates the MV & EE private press universe and
Child Of Microtones orbit with the essence of the Maximum Arousal Farm
sound "Home Comfort" does the same to distill the gems of their live
shows onto sweet wax. For those familiar with Matt and Erika's cottage
label "Heroine Celestial Agriculture", known to the heads as "Heroine",
this LP reads like a best of curated by the 'you are there' Swingin'
Pig and the results are a stunning cross section of their duo exchange,
funky trio with Woods' Jeremy Earl and big band exploratory stomp with
Doc Dunn, Muskox and Willie Lane of The Golden Road. Here is the true
sound of "MV & EE" with the songs, the extended jams and the
feeling. This seminal duo and all they sail with need to be heard live
and need to be heard live often, what a glorious document from the
tapers pit. That's tapers pit twice in a paragraph, class. Peace.
