''Live.04'' is

Isis Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom () as one of the main characters of the Osiris myth, in which she resurrects her sla ...

's fourth live release and the first to be composed of recordings from several different sources and eras. Many of the tracks are from audience

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s, and as such do not sound professionally recorded. The exception is the first track, recorded for

WMBR WMBR is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's student-run college radio station, licensed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and broadcasting on 88.1 FM. It is all-volunteer and funded by listener donations and MIT funds. Both students and commu ...

Radio Boston. As with the rest of the live series, the CD version was self-released. The vinyl edition was handled, in this instance, by

Robotic Empire Robotic Empire is an American independent record label based out of Richmond, Virginia, specializing in hardcore punk, heavy metal, and alternative rock. Some of the most popular bands signed to the label over the years have been pg.99, City o ...

. Along with all Isis' other live albums, it is set to be re-released on July 12, 2011 in digital format, almost a full year after Isis' dissolution. It marks the fourth of the series released to a fortnightly schedule.

Track listing

All songs written by Isis unless otherwise noted. # "Gentle Time" – 8:54 #* WMBR, Boston, MA – 2001 # "Glisten" – 6:57 #* The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA – May 11, 2005 # "C.F.T. (New Circuitry and Continued Evolution)" – 8:02 #* CBGB's, New York, NY – August 26, 2001 # "Celestial (The Tower)" – 10:49 #* CBGB's, New York, NY – August 26, 2001 # "Improv 1 / Endless Nameless" (K. Cobain) – 8:01 #* The Rotunda, Philadelphia, PA – July 6, 2001 # "False Light" – 8:30 #* The Middle East Upstairs, Boston, MA – September 17, 2002 # "Weight" (instrumental version) – 12:25 #* The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA – May 11, 2005

Personnel

Aaron Turner Aaron Turner (born November 5, 1977) is an American musician, singer, graphic artist, and founder of label Hydra Head Records. He is most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist for the post-metal bands Sumac (band), SUMAC and Isis ...

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vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

Jeff Caxide Jeff Caxide is an American bassist, best known for his time with post-metal band Isis, of which he was a founding member and present until its dissolution in 2010. He was also a founding member of Red Sparowes, but left after the release of the ...

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bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

Bryant Clifford Meyer Bryant Clifford Meyer (sometimes credited as Clifford Meyer, BC Meyer, Cliff Meyer or Bryant C Meyer) is a keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist, best known for his tenure with Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band Isis. He was with the ban ...

– electronics, guitar * Michael Gallagher – guitar * Aaron Harris –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

Justin Chancellor Justin Gunnar Walter Chancellor (born 19 November 1971) is an English musician, best known as the bassist for rock band Tool, a position he has held since 1995. Prior to joining Tool, he played in a band called Peach. After settling in the US ...

– bass guitar on "Weight" * Troy Ziegler –

djembe A djembe or jembe ( ; from Maninka language, Malinke ''jembe'' , N'Ko script, N'Ko: ) is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa. According to the Bambara people in Mali, the name of the djembe ...

on "Weight"

References

External links

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