Congregation X | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Uh, one of the members couldn't make it, but we've

0:02 Speaker 1: got congregation exis here. Welcome everybody.

0:05 Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having user excited to be here.

0:09 Speaker 1: Good good, Yeah, so we've got let's see parish Jake, Alexandria,

0:14 Speaker 1: and Josh. I get it, Okay, nailed it. Bad with names.

0:17 Speaker 1: I've been doing this so long, I met so many people.

0:19 Speaker 1: I'm terrible with names.

0:21 Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean that was the first try. You

0:22 Speaker 2: killed it.

0:23 Speaker 1: So and Nevian is not here. Nevin's name is easy

0:26 Speaker 1: to remember because that's a name you don't hear all

0:27 Speaker 1: the time, you know what I mean. So, is he

0:30 Speaker 1: the only Nevin all of you have ever met?

0:32 Speaker 2: Oh?

0:32 Speaker 3: Yeah, actually no, no, high school.

0:37 Speaker 1: You knew a Evan in high school? All right, all right,

0:39 Speaker 1: very good. Well, so you've got some new music, some

0:42 Speaker 1: studio tracks. I think the last time we had you

0:44 Speaker 1: on the show, if I remember correctly, you didn't have

0:46 Speaker 1: any studio tracks yet, right you You played live because

0:48 Speaker 1: you didn't have any.

0:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was great.

0:51 Speaker 2: But so we uh, we came in and we did

0:54 Speaker 2: like our whole five piece in here live and it

0:56 Speaker 2: was it was a really big fun thing. But Resa,

1:00 Speaker 2: we played a show that we actually live recorded and

1:04 Speaker 2: got some great tracks out of that.

1:05 Speaker 4: That.

1:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd love to share.

1:07 Speaker 1: Oh, excellent, excellent. So that's what these are the ones

1:09 Speaker 1: that we're hearing today. That's what yews are from. And

1:11 Speaker 1: what did we say we want to start with was

1:13 Speaker 1: that have you ever?

1:14 Speaker 2: Have you ever?

1:14 Speaker 1: Have you ever?

1:15 Speaker 3: And this and these?

1:17 Speaker 1: I think I remember that one right, you played that

1:19 Speaker 1: one live when you were here before we did at Okay, okay,

1:21 Speaker 1: so this is now where were these recorded?

1:23 Speaker 2: So? These were recorded at a house show at the

1:26 Speaker 2: Amp in Barrington. Okay, yep. It was a part of

1:29 Speaker 2: the Harmonium Circuit, which is a really cool little house

1:32 Speaker 2: show circuit that we did over the summer.

1:34 Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, after the song, I want to hear

1:37 Speaker 1: more about that. That sounds really interesting.

1:38 Speaker 2: You got it.

1:39 Speaker 1: But let's give this a spin. The band is Congregation

1:42 Speaker 1: X and this is have you ever?

1:53 Speaker 5: Have you ever? What could this be?

2:00 Speaker 6: Standing over there?

2:02 Speaker 7: But I can feel your eyes some me.

2:07 Speaker 5: I can't do it.

2:10 Speaker 7: Some things about you. You carry yourself in a way

2:16 Speaker 7: that I'm so drunk, I assume you my brains.

2:24 Speaker 5: That's too much, you said, I am my God to

2:27 Speaker 5: think that.

2:28 Speaker 7: I believe me the right kind of said.

2:34 Speaker 8: Have you ever thought can you see what I said?

2:39 Speaker 5: It's your fishing?

2:43 Speaker 9: Can't you feel that you're like dressing.

2:48 Speaker 5: By w.

2:51 Speaker 7: So you get cause I'm just ball your mind you.

3:02 Speaker 3: Every time I see your face.

3:05 Speaker 5: That myself on in my friend that you're going to me?

3:42 Speaker 5: So delicas, come away, baby is. Let know that you

3:51 Speaker 5: see the.

3:51 Speaker 7: Way I now I'll go next to you.

3:56 Speaker 5: All that I have got children.

3:59 Speaker 7: Let you up with trueing that to tend How would

4:04 Speaker 7: like to spend some time with.

4:12 Speaker 5: Eno birth stories? Teach that to you to your time

4:24 Speaker 5: yours as I've been listen to love.

4:30 Speaker 7: O.

4:31 Speaker 5: Let you go on your food to be mad, I

4:40 Speaker 5: could teach your soul.

4:42 Speaker 7: May show your other d words slily.

4:51 Speaker 5: You wanted you and not but one? And I got

4:56 Speaker 5: the fl go hook through my mind, wadering if you're

5:14 Speaker 5: the one? Are you believe enough to find out?

5:20 Speaker 2: Do you think me like this?

5:23 Speaker 5: To me? You just don't your you're picking up other

5:37 Speaker 5: I'm picking up when.

