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| As of 2006, Northern Liberties have started working on
a Collaboration Album, So here's the deal..... Northern Liberties takes
one day to write and record one song with a favorite musician of ours. This
is a long term project, We are going to have a lot of fun with it, and at
the very end we'll release the songs as a CD. We are going to update this
page as the songs are created and captured to the digital recording world. |
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Thursday June 26 2008 Joe B with
NORTHERN LIBERTIES
"Making a Sacrifice for Art" written by Joe B with a little Northern Liberties
Joe B - Acoustic Guitar and Vocals
Justin Duerr - Backing Vocals, Percussion
Kevin Riley - Acoustic Bass
Marc Duerr - Drum Set
About the Recording - It was a great time to finally make this a reality. For years the Nl's have been BIG fans of all that is Joe B. For the first year that we practiced in South Philadelphia we did so in the same building that the Nite Lights practiced in.... So more than see their live set... we loved to hear them through the walls.
This recording came together quick, with Joe B showing up with a pretty worked out song. We played around with the arrangement, and before long we had a great recording. .... then the problem started.... I set down to mix it, and there was some sort of noticeable phase shift that was easy to hear in the quite acoustic song. So lucky for me my roommate has a fancy recording set up and can fix this noise, But he also plays in a band, and we both seemed to be playing a bunch of shows and out schedules never lined up till almost two months had pasted. But we got the noise worked out and it sounds great. Thanks Gary!
About Joe B .... As Singer and Guitarist of the band the Nite Lights, Joe writes some of the best and most distinctive music I've ever heard. Joe B is also an amazing visual artist in the craft of paper cut..... If you've ever spent time walking around Philadelphia you've probably seen a few posters featuring Joe's art. Check out his art and music. It's an NL favorite for sure!
http://www.thenitelights.com/ |
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Photo by Jon Brown on my
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Easter Sunday 3am MARCH 23RD 2008 - SHAWN and KELSO with
NORTHERN LIBERTIES
"Born Defective" written by Shawn, Kelso and Northern Liberties
Shawn - Guitar and Vocals
Kelso - Drum Set
Justin Duerr - Vocals, Percussion
Kevin Riley - Bass
Marc Duerr - Drum Set
About the Recording - It's 11:30 and we are watching the floor bounce
3 inches down on every jump of the 100+ crowd watching THE SLITS. Our
equipment is in a pile of bent and broken in the center of the now deserted
basement. The show was killer, the bands were killing it all night and
the NL's were pumped on adrenaline and coffee. Our friends Shawn and Kelso
from Boston's "Bugs and Rats" had come down for the week end
to check out the show and hang out.... It was a last minute decision,
Marc says "Can we record after the show?" as if to wonder if
we'd be able to mentaly handle it, or to just wonder if my neighbors would
freak out.... I said fuck yeah! It was on.... Kelso left in one car with
some of his Philly Peeps... Marc's off on his way, and me the J-Man and
Shawn piled in the rock van and headed the warehouse to do the massive
two full drumset assault. Set up, freak out, set some more up, freak out,
help my room mate load in his gear, Freak out more..... Then with one
single take we obliterate it. Justin and Shawn over dub the vocals, and
it finished at a bit after 5am on Easter Morning just in time to sleep
through Jesus' rise from the grave!
About Shawn and Kelso.... We played in Boston in 2005
and we didn't know anyone at all.... The next band sets up and just explodes!
BUGS and RATS are a powerhouse of band. Since this first meeting we've
played probably 10 show with them, as well as releases a split 7inch.
- Kelso is probably the most brutal drummer I've ever seen... He plays
in a trance like state, primal and magical.
Both Shawn and Kelso played in Boston Hard Core band Brando, plus you'll
also find Kelso behind the drum set in "The
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28TH 2008 - MARYBETH CHEW with NORTHERN
LIBERTIES
"Only Math Exists" written by Marybeth Chew
and Northern Liberties
Marybeth Chew - Synths and Computer Manipulation
Justin Duerr - Vocals, Percussion
Kevin Riley - Bass
Marc Duerr - Drum Set
About the Recording - I was at work when my mobile phone rang, It was
Marybeth.... She wanted directions to my place. This recording project
was something of a mystery to me, seeing how the J-man set it up. So this
for-mentioned phone call was assuring, putting a time and place to the
nights recording. The nl's meet up at 3:30 and drink the standard to much
coffee as we play some phone tag with Marybeth over the differences between
a Wav and an MP3.... I'm not even sure of these details. We settle via
phone that she'll bring the music files on a cdr. A cdr? you might ask,
Yep Marybeth spent the early part of the afternoon with the help of Anthony
Palumbo crafting a wonderfully rich soundscape to challenge the collaborative
channeling of the Northern Liberties hive mind. So we tuned in the frequency
and followed the cubed labyrinth.
