Matt Connarton Unleashed: The Listening Room at Prayers of Nature

0:11 Speaker 1: Damsel and distress.

0:13 Speaker 2: It's what I do best.

0:18 Speaker 3: Because I know where all the knives are. Because I

0:24 Speaker 3: know where all the knives are, unfinished business has already laughed,

0:32 Speaker 3: it scars because I know where all the knives are.

0:40 Speaker 4: Because I know where all the knives are.

1:00 Speaker 5: That's turned into lyrics like like someone spirits, O whoa?

1:07 Speaker 6: Tim thoughts in the lyrics, sim thoughts in the lyrics.

1:16 Speaker 7: Don't let them.

1:18 Speaker 6: Be you break the only new yor anomies life.

1:26 Speaker 8: You been, you.

1:32 Speaker 1: Witnessed your weakness.

1:34 Speaker 5: Say held them close and kept them my secret.

1:39 Speaker 6: Now I know where all the knives are. Now I

1:44 Speaker 6: know where all the knives are.

1:48 Speaker 2: Adrenaline tasted.

1:50 Speaker 4: It's my territory. I'll stake it.

1:52 Speaker 2: Oh whoa, Now.

1:55 Speaker 6: I know where all the knives are. H Now I

2:00 Speaker 6: know where are the knives are.

2:03 Speaker 9: They don't let them hall you.

2:07 Speaker 6: Be, you brat They only New Yorse lineing you.

2:19 Speaker 2: Now I know where are the knives are?

2:24 Speaker 6: Now I know where are the knives are?

2:28 Speaker 9: World, Jimmy, that's an a lyrics world.

2:35 Speaker 2: Jimmy thoughts an elelyrics.

2:38 Speaker 8: The world.

2:40 Speaker 10: Now we know where are the NYE.

2:44 Speaker 6: World?

2:46 Speaker 8: Never know ye?

2:51 Speaker 7: Now we know it's nice never nice.

3:08 Speaker 11: I do love that song and I get stuck in

3:10 Speaker 11: my head ever since the last time. We had Kate

3:12 Speaker 11: Shimkey from Darling Hill here with us in studio. So

3:15 Speaker 11: Tyler all Good is here also, Kate Shimkey is here.

3:19 Speaker 11: Welcome back, good morning, and why don't you go ahead

3:23 Speaker 11: and introduce you brought some associates with you. Oh, yes,

3:26 Speaker 11: like that, we'll get into We have a lot to

3:28 Speaker 11: talk about today, lot lots of lots of good stuff

3:31 Speaker 11: my associates. Yes, yes, I will.

3:32 Speaker 1: To my right is my partner in life, Aaron Durman.

3:36 Speaker 1: He's also my musical partner. He performs with me in

3:39 Speaker 1: Darling Hill.

3:40 Speaker 11: Hello, Aeron, welcome to the show. Hello.

3:42 Speaker 1: And then I have on my left Nicholas de Chico.

3:46 Speaker 1: He's been like my I call my rider die right

3:49 Speaker 1: left hand man. I guess okay for the past ten years.

3:52 Speaker 1: He's kind of helped me grow our music community, has

3:55 Speaker 1: done a lot of sound support, oh, very cool, and

3:58 Speaker 1: lighting support and probably a lot of unbuild therapy. Yeah.

4:06 Speaker 1: And so they both also work in audio. So Aaron

4:09 Speaker 1: works for Earthworks Audio. It's really, you know, pretty popular

4:13 Speaker 1: high definition of microphone company. And Nick if you don't

4:16 Speaker 1: mind me saying works for Upstream Sound, which provides a

4:18 Speaker 1: lot of light and sound support for venues and festivals

4:22 Speaker 1: up and down the East Coast.

4:23 Speaker 11: Oh, very cool, Very cool. And so now why have

4:27 Speaker 11: you brought Let's get right to the really exciting part.

4:30 Speaker 11: Why have you brought everyone? Why why have you brought

4:32 Speaker 11: all these people here with you today?

4:34 Speaker 1: Well, I kind of want to shed a light on

4:36 Speaker 1: the people behind the scenes of music. I think that

4:40 Speaker 1: you know. I'm a musician and we started our own

4:43 Speaker 1: music community in our backyard. Aaron and I live on

4:45 Speaker 1: a land trust. It's about one hundred acres of nature

4:48 Speaker 1: that we live on, and we built a small stage

4:51 Speaker 1: about ten years ago. And I would literally go into

4:53 Speaker 1: every bar and meet local musicians and kind of ride

4:55 Speaker 1: on the coattails of my husband's job and just say,

4:58 Speaker 1: you know, my husband works for Earthworks. You have some

5:00 Speaker 1: great gear to play with at home. Would you like

5:02 Speaker 1: to come play with us and we'll put you on

5:03 Speaker 1: our stage and host you at house concerts, your recording sessions.

5:07 Speaker 11: Yeah.

5:08 Speaker 1: So we've been doing that for about eight years. But

5:11 Speaker 1: you know, a lot of things have changed over the years,

5:13 Speaker 1: and here we are now in twenty twenty five and

5:15 Speaker 1: I've got an art studio on Welton and it's fairly small,

5:18 Speaker 1: but I kind of want to work with a room

5:21 Speaker 1: that's small and intimate and really give musicians an opportunity

5:26 Speaker 1: to share their original music in a setting that's not

5:28 Speaker 1: bombarded with like a bar scene or too much alcohol

5:32 Speaker 1: or a house party that's too loud, like like a

5:35 Speaker 1: nice back and forth between the audience and the musician

5:37 Speaker 1: to share, you know, their music in a way that's

5:41 Speaker 1: more conducive to like a grassroots vibe. You know, you

5:44 Speaker 1: can support the artists directly, you can buy their merch

5:46 Speaker 1: you know, we don't really take a cut. So in

5:48 Speaker 1: order to do that, I need a lot of support.

5:50 Speaker 1: I need sound support, I need you know. I do

5:52 Speaker 1: a lot of the managing of it and the networking,

5:55 Speaker 1: but when it comes down to the day of Nick's

5:58 Speaker 1: very good at implementing the gear. Aaron understands it given

6:01 Speaker 1: his background. So, yeah, this is our first time being indoors.

6:05 Speaker 1: We've been doing it outdoors, oh okay, out of our

6:08 Speaker 1: backyard for like I said, eight years. We've had as

6:10 Speaker 1: little as like twenty people show up, and we've had

6:12 Speaker 1: as much as like one hundred and fifty to two

6:14 Speaker 1: hundred in one day. I think the most we ever

6:16 Speaker 1: hosted was eighteen bands in one day.

6:18 Speaker 11: No kidding, Yeah, that's that's a that's a long yeah,

6:23 Speaker 11: long event.

6:23 Speaker 1: We did it though, and some of the bands I

6:25 Speaker 1: see here on your show. So yeah, I'm excited to

6:28 Speaker 1: announce our spring lineup in our listening room. It's only

6:31 Speaker 1: twenty seats, so I only have to manage oh wow, yeah,

6:33 Speaker 1: I only have to manage twenty people. Where before it

6:36 Speaker 1: was like I just had like this huge landscape of

6:39 Speaker 1: you know, rando people just showing up right now, this

6:42 Speaker 1: is a little more condensed.

6:44 Speaker 12: You know.

6:45 Speaker 11: So it sounds like a perfect scenario for if say

6:49 Speaker 11: someone is releasing an album and they just want to

6:52 Speaker 11: do you know, they want to do something where you know,

6:56 Speaker 11: I mean you can do people have these release parties.

6:59 Speaker 11: People have been doing that for ever these you know.

7:01 Speaker 11: But if you have like a CD release party at

7:02 Speaker 11: a bar or something, you know, then you run into

7:05 Speaker 11: that thing where a lot of the people who are

7:07 Speaker 11: there they aren't there for the release party. They're there

7:09 Speaker 11: to drink, and you know, you're kind of the background music.