5:41 Speaker 7: When if you're home, you'll clear my mind?

5:51 Speaker 5: Well what you're doing? Have you wonder that?

6:04 Speaker 6: My thank you?

6:33 Speaker 4: Have you?

6:42 Speaker 10: Have you ever?

6:45 Speaker 5: I love it?

6:45 Speaker 1: That is so good? Have you ever? That was recorded

6:48 Speaker 1: live the band is Congregation X and we've got four

6:51 Speaker 1: of the members here with us live in studio, and yeah,

6:55 Speaker 1: that is so good. Parents. You started to talk before

6:57 Speaker 1: about the what is it called the Harmonium Circuit.

6:59 Speaker 2: So the Harmonium Circuit. This was the first year of

7:02 Speaker 2: it running, and it's just it's a collection of house shows,

7:07 Speaker 2: a bunch of you know, over the summer people have

7:10 Speaker 2: the outdoor amphitheaters behind their house or something like that.

7:13 Speaker 2: We it's all about supporting local music.

7:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's really cool when you say for

7:19 Speaker 1: people who don't know, like what is a house show?

7:21 Speaker 2: So a house show in this sense, like we went

7:24 Speaker 2: to U We have a friend who is a very

7:27 Speaker 2: big friend of the arts in Barrington who invited us

7:31 Speaker 2: and many other musicians over to his house to play

7:34 Speaker 2: a show he's built out. I mean this almost doesn't

7:38 Speaker 2: even to meet classify as the house show because he's

7:41 Speaker 2: built this big, beautiful amphitheater in his backyard that could

7:45 Speaker 2: probably support like, wow, two hundred, yeah, one or two

7:47 Speaker 2: hundred people, So oh wow, yeah, it was all very cool.

7:50 Speaker 3: Wow beautiful sound too.

7:52 Speaker 11: Really is just the second year that happened, actually, isn't it.

7:56 Speaker 2: So this would be the first year that the harmonium

7:58 Speaker 2: circuit itself has happened. But yeah, we did like a

8:02 Speaker 2: couple house shows, or we did a house show or

8:05 Speaker 2: something last year as well. But okay, yeah, yeah, all

8:08 Speaker 2: about kind of just organizing people together and giving local

8:12 Speaker 2: original artists a chance to you know, take the stage

8:15 Speaker 2: and play.

8:15 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, excellent, And you all were talking off air

8:19 Speaker 1: too about so Josh, this was your not because when

8:23 Speaker 1: you were here before, you had the upright bass.

8:26 Speaker 3: I had the big the big dog, yeah, upright bas

8:29 Speaker 3: the stand up, the big wooden instrument. But on that

8:33 Speaker 3: track right there in that show, that was actually the

8:36 Speaker 3: first time we had all played together where I was

8:38 Speaker 3: on electric bass, okay and playing in front of people.

8:41 Speaker 3: So it was a great change of feel, a change

8:45 Speaker 3: of vibe, and I think we all just we all

8:47 Speaker 3: had a great time.

8:48 Speaker 10: As you can hear you kill it with all the bases.

8:51 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Well I remember when you were here before,

8:54 Speaker 1: like because I'm a bass player, but I've never played

8:56 Speaker 1: an upright bass, so I just remember just kind of

8:58 Speaker 1: watching like I was watching you the whole time because

9:00 Speaker 1: I'm just fascinated by by watching you play. So I'm

9:04 Speaker 1: super curious, like, why why move away from that for

9:08 Speaker 1: at least for this? I mean, is this like a

9:10 Speaker 1: permanent transition, do you think?

9:11 Speaker 4: Or no?

9:11 Speaker 3: It was just for ease of travel sometimes I'm lazy.

9:15 Speaker 5: That makes well.

9:16 Speaker 3: Now, if you show up to the press rooms coming Wednesday,

9:21 Speaker 3: both the big dog and the little tiny electric bass,

9:25 Speaker 3: I'll have both.

9:26 Speaker 11: Thanks, got an acoustic electric bass for you to try to.

9:30 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh wow, all right, I can't wait to

9:33 Speaker 3: try that. Yeah, okay, those things are fun.

9:36 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so you're gonna be you're gonna be traveling heavy.

9:39 Speaker 1: Then you're gonna bring uh my, might just have the

9:42 Speaker 1: full trio, right, bring all the basses. Was it strange though,

9:49 Speaker 1: not playing the upright when when you're used to playing

9:51 Speaker 1: it with congregation X.

9:53 Speaker 3: It's a bit of an adjustment, and you know, we

9:56 Speaker 3: have to maybe be on our toes a little bit more. Yeah,

9:59 Speaker 3: but that's not a bad thing. It was a good change.

10:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, one, Yeah, excellent, excellent.

