Matt Connarton Unleashed 2-8-25 hour 2

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3:21 Speaker 10: I do love that song that gets stuck in my head ever since the last time. We had Kate Shimkey from Darling Hill here with us in studio. Welcome everybody. It is Matt Connorton unleashed. We have entered our number two new Marrow dose on this Saturday morning. Jenny is here as well, of course at the news table. It is today's Saturday, February eight, two thy twenty five, and we have joining us now. So we did play earlier we did the radio premiere of the new track from Tyler Allgood, who is one of the fine people here with us in studio, and I'm who sorry, let me get rid of that.

4:03 Speaker 10: I don't know where that's coming from.

4:11 Speaker 10: I think I found it. Hi, Tyler, go ahead and say hello.

4:14 Speaker 1: Hey everybody.

4:15 Speaker 10: Nope, that Mike's why is it? I'm having trouble with that. Mike say hello again, Hello everybody. I found it here. So Tyler all Good is here also, Kate Shimkey is here. Welcome back, good morning, and why don't you go ahead and introduce you brought some associates with you. Oh, yes, we'll get into we have a we have a lot to talk about today, lot lots of lots of good stuff.

4:38 Speaker 3: My associates, Yes, yes, I will. To my right is my partner in life, Aaron Durman. He's also my musical partner. He performs with me in Darling Hill.

4:47 Speaker 10: Hello, Aeron, welcome to the show. Hello.

4:49 Speaker 3: And then I have on my left Nicholas Chico. He's been like my I call my rider die right left hand man. I guess okay, for the past ten years he kind of helped me grow our music community, has done a lot of sound support, oh, very cool, and lighting support and probably a lot of unbuild therapy.

5:13 Speaker 1: Yeah.

5:13 Speaker 3: And so they both also work in audio. So Aaron works for Earthworks Audio, it's really, you know, pretty popular high definition microphone company. And Nick, if you don't mind me saying, works for Upstream Sound, which provides a lot of light and sound support for venues and festivals up and down the East Coast.

5:31 Speaker 10: Oh, very cool, very cool. And so now why have you brought Let's get right to the really exciting part. Why have you brought everyone. Why why have you brought all these people here with you today?

5:41 Speaker 3: Well, I kind of want to shed a light on the people behind the scenes of music. I think that you know, I'm a musician and we started our own music community in our backyard. Aaron and I live on a land trust. It's about one hundred acres of nature that we live on, and we built a small stage about ten years ago. And I would literally go into every bar and meet local musicians and kind of ride on the coattails of my husband's job and just say, you know, my husband works for Earthworks. You have some great gear to play with at home.

6:08 Speaker 3: Would you like to come play with us and we'll put you on our stage and host you at house concerts, your recording sessions.

6:14 Speaker 10: Yeah.

6:15 Speaker 3: So we've been doing that for about eight years. But you know, a lot of things have changed over the years, and here we are now in twenty twenty five, and I've got an art studio on Welton and it's fairly small, but I kind of want to work with a room that's small and intimate and really give musicians an opportunity to share their original music in a setting that's not bombarded with like a bar scene or too much alcohol or a house party that's too loud, like like a nice back and forth between the audience and the musician to share, you know, their music in a way that's more conducive to like a grassroots vibe.

6:50 Speaker 3: You know, you can support the artists directly, you can buy their merch. You know, we don't really take a cut. So in order to do that, I need a lot of support. I need sound support. I need you know, a lot of the managing of it and the networking. But when it comes down to the day of Nick's very good at implementing the gear. Aaron understands it given his background. So, yeah, this is our first time being indoors. We've been doing it outdoors, oh okay, out of our backyard for like I said, eight years.

7:17 Speaker 3: We've had as little as like twenty people show up, and we've had as much as like one hundred and fifty to two hundred and one day. I think the most we ever hosted was eighteen bands in one day.

7:25 Speaker 10: No kidding. Yeah, that's that's a that's a long yeah event.

7:30 Speaker 3: We did it though, and some of the bands I see here on your show. So yeah, I'm excited to announce our spring lineup in our listening room. It's only twenty seats, so I only have to manage Oh wow, yeah, I only have to manage twenty people. Where before it was like I just had like this huge landscape of you know, Rando people just showing up right now, this is a little more condensed.

7:52 Speaker 9: You know.

7:52 Speaker 10: So it sounds like a perfect scenario for if say someone is releasing an album and they just want to you know, they want to do something where you know, I mean, you can do people have these release parties. People have been doing that forever these you know, but if you have like a CD release party at a bar or something, you know, then you run into that thing where a lot of the people who are there they aren't there for the release party. They're there to drink, and you know, you're kind of the background music.

8:19 Speaker 10: But but this sounds like it's perfect for people who really very intently want to listen to They're there specifically for that, for that purpose. It reminds me of years ago. You know, I worked for for a long time, I worked for well it became Fye, but it used to be do you all remember Strawberries? Yeah? And uh, I worked for them, and we would do these, you know, sometimes they would, like the store managers would go to Boston for a release party for an up and coming artists who we were going to be carrying their music in our stores and so, and it was very much you know, there would be alcohol there and whatnot, but it was very much you know, you're not there to drink, You're there specifically, and of course you know, people were watching us too because it was a company thing, but we were there specifically to pay attention to the music and this artist and learn about them and the album that was coming out that we were going to be selling.

9:14 Speaker 10: And it was very focused on that. But was this always kind of the goal, like when you started doing these, you know, because I think the first time that you were on the show you had talked about that how these were outdoor events. Yes, was it always the goal to do something inside?

