IE #34: HiLo North Adams — a resurrection of space and sound

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An audio magazine covering the Indie arts world — music, film, games, literature, performance, and more.

IE #34: HiLo North Adams — a resurrection of space and sound

INDIEcent Exposure – INDIEcent Exposure

1 hour 3 minutes 33 seconds

6 years ago

IE #34: HiLo North Adams — a resurrection of space and sound

You are listening to INDIEcent Exposure, this is Episode #34 and I am your host, the mongrel, welcoming you to another great show. It’s packed some with amazing tracks, some brand new and some that just stand the test of time.

Brian Miksic, standing on the balcony off the Green Room at HiLo North Adams, overlooking Union Street; photo and image effects by Jason Velázquez.

We’ll be hearing from Larisa Santiago, A Permanent Shadow, Dylan in the Movies, and more. We’ll also be hearing from two individuals who came together to do something highly unusual in this day and age — Orion Howard and Brian Miksic talk about what went into the opening of the brand spanking new live music venue, HiLo North Adams. Crazy, right? Opening a club in the Netflix and chill era? Maybe not, since the space was at capacity for the private opening performance of Izzy Heltai this Thursday, 8/29. Tickets for shows in the near future are also sold out, so I guess people will get off the couch and out the house if you give them a primo entertainment in a cozy place to play.

Tracks Featured in this EpisodeIzzy Heltai • “Stuck in Stone” • Only Yesterday, EP, 2019 Shokazoba • “Puppets” • Illusion of Choice Larissa Santiago • “No Soy Tu Ninera” • single, 2019 A Permanent Shadow • “Empty” • Songs of LossJimmy Layton • “Eruption”• Fortunes of a Misspent Youth, Aug 2019 Burne Holiday • “Royal Bones” • Memento, 2019 Cass Clayton Band • “Doesn't Make Sense” • Play Nice, 2019 Tren Selva “People” Dizzy Blue Reflection, 2010 Dylan in the Movies • “August Moon” • Feel the Pull, 2005

The Izzy Heltai Band inaugurating the new stage at the newly launched HiLo, August 29, 2019; photo by Jason Velázquez

We don’t have audio from opening night, but if you go to the shownotes for this episode, you can gaze at the photo of Izzy Heltai and his band breaking in the HiLo’s brand new stage. And if you do that while I spin you “Stuck in Stone” off his 2019 EP, Only Yesterday, you might even feel almost like you were there.

The performance stage at HiLo, still under construction just days before the soft opening; photo and effects by Jason Velázquez.

For Heltai’s show, the audience space was set up as a chill music cafe with small tables and chairs, which reduces the maximum capacity, but creates a very intimate mood. The band was amped, but I almost wonder if they had to be, the acoustics in the room are that good. Angles, a lot of wood to absorb sound, and of course, a well designed system permit sufficient volume withou...