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4:04 Speaker 8: That is Glow, That is who I am. And Thrax and they are here with us in studio. We're gonna talk with them in just a moment. Welcome everybody. We are back with our number three New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm MH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

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5:24 Speaker 8: President and who I Am and Thras are here with us. Welcome back, Hi hi oh I. So of course Glow that is from Hot Wax. And now the last time you both were here, I think you were. Were you in the process of recording Hot Wax or what was the status of things at that point. It was a while ago.

5:43 Speaker 9: I believe we had just released it.

5:45 Speaker 8: Oh, it had just come out. Okay, okay, we just released it.

5:48 Speaker 9: We were having a show at Photy's like that Saturday, and but yeah, no, it's it's still our mantra. It's uh, some of our favorite songs that we uh that we like to play together and yeah, Hot Wax.

6:06 Speaker 8: What is it about these songs that make them special to the to the both of you that you like to play them together?

6:13 Speaker 9: Well as far as with the messages and the songs, and you know about you know, believing in yourself, believing in your surroundings. Yeah, enjoying what you're doing, have fun, but be real.

6:29 Speaker 8: Yeah, and and so.

6:32 Speaker 9: You know, being with Rax, that's it's very easy for me because he's a great guy to be around.

6:38 Speaker 10: And excellent and the and those songs off that album are legitimately all of your songs, but those specific ones are the ones that we've played live and a lot of people have given us a lot of good uh. Yeah, A lot of feed feedback for that, and we noticed like right right away that we actually had a lot of uh like energy that people really didn't expect to happen, right because we we I think we even said it before that our our first time playing together was like legitimately live. We didn't even rehearse it.

7:15 Speaker 10: We just like, was that a Jewel, No, that was at the Jungle? Was that the Jungle?

7:19 Speaker 9: That was actually yeah, some of Somerville masks at the Jungle Music Community Center And so yeah, right, we you know, we I approached Thrax and said, you know, he wants to join what's going on with who I am? And uh so I gave him some of my things, uh to to work on and yeah, just it just like we just went for it. You know, I had I had a live thing set up already, and I was like, hey, come join me and we'll we'll just see how it goes together live.

8:00 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, was Jewel one of the early shows because I remember seeing you play together at Jewel.

8:06 Speaker 7: It was a first time.

8:06 Speaker 8: It was the first time I had seen you play together.

8:08 Speaker 9: And yeah, yeah that was the yeah Spelfy Fest.

8:12 Speaker 10: Okay, Yeah, because we had we had our our set that we had in the back room. Oh yes, yes, and then we and then we had an impromptu jam randomly in the room, okay, and I think my buddy Brandon at the time was was singing. And then I forgot who was who was on?

8:30 Speaker 9: Sean from holl Loaf he was playing there actually, Sean and guitarists.

8:37 Speaker 10: Yeah, because they they joined on like midway through too.

8:40 Speaker 9: Yeah, it was. It was a good time.

8:41 Speaker 8: But yeah, but.

8:44 Speaker 9: We had played probably a few shows before that.

8:48 Speaker 10: A handful of shows. Yeah, yeah, mostly like either at photies or at the at the time it was either the Jungle.

8:57 Speaker 7: Okay, okay.

8:59 Speaker 8: Was it was it easy playing live together right off the bat or because I would think it'd be an adjustment for both of you, right, because Lacy, you were used to all right, right, just you.

9:10 Speaker 9: Know, having the the keyboard drum following whatever I do.

9:14 Speaker 8: Yeah, this is you know, it's a unique project that you've probably never done anything quite like this, I assume, or.

9:23 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, this is a I mean, it was an idea that I've always wanted to be part of of a a drummer and either keyboardist or DJ type of ensemble. Like I've always really wanted that to happen somehow organically.

9:39 Speaker 9: Yeah.

9:39 Speaker 10: And I've I've known Lacey in the in the scene for quite quite a while.

9:45 Speaker 9: Right, We've known. Yeah, we've known each other, been on bills together.

9:48 Speaker 10: It wasn't foreign, but it was like a hey, you want to try this, like all right, it was it was like an offshoot thing because I liked, I genuinely like the music as she as she said about about the message, right, and it's a lot of genuine feeling about that, and she has a lot of great story storytelling with that. And yeah, when playing with drums, I'm trying to match that. I'm not trying to take that away, right, And a lot a lot of people out there can like overplay if you're listening to something like oh I want to put my stamp on it.