9:30 Speaker 3: It was always I'd get frustrated with the New England weather. Yes, And I don't pay a guarantee, so I'm very transparent about that. I don't do all this because we love to do it, but we also don't have a lot of money to pay people. So there's this reciprocity, this understanding that if they want as bad as I do, you got to promote together and all that. But the second the weather message things up, it's like having it start that all over again is really frustrating, And yeah, I am. I stopped doing it on my home for personal reasons.

9:58 Speaker 3: I was getting tired of open my sanctuary so to speak to so many people doing it for so long, and I was like, man, I really want a smaller space or a space that has a roof on it. So I looked at my studio one day. I mean, we've had this art studio probably as long as we've been doing it. Was called hippie hollow That's what it was called. Is hippie hollow house concerts, Okay. And he'd whip out his microphones and we record people live. And I just started noticing, instead of like being a recording studio, I should just be hosting house concerts, right, just more nurturing more opportunity there, and let's work.

10:29 Speaker 10: For me, right.

10:32 Speaker 3: So yeah, doing it in the studio, I just had this epiphany. I'm like, screw it. I don't care if it's not big enough. It's got a roof on it. So I rearranged the entire storefront to accommodate twenty chairs. I said, if I can get twenty chairs, and I mean, we can have a donation of ten dollars or a donation of forty dollars depending on the artists.

10:49 Speaker 10: Yeah, oh okay, very cool. Yeah now is this now? What's what's Tyler's involvements?

10:55 Speaker 3: Tyler? Well, so winter was coming and it was really jonesing for doing show. I was like, I know, I can only do this at my home because you got to walk down a trail just to get to my house.

11:04 Speaker 10: Yeah.

11:05 Speaker 3: So I was shooting the crap with Tyler and I was like, yo, I need somebody that can trust that I'm going to put in enough work to make this happen. And he's been a great collaborator with me in the past ext so you know, I loved the band he was in, the White Mountain Rounders. That's a great uplifting vibe in the middle of the winter. So yeah, him and his boys got together and gave me a chance, and even though the weather worked against us, I still think it was a great turnout.

11:29 Speaker 10: Excellent.

11:29 Speaker 3: So he's coming back next week to do his solo.

11:33 Speaker 10: Oh excellent. When when is that? Next week?

11:35 Speaker 3: Was February sixteenth.

11:36 Speaker 10: February sixteenth, very good, very good? Actually, is that how we met? Is that how we connected with you? Tyler was through Kate originally.

11:44 Speaker 1: I think so, I think so.

11:46 Speaker 3: Yeah, I sent a couple of people here, so you did.

11:48 Speaker 9: Yeah.

11:48 Speaker 3: I sent my cousin Tommy here, I sent Paula.

11:50 Speaker 10: Oh right, tom Russo. Yeah, yeah, he's been on a few times now.

11:53 Speaker 9: Yeah.

11:54 Speaker 10: Yeah, he's amazing.

11:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't get rid of us.

11:58 Speaker 10: No, that's great, that's great. And Tyler, I love that song. As you know, All Night Dreams the new single. For those of you watching the video feed, you might see Tyler is holding a guitar. I'm dying to hear you play. Do you want to play something? And then we'll talk a little bit more about everything. That's everything that's going on.

12:16 Speaker 1: That sounds good?

12:17 Speaker 10: Sure, do you want to play? Do you want to play All Night Dreams live?

12:20 Speaker 1: I guess I'll do an acoustic version of All Night Dreams?

12:23 Speaker 10: Very cool.

12:24 Speaker 1: It's here now. It comes out on Valentine's Day, So at midnight Friday night there Valentine's Day, it will be available for everybody and you guys got to hear it. It's got the slide the harmonica. But we'll give you an acoustic version.

12:39 Speaker 10: Oh very cool if you're just joining us here, he is Tyler all Good, an acoustic live rendition of all night Dreams here in studio.

13:10 Speaker 5: I can't get you out of my mind. It hurts and I'm still trying.

13:20 Speaker 6: Oh night Dreams, I can't get you out of my mind.

13:35 Speaker 7: I screwed up and live. Now you waln a.

13:42 Speaker 5: Run and hide, night Dreams. Won't you come into my reality?

14:05 Speaker 7: My dreams?

14:09 Speaker 5: Please help come make this man out of me. I can't get you out of my mind. My thoughts are twisted in time. I wish I had made the best of heart time.

14:53 Speaker 7: This pool has.

14:55 Speaker 5: Done a thought of her, This pool has done a thought of turn, and now this foolishes take your.

15:08 Speaker 7: Pain away, night Dreams.

15:18 Speaker 5: Won't you come save my personality? Oh night Dreams, please help come make this man out of me.

16:29 Speaker 7: I can't get you out of my mind.

16:33 Speaker 5: Maybe it's because you're so kind, a beautiful girl, smart and nice. It's because I wasn't ready and I fled the scene, but I wore want you to know the shapes Saint tream night dreams. Won't you come in to my reality?

17:20 Speaker 7: A night reams? Please help come make this man out of me.

17:41 Speaker 11: Own night dream dreams, Bright dream An Trees.

18:01 Speaker 5: I can't get you out of my mind, Nice Dreams.

18:11 Speaker 5: I can't get you out of my mind.

18:16 Speaker 7: Night Dreams.

18:26 Speaker 10: I do love that song so much. That is so cool. That is so cool if you are just joining us. That was Tyler all Good playing his new single all night Dreams, which we premiered earlier in the show, the studio version. But that's that's Tyler doing it live and that sounds great. And of course this is Matt Condorton Unleashed. We are live on this Saturday morning here from the studios of WM and H and of course we have Kate Shimkey and Aaron and Nick talking about the listening room and of course Tyler involved in that as well.

18:56 Speaker 10: And this is Oh, you're getting some love in the chat room. You all are actually uh so. Meghan d is in the chat she says so excited for the listening room in Wilton, and she also said Tyler all Good is awesome. Check it out and she gave you some applause there.