10:03 Speaker 2: Yeah. You feel the difference in like the energy, because

10:07 Speaker 2: I feel like on upright you tend to lay back

10:09 Speaker 2: and hang out, but then like when you were on

10:11 Speaker 2: the electric base, you were right out there. It was

10:13 Speaker 2: super fun. I mean that that day, I remember we

10:17 Speaker 2: were talking about this in the practice after we all

10:20 Speaker 2: just felt really loose and just really chilled, like we

10:23 Speaker 2: were just we were just vibing and it was so fun.

10:27 Speaker 2: I mean, that was the kind of fun part about

10:28 Speaker 2: those shows that just we were all so relaxed through it.

10:31 Speaker 10: Yeah, except that it was really cold and.

10:36 Speaker 11: Like I had to fight through that with my vocals

10:39 Speaker 11: because I was like shivering.

10:40 Speaker 2: Yeah.

10:40 Speaker 10: So I'm actually really proud of how that came out.

10:43 Speaker 2: Yeah we oh really yeah?

10:45 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, how cold was it that day?

10:47 Speaker 2: Like it was one of the first days where I

10:49 Speaker 2: think it got down into like the what mid to

10:52 Speaker 2: low fifties. Yeah, yeah, cold in the sixties, right right, Yeah,

10:58 Speaker 2: it got it got down there really uh yeah.

11:01 Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, yeah, that's that's cold. And then so

11:06 Speaker 1: did you, like, how long of a set did you

11:07 Speaker 1: play because I assumed did you record everything or.

11:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, we recorded the whole thing, whole kit and kaboodle.

11:13 Speaker 2: I believe we played what an hour or so it

11:17 Speaker 2: was roughly forty five to it roughly forty five to

11:19 Speaker 2: an hour, yeah, okay, okay.

11:21 Speaker 1: And then so the these songs that you recorded are

11:23 Speaker 1: these on an album that you're you've released or is

11:25 Speaker 1: coming out.

11:26 Speaker 2: Or it's so we're actually this next show we're playing,

11:29 Speaker 2: we're raising funds to go into the studio, and okay,

11:34 Speaker 2: we have we've talked about, especially like with this show,

11:37 Speaker 2: putting out live tracks, and this is uh, these are

11:41 Speaker 2: these are some of the really really strong contenders for

11:43 Speaker 2: that because yeah, we we were so locked in that night.

11:47 Speaker 2: We just want to you know, have fun with these

11:49 Speaker 2: tracks and like people enjoy them, relive that moment.

11:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, when you when you decided to record the

11:55 Speaker 1: set that night, was that I mean, what were your

11:58 Speaker 1: expectations did did you expect did you expect it all?

12:01 Speaker 1: Because as a risk when you're recording live, did you

12:03 Speaker 1: expect it all to come out as well as it

12:04 Speaker 1: did or were you surprised at all?

12:06 Speaker 11: We're hoping, I mean, we always hope to have like

12:09 Speaker 11: a little something we can put on the internet, yeah,

12:13 Speaker 11: you know, as an advertisement or just.

12:15 Speaker 10: To share with people that we care about.

12:17 Speaker 11: And fans that we have, like yeah, you know, and

12:21 Speaker 11: and sometimes sometimes we get recordings that are not so great.

12:24 Speaker 11: This time it happened to work out really well, like

12:27 Speaker 11: it was planned ahead of time. We had multiple angles,

12:30 Speaker 11: although I don't know I had it from a different angle.

12:33 Speaker 11: I don't know if I actually sent it to you guys.

12:36 Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, we're getting all kinds of video of

12:38 Speaker 2: it too, Like it was. There's definitely I would say

12:41 Speaker 2: that fear of like, I don't know, it's it's definitely.

12:44 Speaker 2: It feels like a commitment, like everything you know is

12:47 Speaker 2: being committed to recording. But you're playing live, so the

12:51 Speaker 2: second you start, that's out of your mind because you're

12:53 Speaker 2: engaging with the crowd and you're having fun. And yeah,

12:58 Speaker 2: I had the I had fun where like, I was

13:01 Speaker 2: also the sound engineer that night, so I was kind

13:03 Speaker 2: of placing the mics on everybody and making sure that like, oh, okay,

13:06 Speaker 2: you know it's gonna sound It's gonna sound fine. And

13:09 Speaker 2: then during our show, my good friend John Eric was

13:12 Speaker 2: actually mixing us, and yeah, I mean the recording came out.

13:16 Speaker 2: It came out phenomenal.

13:17 Speaker 1: It did.

13:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very easy to mix, very easy to just

13:21 Speaker 2: sit down and work with.

13:22 Speaker 1: So outstanding, outstanding. Well, we should play another track? What

13:25 Speaker 1: should what should we play next?

13:27 Speaker 10: Show you were twenty four, let's just show.