10:22 Speaker 10: I just want to be able to play what's good good enough for the song and like try to see what I can do from there.

10:30 Speaker 7: Yeah.

10:31 Speaker 10: And as I said, like when we played live, it was perfect, perfect feedback, So we're like, hey, you want to keep doing this? Yeah, And then and then thus ensued the the EP.

10:44 Speaker 9: Right yeah, right, and uh, it just became a natural thing because we had after we had done a few live shows together. We were like, hey, it's pretty cool. You know, we're having a good time and you know, people are having a good time with us, and why not let's let's take some of these songs and put them together and you know, like some studio stuff with it. And so yeah, that's when, yeah, we've worked out you know, what we could both do for it, and and and the songs that we had played live and it kind of we got, like Threax said, we've gotten really good feedback from and their fun is a good representation of the you know, the forty minutes that we do.

11:29 Speaker 9: So you know, four songs just boom hit you with who I Am in Thrax, Hot Wax, Who we Are, what we do YEP. And I think the EP is actually a really good representation of how we sound live like glow. You know, as long as I hit all my marks right, you know that's what we sound like. You know what you hear on the EPs just like we've rehearsed, right, yeah, just like exactly because we didn't reheard it, so we do.

12:05 Speaker 8: So the tracks on on Hot Wax on the EP, these are these are all the two of you, Yes, and then is there anyone else, any any other guests on.

12:14 Speaker 10: The technically technically yes, technically yes, uh you got, you got Brad. I'm very proud of that. I forgot. I forgot what song right now?

12:27 Speaker 9: Oh it's on Open Your Eyes and Brad who plays for Cosmic Blossom and Dog a Dog and I know him from Earth back in the day, Earthmark from Towns and it was just the band they used to, you know, they call themselves Towns. And so I just said, hey, you'd be interested in dropping a little bit for this, and he did. He sent me something. Oh, it was just a one take situation. You know, he's a pretty busy guy. He's very busy, and so he dropped it to me and I sit over to th Axe and Throx is like, this is how it should go in the song.

13:16 Speaker 9: And I think I gave him some version and he's like, no, this is how it should go in the song. I was like, yeah, exactly, it's it's perfect. Yeah, it sounds great in the song. And it's like totally Brad Joe's offs.

13:29 Speaker 10: What was just like a serious I was getting goosebumps. Well mix again really oh man, it's good.

13:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it really makes that and it gives the song like life that you know.

13:42 Speaker 10: As a side note, shout out to to Brad and Nick and all them. Yes, Brad is just like living his life on on like the most positive scale I could ever see anybody do anything.

13:56 Speaker 7: Really.

13:56 Speaker 10: There was a Jiggy had a birthday party over it shasking last year, right and ian Ian put it together from the track cones. Yeah, no rehearsal, no nothing. He just handpicked people like hey, you want to play, Hey, you want to play, Hey, you want to play? Like there were people from like what was it, Tray Combes and like the whole Loaf and Leon Trout, the main dude from Leon Trout showed up in either which way that like, nobody rehearsed it, Like all right, cool, let's let's get up on there. Like while okay, so while I'm jamming Adam nowhere, Brad just shows up.

14:35 Speaker 10: He just gets to the front road, gets to the front road, takes his guitar out and gets gets tuned in and I'm like literally playing drums and he he's doing that next to me. I'm like, and because he had a show earlier, he had a show earlier. I think with dog a Dog and then packed up and then came came over to Manchester. Oh okay, I'm like so like the team and yeah, the real deal.

15:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, he's.

15:04 Speaker 9: He's in my view, he's he's the best guitarist and our Yeah yeah, I mean I've listened to everybody, you know, I had that radio station. I've heard them all, and like everybody's good. But he's he's like a he's transcending, I think.

15:24 Speaker 1: So.

15:25 Speaker 9: Yeah, listen to our listen to our album Hot Wax, go listen to Open your Eyes and you'll hear like just guitar work that it's just one take. And he told me, he goes, oh wow, that was such a such a fun time doing that. But he just did one take and his sounds well, maybe we should amazing, Maybe we should play that now.