7:12 Speaker 11: But but but this sounds like it's perfect for people

7:14 Speaker 11: who really very intently want to listen to They're there

7:19 Speaker 11: specifically for that, for that purpose. It reminds me of

7:24 Speaker 11: years ago. You know, I worked for for a long time,

7:26 Speaker 11: I worked for well, it became f Ye, but it

7:29 Speaker 11: used to be Do you all remember Strawberries? Yeah, and

7:32 Speaker 11: uh I worked for them, and we would do these,

7:36 Speaker 11: you know, sometimes they would, like the store managers would

7:38 Speaker 11: go to Boston for a release party for an up

7:41 Speaker 11: and coming artists who we were going to be carrying

7:43 Speaker 11: their music in our stores and so and it was

7:46 Speaker 11: very much you know, there would be alcohol there and whatnot,

7:48 Speaker 11: but but it was very much you know, you're not

7:51 Speaker 11: you're not there to drink. You're there specifically and of

7:54 Speaker 11: course you know, people were watching us too because it

7:56 Speaker 11: was a company thing, but we were there specifically to

7:59 Speaker 11: pay attention to the music and this artist and learn

8:02 Speaker 11: about them and the album that was coming out that

8:05 Speaker 11: we were going to be selling, and it was very

8:07 Speaker 11: focused on that. But was this always kind of the goal,

8:11 Speaker 11: like when you started doing these, you know, because I

8:15 Speaker 11: think the first time that you were on the show,

8:17 Speaker 11: you had talked about that how these were outdoor events. Yes,

8:20 Speaker 11: was it always the goal? To do something inside.

8:23 Speaker 1: It was always I'd get frustrated with the New England weather. Yes,

8:29 Speaker 1: and I don't pay a guarantee, so I'm very transparent

8:32 Speaker 1: about that. I don't do all this because we love

8:34 Speaker 1: to do it, but we also don't have a lot

8:35 Speaker 1: of money to pay people. So there's this reciprocity, this

8:38 Speaker 1: understanding that if they want as bad as I do,

8:40 Speaker 1: we got to promote together and all that. But the

8:42 Speaker 1: second the weather messes things up, it's like having it

8:45 Speaker 1: start that all over again is really frustrating. And I

8:49 Speaker 1: stopped doing it on my home for personal reasons. I

8:51 Speaker 1: was getting tired of opening my sanctuary so to speak

8:54 Speaker 1: to so many people doing it for so long, and

8:57 Speaker 1: I was like, man, I really want a smaller space

8:58 Speaker 1: or a space that has roof on it. So I

9:01 Speaker 1: looked at my studio one day. I mean, we've had

9:03 Speaker 1: this art studio probably as long as we've been doing it.

9:06 Speaker 1: Was called Hippie Hollow That's what it was called. Is

9:08 Speaker 1: Hippie Hollow House concerts Okay. And he'd whip out his

9:12 Speaker 1: microphones and we'd record people live. And I just started

9:14 Speaker 1: noticing instead of like being a recording studio, I should

9:17 Speaker 1: just be hosting house concerts, right, just more nurturing, more

9:20 Speaker 1: opportunity there, and let's work for.

9:22 Speaker 11: Me, right.

9:25 Speaker 1: So yeah, doing it in the studio, I just had

9:27 Speaker 1: this epiphany. I'm like, screw it. I don't care if

9:28 Speaker 1: it's not big enough. It's got a roof on it.

9:30 Speaker 1: So I rearranged the entire storefront to accommodate twenty chairs.

9:35 Speaker 1: I said, if I can get twenty chairs in, I

9:37 Speaker 1: mean we can have a donation of ten dollars or

9:39 Speaker 1: a donation of forty dollars, depending on the artists.

9:42 Speaker 11: Yeah, oh okay, very cool. Yeah now is this now?

9:45 Speaker 11: What's what's Tyler's involvements?

9:48 Speaker 2: Tyler?

9:49 Speaker 1: Well, so winter was coming and it was really jonesing

9:52 Speaker 1: for doing a show. I was like, I know, I

9:54 Speaker 1: can only do this at my home because you got

9:55 Speaker 1: to walk down a trail just to get to my house.

9:57 Speaker 11: Yeah.

9:58 Speaker 1: So I was shooting the crap with Tyler and I

10:02 Speaker 1: was like, yo, I need somebody that can trust that

10:04 Speaker 1: I'm going to put in enough work to make this happen.

10:06 Speaker 1: And he's been a great collaborator with me in the past, excellent.

10:09 Speaker 1: So you know, I loved the band he was in

10:11 Speaker 1: the White Mountain Rounders. That's a great uplifting vibe in

10:13 Speaker 1: the middle of the winter.

10:14 Speaker 11: Yeah.

10:15 Speaker 1: So yeah, him and his boys got together and gave

10:17 Speaker 1: me a chance. And even though the weather worked against us,

10:20 Speaker 1: I still think it was a great turnout.

10:22 Speaker 11: Excellent.

10:22 Speaker 1: So he's coming back next week to do his solo.

10:25 Speaker 11: Oh excellent? When is that? Next week?

10:28 Speaker 1: Was February sixteenth.

10:29 Speaker 11: February sixteenth? Very good? Very good? Actually, is that how

10:34 Speaker 11: we met? Is that how we connected with you? Tyler

10:36 Speaker 11: was through Kate originally?

10:37 Speaker 10: I think so?

10:38 Speaker 11: I think so.

10:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, I sent a couple of people here, so you did.

10:41 Speaker 10: Yeah.

10:41 Speaker 1: I sent my cousin Tommy here, I sent Paula.

10:43 Speaker 11: Oh right, tom Russo.

10:44 Speaker 10: Yeah.

10:44 Speaker 11: Yeah, he's been on a few times now.

10:46 Speaker 10: Yeah.

10:47 Speaker 11: Yeah, he's amazing.

10:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't get rid of us.

10:51 Speaker 11: No, that's great, that's great. And Tyler I love that song.

10:54 Speaker 11: As you know, All Night Dreams the new single. For

10:57 Speaker 11: those of you watching the video feed, you might see

10:59 Speaker 11: Tyler or is holding a guitar. I'm dying to hear

11:02 Speaker 11: you play. Do you want to play something? And then

11:04 Speaker 11: we'll talk a little bit more about everything. That's everything

11:07 Speaker 11: that's going on.

11:08 Speaker 10: That sounds good?

11:09 Speaker 11: Sure, do you want to play? Do you want to

11:11 Speaker 11: play All Night Dreams live?

11:12 Speaker 13: Or I guess I'll do an acoustic version of All

11:14 Speaker 13: night Dreams?

11:15 Speaker 11: Very cool.

11:16 Speaker 10: It's here now.

11:17 Speaker 13: It comes out on Valentine's Day, So at midnight Friday

11:21 Speaker 13: night there Valentine's Day it will be available for everybody,

11:25 Speaker 13: and you guys got.

11:26 Speaker 10: To hear it.

11:27 Speaker 13: It's got the slide the harmonica. But we'll give you

11:30 Speaker 13: an acoustic version.

11:31 Speaker 11: Oh, very cool. If you're just joining us here, he

11:33 Speaker 11: is Tyler Allgood, an acoustic live rendition of All Night

11:37 Speaker 11: Dreams here in studio.

11:59 Speaker 9: Can't get you out of my mind. It hurts and

12:05 Speaker 9: I'm still trying. Oh, my dreams, I can't get you.

12:19 Speaker 2: Out of my mind. I screwed up and lie. Now

12:29 Speaker 2: you waln a run and hide, night Dreams. Won't you

12:44 Speaker 2: come into my reality? Night Dreams?

12:57 Speaker 9: Please help come make this man out of me. I

13:22 Speaker 9: can't get you out of my mind. My thoughts are.

13:28 Speaker 2: Twisted in time. I wish I had made the best

13:35 Speaker 2: of heart. Time.

13:42 Speaker 9: This pool has done a thought of her, This pool

13:48 Speaker 9: has done a thought of tur.

13:51 Speaker 14: And now this foolishes take your pain away, night Dreams.

14:06 Speaker 2: Won't you come save my personality.

14:14 Speaker 9: Oh night dreams, please help come make this man out

14:24 Speaker 9: of me.

15:17 Speaker 2: I can't get you out of my mind. Maybe it's

15:22 Speaker 2: because you're.

15:24 Speaker 9: So kind, a beautiful girl, smart and nice. It's because

15:38 Speaker 9: I wasn't ready and I fled the scene. But I

15:47 Speaker 9: want you to know.

15:50 Speaker 2: The shape sat nighteen.

