[Photo courtesy of MaryAnne Ventrice]
At first, it’s hard to grasp that the women of Heliotropes are your showcase’s heaviest band by far. From looking at them, you might not guess that the diverse group of young women makes monster, Sabbath-inspired rock with chunky, wah wah riffs and a raging backbeat. Also one of the newest acts on our CMJ day show bill, these ladies are kindred spirits of modern stoner/psych rockers like The Midnight Ghost Train, Pontiak and others, and they don’t hold back onstage. For a band whose current output consists of some singles on their bandcamp page, Heliotropes already have a well-developed sound and delivery – and based on this set at our unofficial CMJ day show at Cake Shop, are well on their way to an LP. Most of the tracks played at this show were new other than the released single “Ribbons”, and that new material is consistently hard hitting. The band closed out with a favorite of mine from Nirvana’s first album Bleach, the scorching “Negative Creep”, which the women of Heliotropes brought down in tempo a touch to give a more dirge-like sound to the song.
I recorded this set with a soundboard feed provided by the day’s excellent engineer Justin together with Schoeps MK5 microphones in the cardiod setting mounted directly in front of the stage. The sound is “in your face” and excellent. Enjoy!
Stream “Quatto”
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Heliotropes
2012-10-18
NYCTaper CMJ Day Show
Cake Shop
New York, NY USA
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Recorded and produced by acidjack
Soundboard (engineer: Justin) + Schoeps MK5>KCY>Z-PFA>>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (mix down, fades, align, adjust levels)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, thicken, exciter)>Audacity 3.0 (tracking, amplify, balance, light DR compression, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )
Tracks
01 Psalms
02 Early In The Morning
03 Light and Dark
04 Ribbons
05 Quatto
06 Negative Creep
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If this is the same NYCTaper (dl) that I have enjoyed the phenomenal results from for several years, the absolute thanks for this fantastic record is ten-fold! Your dedication and brilliant recordings are legendary in the music community the world over! Bravo, and great, great respect to your and your colleagues!
Of course, great thanks to acidjack for this SUP contribution of this band, I regret not having discoverd them sooner, but later is infinitely better than not! I plan to employ your fantastic recording to lure several mates to the heliotropes’ “A Constant Sea”, as well as the previous bits…..