13:30 Speaker 2: You show you. Yeah, okay, dive into some relaxation.

13:33 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent if you're just joining us congregation excess here

13:36 Speaker 1: with us live in studio. And this next track this

13:39 Speaker 1: was recorded live. Where was this again?

13:41 Speaker 2: Barrington in Barrington?

13:43 Speaker 9: Uh?

13:44 Speaker 1: This is this is another great one. This is called

13:46 Speaker 1: show you check this out?

13:53 Speaker 10: Okay, this is a love song.

13:56 Speaker 3: No see.

14:04 Speaker 4: You won't you he.

14:12 Speaker 5: A you?

14:12 Speaker 10: Will you need.

14:17 Speaker 5: Love it when you hold me?

14:24 Speaker 7: I really wanna show you. I'm gonna show you whatta thye.

14:36 Speaker 5: To be with that a thie. I won't treat you

14:42 Speaker 5: as you feel so different from the wrast has.

14:49 Speaker 12: Nobody told you? I want to set you free? Take

14:56 Speaker 12: you there, Come on, lay for dawn.

15:02 Speaker 10: I want to give you.

15:03 Speaker 7: See this day you have been listening.

15:15 Speaker 5: You've been spending your whole life.

15:18 Speaker 7: Helping everybody fly.

15:22 Speaker 5: Come over here with us ratched noise.

15:25 Speaker 9: I guess somebody chase.

15:29 Speaker 5: Love to give you a bag?

15:35 Speaker 12: How won can you seek?

15:37 Speaker 5: See this? Make you smile? Give him the chase I

15:45 Speaker 5: want to show I want you. I won't thank you.

16:07 Speaker 1: Sixty sixty.

16:16 Speaker 7: Mister, you've been spending your whole life helping everybody fly.

17:28 Speaker 4: Come over here with those fractionalis. I've guests some visit

17:33 Speaker 4: chers I love to give you, fir, hope you understand messy.

17:44 Speaker 6: The bl you.

17:47 Speaker 8: You want to shure you wise life to be right over,

17:56 Speaker 8: I'll give you sweet be than you us.

18:04 Speaker 5: Show you won't thank you? Oh want you love it

18:20 Speaker 5: when you hold me a really one show.

18:52 Speaker 7: Thank you?

18:54 Speaker 3: Oh that's nice.

18:54 Speaker 1: That is show you. The band is Congregation X and

18:57 Speaker 1: we have four of the members here with us in

18:59 Speaker 1: studio and yeah that sounds really good.

19:01 Speaker 4: Now.

19:02 Speaker 1: When you were talking off air, did I hear the

19:04 Speaker 1: term ukulele base or base ukulele?

19:07 Speaker 2: Yes?

19:08 Speaker 7: So, uh.

19:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

19:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, all the bases.

19:13 Speaker 2: So when I first joined this group, when it was

19:17 Speaker 2: just Alexandria and Nevin, I was seeing them at an

19:22 Speaker 2: open mic all the time and I thought they were amazing.

19:25 Speaker 2: And at one point they invited me to sit in

19:29 Speaker 2: with them and I was like, oh, yeah, let's do it.

19:32 Speaker 2: And I had again, it's a little ukulele base where

19:35 Speaker 2: it's like it's the whole thing is maybe two feet long,

19:38 Speaker 2: and it's but it has when you plug it in,

19:41 Speaker 2: it has a really full base tone. It's a bait.

19:44 Speaker 2: It's a ukulele strung as a base. Okay, And I

19:48 Speaker 2: sit in with them and there. I guess that was

19:52 Speaker 2: apparently my audition, because next thing, you know, they're like, hey, yeah,

19:55 Speaker 2: you should come over to the Danger room, which is

19:59 Speaker 2: where we and do all of the things and video. Yeah,

20:02 Speaker 2: the studio we practice in. And I was kind of

20:08 Speaker 2: suddenly thinking, oh, I'm gonna be thrown in on like

20:10 Speaker 2: bass or something like that, which okay, but I'm kind

20:12 Speaker 2: of a keys guy. And then I get to the

20:14 Speaker 2: Danger room and there's a piano. I'm like, all right, cool,

20:16 Speaker 2: we're in. Let's go, let's have fun.

20:17 Speaker 10: Think a little bit of an everything guy.

20:20 Speaker 11: Honestly, I need I actually went and saw you as

20:23 Speaker 11: an individual artist and like scoped you out and was like,

20:25 Speaker 11: we need him.

20:28 Speaker 1: Yeah, so Alexandria. So I started with a congregation, IX

20:32 Speaker 1: started with you and Nevin and then and then Perish.

