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 know where all the knives are, unfinished business has already laughed, 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 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 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 my head ever since the last time. We had Kate Shimkey from Darling Hill here with us in studio. 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, like that, we'll get into We have a lot to talk about today, lot lots of lots of good stuff my associates. Yes, yes, I will.

3:32 Speaker 1: To my right is my partner in life, Aaron Durman. He's also my musical partner. He performs with me in 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. He's been like my I call my rider die right left hand man. I guess okay for the past ten years. He's 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. Yeah. And so they both also work in audio. So Aaron works for Earthworks Audio. It's really, you know, pretty popular high definition of 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.

4:23 Speaker 11: 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?

4:34 Speaker 1: 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.

5:01 Speaker 1: 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.

5:07 Speaker 11: Yeah.

5:08 Speaker 1: 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.

5:43 Speaker 1: 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. I do 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.

6:10 Speaker 1: 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 in one day. I think the most we ever hosted was eighteen bands in one day.

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

6:23 Speaker 1: 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.

6:44 Speaker 12: You know.

6:45 Speaker 11: So it sounds like a perfect scenario for if say someone is releasing an album and they just want to do 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 for ever 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.

7:12 Speaker 11: But 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 f Ye, 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 but it was very much you know, you're not you're not there to drink.

7:53 Speaker 11: 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, 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.

8:19 Speaker 11: Yes, 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, 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, we got to promote together and all that. But the second the weather messes things up, it's like having it start that all over again is really frustrating. And I stopped doing it on my home for personal reasons.

8:51 Speaker 1: I was getting tired of opening 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 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'd 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 for.

9:22 Speaker 11: Me, right.

9:25 Speaker 1: 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 in, I mean we can have a donation of ten dollars or a donation of forty dollars, depending on the artists.

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

9:57 Speaker 11: Yeah.

9:58 Speaker 1: 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, excellent. 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.

10:14 Speaker 11: Yeah.

10:15 Speaker 1: 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.

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 we met? Is that how we connected with you? Tyler 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. As you know, All Night Dreams the new single. For those of you watching the video feed, you might see Tyler or 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.

11:08 Speaker 10: That sounds good?

11:09 Speaker 11: Sure, do you want to play? Do you want to play All Night Dreams live?

11:12 Speaker 13: Or I guess I'll do an acoustic version of All 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 night there Valentine's Day it will be available for everybody, 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 an acoustic version.

11:31 Speaker 11: Oh, very cool. If you're just joining us here, he is Tyler Allgood, an acoustic live rendition of All Night Dreams here in studio.

11:59 Speaker 9: Can't get you out of my mind. It hurts and 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 you waln a run and hide, night Dreams. Won't you come into my reality? Night Dreams?

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

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

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

15:24 Speaker 9: So kind, a beautiful girl, smart and nice. It's because I wasn't ready and I fled the scene. But I 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 so cool. That is so cool if you are just joining us. That was Tyler Allgood 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 we have Kate Shimkey and Aaron and Nick talking about the listening room and of course Tyler involved in that as well. And this is oh, you're getting some love in the chat room. You all are, actually so Meghan d is in the chat she says so excited for the listening room in Wilton and She also said, Tyler, allgood is awesome.

17:52 Speaker 11: Check it out, and she gave you some applause there, Tyler, I love Megan so much. Thanks Meghan absolutely. And also Miriam vanished 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 uh, when is the first official event?

18:12 Speaker 1: So we actually had it already on January thirty. First, the White Mountain Rounders came, which was a band that Tyler's in. And okay, we also had the pleasure of 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 both bands to a great Uh. We got to finally 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 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 he showed up, it was locked and he didn't know the code. Oh no, So Aaron got the drill and that's why I keep him around. He was able to break into the Modern 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 event is with Tyler All good. Obviously he's going to come back and share his his solo work. And then I'll just say it now, because I told people I 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 we were literally.

19:19 Speaker 1: 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. Let's find out.

19:37 Speaker 11: Yeah.

19:38 Speaker 1: And then in April. I have Temple Mountain coming. I 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 have cat Ivy coming up, Jenny, I think we have kat Ivy. Eric's been on the show a bunch of course to double check. I think so, or it's in the works.