15:47 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, of course we do have the single that we're going to feature in just a little bit, but this might be a good time to play Open your Eyes Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh featuring Brad to Palma on guitar. Yeah, let's give this lesson if you're just joining us, who I am and Thras are here with us in the studio and this track is from the Hot Wax EP with Brad de Palma on guitar.

16:27 Speaker 6: In the time we as and Masters there see.

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16:40 Speaker 6: A prize, shifting time fine, love to be free.

16:54 Speaker 3: See going back to the scene you see.

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18:18 Speaker 3: See what you find.

18:57 Speaker 7: Anyone that is open your eyes?

19:56 Speaker 8: Who I Am and thracks featuring Brad de Palma on guitar, and that is of course from the EP Hot Wax. And we've got Who I Am and tracks here with us in studio. So Lacy, for those who you've been on the show a number of times, you're not in the five five time, this, third time, third time? Okay, not quite there yet, not quite there yet there.

20:18 Speaker 9: Yeah, we'll get there and next time I'll you know, bring keys and we'll play music.

20:22 Speaker 7: Nice. Nice. Yeah.

20:23 Speaker 8: So for the uninitiated, Who I Am? Where does the name come from?

20:28 Speaker 9: Who I Am is? It's a good question. It's a it's kind of a two parter because I spell it who dot I.

20:40 Speaker 8: Am, Yes, and it looks like a U R L yeah right right, I know, And it's.

20:45 Speaker 9: Very confusing and weirdly enough, I somehow got an email with that dot in there too, So I was like, wow, I know, I was like, will it take this?

20:53 Speaker 8: I'm actually I'm actually surprised.

20:55 Speaker 9: Yeah, who dot I am at Comcast dot man email. I don't care, say hi, say hi whatever. But yeah, so who I Am? The spelling comes from, like, uh, where I am? Oh, from Black Eyed Peas when I was kind of creating who I Am. That was a very influential artist and in that time, so black Eyed Peas, especially the one album they played and then so so that's where the like spelling from it comes. Okay, it comes from there, but they the name who I Am is actually about you know, there was a time when I was doing like open mics and going through kind of discovery of who I was, what the you know, what music was going to be about for me, and you know, where it fit into my life and where it fit into the larger community as a whole, and so in observing and you know, being part of it and enjoying the whole scene, I started to you know, I just kind of said, look, the main thing is

22:28 Speaker 9: whatever you're going to do with your keyboards, you're singing your songs. You can only do what you are. You can you know, make blue sounds or rock sounds or you know, symphonic sounds, whatever sounds you're going to make, and whatever songs you're going to make. But you can still only be you, right right.

22:57 Speaker 10: You can't be.

22:58 Speaker 9: Somebody else if it's not possible. So in your music, in your creation of what this is, it's you can only I can only be who I am, okay, and that that's it, you know, musically, story telling, song wise, performance wise, I can only be who I am. That is it. I cannot be any more than that. And that's if somebody else is being who they are, then I respect that and there's no other There's no way I'm going to say, well I need to be that, because it's not possible to do that. So I am who I am.

23:47 Speaker 11: I like it.

23:47 Speaker 7: I like it all right.

23:49 Speaker 8: And tracks and by the way, you're you're definitely in the five Timers club.

23:53 Speaker 10: Yeah, various been coming over since I was in married Iguana that first time with Brett.

24:00 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.

24:02 Speaker 10: I did too, back at the Old Building. Yeah yeah, because then after that I showed up with Fredo and.

24:10 Speaker 8: Then yep Withank Sinatra.

24:13 Speaker 10: And then and then I I I phoned in when he was a guest guest.

24:18 Speaker 7: Oh yeah for a little bit. That's right, that's right, good memory.

24:22 Speaker 10: Well, and I think apart from that, it's been and Harrison and Dead Harrison. Well, I don't think. I don't think Dead Harrison showed up to the old the old building.

24:32 Speaker 8: They were here. You guys were here here here, No, you guys were at the old building. You might not have been there that day, but probably because I remember Andre standing on the desk. What yeah, yeah, you stood on the desk during the interview.