16:01 Speaker 7: Won't you come in to my reality? Night dreams?

16:15 Speaker 2: Please help come make this man out of me.

16:30 Speaker 8: Own dreams, dreams, bright dream a night truth.

16:49 Speaker 2: I can't get you out of my mind, night Dreams.

16:59 Speaker 2: I can't get you out of my my night dreams.

17:13 Speaker 11: M I do love that song so much. That is

17:16 Speaker 11: so cool. That is so cool if you are just

17:19 Speaker 11: joining us. That was Tyler Allgood playing his new single

17:22 Speaker 11: All Night Dreams, which we premiered earlier in the show,

17:24 Speaker 11: the studio version. But that's that's Tyler doing it live

17:27 Speaker 11: and that sounds great. And of course we have Kate

17:30 Speaker 11: Shimkey and Aaron and Nick talking about the listening room

17:35 Speaker 11: and of course Tyler involved in that as well. And

17:38 Speaker 11: this is oh, you're getting some love in the chat room.

17:41 Speaker 11: You all are, actually so Meghan d is in the

17:45 Speaker 11: chat she says so excited for the listening room in

17:49 Speaker 11: Wilton and She also said, Tyler, allgood is awesome. Check

17:52 Speaker 11: it out, and she gave you some applause there, Tyler,

17:55 Speaker 11: I love Megan so much. Thanks Meghan absolutely. And also

17:59 Speaker 11: Miriam vanished in the chat and says good morning hello Miriam. Yeah,

18:03 Speaker 11: so the listening room. So now when is the what

18:06 Speaker 11: is the first You probably told us this already, but uh,

18:10 Speaker 11: when is the first official event?

18:12 Speaker 1: So we actually had it already on January thirty. First,

18:16 Speaker 1: the White Mountain Rounders came, which was a band that

18:18 Speaker 1: Tyler's in. And okay, we also had the pleasure of

18:21 Speaker 1: Josh Blair from Modern Fools opening for them.

18:23 Speaker 11: Oh yeah, we just had Modern Fools on. They were amazing.

18:25 Speaker 2: Yeah.

18:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was a great, a great set, both

18:28 Speaker 1: both bands to a great Uh. We got to finally

18:31 Speaker 1: see the lighting and see that here's.

18:33 Speaker 11: You got the hat, he got the nixt wearing the hat.

18:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a funny thing. Josh showed up with

18:38 Speaker 1: his suitcase of merch. Yeah, and he's I guess had

18:42 Speaker 1: this suitcase since like the nineties and he's always used

18:45 Speaker 1: it to carry his merch And when he showed up,

18:46 Speaker 1: it was locked and he didn't know the code. Oh no,

18:49 Speaker 1: So Aaron got the drill and that's why I keep

18:52 Speaker 1: him around. He was able to break into the Modern

18:54 Speaker 1: Fools merch suitcase and we were able to sell the merch.

18:56 Speaker 11: Oh that's that's great.

18:57 Speaker 1: Fun little kink in the event there. But our next

19:00 Speaker 1: event is with Tyler All good. Obviously he's going to

19:03 Speaker 1: come back and share his his solo work. And then

19:06 Speaker 1: I'll just say it now, because I told people I

19:08 Speaker 1: would do the spring lineups.

19:10 Speaker 11: Yeah, oh please. Yeah.

19:11 Speaker 1: In March we got Quincy Lord coming.

19:13 Speaker 11: Oh yeah, we sat him on. He's amazing.

19:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really excited.

19:16 Speaker 11: Is it him by himself or with sun Settle, Like

19:18 Speaker 11: we were literally.

19:19 Speaker 1: Just talking about that before we got on air. We're

19:21 Speaker 1: trying to figure out if we could see our space

19:23 Speaker 1: is small, so yes, I want the whole band, but

19:25 Speaker 1: can I fit the whole band? We're going to find out.

19:27 Speaker 1: So if Quincy is listening, I'm going to call you

19:28 Speaker 1: after the show. I'm going to tell you, let's try it.

19:30 Speaker 1: Let's try to cram the band in there. Yeah you know,

19:33 Speaker 1: I was like, why not try it with Quincy? Like

19:35 Speaker 1: I don't know a whole drum kit. Let's find out.

19:37 Speaker 11: Yeah.

19:38 Speaker 1: And then in April. I have Temple Mountain coming. I

19:41 Speaker 1: know he's been here.

19:42 Speaker 11: Awesome.

19:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's collaborating with kat Ivy, who is a new name.

19:47 Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I think kat Ivy. We have know we

19:49 Speaker 11: have cat Ivy coming up, Jenny, I think we have

19:51 Speaker 11: kat Ivy. Eric's been on the show a bunch of

19:53 Speaker 11: course to double check. I think so, or it's in

19:57 Speaker 11: the works.

19:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got her coming with him in April. Yeah,

20:00 Speaker 1: and then Rebecca Tormel.

20:02 Speaker 11: Oh yeah in May.

20:03 Speaker 1: Excellent, and Eyes of Age in June. And I don't

20:07 Speaker 1: know if you know who David.

20:08 Speaker 11: Young is, No, and I don't know Eyes of Age.

20:11 Speaker 1: So they David Young does a lot of organizing for

20:14 Speaker 1: the Hancock Depot, which is in Hancock, Okay. And he

20:17 Speaker 1: does similar things that I'd like to do, which is

20:19 Speaker 1: host like listening room type events become it's donation based

20:24 Speaker 1: and he does it out of a historic railroad station Okay.

20:28 Speaker 1: And they have a band. He has a band called

20:30 Speaker 1: Eyes of Age, and so he came to the show

20:33 Speaker 1: and really liked what he saw. So he wants to

20:35 Speaker 1: be a part of what we're doing. Oh, put his

20:37 Speaker 1: band in the listening room.

20:38 Speaker 11: Nice? Nice, Yeah, very good.

20:39 Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. I got the summer. I'm

20:42 Speaker 1: working on the summer, fall, winter. I was absolutely shocked.

20:46 Speaker 1: Every day I wake up to messages in my email

20:48 Speaker 1: asking me about availability. Yeah, since I've announced this not

20:52 Speaker 1: even a month ago.

20:53 Speaker 11: So Megan knows Eyes of Age, Yes, she said in

20:55 Speaker 11: the chat room, Love Love Love eyes of Age. I'll

20:58 Speaker 11: have to check them out. Yeah, yep, so coming in okay.

21:02 Speaker 7: Yeah.

21:02 Speaker 11: And by the way, Miriam said, I continued humming that

21:05 Speaker 11: last song after it ended. I think that's a good thing.

21:07 Speaker 11: So there you go, right, it gets into your brain.

21:09 Speaker 11: It's a great yeah. Yeah. And actually Kat will.

21:12 Speaker 2: Be with us next week.

21:14 Speaker 11: Next week, okay, I thought, So, yeah.

21:16 Speaker 1: She'll be she'll be coming to me. And what I say, April,

21:19 Speaker 1: I can't remember is in the spring.

21:21 Speaker 11: Yeah, in the spring.

21:22 Speaker 1: That's a good problem though, I'm making it. I'm in

21:23 Speaker 1: the middle of making the flyer. So I did want

21:25 Speaker 1: to give a shout out to one more person, my

21:27 Speaker 1: girl Victoria from I Have Ethereal. She own's a tattoo

21:30 Speaker 1: shop in Nashua, but she's taken the time to do

21:34 Speaker 1: some pro bonographic design for our listening room. So, oh,

21:37 Speaker 1: you're gonna see more of our little skeleton walking around

21:40 Speaker 1: in musical landscapes as we continue our social media campaign.

21:45 Speaker 1: Oh very cool.

21:46 Speaker 13: Victoria did my logo and cover art as well.

21:50 Speaker 1: So she's kind of branching out from the ink and

21:52 Speaker 1: skin and doing things with musicians.

21:54 Speaker 11: Yeah, no, that's cool.

21:55 Speaker 1: I have Ethereal. I have Ethereal in Nashua.

21:58 Speaker 11: Okay, now I'm curious about the I was curious about

22:00 Speaker 11: that too, the logo, Like why the skeleton because I

22:04 Speaker 11: see the skeleton, like I think like death metal or something.

22:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we will.

22:08 Speaker 11: I didn't really think that. I'm kidding, but I am curious.