About Mary Beth Chew- Bassist of fellow Badmaster band
BAD NEWS BATS http://www.myspace.com/badnewsbats
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THURSDAY JANUARY 31TH 2008 - DAVID APONTE with NORTHERN
LIBERTIES
"Psychic Silhouette" written by David Aponte
and Northern Liberties
David Aponte - Nord Synth, Cassette
Tape Loops, Delay Pedals, FM Radio, TV
Justin Duerr - Vocals, Percussion, Guitar
Kevin Riley - Bass
Marc Duerr - Drum Set
About the Recording - At 2:30 I headed off to West Philly to pick up David
and his gear. A man like David Aponte could have brought anything to the
door after my call. As the master mind of MFM, he's a constant evolution
of sound and performance. He's known to make music with many instruments,
devises, forces, and wave forms.... from providing the soundtrack to silent
films to full on harsh noise to beautiful mash ups of tape loops lush
with delay, he a well versed, well read, commander of his own reality.
...We set up his gear at our practice space and set to finding the sounds
path.... almost instantly Justin honed in on a delay loop that David made
just to show us how the effect worked.... Sampled live from the local
radio waves, the song built itself around this classical loop.
About David Aponte - We first met David Aponte in 2004.
He had recently re- emigrated to the Philadelphia area. We noticed his
magical control of musical manipulation and performance art at his first
Philadelphia MFM performance at the CODE space. Avery gifted and accomplished
artist and print maker, having shown is work in many national galleries.
A great knower of fact and fiction..... Just a good guy! |
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 7TH 2007 -B. NOTHING with NORTHERN LIBERTIES
"Wolf in the Maternity Ward" written by B.Nothing/Justin
Duerr with arrangement by Northern Liberties
B. Nothing - Guitars
Justin Duerr - Vocals, Percussion
Kevin Riley - Bass
Marc Duerr - Drum Set
About the Recording - "After work on Wednesday"Kevin says to
Marc. Northern Liberties starts the day with some small talk about Philly
goings' on, and some jamming. Mr. Nothing has prepared a few riffs and
a overview of a song order. It took a few tries for Northern Liberties
to wrap our minds around the riffs that Mr. Nothing had brought us. But
with a little work we got a great recording with a fantastic musician
and friend.
About B. Nothing - We first met Mr. Nothing in 2002 as
the Guitarist for Grind,Doom, Punk band Syzslak. He's just plain a great
guy, We've played many many shows with Mr. Nothings projects..... Which
include Urine Trouble, Total Fucking Destruction, the Company Corvette.
He can also me found manning the bar at Fuime, West Philly's Best Little
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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25TH 2007 -ENID CROW with NORTHERN LIBERTIES
"Haunted Tree House Society" written by Enid
Crow/Justin Duerr with arrangement by Northern Liberties
Enid Crow - Vocals
Justin Duerr - Vocals, Percussion, Hand Claps
Kevin Riley - Bass
Marc Duerr - Drum Set
About the Recording - It's 8:30 am and we are dressed in suits and hats
and looking for pigeons in Rittenhouse Square. That's how the day begins.
Miss Enid Crow is taking a promo photo for us this morning. It may have
been the only time ever that Rittenhouse was pigeon free..... So we walk
to City Hall.
Justin and Enid had worked on the song idea the night before, so the the
recording went very quickly.... except for Kevin being completely confused
by the rhythm of the chorus.
About Enid Crow - An accomplished Photographer and Seamstress.
Enid Crow is musically featured as Justin's partner in The Vivian Girls.
See her work online at www.ENIDCROW.com |
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THURSDAY JANUARY 11TH 2007 -CLARK ROTH with NORTHERN LIBERTIES
"Soldier" written by Clark Roth with arrangement
by Northern Liberties
Clark Roth - Vocals, Keyboards
Justin Duerr - Backing Vocals, Percussion
Kevin Riley - Bass
Marc Duerr - Drum Set
About the Recording - Clark had this one ready to go.... Melody, Arrangement,
and Lyrics. It was a bit of a challenge for Kevin to figure out the bassline
from Clark's keyboard melody, but using the universal language of nods
and winks, it worked out fine.
About Clark Roth - Singer, Keyboardist, Novelist, and
more. Justin and Marc first met Clark Roth in 1995 while working as commercial
fishermen in Seattle. Northern Liberties found Clark once again in 2003,
after Clark relocated to Philadelphia. As frontman of the band Kandy Whales,
Clark shared the stage with Northern Liberties on a many nights. |
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