24:43 Speaker 7: He's making some kind of joke.

24:47 Speaker 10: And then I think twice here and I think us twice yeah right, yeah, yeah, yep.

24:53 Speaker 12: Means you don't constitute as a guest anymore.

24:57 Speaker 8: You're you're now a friend of the show, which is like level up from guests.

25:01 Speaker 10: Yes, it's like the Patreon level where like the more times I show.

25:05 Speaker 7: Up, except there's no yeah, yeah, I get no, he gets the raise, Yeah get the raise.

25:12 Speaker 10: Now wait the same rais you get?

25:16 Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll have to give him an annual review.

25:21 Speaker 10: I've never had a review from you guys.

25:24 Speaker 8: Definitely definitely kind. So where's the name Thracks? And I know you told this story last time. But it's a great story.

25:31 Speaker 7: I think it is.

25:32 Speaker 8: I think it's interesting where the name Tracks comes from.

25:36 Speaker 10: So for the for the longest time, people know me for my regular name Axl obviously.

25:41 Speaker 7: Yeah, and that is your real name.

25:44 Speaker 8: That's my real name, because I'm sure people wonder about that is not his real name.

25:47 Speaker 11: But it is.

25:48 Speaker 10: It's my real name. I can't fake that.

25:49 Speaker 9: Yeah.

25:51 Speaker 10: The reason why I can't fake it is because I was made fun of my whole entire, like academic career, bring upbringing, my childhood, just because like the connection between Axel and Axle Roads, what's your last name Road? It's always been that. It's always literally been that way for the kids, teachers, doesn't matter.

26:12 Speaker 7: Yeah, so like, uh, what's it.

26:14 Speaker 8: What's as weird in a way because it's a cool name, Axel Rods are not Axel is a cool name. So it's it's so weird that people people made fun the first thing.

26:24 Speaker 10: It's like the first thing. It's like in the early nineties. It was the early nineties, and that's just how it happened. It still happens to this day. Doesn't really not as frequent. Yeah, when it happens I'm I'm at the point now where I'm like, I've never.

26:39 Speaker 7: Heard that, Like, oh good, never that one before.

26:45 Speaker 9: Wow.

26:46 Speaker 10: Yeah, Like there was a point in time I was I named myself Smitty Werben Yegermann Jensen because he was number one. That that's when I was. I was hosting the show as a TJ's. Yeah, shout out to TJ's. It's no longer there. It's now a high rise buildings, So that's a separate issue. But like I I used to do like open mic nights, but I used to do I hosted shows at Club Realm two, which now is The Racks, But like I used to host shows there, used to host shows as Smitty whatever. Like some people just like vibe to it.

27:19 Speaker 10: It was my raver days. It was my rave.

27:23 Speaker 12: But my.

27:26 Speaker 10: My way of getting two tracks is like a no a no brainer that I wanted to do like years years, years ago because I don't like my first name aforementioned being being bullied about it. So that's my actual middle name. Okay, come to find out.

27:42 Speaker 8: That's the part that's very interesting to me, that practice practice is actually your middle name.

27:47 Speaker 10: It's my my government god given name from it from my parents. That like they really liked guns n' roses and anthras and put them together. But like, for the longest time, I've been wanting to either change my name or uh just have I want that as a moniker more than my actual name, just because I fit more with that now than my actual name. And kind of like.

28:16 Speaker 9: The whole like where did the name who I Am in Thracks come from?

28:21 Speaker 10: I mean, it's pretty much put them together, but like the I started using that for my like drum videos and all that stuff, being integrated with Dead Harrison as well used as that name that it just it just goes with what like what I feel like who I am, Like there's a whole correspondence between both of us that are like where we were trying to find who we were and and it's ourselves. It It just it didn't dawn on me until like one of the first like couple of times we were like jamming that it like that that makes sense of putting two of those like entities together.

29:09 Speaker 9: Right when I first met I think the first time I met you, you came on my radio show. Yeah, that was that. The first time I actually like mess with Dead Harrison, I think, so, yeah, I mean maybe i'd seen you at a show or I'd been in the crowd or something. I don't know if we had met, not formally, no, but I think but I remember you saying like I was like, you know, everybody introduced yourself, and I remember you saying, like, you know, kind of wavering on what you were going to say, your name was, oh yeah, and I kind of and I was like, bring it and you go thracks tracks.