20:36 Speaker 11: Okay, well it's kind of It's kind of funny because

20:38 Speaker 11: I started playing at open mics because of Jake, because

20:41 Speaker 11: he was in my house all the time and it

20:43 Speaker 11: was twenty twenty yeah, and he was like, you should

20:45 Speaker 11: do this, and then Nevin and I met through that,

20:49 Speaker 11: and then him and I started working together. Jake was

20:52 Speaker 11: doing his own thing. I we worked with a different basis. First,

20:57 Speaker 11: it just didn't work out, you know, not for anything bad,

21:01 Speaker 11: bad reasons, but that's good.

21:03 Speaker 2: Yeah.

21:03 Speaker 3: It just texted me up off all the street. They

21:05 Speaker 3: found me on the street corner I had my base.

21:07 Speaker 3: They just called me on No, I'm back back maybe

21:12 Speaker 3: six years ago.

21:14 Speaker 10: Yeah, I met you through theater.

21:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we were both kind of like involved with

21:18 Speaker 3: the Northern Essex Community College theater program, which I'm so

21:22 Speaker 3: thankful for. Shout out to Brian Beatrice. She's an excellent professor. Anyway,

21:28 Speaker 3: through that program, I learned so much about you know,

21:30 Speaker 3: just like and I met so many, so many great

21:34 Speaker 3: people in Alexandria was one of them. And so Action,

21:39 Speaker 3: a mutual friend from both of you know, from that

21:42 Speaker 3: past of hours, reached out and asked me if i'd

21:45 Speaker 3: be interested and uh and in checking out what they

21:49 Speaker 3: have going Nevin and and Alexandria and uh and so

21:53 Speaker 3: I walked in and sat in in the danger room

21:57 Speaker 3: and kind of checked out see what they had going.

21:59 Speaker 3: And you know Nevin, you know his he just always

22:04 Speaker 3: plays the right thing. And Alexandria has the golden pipe.

22:07 Speaker 3: So I was just I was sold right from the beginning.

22:10 Speaker 1: There I am, and then and then so Jake, how

22:12 Speaker 1: did you become a part of congregation X?

22:16 Speaker 2: I just actually showed up one day.

22:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, he actually he was always okay, okay.

22:22 Speaker 13: They had been wanting or asking me to potentially play

22:26 Speaker 13: uh for a while, and and I was being lame

22:31 Speaker 13: and holding off and like I got too much going on.

22:34 Speaker 10: Sorry, Yeah, everything in divine timing.

22:37 Speaker 2: Well, you know, when you're also a frontman of a

22:40 Speaker 2: like a hardcore band at the same time as somebody

22:42 Speaker 2: else asking you to come play drums on something. He

22:46 Speaker 2: kind of got a stick to be in a front

22:47 Speaker 2: man at first.

22:48 Speaker 13: Yeah, I had my priorities with as the frontman initially,

22:52 Speaker 13: and then we we had we had a moment in

22:54 Speaker 13: time in my band where I front that we were

22:59 Speaker 13: kind of taken a bit of a break.

23:01 Speaker 5: Is that is is that the name?

23:04 Speaker 1: Okay?

23:04 Speaker 3: Yeah?

23:05 Speaker 13: Prom so good. Yeah you'll check it out, shameless plug

23:11 Speaker 13: check out my band.

23:11 Speaker 10: It's very different from this music. Yeah, yeah, you love metal.

23:15 Speaker 2: It nice. Nice.

23:17 Speaker 13: And then I just one day I was I was

23:21 Speaker 13: asked if I wanted to sit in, and I showed

23:24 Speaker 13: up and we played a couple of songs.

23:26 Speaker 3: And I just it's been coming back. He's been sitting

23:30 Speaker 3: ever since.

23:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so cool because like its flat we

23:34 Speaker 2: were when when Jake first came in, I was it

23:38 Speaker 2: was like our stuff was really chill and kind of

23:40 Speaker 2: like down down in wavy, you know, we were we

23:43 Speaker 2: had a really cool flow state. And then Jake comes

23:46 Speaker 2: in and he's got this really cool high energy where

23:50 Speaker 2: it's like, oh, you can tell he comes from a

23:51 Speaker 2: really high energy background. Yeah, and he a lot of

23:57 Speaker 2: the time, like he'll keep us from getting very like

24:00 Speaker 2: a little almost too quiet because then like his energy

24:03 Speaker 2: just picks everybody up and it gives It's a huge

24:07 Speaker 2: part of what makes Congregation x is sound really unique

24:11 Speaker 2: from other bands, Yeah, because it has this very like

24:16 Speaker 2: how Yeah.