22:11 Speaker 1: I think I did with the nature concept like this,

22:13 Speaker 1: and we're both creepy girls, like creep like I got

22:16 Speaker 1: a skull on my arm right Like, So she's like,

22:18 Speaker 1: how about you know, we just came up with all

22:19 Speaker 1: these ideas and for some reason, we call them Scully

22:22 Speaker 1: and and now we have all these different ideas as

22:24 Speaker 1: to how we're gonna promote each musician with this little

22:26 Speaker 1: skull characters. Yeah, he's always going to be a nature

22:29 Speaker 1: as well.

22:29 Speaker 11: Oh okay, Okay, that makes sense.

22:31 Speaker 1: Because it's my studio is called Prayers of Nature Okay,

22:34 Speaker 1: listening room at Prayers of Nature is like really long winded,

22:36 Speaker 1: so we just called it the listening.

22:38 Speaker 11: Room, okay, but the official name is the Listening Room

22:40 Speaker 11: at Prayers of Nature. Now, why Prayers of Nature? What's

22:43 Speaker 11: the origin of that?

22:44 Speaker 1: Aaron's mother was an artist. You made flower Mindala's beautiful

22:47 Speaker 1: flower mindalas, and so our studio when you walk in

22:50 Speaker 1: it is unlike anything else you've probably seen. It's got chandeliers,

22:53 Speaker 1: we got hanging from like a big mill building, okay,

22:56 Speaker 1: and then we got like plants and flower mindalas everywhere.

23:00 Speaker 11: And what is I don't know what a mandala.

23:02 Speaker 1: It's like a Buddhist image. You've probably seen it, you

23:05 Speaker 1: just didn't know. You've seen the circular image. And it's

23:08 Speaker 1: usually made with like sand and seeds and things like that.

23:10 Speaker 1: But his mother made him with flowers, okay, and she

23:13 Speaker 1: made over one hundred and twenty five of them.

23:14 Speaker 11: Oh so cool.

23:16 Speaker 1: We have a lot of them in our studio. Yeah,

23:18 Speaker 1: we've had them in some galleries and stuff. So Aaron

23:20 Speaker 1: also is a jeweler. When he's not making microphones for Earthworks,

23:22 Speaker 1: he's making jewelry. It's all inspired by nature. They have

23:25 Speaker 1: a lot of nature themes in our shop, Crystals, all

23:28 Speaker 1: sorts of things like that flowers, flowers are the parts. Yes,

23:34 Speaker 1: And I actually think our musical experience are similar to mandala.

23:38 Speaker 1: So when you create a mindala, it's about the experience

23:40 Speaker 1: of making it, necessarily about what the outcome looks like.

23:43 Speaker 1: And then when you're done with the mendali, you're supposed

23:45 Speaker 1: to destroy it to release yourself from attachments. Oh so,

23:48 Speaker 1: whenever we set up for a show, whenever Nick sitting

23:50 Speaker 1: up the lighting gear, the sound gear and like we're

23:52 Speaker 1: getting the chairs all said, I know that this isn't

23:55 Speaker 1: going to stay this way. People are gonna show up

23:57 Speaker 1: and they're going to experience the music, and then they're

23:58 Speaker 1: gonna leave and we're gonna break it all down again.

24:00 Speaker 11: Yeah.

24:00 Speaker 1: So I actually found a cohesive way to like tie

24:03 Speaker 1: it all in. So we're kind of happy. We're sharing

24:05 Speaker 1: an experience in every event that's not going to last song,

24:08 Speaker 1: kind of like a mandala.

24:09 Speaker 11: Oh okay, I get it, there it is. Yeah, that's

24:12 Speaker 11: that's cool.

24:13 Speaker 13: That's one cool thing too.

24:14 Speaker 1: I just want to point out, and I don't know

24:15 Speaker 1: if Aaron's going to talk about it, but we do

24:17 Speaker 1: use all Earthworks microphones. So between him and Nick, they

24:21 Speaker 1: have they know how to there. Can you explain the

24:24 Speaker 1: difference between like a standard microphone and like what Earthworks does?

24:28 Speaker 11: Yeah?

24:28 Speaker 12: Please, Well, the beauty is in the sound. Of course,

24:32 Speaker 12: you have to hear it to understand it. Yeah, I'm

24:36 Speaker 12: not currently talking to an Earthworks microphone.

24:38 Speaker 1: No, no, you're not there.

24:44 Speaker 11: Their time coherent.

24:45 Speaker 12: They preserves the transient responses that sounds in a way

24:49 Speaker 12: that what the microphone does. Okay, and they have excellent

24:54 Speaker 12: polar responses okay, off access.

24:58 Speaker 11: Okay, you put a lot of love into my microphone. Okay, excellent, excellent?

25:02 Speaker 11: Uh based? Where is Earthworks based? Based in Wilton? Wilton?

25:06 Speaker 1: Okay, it's like literally three minutes down the road from

25:09 Speaker 1: our art studio. Oh okay, it's pretty great.

25:11 Speaker 11: Okay, okay. Yeah, and then, uh so do you work

25:15 Speaker 11: there too, Necker?

25:16 Speaker 10: I do not work at Earthworks, you do not.

25:19 Speaker 15: I I'm more of a freelance audio engineer. I work

25:22 Speaker 15: for a couple of different companies. But yeah, so you know,

25:24 Speaker 15: work with Kate here used Earthwork microphones? I can you

25:28 Speaker 15: know I would concur with what Aaron is saying about there.

25:32 Speaker 15: I've never put them in front of something and it

25:34 Speaker 15: not work. Yeah, you know, and that and that that's

25:36 Speaker 15: a that's a that's a that's a great thing when

25:39 Speaker 15: you know when when a musician or a band brings

25:41 Speaker 15: you their their image, their their art, and you want

25:46 Speaker 15: to faithfully recreate that for them, you know, putting, you know,

25:49 Speaker 15: the microphones are your first tool. Like as a framer,

25:53 Speaker 15: the first thing is the nail in the hammer, you know,

25:55 Speaker 15: in the wood that goes together. So it's like when

25:57 Speaker 15: you when you know that your tool is going to

25:59 Speaker 15: be good and true and straight, that makes a huge difference.

26:02 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, So that's obviously what you use at Uh.

26:06 Speaker 1: There's different models for different applications.

26:08 Speaker 15: Use the one, the one seventeens, the vocal microphones, yeah,

26:12 Speaker 15: all right, and then there's a couple other things floating

26:14 Speaker 15: around in there, like some omnies and some instrument microphones.

26:18 Speaker 15: And every band's a little different too. You know, some

26:21 Speaker 15: d I sitting on the floor. Yeah, I don't think earthwork.

26:23 Speaker 15: Does Earthworks make d I s or micro pre amps.

26:26 Speaker 15: I don't think that's something.

26:27 Speaker 11: We used to make pre apps.

26:28 Speaker 10: We don't do that anymore.

26:29 Speaker 11: Oh okay.

26:30 Speaker 12: We had a saying like wire with game. We had

26:32 Speaker 12: these amazing uh one O two one, one O two two,

26:36 Speaker 12: one O two four series pre apps. Yeah, and but

26:40 Speaker 12: they are very expensive to manufacture. Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha.

26:44 Speaker 1: You have brought the price down and a lot of

26:46 Speaker 1: their products, so people are really used to seeing a

26:48 Speaker 1: high price tag associated with Earthworks, but they've started to

26:50 Speaker 1: make them more consumer friendly. More musicians can independently buy

26:55 Speaker 1: them now, okay. You know, was before it was like

26:57 Speaker 1: quite an investment. So they recognize that. And so their

27:00 Speaker 1: vocal mic, which I've used a lot, I'm a big

27:02 Speaker 1: fan of, and I think it's only like two to

27:03 Speaker 1: three hundred bucks.

27:04 Speaker 15: Yeah yeah, oh wow, yeah, okay, that's definitely the last

27:09 Speaker 15: couple of years, I've seen them on festival stages more often.

27:11 Speaker 10: Really, yeah, you.

27:13 Speaker 11: Might want to replace these, right right, I recommend.

27:21 Speaker 1: These little salesman the moment going on, Oh yeah yeah, no,

27:24 Speaker 1: I respect it.