29:56 Speaker 9: I'm going by tracks. Trax is what it is, you know, And so I mean we didn't get together until you your couple of years after that, but I I always remember you saying that likes that's my name. Oh sorry, sorry my people, very excited.

30:22 Speaker 10: I haven't I have a knack for whoever I'm on this radio broadcast, very excited.

30:27 Speaker 9: I got over excited. I apologize.

30:30 Speaker 10: That's great, more pressure.

30:32 Speaker 7: I'll never know.

30:33 Speaker 8: Like, like I said, that's his.

30:35 Speaker 9: Name, yeah right, but that you know, I was like, that's his name, you know tracks, And I forgot like because you because I was also there.

30:46 Speaker 10: I think I showed up for Dank Sinatra as well. Uh, like the times that I was going in there, I didn't know, like how to present myself. So that was that was a good point because I was like on the press of this so that I'm like, no, I'm going to stick to this because I'm like at that time, that's when I was, I was dating on it, and I'm like, no, I need I just need to stick to it.

31:08 Speaker 9: Yes, that was very cool. Yeah, and so it only makes sense to me. And the and the thing is like, you know, I know I come up with like songs and stuff and the lyrics and whatnot, but but you know, the thing is we were like born on a live stage, and the live stage is who I am. In tracks, I mean, there's just no way to get around you know. The drums are a part of who I am thing and tracks is the drums that are that. And I've tried with other people who do drums and it has not worked.

31:47 Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't know that. So so you tried this.

31:50 Speaker 7: You tried this before.

31:51 Speaker 9: I've practiced with and played with other people and it just never really came out the way that I wanted it to sound.

32:02 Speaker 8: Was part of it because Thracks who were saying earlier there's a temptation in a situation like this to overplay. Yeah, I mean is that, Lacy, Is that part of what you ran into, uh well with other drummers.

32:14 Speaker 9: I think what it became was certain people were in a niche as far as what they were going to do with with their instrument.

32:25 Speaker 8: Yeah, and.

32:27 Speaker 9: And my music demands you to be kind of very dynamic and yeah, ever flowing yep from genre to genre.

32:35 Speaker 7: Yeah, that makes sense.

32:37 Speaker 9: And you know Thrax can do all genres. Yeah, Like and I do a lot of hip hoppy kind of stuff too, So.

32:45 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's kind of my bread and butter.

32:47 Speaker 9: Yeah. I he's someone that can really you know, you know, put it out there, right, And that's not to shade on anybody else. It's just for my songs. That's what I need.

32:57 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense.

32:59 Speaker 9: But but yeah, no it didn't work.

33:02 Speaker 10: We've had this conversation. We've had this conversation that like hip hop and rap we're kind of a a thing for you to you you had a thing for like trip hop and like the R and B in hip hop area of like the early nineties, where like that's kind of like where I first started listening to hip hop when it was like ingrained to me, like mid nineties. Yeah, and like I still listened to old school hip hop and stuff like I can name hundreds, but like that that clicked with me with with her because when when we had that conversation, like I got it now, because like the approach to making certain songs if you have the if you have the influence of whatever it is, like if someone tells you hated that, I want the influence of blah blah blah blah.

33:53 Speaker 10: Okay, cool, I can think about that now.

33:56 Speaker 8: Yeah.

33:57 Speaker 10: Most of what you gravitate with is like dance and and yeah Dan hippin hip hop. Yeah, And I'm like that's brilliant And what you can do with that is limitless. You can make that into anything you want to. It can't It doesn't have to be just rapper. It doesn't have to be just since you can do so many it right, I.

34:15 Speaker 9: Feel like, yeah, that's the in like you know, look, we're simpatago on on what we think music can be. Like you know, in this kind of you know instance where you don't see there's no keyboard artists out there, who's the show? Yeah, there's keyboard artists, Like I know, you know Crowley is incredible for hell Loaf, and you know there's some really good keyboard artists out there, but they're not the show. They're adding to the show, right, So that's kind of what we have is you know who I am is the show, and the sounds coming from a keyboard are the show.

