Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Live At Cragg Vale (2014)


Just like they did for the 2012 UK tour, Natural Snow Buildings released a live album from their 2014 European tour, but the set they chose to record was in the UK.  Recorded at the Robin Hood Inn in Cragg Vale, a village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, on June 28, 2014, the show was described by the promoter as follows:
The show happened during Midsummer with the band playing in a white-walled room with two windows behind them looking over the valley.I had no lights on in the venue. As they played, the sun slowly set behind the venue so by the end of their set they were but shadows in the twilight. It was no ordinary show, it was something else in every possible meaning of the phrase.
Live at Cragg Vale was made from two separate feeds, a mixing-desk recording and an audience recording, mixed together.  I don't know if the YouTube video is the same recording as used for the album or if it's another fan's bootleg recording.  The album was released on cassette tape in November 2014 as a limited edition of 160 copies.  However, Arizona record label Was Ist Das? ("the best record label from Yorkshire with a German name in all of Arizona") has made the album available for streaming or for free download at Bandcamp.

A tracklist wasn't provided with  the release, but the final, encore song is The Cursed Bell from Dance of the Moon and the Sun, a staple of their live shows.

Here's a Google street-view picture of the Robin Hood Inn.



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