27:25 Speaker 11: I respect it. Now is the goal is the goal

27:29 Speaker 11: to have an event every weekend at the.

27:31 Speaker 1: Home right now, I'm just shooting for once a month,

27:33 Speaker 1: once a month, yeah, because I when it's not a

27:35 Speaker 1: music room, I use it for workshops and other events

27:40 Speaker 1: within the art community. Okay, so I am using it,

27:43 Speaker 1: you know, to its full capacity at this point. So yeah,

27:46 Speaker 1: people can go to prayers at nature dot com and

27:48 Speaker 1: it will show them a lot of our art. But

27:49 Speaker 1: there is a page for the listening room, okay, and

27:52 Speaker 1: they just go to there, and eventually, after today, I'm

27:55 Speaker 1: going to have all the most of the events listed

27:58 Speaker 1: and they range from a ten dollars donation to a

28:00 Speaker 1: forty dollars donation. Like I said, yeah, that's up to

28:02 Speaker 1: the artists. I let the artist. I try to empower

28:04 Speaker 1: the artists more, you know. I'm like, this is your space,

28:07 Speaker 1: you can use it. These are the options. Yeah, and

28:10 Speaker 1: I let them curate their own experience, okay, so I

28:13 Speaker 1: let them pick their opener. I'll let them pick who

28:15 Speaker 1: they want unless they they were enough ideas, you know,

28:18 Speaker 1: so I'll make suggestions. But typically it's like that's the deal,

28:21 Speaker 1: you know. And we don't take a cut unless the

28:23 Speaker 1: room sells out. Okay, so you know, and it's only

28:25 Speaker 1: twenty chairs, so right, and we don't take much of

28:28 Speaker 1: a cut anyway.

28:29 Speaker 11: Well, I was gonna say, most likely the room is

28:30 Speaker 11: going to sell out.

28:31 Speaker 1: I hope, So yeah, let's see, and I hope after

28:34 Speaker 1: a year we get you know, a built in audience,

28:36 Speaker 1: because now it's half the battle as the venue needs

28:38 Speaker 1: to bring an audience. Yeah, so I got my art

28:41 Speaker 1: enthusiasts already. You know, some of them are music enthusiasts,

28:44 Speaker 1: and Wilton actually is a very enthusiastic town for music.

28:48 Speaker 1: You know, it's a small town, but they have Oh.

28:50 Speaker 11: I was scurious about that actually because you know, as

28:53 Speaker 11: it occurred to me as we're sitting here, I don't

28:54 Speaker 11: know much about Wilton.

28:56 Speaker 1: It's like I call it between a mix of an

28:57 Speaker 1: Adam Sailor and Stephen kimfilm.

28:59 Speaker 11: Yeah, like the same.

29:01 Speaker 1: It's like kind of creepy but kind of cute, you know,

29:03 Speaker 1: and it's got that New England crunch. It still has

29:05 Speaker 1: like that that that downtown village vibe to it.

29:09 Speaker 11: Yeah.

29:09 Speaker 1: And yeah, there's several little nooks and crannies there where

29:12 Speaker 1: you can hear live music, and I'm hoping to become

29:13 Speaker 1: one that's fairly popular for people to go to.

29:16 Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah, awesome. You mentioned the shop too, So tell

29:19 Speaker 11: us tell us about that our shop, Yeah, like.

29:22 Speaker 1: Our art studio. Yeah, yeah, it's well, it's you know,

29:25 Speaker 1: it's it's for the hippies. It's for the metaphysical weirdos.

29:28 Speaker 1: It's for the people that like voodoo dolls, you know.

29:31 Speaker 1: And it's part of an entire art mill. Believe it

29:34 Speaker 1: or not. There's about thirty studios in the mill. So

29:37 Speaker 1: oh okay, I'm one of the few that's actually open

29:39 Speaker 1: to the public. Oh and when you can get yes,

29:42 Speaker 1: you can stock up on crystals, sage Paulo Santo, handmade

29:45 Speaker 1: jewelry by Aaron. I got voodoo dolls that I give

29:49 Speaker 1: to gen you know, and all host workshops as well,

29:52 Speaker 1: like craft workshops. I'll get other crafters in there and

29:54 Speaker 1: they can host like a wire wrap class or oh

29:57 Speaker 1: like I think I'm doing a needle felting class after today,

30:00 Speaker 1: Like oh ok yeah. So it's a good creative space,

30:02 Speaker 1: which I'm like, why aren't we putting music in here?

30:04 Speaker 1: Why don't we share this with musicians, give them a

30:06 Speaker 1: studio for the evening?

30:07 Speaker 12: Right?

30:08 Speaker 1: So to me is it's just falling right in line

30:10 Speaker 1: with creativity and art and we're essentially just sharing the studio.

30:14 Speaker 11: Yeah you know. Yeah.

30:15 Speaker 1: So and then and the artists on that floor are

30:17 Speaker 1: all very excited about it. So they're they're thinking of

30:19 Speaker 1: opening their studios on the nights. We have these events, yeah,

30:22 Speaker 1: which I'm not like twisting their arm about, you.

30:24 Speaker 11: Know, like it's it's a great, great idea.

30:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's actually a guy that moved in right next door.

30:28 Speaker 1: He owns he does comic books, scale models, action figures.

30:32 Speaker 11: So I love that.

30:33 Speaker 1: I love the nerd and we got real excited. So

30:36 Speaker 1: hopefully some of these events we can get the artists

30:38 Speaker 1: around me to also open up their studio spaces.

30:41 Speaker 11: That's a great idea.

30:42 Speaker 1: I have the whole hallway open up for like people

30:44 Speaker 1: can byob I don't mind if people bring a six

30:47 Speaker 1: pack or a bottle of wine and sure themselves. And

30:49 Speaker 1: then we put like puzzles and let people do puzzles

30:52 Speaker 1: and there's a merch table. Yeah yeah, we'll see how

30:55 Speaker 1: it goes, you know, he just started.

30:56 Speaker 11: Yeah, no, it's a great idea. You said, those like

30:59 Speaker 11: thirty different art studios in the building.

31:02 Speaker 1: Yeah.

31:03 Speaker 11: Yeah.

31:04 Speaker 1: There's a lot of painters, a lot of photographers. There's

31:07 Speaker 1: a miniature artist she does everything in miniature.

31:10 Speaker 11: Oh really, class.

31:13 Speaker 1: There's silversmith in class.

31:15 Speaker 11: Oh wow, yeah, that's right. Is it in downtown Wilton.

31:19 Speaker 1: Kind of it's like it's off the main street and

31:21 Speaker 1: it's it's down by the river, so it's called Riverview Mill.

31:24 Speaker 11: Okay, okay uh. Megan says Kate's passion for art, music

31:29 Speaker 11: and the community is incredible.

31:31 Speaker 1: So I used to book Megan or I didn't book her.

31:33 Speaker 1: I booked a couple of craft fairs that I worked

31:36 Speaker 1: with her. Oh I got to I had the pleasure

31:38 Speaker 1: of watching her work with her own community of people.

31:40 Speaker 1: She has this she has quite a fan base herself

31:43 Speaker 1: for her tie die, which I noticed right away. At

31:46 Speaker 1: these shows we would we would be vending at the

31:48 Speaker 1: Range in Mason, which is a great venue, great outdoor venue,

31:52 Speaker 1: and Nick Nick does sound for them.

31:53 Speaker 11: Actually, oh okay, okay cool.

31:55 Speaker 1: And I think Tyler, maybe you've played there.

31:57 Speaker 10: I know I've played.

31:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great bunch. It's a great coal, uh

32:01 Speaker 1: you know, place to play. And so I remember Megan,

32:04 Speaker 1: you know, because there's like when you do craft fairies,

32:06 Speaker 1: there's always a tied eye person, there's always a soap maker,

32:08 Speaker 1: there's always like a crystal dealer. And she was probably

32:11 Speaker 1: the most popular tied I craft you've ever seen. Yeah,

32:14 Speaker 1: Like people lined up to come to her booth.

32:16 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, Oh that's awesome.

32:17 Speaker 1: Energy is great.

32:18 Speaker 11: Absolutely, Miriam says, I like Wilton. The Wilton town Hall

32:22 Speaker 11: Movie Theater is super cool. Yes, yes, yes, is it ethic,

32:26 Speaker 11: Yeah yeah.

