So tomorrow the SF based jazz / soul band, Con Brio, headed by the powerful vocals of Xandra Corpora is releasing their second album at The Independent in San Francisco. The album balks from the the text-book progression for a band and is unconventionally a live album. Let me address the thoughts that probably popped into your head when you read the preceding sentence
That’s ballsy and almost hubris for an emerging band to do a live album.
Yes, yes it is ballsy. But hubris it is not (so quit being such a pretentious asshole). If you’ve ever seen Con Brio live it becomes immediately evident that the stage is where that band is in it’s element. The energy is off the charts, and there’s a lock-step groove that emerges out of their deep arrangements that takes a very saturated genre of music and gives it a spin that is easy to recognize as one word: special.
Yeah, ok, but live recordings usually don’t translate onto record…
Damn, you’re a doubter. It was recorded at the legendary Great American Music Hall in SF with a ton of special guests, and was very carefully engineered, recorded and mixed. You can easily slip away into a song and not even realize that it’s a live album (the band is that dead-on most of the time) but the tracks capture just enough of the energy and crowd that you seriously start to believe you are there.
Alright, fine, so where do I get this album?
Thought you’d come around. Step 1) Go to the Independent tomorrow night (tix are going fast so get yours here). Step 2) Pick up the album at the show. Boom.
Here’s a sample of what you’d see there:
From The Citrus Report
