Saturday, October 20, 2018

Hood Smoke - Live at Sleeping Village (EARS&EYES RECORDS 2018)


In the midst of an eleven show run from Colorado to Ohio in the spring of 2018, Hood Smoke performed in their hometown of Chicago at Sleeping Village. Opening with a cover of a Randy Newman song, the band continued its performance with a list of originals bursting with an energy only found outside the studio. 

Influenced by improvised music, and detailed songwriting respectively, Hood Smoke––Bryan Doherty, Jim Tashjian, Matt Gold, Michael Caskey, and Rob Clearfield––unleashed a unique sense of structure, as well as an appetite for musical adventure, that resonated within the walls of the recently opened and sonically sophisticated Sleeping Village on April 28, 2018.


Bryan Doherty - bass and vocals
Michael Caskey - drums
Rob Clearfield - organ
Jim Tashjian - guitar and vocals
Matt Gold - guitar

1. Little Criminals 03:55
2. Keeps Me Around 05:32
3. Porcelain Flowers 05:25
4. Blue Janie 04:24
5. Seneca Lake 07:01
6. Anything But The Answer 04:38
7. Regular Neurotic 07:00
8. Lone Lorraine 05:33

Recorded live at Sleeping Village in Chicago, IL on April 28, 2018 
Mixed and mastered at The Drake in Chicago, IL 
Recording Engineer - Greg Obis Chicago, IL 
Front of House Engineer - Hunter Korgel Chicago, IL