32:27 Speaker 1: They play all sorts of like classic film and it's

32:29 Speaker 1: usually free.

32:29 Speaker 11: Oh really yeah, it's.

32:30 Speaker 10: An old school theater. Yeah, it's nice.

32:33 Speaker 11: Oh wow, Oh that's very cool. That's very cool.

32:35 Speaker 1: They'll do like a UFO day where they play all

32:37 Speaker 1: sci fi like vintage. Oh really, and all the UFO

32:41 Speaker 1: people come and, you know, get weird and Wilton.

32:44 Speaker 11: Oh very cool. Yeah yeah, if you're just joining us here,

32:48 Speaker 11: So we have Kate Shimkey and of course we have

32:50 Speaker 11: Aaron and Nick uh talking about the listening room at

32:54 Speaker 11: Prayers of Nature. Did I get it right? You got it?

32:56 Speaker 11: I got it right? And Tyler all Tyler all Good

32:59 Speaker 11: is here with us. Well, he's connected with it and

33:02 Speaker 11: he played Tyler. I don't mean to put you on

33:04 Speaker 11: the spot, but I'm selfish. Do you want to play

33:06 Speaker 11: another one?

33:07 Speaker 10: Yeah?

33:08 Speaker 9: Sure?

33:08 Speaker 11: I just you sounds so good man. I know we

33:12 Speaker 11: had only talked about playing one, but I just I

33:14 Speaker 11: can't help myself. Tyler Algot is here as well, so

33:17 Speaker 11: if you missed it earlier, he played as he played

33:19 Speaker 11: live for us in studio his new single All Night Dreams.

33:23 Speaker 11: But what are you gonna play for us? Now? Tyler?

33:26 Speaker 13: So, I am going to play the title track off

33:30 Speaker 13: of my latest album, of Love, which is what we're

33:34 Speaker 13: celebrating next Sunday on February sixteenth. Okay, we're celebrating this album.

33:40 Speaker 13: We're celebrating my single All Night Dreams that comes out

33:43 Speaker 13: on Valentine's Day, and then we're also celebrating merch.

33:47 Speaker 10: I got my.

33:47 Speaker 13: First batch of T shirts, stickers, posters, and another CD.

33:53 Speaker 13: I've done the CDs before, but having my very first shirt.

33:57 Speaker 13: Oh cool, my new logo and.

34:01 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's really exciting.

34:03 Speaker 11: So and the album, I assume it'll be on all

34:05 Speaker 11: the streaming platforms and everything.

34:07 Speaker 10: I released the album in April.

34:09 Speaker 11: Oh, the album is out.

34:10 Speaker 10: I haven't celebrated it yet.

34:11 Speaker 11: Oh I get oh interesting, Okay, I got you, I

34:14 Speaker 11: got you.

34:14 Speaker 13: But we have the single All Night Dreams on Valentine's Day.

34:17 Speaker 13: The merch is finally here, and I have a song

34:21 Speaker 13: coming out after All Night Dreams as well.

34:23 Speaker 11: Cool.

34:24 Speaker 13: I'm pretty soon here, so okay, but this will be

34:27 Speaker 13: of Love, The title track to the album released in April.

34:32 Speaker 13: The album is called of Love. This is the song

34:34 Speaker 13: of love all right?

34:48 Speaker 2: My heart jobb beat her?

34:52 Speaker 12: You know that.

34:55 Speaker 2: Dangle to backs he Even.

35:03 Speaker 9: Though we call the truth from the start, it does

35:09 Speaker 9: in mean my heart is your target to pounch.

35:17 Speaker 2: Of love you pull.

35:24 Speaker 8: In love.

35:28 Speaker 2: September. Horne never spoke so loud.

35:34 Speaker 9: With the screening stars and wall around.

35:41 Speaker 2: But you come in when you need in love. Then

35:49 Speaker 2: you're gone.

35:50 Speaker 9: When Bush comes to shove in love, you palln'n.

36:00 Speaker 1: The food.

36:04 Speaker 4: You pulled now have.

36:13 Speaker 2: Nothing. Now would you call me king like I would?

36:24 Speaker 2: Forget those words?

36:29 Speaker 10: Those words.

36:32 Speaker 11: You can tap them back.

36:35 Speaker 2: And take them all the way.

36:38 Speaker 10: You bury them down.

36:41 Speaker 9: In my lord and grave where my heart resides with

36:48 Speaker 9: the shattered brain.

36:51 Speaker 2: I leave right down, Lord, can I leave this?

36:57 Speaker 9: Please?

37:12 Speaker 2: My heart's all beat her?

37:16 Speaker 3: You know that?

37:19 Speaker 2: Tingle him all through your backs? Even though he.

37:28 Speaker 9: Called the juice from the start, does in mean my

37:36 Speaker 9: heart is your target?

37:39 Speaker 2: Poch A blow you poch in love.

37:53 Speaker 11: Oh my god, I love it. I love it. That

37:57 Speaker 11: was Tyler all good performing what's that called again? Tyler

38:01 Speaker 11: of Love of Love? Very very cool performing live for us.

38:06 Speaker 11: And of course we have Khimkey with us of Darling Hill.

38:09 Speaker 11: We should talk about that too. What's new there are

38:13 Speaker 11: you are? Have you been recording anything new or.

38:16 Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of practicing. I've had a

38:18 Speaker 1: lot of dental surgeries. Oh you have, yeah, yeah, They've

38:20 Speaker 1: been very unpredictable, so I have been hesitant to book.

38:22 Speaker 1: But I am happy to say we did get asked

38:24 Speaker 1: to play at Nova Arts and Keene on February twenty seventh.

38:28 Speaker 1: So I'm opening of I forget the woman's name. I

38:31 Speaker 1: feel a little such a jerk, but I was just

38:33 Speaker 1: so enamored that I finally got to play there. I'll

38:36 Speaker 1: just be honest, because it's such a great venue. If

38:37 Speaker 1: you go all the way up to Keen, it's called

38:39 Speaker 1: Nova Arts on Emerald Street.

38:40 Speaker 11: Yes, yeah, I've been hearing about.

38:41 Speaker 1: Oh it's a great venue. Yeah, so I was I immediately,

38:44 Speaker 1: I didn't even know who I was opening. I said yes.

38:46 Speaker 1: I was like, yes, I'll do it.

38:47 Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah.

38:48 Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. We've been aaron, I've been

38:50 Speaker 1: practicing a lot at home, and I kind of, I'll

38:53 Speaker 1: be honest with you, when I started the listening room,

38:55 Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to have a place for Darling

38:57 Speaker 1: Hill to play. Yeah, if I got too scared to play,

39:00 Speaker 1: I get stage fright so bad. So yeah, I don't

39:03 Speaker 1: I don't mind talking. But the second I start like

39:06 Speaker 1: performing and like sharing my emotions openly, I get all

39:08 Speaker 1: begotarded about it. But so I was like, if I

39:10 Speaker 1: do it in my own space, I'm more inclined to

39:12 Speaker 1: feel comfortable and like have these little training wheels, you know.

39:15 Speaker 1: So I booked myself. Yeah, but not till October.

39:20 Speaker 11: Oh okay, okay, but.

39:22 Speaker 1: I am playing no of arts and Keen and Handcock.

39:25 Speaker 1: Depot actually asked me to play a feature in August.

39:27 Speaker 1: So I'm kind of sporadic because I go through a

39:30 Speaker 1: lot of surgeries at the moment. Oh yeah, so I

39:33 Speaker 1: have to like be tactful about who I say yes to.

39:35 Speaker 1: But you can find our music on all streaming platforms,

39:39 Speaker 1: and I do. I am online, you know, Instagram and Facebook.

39:42 Speaker 1: I'll share a couple pictures of me playing the piano

39:45 Speaker 1: with the cats fighting in the background.

39:48 Speaker 10: You know.

39:48 Speaker 1: Every once in a while I bang something out and

39:50 Speaker 1: share it. So I'm not completely gone.

39:51 Speaker 11: I just yeah, yeah, yeah. When we when we conclude

39:55 Speaker 11: the segment, we'll play another. You send me another song

39:58 Speaker 11: that we hadn't played before. I I don't think right.

