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In the winter of 2007, musician Will Donaldson assembled a music festival so ambitious the rest of the country has yet to catch up. In a pastoral field, on the weekend of December 8th and 9th, Donaldson’s Next To Last Fest brought together iconic hip-hop duo Themselves, beat-maestro Daedelus and transcendent singer-songwriter Diane Cluck with psychedelic rock collective Dark Meat, Elephant Six’s Circulatory System and three Asthmatic Kitty artists: Jookabox, Liz Janes and Chris Schlarb.
Highlights include Themselves‘ “Poison Pit” (with DoseOne’s hilarious stand-up banter), Hope For Agoldensummer’s beautiful and delicate “Love Like A Sailor” and former Dirty Projectors guitarist Spenking’s “Bad Blood Bubble-Up”. Daedelus masterfully mixes disparate elements into a massive 10 minute live mix, “Jerusalem” finds Liz Janes in fine voice accompanied only by her acoustic guitar and both Daedelus, Liz and others join Chris Schlarb for a live interpretation of Twilight & Ghost Stories.
Diane Cluck performs three songs (two from her masterful album, Oh Vanille / Ova Nil) while Circulatory System and Long Legged Woman provide fascinating demos recordings. All together, the album features over an hour and half of live recordings, radio performances and unreleased demos.
The recordings on Next To Last Songs Vol. 2 are smudged with distortion, cracked with wind and alive with the electricity of a unrepeatable moment in time.
Track Listing
01. I’m Not Who You Think I Am (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Diane Cluck
02. Ponta (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Grampall Jookabox
03. Night Court (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Deaf Judges
04. Love Like A Sailor (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Hope for Agoldensummer
05. Boy Moses (Viking Moses cover, live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Spenking
06. (untitled) (Unreleased demo)
Artist: Circulatory System
07. Live at the Next To Last Festival [mp3]
Artist: Daedelus
08. (excerpt) (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Geoff Reacher
09. The Southern Suite (Unreleased demo)
Artist: Here Comes A Big Black Cloud
10. You Devil You (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: themselves
11. Sandy Ree (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Diane Cluck
12. Bad Blood Bubble-Up (Live at WUGA, Athens) [mp3]
Artist: Spenking
13. Home of the Brave
Artist: Ishues
14. Poison Pit (Live at the Next To Last Festival) [mp3]
Artist: themselves
15. Jerusalem (Live at WUGA, Athens)
Artist: Liz Janes
16. My Ghost (Unreleased)
Artist: Long Legged Woman
17. Fourth Night (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Hope for Agoldensummer
18. 1/2 A Million Miles From Home (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Diane Cluck
19. Twilight and Ghost Stories (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Chris Schlarb
20. Pony Express
Artist: Daniel Clay
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