35:14 Speaker 9: They're not just part of a nuance or a mood that you're trying to set with other instruments. And right now, that's the only place you're really gonna hear keyboards and synth music unless you go to like, you know, one of those things where they got like a hundred wires coming out of the thing, you know, And that's cool too, that's like you know, deep sense stuff. But you know, what we're doing is unique. You know, we're like a musical unicorn.

35:52 Speaker 9: You won't find us anywhere. This is where you'll find this, and when we for people live, it's like, you know, it's like a musical experience.

36:06 Speaker 10: She's not she's not kidding. It's very rare to show up to, like like saying, like the early earlier areas, like going to places that we've probably don't have any any business being, and we we we get fans no matter where we are, no matter where we go. One case in point Chickapee. That that was. That was such an experience. I did not expect that was such a wonderful experience. The mayor of Chickapee came out and did a whole like drag drag lap that was amazing. But the the overall like uh unification of what of what we were doing was very very received in the crowd.

36:56 Speaker 10: Like as soon as we were done. As soon as we were done, we got like almost mobbed by by different people at different times, Like I saw you're said, I that was amazing. But like people we don't even know, like we I mean, you have your fans, I have my fans, we have our fans, but like it's different when we don't even know these people and they come up to us with like grins smiles, like that was amazing. That was amazing, Like it's in real time. It like really solidifies us that we know what we're doing, we're having fun doing it, and we know for a fact that it's electrifying because we when we play in front of people, that's the response.

37:37 Speaker 9: It's like, oh, we keep telling us, like in real time, it is pretty great. I know, it's it's why I do it.

37:46 Speaker 8: Yeah, No, doubt, no doubt. Well we should so I think we should go ahead and do that world premiere. Is this the worldwide? Has this been played on the radio?

37:58 Speaker 10: Never heard it? Heard? We we did the old card test.

38:04 Speaker 8: Hey, before we do that, we actually have a call curious it might be one of your fans.

38:09 Speaker 9: I hope so would be.

38:10 Speaker 7: Hi, welcome to the show. Who's on the line, Uh, Cisco, Cisco? Let's Usco? Yes, welcome to the show, Cisco. What do you have to say?

38:26 Speaker 11: I am, well, I was listening to the program, and Uh, I just thought i'd call in and offer my two cents.

38:36 Speaker 9: Thanks Cisco.

38:37 Speaker 7: Yeah, go ahead, go for it.

38:40 Speaker 11: So a couple of things I don't know. Am I live?

38:44 Speaker 8: Yes, you are live on the air.

38:48 Speaker 11: I have the audio turned off on my uh computer because I don't want to obviously, But just a couple of things. First of all, really beautiful story on tracks. I can't believe so the the local musician I've known the longest, is actually tracked, and I can't believe all this time I didn't think to ask in the origin of his name, because I probably, like many, assumed a nickname that he gave himself. I did actual little days.

39:16 Speaker 8: I know it's wild that That's why I wanted him to tell the story.

39:20 Speaker 11: That I really appreciate you giving that context.

39:23 Speaker 10: That was pretty cool, no problem, Thank you for listening.

39:26 Speaker 2: I it was.

39:28 Speaker 10: It's something that I've been molling over for literally years by myself. Uh, And I didn't I didn't know if I really wanted to or not until like basically like last year, a couple of years ago. Yeah, that's a that's a real thing, man, it was pretty cool.

39:43 Speaker 9: Per Uh.

39:45 Speaker 11: The second last thing, I didn't want to interrupt the conversation, but listening. The second and last thing I want to share, and this is more for the throngs out there listening, is uh, the who I am sharing about the musical vision for the band Sofa. So for everyone out there who hasn't seen who I am in Thrax Live, you know, they're talking about some special concert experiences, some of which I haven't been to. But for me personally, as a big patron of the local music scene, I have to first of all, I put it like on my socials.

40:22 Speaker 11: My friends know you know, I have friends part and live in the local music community. No, because I constantly put it out there that my favorite you find of twenty twenty five is Who I Am in Thrax, and I really appreciate Who I Am giving the context of about the keyboard the keyboard slash scent piece, because what's funny is I never thought of it framed that way before, and it makes perfect sense. And for everyone out there, for all the you know, listeners into the station who haven't seen Who I Am.