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

20:53 Speaker 11: So Megan knows Eyes of Age, Yes, she said in the chat room, Love Love Love eyes of Age. I'll 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 last song after it ended. I think that's a good thing. So there you go, right, it gets into your brain. 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, 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 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 gonna see more of our little skeleton walking around in musical landscapes as we continue our social media campaign. 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 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 that too, the logo, Like why the skeleton because I 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, 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 gonna promote each musician with this little skull characters. Yeah, he's always going to be a nature 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, listening room at Prayers of Nature is like really long winded, so we just called it the listening.

22:38 Speaker 11: Room, okay, but the official name is the Listening Room at Prayers of Nature. Now, why Prayers of Nature? What's the origin of that?

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

23:14 Speaker 11: Oh so cool.

23:16 Speaker 1: 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 mandala. So when you create a mindala, it's about the experience 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 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.

24:00 Speaker 11: Yeah.

24:00 Speaker 1: 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 going to last song, kind of like a mandala.

24:09 Speaker 11: Oh okay, I get it, there it is. Yeah, that's 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 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 there. Can you explain the 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, you have to hear it to understand it. Yeah, I'm 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 that what the microphone does. Okay, and they have excellent polar responses okay, off access.

24:58 Speaker 11: Okay, you put a lot of love into my microphone. Okay, excellent, excellent? 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 our art studio. Oh okay, it's pretty great.

25:11 Speaker 11: Okay, okay. Yeah, and then, uh so do you work 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 for a couple of different companies. But yeah, so 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 a great thing 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.

25:51 Speaker 15: 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.

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, 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 too. You know, some d I sitting on the floor. Yeah, I don't think earthwork. Does Earthworks make d I s or micro pre amps. 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 these amazing uh one O two one, one O two two, one O two four series pre apps. Yeah, and but they are very expensive to manufacture. Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha.

26:44 Speaker 1: 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 them more consumer friendly. More musicians can independently buy them now, okay. You know, 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.

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

27:25 Speaker 11: I respect it. Now is the goal is the goal to have an event every weekend at the.

27:31 Speaker 1: 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 events within the art community. Okay, so I am using it, you know, to its full capacity at this point. So yeah, people can 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.

28:01 Speaker 1: 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. Yeah, 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 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, so right, and we don't take much of a cut anyway.

28:29 Speaker 11: Well, I was gonna say, most likely the room is going to sell out.

28:31 Speaker 1: I hope, So yeah, let's see, 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. Yeah, 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. 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 it occurred to me as we're sitting here, I don't know much about Wilton.

28:56 Speaker 1: It's like I call it between a mix of an 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, and it's got that New England crunch. It still has 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 you can hear live music, and I'm hoping to become one that's fairly popular for people to go to.

29:16 Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah, awesome. You mentioned the shop too, So tell 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, 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. Oh 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, and all host workshops as well, like craft workshops.

29:53 Speaker 1: 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 oh ok yeah. So 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?

30:07 Speaker 12: Right?

30:08 Speaker 1: So to me is it's just falling right in line 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 all very excited about it. So they're they're thinking of opening their studios on the nights. We have these events, yeah, 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. 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 hopefully some of these events we can get the artists 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 can byob 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. Yeah yeah, we'll see how it goes, you know, he just started.

30:56 Speaker 11: Yeah, no, it's a great idea. You said, those like 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 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 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 and the community is incredible.

31:31 Speaker 1: 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 she has 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.

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 you know, place to play. And so I remember Megan, you know, because there's like when you do craft fairies, there's always a tied eye person, there's always a soap maker, there's always like a crystal dealer. And she was probably the most popular tied I craft you've ever seen. Yeah, 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 Movie Theater is super cool. Yes, yes, yes, is it ethic, Yeah yeah.

32:27 Speaker 1: They play all sorts of like classic film and it's 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 sci fi like vintage. Oh really, and all the UFO 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, So we have Kate Shimkey and of course we have Aaron and Nick uh talking about the listening room at Prayers of Nature. Did I get it right? You got it? I got it right? And Tyler all Tyler all Good is here with us. 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?

33:07 Speaker 10: Yeah?

33:08 Speaker 9: Sure?

33:08 Speaker 11: 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 Algot 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?

33:26 Speaker 13: 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.

33:47 Speaker 10: I got my.

33:47 Speaker 13: First batch of T shirts, stickers, posters, and another CD. I've done the CDs before, but having my very first shirt. 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 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 got you.

34:14 Speaker 13: 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.

34:23 Speaker 11: Cool.