24:17 Speaker 13: Yeah, I find that I I had I I learned

24:22 Speaker 13: how to drum based off of like early two thousands

24:25 Speaker 13: butt rock and like pop rock music. Yeah, but my

24:30 Speaker 13: metal influence still comes out these days with like changing

24:33 Speaker 13: to cut time and some spots and going a little

24:36 Speaker 13: bit quicker, hitting a little bit harder and whatnot. But

24:38 Speaker 13: but the the overall I guess consensus from the audience

24:44 Speaker 13: is that my supposedly my drumming adds a pop aspect

24:49 Speaker 13: to the more the more jazzy classical style of the band. Yeah, yeah,

24:55 Speaker 13: it yeah, spices it up a little bit.

24:58 Speaker 1: Yeah excellent.

24:59 Speaker 3: I I think something that's been so fun about, just

25:02 Speaker 3: like since the start of this band has been the

25:06 Speaker 3: fact that our sound has been something that we've been

25:09 Speaker 3: you know, having to work towards, having to meet in

25:12 Speaker 3: the middle between all of these different styles to be

25:15 Speaker 3: able to you know, create something that's cohesive hopefully that

25:19 Speaker 3: something that people want to listen to, right right exactly.

25:21 Speaker 1: Yeah.

25:21 Speaker 2: I mean Josh has made me so much of a

25:23 Speaker 2: better pianist just by you know, me being able to

25:27 Speaker 2: listen to him as a bassis playing and like when

25:30 Speaker 2: he whenever he does sit down at the piano, he

25:32 Speaker 2: always blows me away and there's always something I'm like,

25:34 Speaker 2: I should learn that.

25:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, it works both ways, and it works. We're all

25:38 Speaker 3: we're all kind of like we all have interests in

25:40 Speaker 3: a lot of these different styles instruments, and yeah, so

25:44 Speaker 3: it's it's a really great exchange of our interests.

25:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, well we should, Uh what

25:50 Speaker 1: did you want to play next? Do you want to

25:52 Speaker 1: play Evergreen?

25:52 Speaker 3: Oh?

25:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hit Evergreen? Get to get into the trenches

25:55 Speaker 2: a little bit.

25:56 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us Congregation acts. Oh by the way,

25:58 Speaker 1: so before I play this, and I know I asked

26:00 Speaker 1: you this last time you're here, But where does a

26:03 Speaker 1: name come from? Congregation X?

26:04 Speaker 11: Because it's so Actually it's really funny that, like our

26:09 Speaker 11: name story is kind of funny because it was really

26:12 Speaker 11: just that Nevin kept putting us in the Google Google

26:14 Speaker 11: calendar as Congregation X because we didn't have a name, okay,

26:18 Speaker 11: And eventually we decided that that was actually the perfect

26:21 Speaker 11: name because originally him and I wanted to start a

26:25 Speaker 11: band that was like, you know, had more like rotating artists,

26:30 Speaker 11: like whoever was in on the project was in the

26:32 Speaker 11: on the project.

26:33 Speaker 10: And then we just so.

26:33 Speaker 11: Happened to organically, you know, find the everybody here that

26:39 Speaker 11: is actually now like a fixture. But it happened very naturally,

26:43 Speaker 11: you know, Like so we wanted it to be a

26:46 Speaker 11: name that kind of suited whatever vibe we were going

26:50 Speaker 11: for whenever we wanted to you know, like and who

26:54 Speaker 11: like because sometimes we would have one artist working with

26:58 Speaker 11: us and then we'd have another one, and like there

27:00 Speaker 11: was a it was never the same in the beginning.

27:04 Speaker 11: But now we have all five of us, and if

27:07 Speaker 11: we have somebody sit in with us, they're just our guests.

27:10 Speaker 11: So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's where it came from.

27:13 Speaker 11: It literally was just a silly like fill in name

27:18 Speaker 11: because we didn't have a name, and now.

27:21 Speaker 10: That's our name, man.

27:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.

27:23 Speaker 2: There was one practice it was I think right before

27:26 Speaker 2: we played the Stone Church where we all sit down

27:28 Speaker 2: and we're like, so do we want to change the name,

27:30 Speaker 2: And it felt like the one time that we had

27:32 Speaker 2: to be like, all right, let's try and throw other

27:34 Speaker 2: things out, and we all just sit there silently like

27:37 Speaker 2: is there something Nah, No, we're Congregation acts.

27:40 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, very cool. All right, so let's give this

27:43 Speaker 1: a spin. This was recorded live, of course. This is

27:46 Speaker 1: Congregation X and the track is Evergreen.

28:01 Speaker 14: Street Signs every Green Now it turning good, sis other night,

28:12 Speaker 14: split a sirey, hands.

28:13 Speaker 5: On the way here to find you.

28:20 Speaker 2: Be blinds glassy. I stand out in the street.

28:29 Speaker 5: Room, I mean gritty ways. It's nothing that I could

28:34 Speaker 5: have seen.

28:38 Speaker 3: We got down into.

28:40 Speaker 15: The river to wash ourselves clean and thee I swear

28:45 Speaker 15: to tea get all in me ohever in mind.