41:01 Speaker 11: It's one thing to listen to on the radio, but who haven't seen them live. I want everyone to give themselves an opportunity to see what who I Am is talking about in the flesh. Because as much as I love music, and as I much other as I love keyboards and music, it's quite another to see what she means by the keyboard is is the music. It's the central piece. And so obviously with you know Trax coming, I mean Trax is the backbone that like obviously you know, but but yes, who I Am, you know, the keyboard is is the music, and it's that filling sound in the room that you know you don't need.

41:49 Speaker 11: Because I also listen to some loopers, yes you know, like some like Reggie Watts and and Mark Revla, but there's something that who I am. But it is unique. It is unique to music, especially in the local scene, that I've seen no one else do where it manages to fill the room. And I always love that when an artist sometimes with just free instruments, gives a sense almost like of an orchestra, because the sound is that filling and complete. And I just want to offer that to the masses as they got a compulsion to come see them live, yes, listen to them on the radio.

42:30 Speaker 8: Well, very good, very good, Thank you well Cisco, thank you for calling.

42:35 Speaker 10: Thank you man.

42:36 Speaker 11: All Right, carry on, I will I'm heading my stores. You in it and I will let's see you guys in the car and talk about it and you know, share the gospel from the mountaintops.

42:47 Speaker 8: All right, there you go, all right, Sosco, thank you for the call.

42:51 Speaker 7: We appreciate it, all.

42:51 Speaker 11: Right, love you guys.

42:52 Speaker 10: All right, man, Bye bye bye bye. So that's what I'm talking about. That's that's that's exactly what I'm talkingking about. People that actually know what we've been doing and seeing it. That's a that's a first hand testimony in real time.

43:08 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, because we didn't know Cisco before we met, Like I mean, yeah, I didn't know Cisco.

43:17 Speaker 10: Is he a musician, No, he's just uh an, he's a he's a huge local.

43:22 Speaker 9: Music supporter and I think the musician things going on.

43:26 Speaker 10: He's like one of the biggest supporters of the New England scene as a whole.

43:33 Speaker 9: And he's Yeah, he's a wonderful person any right, huge supporter of the music scene, especially out in ash And you thanks so much, Cisco. I mean, that's it. That's that's what he walked into that one day when he walked into Yeah, I mean Podies shout out to Photies.

43:55 Speaker 7: Love you.

43:58 Speaker 9: You know. Photies is where we created our hot wax

44:04 Speaker 9: Here in nashaua are hot Wax like home. I would say, they've you know, allowed us to come in and just like overtake the place and really bring a vibe that like Cisco is saying, you know, we it's it's just a vibe you're not gonna hear anywhere else. And like even if you go to a synth concert, like you know who, I don't know who plays synth anymore, like like that, you know, maybe some eighties bands or somebody from the night like O. M. D.

44:39 Speaker 1: You know.

44:41 Speaker 9: Maybe yeah, you know, but they're like up on a big, huge stage and everything's all separated, and you know, maybe Pink Pink Floyd's show and that's where you get, you know, but that's mostly guitar. Come see who I am in Thrax and you'll get you'll get a full synth explosion.

44:58 Speaker 7: Very good, very good.

44:59 Speaker 8: Well let's get to that now.

45:02 Speaker 9: Anywhere Yes, sold leader, Right. So so I I originally thought I would that we would do Hot Wax two album and and that's that's and that's still coming. Hot Wax too is still coming, yeah, and and it's a continuation of our live songs that everybody loves. It's so starting to work on that, and then I kind of started getting a feeling of I need to write this kind of thing, yeah, this kind of music, and and I need to have this content come out. So I came up with a concept album. It's called Welcome to Dystopia, A Survivor's Scroll Oh wow.

45:48 Speaker 9: Yeah. And the the content is much like our song Opened Your Eyes from Hot Wax. It's it's thoughtful and hopefully thought provoking, and it's about things that I think we all see and hear and experience, and it's you know, lean into this synth and and make it, make it become part of of a message. And that's what this first song is called Leader of the Pack from the album which should be out thinking maybe late summer.

46:33 Speaker 7: Cool.

46:33 Speaker 9: But we have two songs completed already. Uh and we have one we're presenting here as our first single called Leader of the Pack.

