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Roadburn 2014: Sets from Lenny Kaye & Harsh Toke, The Shrine, Ron van Herpen’s Jam Session, Mantar, 11Paranoias, Papir, The Great Old Ones and Goatess Available to Stream

Posted in audiObelisk on May 21st, 2014 by JJ Koczan

I’m not gonna tell you to only listen to one of these sets, because frankly, there’s a lot of really awesome stuff in this first batch of audio streams from this year’s Roadburn festival, which took place the beginning of April in Tilburg, the Netherlands. What I am going to say instead is that if you’re lost for a place to start, definitely dig into the Lenny Kaye & Harsh Toke jam. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to see the name of the band without thinking of Kaye saying, “Harsh Toke makes good smoke,” but I haven’t been able to get them out of my head since, to the point that I went back and revisited their 2013 Tee Pee debut, Light up and Live, just to hear them jam out some more. Kind of a specialty appeal for a physical pressing, but I can’t imagine there was anyone in that room who didn’t leave that set wanting it pressed to vinyl or CD. I’d take either.

And in the meantime, the audio stream is doing well to suffice. “Harsh Toke makes good smoke,” as Kaye is handed a joint passed up from the crowd. Fucking awesome. Hopefully when they put that out, they call it Good Smoke: Live at Roadburn 2014. Got my fingers crossed on that one.

In the meantime, huge respect as always to Roadburn for preserving all these sets and the many that are sure to come for posterity. As with years past, these were helmed by Marcel Van De Vondervoort of Torture Garden Studios, whose new band, Fire Shrine, I’ve been digging. They’ve got an EP on Bandcamp if you get a second to check it out between all this madness.

Enjoy:

Lenny Kaye & Harsh Toke – Live at Roadburn 2014

The Shrine – Live at Roadburn 2014

Ron van Herpen’s Jam Session: Louisiana Voodoo Centre – Live at Roadburn 2014

Mantar – Live at Roadburn 2014

11Paranoias – Live at Roadburn 2014

Papir – Live at Roadburn 2014 (Friday, April 11th)

The Great Old Ones – live at Roadburn 2014

Goatess – Live at Roadburn 2014

Thanks as always to Roadburn for letting me host the streams.

Roadburn’s website

Marcel Van De Vondervoort on Thee Facebooks

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