34:24 Speaker 13: 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 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 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 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? 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 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 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 was Tyler all good performing 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 are? Have you been recording anything new or.

38:16 Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of practicing. I've had a lot of dental surgeries. Oh you have, 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 of I forget the woman's name. I feel a little such a jerk, but I was just so enamored that I finally got to play there. I'll just be honest, because it's such a great venue. If you go all the way up to Keen, it's called 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, I didn't even know who I was opening. I said yes. 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 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. Yeah, 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.

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. Depot actually asked me to play a feature in August. 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.

39:48 Speaker 10: You know.

39:48 Speaker 1: Every once in a while I bang something out and share it. So I'm not completely gone.

39:51 Speaker 11: 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 I don't think right. Bus number two, which is really interesting.

40:03 Speaker 1: 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 on if you just Google or go to YouTube bus number two Darling Hill.

40:24 Speaker 2: Oh.

40:24 Speaker 1: And the song was a homage to a friend of mine in high school who passed away from a gun accident. So it was a 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. Yeah, so that's what that song is. Kind of sad, but it sounds happy, but it's actually sad.

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

40:48 Speaker 1: 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 Aaron. To day I have not written one, and it's driving me nuts. Oh and I could compare my love for him to like the purity of my first crush and happening was I ended up writing about my first crush.

41:04 Speaker 11: Now, how do you feel about that? Aaron? I'm okay 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 about each other. I guess we have to break up in order for that to happen. Oh no, so it's 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 to the listening room at Prayers of Nature.

41:28 Speaker 1: Yeap, go to prayers 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.

41:42 Speaker 12: Well.

41:42 Speaker 11: 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?

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 like you when musician comes in, it's like, I mean, what for a decade, every band that I've ever mixed, I've just taken and a left right off the board is like an archive, like this is my portfolio. It's the closest thing I get to it in a certain way. 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.

42:21 Speaker 15: You've got it, You've You've got a record. 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 as such a long hit n or what anyway, but I've been working on their multi track. 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 be able to give them something in return, not being able.

42:55 Speaker 1: To give them a guarantee, but we can create some decent content for that.

42:58 Speaker 15: Right, whether it be some pictures or 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. Yeah, yeah, that's that's I think, at least my goal or when it comes to it's like I'm just doing the 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? Yeah, you know, and and and that's what I want to 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, 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, right that, you know, if put some work into it, maybe becomes a live album release, you know, or something like that. Of a listening room, a quiet, intimate thing where people are going to be engaged with your music, you know, And it's like Anteoni, how many crowd mics I've listened to while a band's playing, you can just hear everybody talking and having their own conversation, 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 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. 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? When then then you start breaking into a different conversation.

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

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 really good recordings that came out of there, and some really and somewhere it's like I might as well take the CD and throw it in 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? When's the February sixteenth, February extent?

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

46:31 Speaker 11: Excellent.

46:32 Speaker 13: I will have my bluegrass band playing probably four or five songs, and that's White Mountain Rounders. We just released our four song eph 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.

46:51 Speaker 10: Then.

46:51 Speaker 13: 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 rut Awakening Kava Bar 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 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 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 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. Please order your tickets at Prayersanature dot com.

47:36 Speaker 1: 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. Oh okay, crystill working those kinks, trying to figure out what works. You know, if I just do standing room only yours, 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.

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 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, 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.

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. Very very good. We'll be the time goes so fast. We're approaching at the top of the hour, so we'll begin to wrap up. O Kate, always wonderful to thank 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 any food eater, so we left it in the hallway. But yeah, 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 absolutely, thank you, so Mum, 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.

49:21 Speaker 10: Thank you.

49:21 Speaker 11: And we're going to close out the segment with another Darling Hill track that we were talking about a few minutes ago. Thank you all so much, and we will close out this segment with this. This is best number two Darlene Hill.

49:58 Speaker 5: One su boy shot the blonde hair, freckles on his nose and baby blue eye staves, baby blue white stay.

50:14 Speaker 5: I watched his fingertips play with the rain, one hand 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 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 play with you where the skies are blue.

51:37 Speaker 4: We both fell bame, We both felt lame as we both fells. We both fell.

51:51 Speaker 5: School ride with sunshine, My school ride with sunshine, ride the sunshine.

52:03 Speaker 2: My schoolride was shune shine. One of these days was 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 his nose and baby blue eyes strain. Baby blue eyes stain

54:02 Speaker 14: Three