28:50 Speaker 5: Hold you by the trouble that you've seen?

28:53 Speaker 2: Won't you be green?

28:55 Speaker 5: Won't you be over?

29:17 Speaker 6: They do?

29:19 Speaker 2: But always see he's the cracks you may.

29:27 Speaker 15: Find the glass in the alan when I fast through

29:38 Speaker 15: deciding where you fire the one around you? Funny laying

29:48 Speaker 15: on the ground last week.

29:51 Speaker 5: And we didn't tell the trees.

29:56 Speaker 15: We go downtil the river to wash yourselves clean?

30:01 Speaker 5: And has worn't you to get old? And meet me away?

30:08 Speaker 5: My old you? But the trouble you see, won't you

30:12 Speaker 5: be heather cream? Won't you be.

30:27 Speaker 6: There?

30:32 Speaker 5: There? Day? Go down into the river to wash yourselves clean?

31:06 Speaker 5: The ice weren't too deep to get all.

31:10 Speaker 2: We need hope, Heaven and I hold you for the

31:14 Speaker 2: trouble that you've seen.

31:16 Speaker 6: Won't you be.

31:17 Speaker 5: Over, queen? Won't you be over? We got down to

31:22 Speaker 5: the river to wash yourselves clean. Andy ice weren't too

31:27 Speaker 5: deep to get hold.

31:29 Speaker 15: We need honk, Heaven and mind hold you for the

31:34 Speaker 15: trouble that you've seen.

31:36 Speaker 1: Won't you be ever green?

31:38 Speaker 5: Won't you be ever.

32:07 Speaker 2: Thank you?

32:09 Speaker 3: Oh?

32:09 Speaker 1: That is nice? That is evergreen? Recorded live? Of course.

32:12 Speaker 1: The band is Congregation X, and we've got four of

32:15 Speaker 1: the five members here in studio with us, and yeah,

32:18 Speaker 1: another another gray track. You kind of you kind of

32:21 Speaker 1: pull off. Uh it's kind of a live fade out

32:24 Speaker 1: like you would hear on a studio track, but you

32:26 Speaker 1: pulled it off live really well. It's really good.

32:29 Speaker 2: That was a random idea that just kind of came

32:31 Speaker 2: to us in the studio. We didn't know how to

32:34 Speaker 2: how to end it, and then you, Josh just started

32:37 Speaker 2: playing these awesome harmonics on the upright, and I was like, oh, yeah,

32:40 Speaker 2: that's it.

32:40 Speaker 13: Yeah, like, yeah, they rang through so beautifully with the

32:44 Speaker 13: with the electric bass in that cut right there.

32:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, I hadn't heard that cup before.

32:48 Speaker 1: Oh really it's so good though, Oh yeah, really good,

32:50 Speaker 1: really good. So what is what does the future hold

32:54 Speaker 1: for Congregation X? What are your next You kind of

32:56 Speaker 1: told me a little bit off there, but yes, Wolpe.

33:02 Speaker 2: So Josh had alluded to this a little bit at

33:04 Speaker 2: the start of this. This coming Wednesday, we have our

33:09 Speaker 2: last show for probably the next couple months in southern

33:13 Speaker 2: New Hampshire and we'll be playing opening for Soul Color

33:16 Speaker 2: and Friends at the press Room. And that's this Wednesday,

33:20 Speaker 2: November twelfth, and yeah, doors at six, show at seven.

33:25 Speaker 2: If you find us on Instagram at Congregation X all

33:29 Speaker 2: the ticket links and things like that are going to

33:31 Speaker 2: be there. We'll be debuting some new music there. We're

33:34 Speaker 2: going to be selling merch and I mean, anybody who's

33:38 Speaker 2: been to the press room knows that, like that's it's

33:41 Speaker 2: hallowed ground for an up and comer.

33:44 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's awesome drinks, awesome food, great service, the vibees. Right,

33:48 Speaker 3: oh yeah, it's a great place.

33:49 Speaker 2: But absolutely, But after that, I think I'd said this

33:55 Speaker 2: before we started, we're kind of just going into a

33:57 Speaker 2: bit of a hibernation. We're going to be working on

33:59 Speaker 2: some new music and really hitting the songwriting hard hitting

34:04 Speaker 2: hitting the studio too as well, really going in and

34:08 Speaker 2: we're making new music exactly. We're getting ready to hit

34:12 Speaker 2: twenty twenty six like a bus.

34:13 Speaker 1: Excellent, so excellent, very good, very good. Are so are

34:17 Speaker 1: you going to be doing a studio album with the

34:20 Speaker 1: with these songs?

34:21 Speaker 2: Are yep? Oh definitely, Oh yeah so the lie We

34:25 Speaker 2: love the live versions because our energy is very live.