19:13 Speaker 1: Tyler, I love Megan so much.

19:15 Speaker 10: Thanks Meghan absolutely, and also Miriam vanishes in the chat and says good morning hello Miriam. Yeah, so the listening room. So now when is the what is the first You probably told us this already, but when is the first official event?

19:31 Speaker 3: So we actually had it already on January thirty, first White Mountain Rounders came, which was a band that Tyler's in. Okay, we also had the pleasure of Josh Blair from Modern Fools opening for them.

19:41 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, we just had Modern Fools on. They were amazing.

19:44 Speaker 7: Yeah.

19:44 Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was a great, a great set, both both bands to great.

19:48 Speaker 9: Uh.

19:49 Speaker 3: We got to finally see the lighting and see here's.

19:52 Speaker 10: He's got the hat yeh, next wearing the hat.

19:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a funny thing. Josh showed up with his suitcase of merch. Yeah, and he's I guess had this suitcase since like the nineties and he's always used it to carry his merch. And when it showed up, it was locked and he didn't know the code. Oh so Aaron got the drill and that's why I keep him around. He was able to break into the Modern Fool's merch suitcase and we were able to sell the merch.

20:15 Speaker 10: Oh that's that's great.

20:16 Speaker 3: Fun little kink in the event there. But our next event is with Tyler all good. Obviously he's going to come back and share his his solo work. And then I'll just I'll just say it now because I told people I would do the spring lineups.

20:28 Speaker 10: Yeah, oh please. Yeah.

20:29 Speaker 3: In March we got Quincy Lord coming.

20:31 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, we sat him on. He's amazing.

20:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really excited it is it him by himself or with sun Settle. We were literally just talking about that before we got on air. We're trying to figure out if we could see our space is small. So yes, I want the whole band, but can I fit the whole band? We're going to find out. So if Quincy is listening, I'm going to call you after the show. I'm going to tell you, let's try it. Let's try to cram the band in there. Yeah, you know, I was like, why not try it with Quincy? Like I don't know a whole drum kit.

20:54 Speaker 3: Let's find out.

20:55 Speaker 10: Yeah.

20:56 Speaker 3: And then in April I have Temple Mountain come. I know he's been here, awesome, Yeah, he's he's collaborating with kat Ivy, who is a new name.

21:05 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I think kat Ivy. We have no, we have cat Ivy coming up, Jenny, I think we have kat Ivy. Eric's been on the show a bunch of course. Yeah, I think so. Or it's in the works.

21:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got her coming with him in April, and then Rebecca Tormel.

21:20 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, in May, excellent.

21:22 Speaker 3: And Eyes of Age in June. And I don't know if you know who David.

21:26 Speaker 10: Young is, No, and I don't know Eyes of Age.

21:29 Speaker 3: So they David Young does a lot of organizing for the Hancock Depot, which is in Hancock, Okay. And he does similar things that I'd like to do, which is host like listening room type events become it's donation based and he does it out of a historic railroad station. And they have a band. He has a band called Eyes of Age, and so he came to the show and really liked what he saw. So he wants to be a part of what we're doing. Put his band in the listening room.

21:56 Speaker 10: Nice. Nice, Yeah, very good.

21:58 Speaker 3: So I'm excited about that. I guy the summer. I'm working on the summer, fall winter. I was absolutely shocked. Every day I wake up to messages in my email asking me about availability. Yeah, since I've announced this not even a month ago.

22:11 Speaker 10: So Megan knows Eyes of Age. Ye, she said in the chat room, Love Love Love Eyes of Age. I'll have to check them out.

22:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, so they're coming in okay, yep.

22:21 Speaker 10: And by the way, Miriam said, I continued humming that last song after it ended. I think that's a good thing.

22:25 Speaker 12: So there you go, right, it gets into your brain. It's a great yeah.

22:29 Speaker 10: Yeah.

22:29 Speaker 12: And actually Kat will be with us next week.

22:32 Speaker 10: Next week, okay, I thought, So, yeah.

22:34 Speaker 3: She'll be She'll be coming to me. And what I say, April, I can't remember, is in the spring.

22:39 Speaker 10: Yeah, in the spring.

22:40 Speaker 12: That's a good problem.

22:41 Speaker 3: Though I'm making it. I'm in the middle of making the flyer. So I did want to give a shout out to one more person, my girl Victoria from I Have Ethereal. She own's a tattoo shop in Nashua, but she's taken the time to do some pro bonographic design for our listening room. So oh, you're going to see more of our little skeleton walking around in musical landscape as we continue our social media campaign.

23:03 Speaker 7: Oh very cool.

23:04 Speaker 1: Victoria did my logo and cover art as well.

23:08 Speaker 3: So she's kind of branching out from the ink and skin and doing things with musicians.

23:12 Speaker 10: Yeah, no, that's cool.

23:13 Speaker 3: I have Ethereal. I have Ethereal in Nashua.

23:16 Speaker 10: Okay, Now I'm curious about the I was curious about that too, the logo, Like why the skeleton because I see the skeleton like I think like death metal or something.

23:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we will.

23:27 Speaker 10: I didn't really think that. I'm kidding, but I am curious.

23:30 Speaker 3: I think I did with the nature concept like this, and we're both creepy girls, like creep like I got a skull on my arm right like. So she's like, how about you know, we just came up with all these ideas and for some reason we call them Scully and and now we have all these different ideas as to how we're going to promote each musician with this little skull characters. Yeah, he's always going to be a nature as well.

23:48 Speaker 10: Oh okay, okay, that makes sense.

23:49 Speaker 3: Because it's my studio is called Prayers of Nature. Okay, listening room at Prayers of Nature is like really long winded, so we just called the listening room.

