Yak Attack | 2019-06-29 | Rancho Del Rio, Bond, Co [SBD/AUD Matrix]

Feeling the past moving in. Letting a new day begin with Yak Attack performing their second set at Beanstalk Music Festival!

All great things must come to an end, but lucky for Beanstalk festival goers, they don’t come to an end without one final, massive throwdown on the side-stage, featuring one of the best late-night offerings the festival has to offer, Yak Attack. Their final set was the last of a festival weekend overflowing with talent. As a final hurrah, the band’s set featured a sampling of some of the incredible talent that graced the festival stage that day.

The set kicked off with an instrumental cover of Radiohead‘s “Everything In It’s Right Place”, the lead-off tune for their ground-breaking record, Kid A, proved a solid launching point for the band’s closing set of the weekend. Dave Dernovsek‘s stellar synth work helped elevate the tune with its own Yak character and drove the outro before seguing into the original “Nebra Skydisk”. After the laid-back combination of “Nebra Skydisk > Fixation”, the band blended into a cover of Deadmau5‘s “I Remember”, which featured the first sit-in of the set in the form of longtime collaborator, Aniana, whose powerful voice delivered the chorus with a fierce poignancy that stole the moment. The band then followed-up with a take on “Swing Thiwi” that brought out plenty of big hitters from Ghost-Note, including Nate Werth, who is the brother of Yak Attack drummer Nick Werth, in addition to Lettuce drummer Adam Deitch, as well as Analog Son drummer and Magic Beans 6th man Will Trask; needless to say, this was the percussive spectacle of the entire weekend. Not to mention, the Ghost-Note horns of Sylvester Onyejiaka and Jonathan Mones rounded out the sound.

The sit-ins kept on coming with Will Trask staying on for the following tune, “Kinetic Dub Station”, and the band also inviting up Magic Beans bassist, Chris Duffy, to add some Duffzone funk to the mix. Afterward, the band invited up Magic Beans frontman, Scott Hachey, to lend his jamtronica guitar skills on “Oobdisk”, providing one of the more compelling jams of the set, highlighted by the interplay between Dave’s keys work and Scott’s licks, each adding their own compliment to the constantly evolving jam. The band then took a break from sit-ins to play “Song For Phillip” as a trio, cruising through the upbeat original with determined precision, trotting around the melody, and building the rhythm with a shrewd attention to detail and control. They then invited up Magic Beans‘ keys master Casey Russell for what would end up being the final sit-in of the set and festival, as he tore up Nord on “Hear The Sound”. Casey always manages to not only elevate each performance he sits-in on, but he always adds an element that is identifiable as his own. He plays with such character that that in and of itself adds to any song he is a part of. This was no different, as his bright and bouncing synth work brought a positively funky element to the laid-back jam.

The band then continued with the biggest jam of their set in “Strange Water”, performed once again as a trio, before closing everything out with a cover of The New Deal’s “Receiver”, a song that, similiar to Lespecial’s late-night the previous evening, was centered around a preeminent cell phone ringtone. Their cover was true-to-form and managed to capture the danceability of the original that is by a band that has clearly had its influence on Yak Attack.

Yak Attack sent off Beanstalk Festival goers with a party that may have raged harder than any other set that weekend. With no other bands left, the Lookout Stage was packed to the gills with fans wanting to enjoy one final batch of tunes before returning to the real world, and with a little help from their friends, Yak was able to throw the celebratory late-night that attendees deserved. It was joyous. It was debaucherous. It was Beanstalk in the best way.

Yak Attack | 2019-06-29 | Beanstalk Music & Mountains Festival at Rancho Del Rio, Bond, CO

-= One Set =-
01. Everything In It’s Right Place (Radiohead cover) >
02. Nebra Skydisk >
03. Fixation >
04. I Remember (Deadmau5 cover)[1]
05. (Banter)
06. Swing Thiwi[2]
07. (Banter II)
08. Kinetic Dub Station[3] >
09. Oobdisk[4]
10. (Banter III)
11. Song For Phillip
12. Hear The Sound[5]
13. (Banter IV)
14. Strange Water
15. Receiver (The New Deal cover)
16. (Outro)

Show Notes: This was a late-night set performed on the Lookout Stage on the third and final night of the seventh annual Beanstalk Music & Mountains Festival.
[1] “I Remember” featured Aniana on vocals.
[2] “Swing Thiwi” featured Nate Werth (Ghost-Note) on additional percussion, Sylvester Onyejiaka (Ghost-Note) on saxophone, Jonathan Mones (Ghoste-Note) on saxophone, Adam Deitch (Lettuce) on additional percussion and Will Trask (Analog Son) additional percussion.
[3] “Kinetic Dub Station” featured Chris Duffy (Magic Beans) on bass and Will Trask (Analog Son) on additional percussion.
[4] “Oobdisk” featured Scott Hachey (Magic Beans) on guitar.
[5] “Hear The Sound” featured Casey Russell (Magic Beans) on additional keys.

Taper Notes: Behind the board, DFC. Mic stand was set on a bar counter, they were raised around 6′ DIN configuration. There was an issue with the board feed at the beginning of the set so “Everything In It’s Right Place” is AUD only. The board feed kicks in at the 3:40 mark during “Nebra Skydisk”. Thanks to FOH engineer Ed Myszkier for the board patch and mix!

Thank you to Yak Attack and Beanstalk Music Festival for being cool with taping/sharing shows. Go see live music and support your local artists! #spacetapes

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