34:28 Speaker 2: But yeah, we are going to be sitting down in

34:30 Speaker 2: the studio very soon and uh, well congregating, I guess.

34:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, there you go outstanding. Where's the

34:39 Speaker 1: best place too for people to go? Online to keep

34:41 Speaker 1: up with everything that you're doing.

34:42 Speaker 2: So you can find us on Facebook or on Instagram

34:45 Speaker 2: at Congregation X. Ok those are our two most easily

34:48 Speaker 2: accessible and most active places that we're hanging out.

34:53 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, outstanding. Uh So, in a moment, we're going

34:55 Speaker 1: to play this track twenty four hours. That's the that's

34:58 Speaker 1: why we haven't played yet, right, So we'll do that

35:00 Speaker 1: and the segment. By the way, if you are listening

35:02 Speaker 1: live on Saturday, stick around. We've got Gnarley Darling. They're

35:06 Speaker 1: going to play live in the second hour and then

35:07 Speaker 1: the third hour, Volley is returning to the show. So

35:10 Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing those guys. But we're gonna close

35:15 Speaker 1: out this segment with this track twenty four hours. Anything

35:17 Speaker 1: we should know about this one before we play it.

35:19 Speaker 10: The first song that was ever written by Congregation X.

35:22 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding.

35:23 Speaker 11: It's actually the first song I've ever written in my life.

35:25 Speaker 11: I wrote it on my thirtieth birthday.

35:27 Speaker 3: Oh okay.

35:28 Speaker 10: Nevin stayed up super late and just like got it out.

35:32 Speaker 1: Yeah oh wow.

35:34 Speaker 10: And then these guys enhance the out of it.

35:36 Speaker 1: Oh that's okay, we got we got the delay, I

35:40 Speaker 1: got it, don't worry.

35:41 Speaker 10: Sorry, these guys enhanced it quite a lot.

35:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, quite a lot, quite a lot, quite a lot.

35:49 Speaker 2: Oh my god, Andrew Y that's okay out of all

35:51 Speaker 2: of us too, my birthday.

35:54 Speaker 3: It's the song that we've worked on the longest, and

35:57 Speaker 3: like we had said, we're kind of figuring out our

35:59 Speaker 3: sound as time goes by. So I think maybe of

36:02 Speaker 3: all the songs that we play, this might be the

36:05 Speaker 3: most representative of our sound as Congregation X.

36:09 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, very cool. I like that, Joshua, Yeah, absolutely, okay.

36:13 Speaker 1: So we will end, Uh, we'll end the segment with this,

36:15 Speaker 1: but again, thank you all all four of you, Parish, Jake, Alexandria,

36:19 Speaker 1: josh really appreciate you coming in. Yeah, have you and

36:22 Speaker 1: hello to Nevan if you're listening, and uh, we're gonna

36:25 Speaker 1: hit this track. Okay, here it is. This is twenty

36:27 Speaker 1: four hours Congregation X.

36:47 Speaker 7: Guys, fool of Motion, taking Honor in.

36:57 Speaker 5: Heaven.

37:00 Speaker 7: Everything's so sweet, I falling down.

37:08 Speaker 9: Again and again and also wat to finally complete.

37:20 Speaker 12: Seems about best.

37:22 Speaker 5: Hi, twenty four hours just ain't.

37:40 Speaker 12: It's like time.

37:41 Speaker 5: I'm just against me.

37:46 Speaker 6: Close.

37:47 Speaker 5: You'll see.

37:49 Speaker 8: I would these and moments passed by I can in

37:52 Speaker 8: motivationally dry.

37:58 Speaker 5: All to the pas too. I don't thank you for

38:03 Speaker 5: sure and me away a beautiful lesson.

38:07 Speaker 6: Every day life is like the.

38:09 Speaker 5: Ocean right away.

38:14 Speaker 10: Sometimes it feels so tired.

38:18 Speaker 5: The end of the day comes too fast. When times

38:23 Speaker 5: it's a kid dreams, who gets haird on this las?

38:28 Speaker 5: Week by week seems I got this time.

38:35 Speaker 6: The more us.

38:39 Speaker 12: Twenty four hours just ain't know.

39:00 Speaker 5: So thank you for all the love you got through

39:06 Speaker 5: the time. Yeah, we've been through. Oh, I'm so grateful you.

39:17 Speaker 10: I'm proud of you have have to come.

39:21 Speaker 5: I fanni f I beloved your lessons, like me to

39:29 Speaker 5: live my life in love so free.

39:40 Speaker 3: It seems a lot first time.

39:48 Speaker 8: Twenty four hours, It just doesn't seems to got last time.

39:55 Speaker 5: Dat you be here twenty four hours? It just taken loa,

40:13 Speaker 5: It just ain't