40:01 Speaker 11: Bus number two, which is really interesting.

40:03 Speaker 1: I recorded that in Nashville, but before I recorded it

40:06 Speaker 1: in Nashville, actually recorded it at home. And Nick actually

40:09 Speaker 1: during the lockdowns, got a hold of some nice cameras

40:13 Speaker 1: you did, and he's like, let's you know, there's nothing

40:15 Speaker 1: going on. Everything was shut down. So we do have

40:17 Speaker 1: a music video for bus number two. Oh, there is

40:20 Speaker 1: on if you just Google or go to YouTube bus

40:23 Speaker 1: number two Darling Hill.

40:24 Speaker 2: Oh.

40:24 Speaker 1: And the song was a homage to a friend of

40:27 Speaker 1: mine in high school who passed away from a gun accident.

40:30 Speaker 1: So it was a song about going on the bus

40:33 Speaker 1: and sitting next to my crush and then one day

40:36 Speaker 1: I got on the bus and my crush wasn't there. Yeah,

40:39 Speaker 1: so that's what that song is. Kind of sad, but

40:40 Speaker 1: it sounds happy, but it's actually sad.

40:42 Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah, it ends upsad. It starts out happy, but

40:48 Speaker 11: I was I.

40:48 Speaker 1: Was happy to do it. It felt good. It was

40:50 Speaker 1: one of those songs that just came out. I didn't

40:51 Speaker 1: I was actually trying to write a love song about

40:53 Speaker 1: I wanted to write a love song about Aaron. To

40:55 Speaker 1: day I have not written one, and it's driving me nuts.

40:58 Speaker 1: Oh and I could compare my love for him to

41:00 Speaker 1: like the purity of my first crush and happening was

41:02 Speaker 1: I ended up writing about my first crush.

41:04 Speaker 11: Now, how do you feel about that? Aaron? I'm okay

41:06 Speaker 11: with it. You're okay with it the most?

41:10 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll get there. We'll write a song

41:13 Speaker 1: about each other. I guess we have to break up

41:15 Speaker 1: in order for that to happen. Oh no, so it's

41:18 Speaker 1: okay if we haven't made one yet.

41:20 Speaker 11: There you go, there you go.

41:22 Speaker 12: Uh.

41:23 Speaker 11: So we should remind people too, We should circle back

41:25 Speaker 11: to the listening room at Prayers of Nature.

41:28 Speaker 1: Yeap, go to prayers dot com. Good to Prayers in

41:30 Speaker 1: Nature dot com and you'll find the page there. Okay,

41:32 Speaker 1: And we are on Instagram and Facebook. Yeah, we just

41:35 Speaker 1: created a YouTube channel. I haven't put anything on it yet,

41:38 Speaker 1: but it's created. So we're hoping to take content and

41:41 Speaker 1: put that on YouTube as well.

41:42 Speaker 12: Well.

41:42 Speaker 11: I was curious about that too, because the events that

41:44 Speaker 11: you're having there are so are so unique and special.

41:46 Speaker 11: Are you going to is the plan to record all

41:49 Speaker 11: of them and then put them online?

41:50 Speaker 12: Is that?

41:51 Speaker 7: Uh?

41:51 Speaker 15: And to a certain to a certain extent, because there's

41:53 Speaker 15: like you when musician comes in, it's like, I mean,

41:57 Speaker 15: what for a decade, every band that I've ever mixed,

41:59 Speaker 15: I've just taken and a left right off the board

42:01 Speaker 15: is like an archive, like this is my portfolio. It's

42:04 Speaker 15: the closest thing I get to it in a certain way.

42:06 Speaker 15: But at the same time, it's like there's no reason

42:09 Speaker 15: I can't pass that off to an artist, right. But

42:11 Speaker 15: also at the same time or in the world of

42:13 Speaker 15: digital mixing and everywhere you go in major venues and

42:16 Speaker 15: festivals and even myself, I run around with digital console,

42:20 Speaker 15: took a laptop up. You've got it, You've You've got

42:22 Speaker 15: a record. Even right now, you know, I'm working in

42:26 Speaker 15: the background for Modern Fools on they played at the

42:29 Speaker 15: Bank in New Hampshire Conquered Center of the Art stage.

42:33 Speaker 15: That's such as such a long hit n or what anyway,

42:37 Speaker 15: but I've been working on their multi track. And so

42:40 Speaker 15: the same thing when it comes to someone coming in

42:42 Speaker 15: the listening room, like Kate saying, it's always a unique experience.

42:46 Speaker 15: Every artist is different, and so when they come in,

42:50 Speaker 15: it's like give them that give be able to give

42:53 Speaker 15: them something in return, not being able.

42:55 Speaker 1: To give them a guarantee, but we can create some

42:57 Speaker 1: decent content for that.

42:58 Speaker 15: Right, whether it be some pictures or video, or you know,

43:02 Speaker 15: a band that gets to have a recording of themselves

43:04 Speaker 15: that may not have had that before or or you know,

43:06 Speaker 15: or something. And just if those kinds of things becoming

43:10 Speaker 15: just the next layer of accessible. Yeah, yeah, that's that's

43:15 Speaker 15: I think, at least my goal or when it comes

43:17 Speaker 15: to it's like I'm just doing the thing, but at

43:20 Speaker 15: the same time, it's like I'm you know, it's I

43:23 Speaker 15: can I have the ability to pass that off? Yeah,

43:25 Speaker 15: you know, and and and that's what I want to

43:27 Speaker 15: be able to do with an artist that comes in.

43:29 Speaker 15: It's like talking about like Tuency Lord and Sunset Electric,

43:32 Speaker 15: you know, in a situation like that, it's like it

43:35 Speaker 15: is relatively as easy as me hitting space bar and

43:38 Speaker 15: report and had and now here's a multi track recording

43:41 Speaker 15: of your live show, right that, you know, if put

43:43 Speaker 15: some work into it, maybe becomes a live album release,

43:47 Speaker 15: you know, or something like that. Of a listening room,

43:50 Speaker 15: a quiet, intimate thing where people are going to be

43:53 Speaker 15: engaged with your music, you know, And it's like Anteoni,

43:56 Speaker 15: how many crowd mics I've listened to while a band's playing,

44:00 Speaker 15: you can just hear everybody talking and having their own conversation,

44:02 Speaker 15: not listening to the band, you know, and that's no fun.

44:05 Speaker 15: But it's so but but so there's yeah, I stop

44:09 Speaker 15: talking in circles. I think I convade myself.

44:12 Speaker 11: I answered your question.

44:14 Speaker 15: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, YouTube coming, streaming and stuff.

44:19 Speaker 15: So that's something we've definitely talked about, is like what

44:21 Speaker 15: are what what is this the aspect of like streaming

44:25 Speaker 15: at cameras, audio, all the things right, you know, making

44:28 Speaker 15: sure that it's like is that something I can manage

44:31 Speaker 15: or is it we need someone else to come in

44:33 Speaker 15: and help me do other things? When then then you

44:35 Speaker 15: start breaking into a different conversation.

44:38 Speaker 1: I have anticipate things will evolve over time. Will for

44:40 Speaker 1: you what it doesn't work? What's worth our time?

44:43 Speaker 11: No doubt? Yeah, No. I think it's cool though to

44:45 Speaker 11: do that, because it's, like I said, it's such a

44:47 Speaker 11: cool and unique thing. You know, it would be a

44:49 Speaker 11: shame not to have a record of it, you know,

44:51 Speaker 11: And it helps everybody, you know, it helps the it

44:53 Speaker 11: helps the artist, it helps the listening room, but it

44:56 Speaker 11: helps you. Nick with your like you said, with your portfolio.

44:59 Speaker 11: You know, every many benefits from that, So I think

45:01 Speaker 11: that's cool. I don't know if any of you remember

45:03 Speaker 11: the Sad Cafe. It was a place in Plastow. It

45:06 Speaker 11: was an all ages room and they.

45:09 Speaker 15: Had like jazz, open mics and stuff they did.

45:11 Speaker 11: They did all kinds of stuff there, but they would

45:13 Speaker 11: actually give you a seat, they would record you, and

45:15 Speaker 11: they'd give you a CD at the end of the night.