23:56 Speaker 10: Okay, but the official name is the Listening room at Prayers of nature. Correct, now, why prayers of nature? What's the origin of that.

24:02 Speaker 3: Aaron's mother was an artist. She made flower mendalas, beautiful flower mendalas. And so our studio when you walk in it is unlike anything else you've probably seen. It's got chandeliers, we got hanging from like a big mill building, okay, and then we got like plants and flower mendalas everywhere.

24:18 Speaker 10: And what is I don't know what a mandala.

24:21 Speaker 3: It's like a Buddhist image. You've probably seen it, you just didn't know. You've seen the circular image. And it's usually made with like sand and seeds and things like that. But his mother made him with flowers, okay, and she made over one hundred and twenty five of them.

24:33 Speaker 10: Oh so cool.

24:34 Speaker 3: We have a lot of them in our studio. Yeah, we've had them in some galleries and stuff. So Aaron also is a jeweler. When he's not making microphones for earthworks, he's making jewelry. It's all inspired by nature. They have a lot of nature themes in our shop, Crystals, all sorts of things like that. Flowers, flowers are the parts. Yes, and I actually think our musical experience are similar to a mendala. So when you create a mindala, it's about the experience of making it necess ssarily about what the outcome looks like.

25:01 Speaker 3: And then when you're done with the mendali, you're supposed to destroy it to release yourself from attachments. Oh so, whenever we set up for a show, whenever Nick sitting up the lighting gear, the sound gear and like we're getting the chairs, all said, I know that this isn't going to stay this way. People are gonna show up and they're going to experience the music, and then they're gonna leave and we're gonna break it all down again.

25:18 Speaker 9: Yeah.

25:18 Speaker 3: So I actually found a cohesive way to like tie it all in. So we're kind of happy we're sharing an experience in every event that's not gonna last so long, kind of like a mendala.

25:27 Speaker 10: Oh okay, I get it, and there it is. Yeah, that's that's cool. That's cool.

25:32 Speaker 1: One cool thing too.

25:32 Speaker 3: I just want to point out, and I don't know if Aaron's going to talk about it, but we do use all Earthworks microphones, so between him and Nick, they have they know how to Can you explain the difference between like a standard microphone and like what Earthworks does?

25:46 Speaker 10: Yeah?

25:47 Speaker 8: Please, Well the beauty is in the sound. Of course you have to hear it to understand it. Yeah, I'm not currently talking to an Earthworks microphone.

25:56 Speaker 3: No, there.

26:02 Speaker 8: Time coherent deserve the transient sponsors sounds in a way that what the microphone does. Okay, they have excellent Bowler responses.

26:14 Speaker 10: Okay, okay, you put a lot of love into a microphone. Okay, excellent, excellent? Uh based? Where is Earthworks based? Based in Wilton?

26:24 Speaker 3: And okay it's like literally three minutes down the road from our art studio. Okay, that's pretty great.

26:30 Speaker 10: Okay, okay. And then so do you work there too.

26:34 Speaker 13: Neck, I do not work at Earthworks, you do not. I I'm more of a freelance audio engineer. I work for a couple of different companies. But you know, work with Kate here used Earthwork microphones. I can you know I would concur with what Aaron is saying about there. I've never put them in front of something and it not work. Yeah, you know, and that and that that's a that's a that's a that's.

26:56 Speaker 14: A great thing.

26:57 Speaker 13: When you know, when when a musician or a band brings you their their image, their their art, and you want to faithfully recreate that for them, you know, putting, you know, the microphones are your first tool. Like as a framer, the first thing is the nail in the hammer, you know, in the wood that goes together. So it's like when you when you know that your tool is going to be good and true and straight, that makes a huge difference.

27:20 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, So that's obviously what you use at Uh.

27:24 Speaker 3: There's different models for different applications.

27:27 Speaker 13: Use the one, the one seventeens, the vocal microphones, Yeah, all right, and then there's a couple other things floating around in there, like some omnies and some instrument microphones, and every band's a little different to you know, some d I sitting on the floor.

27:40 Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't think Earthwork.

27:42 Speaker 14: Does Earthworks make d I s or micro pre amps. I don't think that's something we used to make premps. We don't do that anymore.

27:48 Speaker 8: Oh okay, we had a saying like wire with game we had these amazing one O two one, one O two two, one O two four series pre apps. Yeah, and but they're very expensive to Okay, gotcha, gotcha.

28:02 Speaker 3: You have brought the price down and a lot of their products, so people are really used to seeing a high price tag associated with Earthworks, but they've started to make the more consumer friendly. More musicians can independently buy them now, okay, you know it was before it was like quite an investment. So they recognize that. And so their vocal mic, which I've used a lot, I'm a big fan of, and I think it's only like two to three hundred bucks.

28:22 Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, oh wow, yeah, okay, that's definitely the last couple of years, I've seen them on festival stages more often.

28:30 Speaker 10: Really, yeah, you might want to replace these.

28:39 Speaker 3: I recommend these little salesman moment going on.

28:41 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, no, I respect it. I respect it. Now is the goal is the goal to have an event every weekend at the.

28:49 Speaker 3: Home right now, I'm just shooting for once a month, once a month, yeah, because I when it's not a music room, I use it for workshops and other other events within the art community. So I am using it, you know, to its full capacity at this point. So Peoplen go to prayers at nature dot com and it will show them a lot of our art. But there is a page for the listening room okay, and they just go to there and eventually, after today, I'm going to have all the most of the events listed and they range from a ten dollars donation to a forty dollars donation.