46:42 Speaker 8: And this is not a cover.

46:45 Speaker 11: No, I know.

46:49 Speaker 9: I love that song. And it's weird how I find sometimes like, yeah, the name of the songs, Like I have a song called dreams. It's not the Fleetwood Mac song, right right knows.

47:01 Speaker 8: There's a lot of songs all dreams.

47:02 Speaker 9: There are, but so well that's it. Yeah, just use the words that match for you. But so leader of the Pack and it's it's a it's a concept. Yeah, So I hope you all enjoy.

47:16 Speaker 7: All right, very good. Here it is.

47:17 Speaker 8: This is the world radio premiere of a Leader of the Pack from Who I Am and Thras.

47:23 Speaker 7: You are listening to Wumination.

47:27 Speaker 9: World premiere.

47:46 Speaker 2: Leader.

47:54 Speaker 3: We are created.

48:00 Speaker 5: Scope and you can tell you.

48:08 Speaker 1: You can shoots wizards?

48:30 Speaker 3: Can you want to push.

48:35 Speaker 1: Chet Brown?

48:37 Speaker 3: Can straight tests back going back?

48:49 Speaker 1: You shack you can.

49:52 Speaker 8: Ba there it is Leader of the Pack, the new single, the world radio premiere from Who I Am and Trax and I love it. That's actually my favorite the ones that you've done together so far. I really like that one a lot.

51:03 Speaker 9: Thank you.

51:04 Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, that's really good. That's really really good. Before we run out of time, So when's your next show? And where should people go online to keep up with everything that who I Am and thras is doing.

51:15 Speaker 9: For sure, you can go to who I Am in thracks on Facebook, on Instagram.

51:22 Speaker 8: Oh and remind people to how to spell because of who that I am. Yes, yes people know, yeah.

51:28 Speaker 9: And on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, all this basically all the streamers we're there, just type in who I Am in tracks. Also, our next show is coming up on May thirtieth, and it's a porch fest down in Maldon, and so I had to take a little break for the last couple months, and so May thirtieth is when we're coming back and gonna hit the uh hit the porch down on on Bainbridge Street, fifty nine Bainbridge Street down in Maldon, her porch Fest and.

52:15 Speaker 10: That's my home, my hometown.

52:16 Speaker 7: Oh okay for a while, oh wow, very cool.

52:21 Speaker 9: And then just after that, keep your eyes open. We'll have some photies the spot, you know, terminus. We'll be at some places. Yeah, I'm working out some dates for June and July and August.

52:37 Speaker 8: Outstanding, outstanding, come.

52:39 Speaker 9: And listen and you know, find us online and uh go listen to our music and pass it around.

52:46 Speaker 8: Very very good, very good. So in a moment, we'll we'll wrap up. We'll play one more track. We can play one more track from the EP. What what should we play? Do you have a we didn't play a new love or wait no we didn't play that one right, or we didn't play Moon run.

53:02 Speaker 10: Ah, but we want to send people to the moon.

53:06 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll play to be a good example of the synth being the lead.

53:11 Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah, yeah, that's that's okay.

53:14 Speaker 9: When I play this live, I used all my limbs, yeah, okay, use my foot to uh control the control certain aspects of the song.

53:27 Speaker 8: All right, So beginning, so we'll give that a spin. Jenny, you want to mention your website and anything else.

53:33 Speaker 7: Uh you want people to know.

53:34 Speaker 12: Absolutely if you want to check out the good trouble I get into go do Gencoffee dot com. J E N then C O F F e y dot com. And if you can't find me there, check out the mosaic Our Collective mosaic Arcollective dot com right here in the Queen City.

53:48 Speaker 8: All right, very good, and of course you can find me at Matt connorton dot com. And you can find the show now at Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com that just went live. Still got some things to do. This to the side, but all the episodes are archived there, going all the way back to the very beginning to the summer of twenty eleven when the show originally launched, and so everything is right there. Let's see. Okay, so we will again who I am in thracks, Thank you both for we appreciate it absolutely, and we will end with this.

54:19 Speaker 8: This is Moon Run from the ep hot Wax.

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55:40 Speaker 1: Or shower no wiss, wish st sets Sis