45:17 Speaker 11: And I played there a lot. You know, this was

45:19 Speaker 11: like twenty years ago, but a couple of different bands

45:23 Speaker 11: I was in we played there a lot. But it

45:25 Speaker 11: was always and it was cool that they give you

45:26 Speaker 11: a CD at the end of the night. But it

45:27 Speaker 11: was very very mixed results depending on you know, who

45:32 Speaker 11: was who was working the board.

45:35 Speaker 1: Your pants too, the studio, yeah, to wing it.

45:39 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, So there was some really there was some

45:41 Speaker 11: really good recordings that came out of there, and some

45:43 Speaker 11: really and somewhere it's like I might as well take

45:45 Speaker 11: the CD and throw it in the you know, but

45:50 Speaker 11: but uh, but no, But I think it's I think

45:52 Speaker 11: it's cool that you're going to do that at the

45:54 Speaker 11: listening room. Yeah, it only makes sense. It only makes sense. Now,

45:57 Speaker 11: when is the next one? When's the February sixteenth, February extent?

46:01 Speaker 1: Have Tyler come? That's so that's gonna be to Sunday

46:05 Speaker 1: six o'clock.

46:06 Speaker 11: Yeah, that's coming coming right up.

46:07 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yes.

46:09 Speaker 13: So I have a friend of mine. I have a

46:11 Speaker 13: friend of mine named Jaden Arpin who is opening the show.

46:15 Speaker 13: And I met her a couple of times in Milford,

46:19 Speaker 13: watched her play in some open mics or something, and

46:22 Speaker 13: she has just an amazing voice, an incredible writer. So

46:26 Speaker 13: she popped into my head last minute I saw if

46:28 Speaker 13: she was available, she's going to be opening the show.

46:31 Speaker 11: Excellent.

46:32 Speaker 13: I will have my bluegrass band playing probably four or

46:37 Speaker 13: five songs, and that's White Mountain Rounders. We just released

46:41 Speaker 13: our four song eph Wow. We're gonna have CDs next week.

46:46 Speaker 13: So we're out and about and they're gonna come play

46:49 Speaker 13: a few songs for that show.

46:51 Speaker 10: Then.

46:51 Speaker 13: I haven't run it by my sound crew, but I

46:54 Speaker 13: might have a little soft jazz drummer with me. Oh

46:57 Speaker 13: okay for a big portion of the set, because I

47:01 Speaker 13: am playing with him tonight at rut Awakening Kava Bar

47:05 Speaker 13: in Nashua from eight to eleven.

47:07 Speaker 10: Okay, we've jammed.

47:09 Speaker 13: Once before it went so well, so we're throwing the

47:12 Speaker 13: show together tonight.

47:14 Speaker 10: Should should go. Well, he's a great drummer, so okay.

47:17 Speaker 11: Yeah, So if you're listening live on Saturday, so that

47:20 Speaker 11: is tonight A to eleven yep at Rut Awakening.

47:23 Speaker 10: Rude Awakening, Kava Bar and Nash Root Awakening Kava Bar.

47:26 Speaker 11: Okay, very cool. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. And

47:28 Speaker 11: then so the sixteenth will be at the listening.

47:30 Speaker 13: Room next Sunday, February sixteenth. That'd be very six o'clock.

47:34 Speaker 13: Please order your tickets at Prayersanature dot com.

47:36 Speaker 1: And you can get a fan bundle option. If you

47:38 Speaker 1: would like to upgrade your ticket, you can purchase a

47:42 Speaker 1: fan bundle which will include all the merch. Okay, seat

47:45 Speaker 1: and we don't turn people away. If all the seats sell,

47:48 Speaker 1: it's okay. You still show up and we'll we'll take

47:50 Speaker 1: you in at the door at like half the price.

47:52 Speaker 1: Is kind of the deal. Oh okay, crystill working those kinks,

47:54 Speaker 1: trying to figure out what works. You know, if I

47:56 Speaker 1: just do standing room only yours, I'm an old person.

47:58 Speaker 1: I like a good chair. I'll sit down at a

48:02 Speaker 1: punk show, like I have no I don't care.

48:04 Speaker 11: I'll do it right right.

48:07 Speaker 1: So we're just trying to see what makes the most

48:09 Speaker 1: sense for accommodating people.

48:10 Speaker 13: And I I.

48:12 Speaker 1: Like that he offered this, you know, Tyler's like, hey,

48:14 Speaker 1: we should do this deal where if you buy you know,

48:16 Speaker 1: the fan bundle, you get all the merch plus a seat.

48:19 Speaker 1: So that's an option too.

48:20 Speaker 11: Yeah, very cool.

48:21 Speaker 1: So prayers to nature dot com.

48:23 Speaker 11: Prayers of Nature dot com. That's the place to go.

48:27 Speaker 11: Very very good. We'll be the time goes so fast.

48:29 Speaker 11: We're approaching at the top of the hour, so we'll

48:30 Speaker 11: begin to wrap up. O Kate, always wonderful to thank

48:33 Speaker 11: you so much for Oh and you brought presents, and.

48:35 Speaker 1: I brought a voodoo doll for you.

48:36 Speaker 11: A voodoo dolls.

48:37 Speaker 2: Also shout out Who's mom, somebody's.

48:40 Speaker 10: Mom, his mom my mom with the banana ca.

48:46 Speaker 1: Y smells so good in the hallway.

48:48 Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, yeah, we we have to. We can't have

48:51 Speaker 11: any food eater, so we left it in the hallway.

48:53 Speaker 11: But yeah, everything is a tease. I can even smell it,

48:58 Speaker 11: and I can't smell anything most of the time, but yeah, yeah,

49:01 Speaker 11: so we look forward to that. So thank you, thank you, Tyler,

49:04 Speaker 11: thanks absolutely, thank you, so Mum, thank you so much.

49:08 Speaker 11: We love it. But yeah, so thank you and Aaron

49:11 Speaker 11: and Nick. Wonderful to meet both of you and Tyler.

49:14 Speaker 11: Congratulations on everything that you're doing. I love the new single,

49:18 Speaker 11: absolutely amazing and thanks for playing for us today.

49:21 Speaker 10: Thank you.

49:21 Speaker 11: And we're going to close out the segment with another

49:23 Speaker 11: Darling Hill track that we were talking about a few

49:25 Speaker 11: minutes ago. Thank you all so much, and we will

49:27 Speaker 11: close out this segment with this. This is best number

49:29 Speaker 11: two Darlene Hill.

49:58 Speaker 5: One su boy shot the blonde hair, freckles on his

50:03 Speaker 5: nose and baby blue eye staves, baby blue white stay.

50:14 Speaker 5: I watched his fingertips play with the rain, one hand

50:19 Speaker 5: on his back, back one on the school bus pain.

50:30 Speaker 1: We both felt thin, felt pain.

50:34 Speaker 4: We both felt vain, rodes wee boats fell sweet, both

50:42 Speaker 4: felt things.

50:45 Speaker 2: School ride was sunshine. School ride was sunshine.

50:52 Speaker 16: School ride was sunshine, school ride by.

51:01 Speaker 7: Sun shine.

51:13 Speaker 3: But enough for day all be and told what to do.

51:17 Speaker 2: Just wanna get on and sit with you. I wanna

51:24 Speaker 2: play with you where the skies are blue.

51:37 Speaker 4: We both fell bame, We both felt lame as we

51:45 Speaker 4: both fells. We both fell.

51:51 Speaker 5: School ride with sunshine, My school ride with sunshine, ride

52:00 Speaker 5: the sunshine.

52:03 Speaker 2: My schoolride was shune shine. One of these days was

52:34 Speaker 2: not like the rest. Seed is empty. No fail best

52:42 Speaker 2: he was led to minutes.

52:47 Speaker 4: We all felt thin, al feling, we all felt thay, we.

52:55 Speaker 2: All felt they.

52:58 Speaker 16: Were belled. Leans school ride was gray. School ride was great.

53:10 Speaker 16: School ride was great great.

53:13 Speaker 6: Gray.

53:14 Speaker 2: School ride was.

53:19 Speaker 6: Gray.

53:31 Speaker 5: Once snoon, avoid shock of blond hair freck goes on

53:36 Speaker 5: his nose and baby blue eyes strain. Baby blue eyes

53:43 Speaker 5: stain

54:02 Speaker 14: Three