29:19 Speaker 3: Like I said, yeah, that's up to the artists. I let the artist. I try to empower the artists more, you know. I'm like, this is your space, you can use it. These are the options, and I let them curate their own experience. Okay, so I let them pick their opener. I'll let them pick who they want unless they were enough ideas, you know, so I'll make suggestions. But typically it's like that's the deal, you know, and we don't take a cut unless the room sells out. Okay, so you know, and it's only twenty chairs, right, and we don't take much of a cut anyway.

29:47 Speaker 10: Well, I was gonna say, most likely the room is going to sell out, I hope.

29:50 Speaker 7: So yeah, let's see.

29:51 Speaker 3: And I hope after a year we get, you know, a built in audience, because now it's half the battle as the venue needs to bring an audience. So I got my art enthusiasts already. You know, some of them are music enthusiasts and Wilton actually is a very enthusiastic town for music. It's you know, it's a small town, but they have Oh.

30:09 Speaker 10: I was scurious about that actually, because you know, as it occurred to me as we're sitting here, I don't know much about Wilton.

30:14 Speaker 3: It's like I call it between a mix of an Adam Sailor and Stephen Kim film. Yeah, it's like the same. It's like kind of creepy but kind of cute, you know, and it's got that New England crunch. It still has like that that that downtown village vibe to it.

30:27 Speaker 10: Yeah.

30:28 Speaker 3: And yeah, there's several little nooks and crannies there where you can hear live music, and I'm hoping to become one that's fairly popular for people to go to.

30:34 Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, awesome. You mentioned the shop too, So tell us tell us about that our shop.

30:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, like our art studio. Yeah, yeah, it's well, it's you know, it's it's for the hippies, it's for the metaphysical weirdos. It's for the people that like voodoo dolls, you know, and it's part of an entire art mill. Believe it or not. There's about thirty studios in the mill. So oh okay, I'm one of the few that's actually open to the public. And when you can get yes, you can stock up on crystals, sage Paulo Santo handmade jewelry by Aaron. I got voodoo dolls that I give to gen you know, in all host workshops as well, like craft workshops.

31:11 Speaker 3: I'll get other crafters in there and they can host like a wire wrap class or oh, like I think I'm doing a needle felting class after today. Like yeah, So it's very it's a good creative space, which I'm like, why aren't we putting music in here? Why don't we share this with musicians, give them a studio for the evening. So to me is it's just falling right in line with creativity and art and we're essentially just sharing the studio.

31:32 Speaker 10: Yeah you know.

31:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, so and then and the artists on that floor are all very excited about it. So they're they're thinking of opening their studios on the nights we have these events, which I'm not like twisting their arm about, you know, like it's.

31:43 Speaker 10: It's a great idea.

31:44 Speaker 1: Yeah.

31:45 Speaker 3: There's actually a guy that moved in right next door. He owns he does comic books, scale models, action figures. So I love that. I love the nerve and we got real excited. So hopefully some of these events we can get the artists around me to also open up their studio spaces. That's a great I have the whole hallway open up for like people can byo B. I don't mind if people bring a six pack or a bottle of wine and sure themselves. And then we put like puzzles and let people do puzzles and there's a merch table.

32:12 Speaker 10: Yeah.

32:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see how it goes, you know, he just started.

32:15 Speaker 10: Yeah. No, it's a great idea.

32:16 Speaker 7: You said.

32:17 Speaker 10: There's like thirty different art studios.

32:19 Speaker 3: In the yeah, the building.

32:20 Speaker 10: Yeah, no kidding.

32:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of painters, a lot of photographers. There's a miniature artist, she does everything in miniature. Oh really, yeah, class, there's silversmith in class.

32:33 Speaker 10: Oh wow, yeah, that's right. Is it in downtown Wilton.

32:37 Speaker 3: Kind of it's like it's off the main street and it's it's down by the river, so it's called Riverview Mill.

32:43 Speaker 10: Okay, okay.

32:44 Speaker 15: Uh.

32:45 Speaker 10: Megan says Kate's passion for art, music and the community is incredible.

32:49 Speaker 3: So I used to book Megan or I didn't book her. I booked a couple of craft fairs that I worked with her. Oh I got to I had the pleasure of watching her work with her own community of people. She has this chance quite a fan base herself for her tie die, which I noticed right away. At these shows we would we would be vending at the Range in Mason, which is a great venue, great outdoor venue, and Nick Nick does sound for them. Actually, oh okay, okay, cool. And I think Tyler maybe played there.

33:15 Speaker 1: I know I've played.

33:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great bunch. It's a great local, uh, you know, place to play. And so I remember Megan, you know, because there's like when you do craft fairs, there's always a tide person, there's always a soap maker, there's always like a crystal dealer. And she was probably the most popular tied ie craft I've ever seen. Yeah, Like people lined up to come to her booth.

33:34 Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, oh that's awesome.

33:35 Speaker 3: Her energy is great.

33:37 Speaker 10: Absolutely. Miriam says, I like Wilton. The Wilton town Hall Movie Theater is super cool. Yes, yes, yes, it is it. Yeah, yeah.

33:45 Speaker 3: They play all sorts of like classic film and it's usually free.

33:48 Speaker 10: Oh really.

33:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an old school theater. Yeah it's nice.

33:51 Speaker 10: Oh wow, Oh that's very cool. That's very cool.

33:53 Speaker 3: He'll do like a UFO day where they play all sci fi like Vina really and all the UFO people come in, you know, get weird in Milton.

34:02 Speaker 10: Oh, very cool. Yeah, yeah, if you're just joining us here, So we have Kate Shimkey and of course we have Aaron and Nick talking about the listening room at Prayers of Nature. Did I get it right? I got it right? And Tyler Tyler all Good is here with us as well. He's connected with it and he played Tyler, I don't mean to put you on the spot, but I'm selfish. Do you want to play another one?

34:26 Speaker 1: Yeah?

34:26 Speaker 7: Sure?

34:27 Speaker 10: I just you sounds so good man. I know we had only talked about playing one, but I just I can't help myself. Tyler all Good is here as well. So if you missed it earlier, he played, as he played live for us in studio, his new single All Night Dreams. But what are you gonna play for us now? Tyler?

34:44 Speaker 1: So I am going to play the title track off of my latest album of Love, which is what we're celebrating next Sunday on February sixteenth. Okay, we're celebrating this album. We're celebrating my single All Night Dreams that comes out on Valentine's Day, and then we're also celebrating merch. I got my first batch of T shirts, stickers, posters, and another CD. I've done the CDs before, but having my very first shirt, my new logo, and yeah, it's really exciting.

35:21 Speaker 10: So and the album, I assume it'll be on all the streaming platforms and everything.

35:25 Speaker 1: I released the album in April.

35:27 Speaker 10: Oh, the album is out.

35:28 Speaker 1: Haven't celebrated it yet.

35:30 Speaker 10: Oh I got Oh interesting? Okay, I got you, I got you.

35:33 Speaker 1: But we have the single All Night Dreams on Valentine's Day. The merch is finally here, and I have a song coming out after All Night Dreams as well. Oh cool, I'm pretty soon here, so okay, but this will be of Love. The title track to the album released in April. The album is called of Love. This is the song of love.

36:09 Speaker 5: My heart toobbat her, you know that the tangle the hell into our backs. He even though we call the truth from the star, it does in mean my heart is your target.

36:36 Speaker 16: To paunch.

36:38 Speaker 7: Of love, you pull in Love.

36:49 Speaker 1: September.

36:51 Speaker 7: Horne never spoke so loud.

36:55 Speaker 5: With the screening stars and the wall on around.

37:02 Speaker 7: But you come in when you need.

37:07 Speaker 5: Love, then you're gone when push comes to shove and love.

37:18 Speaker 7: You polln't you pot.

37:29 Speaker 9: Now have.

37:34 Speaker 7: Nothing love? But you call me kid like I would forget those words.

37:50 Speaker 1: Those words.

37:53 Speaker 17: You can have them back, take them all the way,

38:00 Speaker 17: Mary them down in my lorded grave where my heart resides with the shattered brain to I lay right down, Lord.

38:16 Speaker 1: Can I leave this?

38:18 Speaker 5: Please?

38:34 Speaker 7: My heart's all beat her?

38:37 Speaker 9: You know that.

38:40 Speaker 7: Tangle hell all through our backs.

38:47 Speaker 5: He even though he called the truce from the start, tes in mean my heart is your tark.

39:00 Speaker 10: To no, Oh my god, I love it.

39:19 Speaker 8: I love it.

39:21 Speaker 10: That was Tyler all good performing live. What's that called again? Tyler of Love of Love? Very very cool performing live for us? And of course we have Khimkey with us of Darling Hill. We should talk about that too. What's new there are you? Have you been recording anything new or I've been doing a.

39:40 Speaker 3: Lot of practicing. I've had a lot of dental surgeries. Oh you love Yeah, yeah, they've been very unpredictable, so I have been hesitant to book but I am happy to say we did get asked to play at Nova Arts and Keene on February twenty seventh. So I'm opening. I forget the woman's name. I feel like such a jerk, but I was just so enamored that I finally got to play there. I'll just be on this because it's such a great venue. If you go all the way up to Keen, it's called Nova Arts on Emerald Street.

40:04 Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, I've been hearing about.

40:05 Speaker 3: Oh it's a great venue. Yeah, So I was I immediate. I didn't even know who I was opening. I said yes, I was like, yes, I'll do it. So I'm excited about that.

40:13 Speaker 7: We've been aaron.

40:13 Speaker 3: I've been practicing a lot at home, and I kind of, I'll be honest with you, when I started the listening room, I kind of wanted to have a place for Darling Hill to play.

40:21 Speaker 10: Yeah.

40:22 Speaker 3: If I got too scared to play, I get stage fright so bad. So yeah, I don't I don't mind talking, but the second I start like performing and like sharing my emotions openly, I get all begotarded about it. But so I was like, if I do it in my own space, I'm more inclined to feel comfortable and like have these little training wheels, you know. So I booked myself. Yeah, but not till October. Oh okay, okay, but I am playing Nova Arts and Keen and Handcock Depot actually asked me to play a feature in August.

40:51 Speaker 3: So I'm kind of sporadic because I go through a lot of surgeries at the moment. Oh yeah, so I have to like be tactful about who I say yes to. But you can find our music on all streaming platforms and I do. I am online, you know, Instagram and Facebook. I'll share a couple pictures of me playing the piano with the cats fighting in the background, you know, every once in a while, bang something out and share it. So I'm not completely gone.

41:15 Speaker 10: I just yeah, yeah, yeah. When we when we conclude the segment, we'll play another you send me another song that we hadn't played before. I don't think right, Bus number two, which is really interesting.

41:26 Speaker 3: I recorded that in Nashville, but before I recorded it in Nashville, actually recorded it at home. And Nick actually during the lockdowns, got a hold of some nice cameras you did, and he's like, let's you know, there's nothing going on. Everything was shut down. So we do have a music video for bus number two. Oh there is okay on if you just Google or go to YouTube Bus number two Darling Hill. And the song was an homage to a friend of mine in high school who passed away from a gun accident. Okay, So it is the song about going on the bus and sitting next to my crush and then one day I got on the bus and my crush wasn't there.

42:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's what that song is. Kind of sad, but it sounds happy, but it's actually sad.

42:06 Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, it ends up sad. It starts out happy,

42:11 Speaker 10: but I was.

42:12 Speaker 3: I was happy to do it. It felt good. It was one of those songs that just came out. I didn't. I was actually trying to write a love song about I wanted to write a love song about Eron. Today I have not written one. It's driving me nuts. Oh and I could compare my love for him to like the purity of my first crush and happening. I ended up writing about my first crush.

42:27 Speaker 10: Oh, now, how do you feel about that? Aaron? I'm okay with You're okay with it? Okay, the most.

42:33 Speaker 3: Okay all right, we'll get there. We'll write a song about each other. I guess we have to break up in order for that to happen. So it's okay if we haven't made one yet.

42:43 Speaker 10: There you go, There you go.

42:46 Speaker 13: Uh.

42:46 Speaker 10: So we should remind people too. We should circle back to the listening room at Prayers of Nature.

42:51 Speaker 9: Yeap.

42:51 Speaker 3: Go to prayers in dot com. Good to prayers in Nature dot com and you'll find the page there. Okay, And we are on Instagram and Facebook. Yeah, we just created a YouTube channel. I haven't put anything on it yet, but it's created. So we're hoping to take content and put that on YouTube as well.

43:05 Speaker 1: Well.

43:06 Speaker 10: I was curious about that too, because the events that you're having there are so are so unique and special. Are you going to is the plan to record all of them and then put them online?

43:13 Speaker 1: Is that?

43:14 Speaker 9: Uh?

43:15 Speaker 13: And to a certain to a certain extent, because there's like you when musician comes in, it's like, I mean, went for a decade, every band that I've ever mixed, I've just taken a left right off the board is like an archive.

43:25 Speaker 14: Like this is my portfolio. It's the closest thing I get to it in a certain way.

43:30 Speaker 13: But at the same time, it's like, there's no reason I can't pass that off to an artist, right, But also at the same time or in the world of digital mixing and everywhere you go in major venues and festivals and even myself, I run around with digital console, took a laptop up.

43:45 Speaker 14: You've got it, You've you've got a record.

43:46 Speaker 13: Even right now, you know, I'm working in the background for Modern Fools on they played at the Bank in New Hampshire Conquered Center of the Art stage that's such a such a long hits.

43:58 Speaker 14: And the NHC anyways for the but I've been working on their multi track.

44:03 Speaker 13: And so the same thing when it comes to someone coming in the listening room, like Kate saying, it's always a unique experience. Every artist is different, and so when they come in, it's like give them that give give be able to give them something in return, not able.

44:18 Speaker 3: To give them a guarantee. But we can create some decent content for that.

44:21 Speaker 13: Right, whether it be some pictures or some video or you know, a band that gets to have a recording of themselves that may not have had that before, or or you know, or something and just if those kinds of things becoming just the next layer of accessible.

44:37 Speaker 14: Yeah, that's that's I think at least my goal.

44:40 Speaker 13: When it comes to it's like I'm just doing a thing, but at the same time, it's like I'm you know, it's I can I have the ability to pass that off, you know, and and and that's what I want to be able to do with an artist that comes in. It's like talking about like Quincy Lord and Sunset Electric, you know, in a situation like that, it's like it is relatively as easy as me hitting space bar and report and had and now here's a multi track recording of your live show that you know, if put some work into it, maybe becomes a live album release, you know, or something like that.

45:12 Speaker 13: Of a listening room, a quiet, intimate thing where people are going to be engaged with your music, you know. And it's like antelling how many crowd mics I've listened to While the band's playing, you can just hear everybody talking and having their own conversation, not listening to the band, you know, and it's like that's no fun. But it's so but but so there's yeah, it's not talking in circles. I think I convade myself. I answered your question. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

45:40 Speaker 14: Yeah, YouTube coming, streaming and stuff.

45:43 Speaker 13: So that's something we've definitely talked about, is like what are what what is this the aspect of like streaming at cameras, audio, all the things right, you know, making sure that it's like is that something I can manage or is it we need someone else to come in and help me do other things?

45:58 Speaker 14: When then then you start breaking into a different conversation.

46:01 Speaker 3: I haven't anticipate things will evolve over time, will you.

46:04 Speaker 10: Yeah, it doesn't work, no doubt.

46:07 Speaker 1: Yeah.

46:07 Speaker 9: No.

46:07 Speaker 10: I think it's cool though, to do that, because it's, like I said, it's such a cool and unique thing. You know, it would be a shame not to have a record of it, you know, and it helps everybody. You know, it helps the it helps the artist, it helps the listening room. But it helps you nick with your like you said, with your portfolio. You know, everybody benefits from that. So I think that's cool. I don't know if any of you remember the Sad Cafe. It was a place in Plastow. It was an all ages room and.

46:33 Speaker 14: Like jazz, open mics and stuff they did.

46:35 Speaker 10: They did all kinds of stuff there, but they would actually give you a seat, they would record you and they'd give you a CD at the end of the night. And I played there a lot. You know, this was like twenty years ago, but a couple of different bands I was in we played there a lot. But it was always and it was cool that they give you a CD at the end of the night. But it was very very mixed results depending on you know, who was who was working the board.

46:58 Speaker 3: Your pants too, yeah, studio, yeah, got to wing it.

47:02 Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah. So there was some really there was some really good recordings that came out of there with some really and somewhere it's like I might as well take the CD and throw it at the you know, but but uh, but no, but I think it's I think it's cool that you're going to do that at the listening room. Yeah, it only makes sense. It only makes sense. Now. When is the next one?

47:21 Speaker 3: When's the February sixteenth?

47:22 Speaker 10: February sixteenth, I have Tyler come. That's so that's gonna be.

47:27 Speaker 3: Tough a Sunday six o'clock.

47:29 Speaker 10: Oh yeah, that's coming coming right up.

47:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes. So I have a friend of mine. I have a friend of mine named Jaden Arpin who is opening the show. And I met her a couple of times in Milford, watched her play in some open mics or something, and she has just an amazing voice, an incredible writer. So she popped into my head last minute I saw if she was available. She's going to be opening the show.

47:54 Speaker 10: Excellent.

47:56 Speaker 1: I will have my bluegrass band playing probably four or five songs, and that's White Mountain Rounders. We just released our four song EP. Oh wow, we're gonna have CDs next week. So we're out and about and they're gonna come play a few songs for that show.

48:14 Speaker 12: Then.

48:15 Speaker 1: I haven't run it by my sound crew, but I might have a little soft jazz drummer with me. Oh okay for a big portion of the set, because I am playing with him tonight at Rude Awakening Kava Bar in Nashua from eight to eleven. Okay, we've jammed once before it went so well, so we're throwing the show together tonight should should go well. He's a great drummer, so okay.

48:41 Speaker 10: Yeah, So if you're listening live on Saturday, so that is tonight A to eleven YEP at rud Awakening.

48:46 Speaker 1: Rud Awakening Kava Bar and nash Rud Awakening.

48:48 Speaker 10: Kava bar okay, very cool. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. And then so the sixteenth will be at the listening room.

48:54 Speaker 1: Next Sunday, February sixteenth.

48:56 Speaker 10: That'd be very six o'clock.

48:57 Speaker 1: Please order your tickets at Prayersanature dot com.

49:00 Speaker 3: And you can get a fan bundle option if you would like to upgrade your ticket, you can purchase a fan bundle which will include all the merch okay seat and we don't turn people away if all the seats sell, It's okay. You still show up and we'll we'll take you in at the door at like half the price. Is kind of the deal.

49:16 Speaker 10: Oh okay.

49:16 Speaker 3: Crystal working on those kinks, trying to figure out what works. You know, if I just do standing room only ors, I'm an old person. I like a good chair. I'll sit down at a punk show like I have. No I don't care, I'll do it right right. So we're just trying to see what makes the most sense for accommodating people.

49:33 Speaker 10: And I I.

49:35 Speaker 3: Like that he offered this, you know, Tyler's like, hey, we should do this deal where if you buy you know, the fan bundle, you get all the merch plus a seat, so that's an option too.

49:44 Speaker 10: Yeah, very cool.

49:45 Speaker 3: So prayers to nature dot com.

49:46 Speaker 10: Prayers of Nature dot com. That's the place to go. Very very good. We'll be The time goes so fast. We're approaching the top of the hour, so we'll begin to wrap up. O Kate. Always wonderful to see. Thank you so much for thank you. Oh and you brought presents and.

49:58 Speaker 3: I bought a voodoo doll for a voodoo dolls.

50:00 Speaker 12: Also shout out who's mom?

50:03 Speaker 1: Somebody's his momma.

50:09 Speaker 12: Ye smells so good in the hallway.

50:12 Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, yeah, we we we we have to. We can't have any food eatterer, so we left it in the hallway. But yes, everything is a tease. I can even smell it, and I can't smell anything most of the time, but yeah, yeah, so we look forward to that. So thank you, thank you, Tyler, Thanks Mom, absolutely thank you, so Mom, thank you so much. We love it. But yeah, so thank you and Aaron and Nick. Wonderful to meet both of you and Tyler. Congratulations on everything that you're doing. I love the new single, absolutely amazing and thanks for playing for us today.

50:45 Speaker 10: Thank you, and we're going to close out the segment with another Darling Hill track that we were talking about a few minutes ago, Bus number two. And then if you are listening live on Saturday, I presume he's in the building already. He is in the building, Jason Oberstein, so really looking forward to meeting him and hearing him play. And did he bring his guitar?

51:04 Speaker 12: Maybe maybe?

51:05 Speaker 10: I know he's got a bunch of studios. Don't be impatient, but well, you know, all right, so very good, so uh again, thank you all so much, and we will close out this segment with this. This is bust number two. Darlene Hill.

51:46 Speaker 4: Oncece new a boy shot the blonde hair, freckles on his nose and baby blue eye, Stay, baby.

51:58 Speaker 5: Stay.

52:01 Speaker 4: I watched his fingertips play with the rain, one hand on his back, back one on the school bus.

52:17 Speaker 7: We both felt than both fell.

52:21 Speaker 4: We both felt vame, We wrote.

52:24 Speaker 7: We boas felled sweet. Both felt names.

52:32 Speaker 18: School ride was sunshine. School ride was sunshine. School ride was sunshine, school ride.

52:49 Speaker 7: Shut shine.

53:01 Speaker 3: But enough for day and be and do what to do? Just wanna get on and sit with you.

53:11 Speaker 7: I wanna play with you where the skies are blue.

53:24 Speaker 15: We both fell vase. We both fell vaz sweet both fell the sweet both fell be.

53:39 Speaker 4: School ride with sunshine. My school ride was sunshine.

53:47 Speaker 18: My school ride with sunshine.

53:51 Speaker 11: My school ride was.

53:56 Speaker 16: Shine.

54:00 Speaker 9: Shop.

54:19 Speaker 7: One of these days was not like the rest. Seed is empty.

54:26 Speaker 1: No far best.

54:30 Speaker 3: He was led to rest.

54:35 Speaker 15: We all felt vain, all felt thing. We all felt name, We all felt things. We all felt things.

54:50 Speaker 2: School ride was great. School ride was great. School ride was great. Gray gray school ride bus gray once New avoid shaka blond.

55:21 Speaker 4: Hair freck goes on his nose and baby blue eyes strain,

55:29 Speaker 4: Baby blue eyes stay.

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