November 8, 2025 • 40 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, one of the members couldn't make it, but we've
got congregation exis here. Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, thanks for having user excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good good, Yeah, so we've got let's see parish Jake, Alexandria,
and Josh. I get it, Okay, nailed it. Bad with names.
I've been doing this so long, I met so many people.
I'm terrible with names.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But yeah, I mean that was the first try. You
killed it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So and Nevian is not here. Nevin's name is easy
to remember because that's a name you don't hear all
the time, you know what I mean. So, is he
the only Nevin all of you have ever met?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, actually no, no, high school.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You knew a Evan in high school? All right, all right,
very good. Well, so you've got some new music, some
studio tracks. I think the last time we had you
on the show, if I remember correctly, you didn't have
any studio tracks yet, right you You played live because
you didn't have any.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, and it was great.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
But so we uh, we came in and we did
like our whole five piece in here live and it
was it was a really big fun thing. But Resa,
we played a show that we actually live recorded and
got some great tracks out of that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
That.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, we'd love to share.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh, excellent, excellent. So that's what these are the ones
that we're hearing today. That's what yews are from. And
what did we say we want to start with was
that have you ever?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Have you ever?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Have you ever?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And this and these?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I think I remember that one right, you played that
one live when you were here before we did at Okay, okay,
so this is now where were these recorded?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So? These were recorded at a house show at the
Amp in Barrington. Okay, yep. It was a part of
the Harmonium Circuit, which is a really cool little house
show circuit that we did over the summer.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh interesting, Okay, after the song, I want to hear
more about that. That sounds really interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But let's give this a spin. The band is Congregation
X and this is have you ever?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Have you ever? What could this be?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Standing over there?
Speaker 7 (02:02):
But I can feel your eyes some me.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
I can't do it.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Some things about you. You carry yourself in a way
that I'm so drunk, I assume you my brains.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
That's too much, you said, I am my God to
think that.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
I believe me the right kind of said.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Have you ever thought can you see what I said?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's your fishing?
Speaker 9 (02:43):
Can't you feel that you're like dressing.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
By w.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
So you get cause I'm just ball your mind you.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Every time I see your face.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
That myself on in my friend that you're going to me?
(03:42):
So delicas, come away, baby is. Let know that you
see the.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Way I now I'll go next to you.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
All that I have got children.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Let you up with trueing that to tend How would
like to spend some time with.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Eno birth stories? Teach that to you to your time
yours as I've been listen to love.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
O.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Let you go on your food to be mad, I
could teach your soul.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
May show your other d words slily.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
You wanted you and not but one? And I got
the fl go hook through my mind, wadering if you're
(05:14):
the one? Are you believe enough to find out?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Do you think me like this?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
To me? You just don't your you're picking up other
I'm picking up when.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
When if you're home, you'll clear my mind?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Well what you're doing? Have you wonder that?
Speaker 6 (06:04):
My thank you?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Have you?
Speaker 10 (06:42):
Have you ever?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I love it?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That is so good? Have you ever? That was recorded
live the band is Congregation X and we've got four
of the members here with us live in studio, and yeah,
that is so good. Parents. You started to talk before
about the what is it called the Harmonium Circuit.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
So the Harmonium Circuit. This was the first year of
it running, and it's just it's a collection of house shows,
a bunch of you know, over the summer people have
the outdoor amphitheaters behind their house or something like that.
We it's all about supporting local music.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's really cool when you say for
people who don't know, like what is a house show?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So a house show in this sense, like we went
to U We have a friend who is a very
big friend of the arts in Barrington who invited us
and many other musicians over to his house to play
a show he's built out. I mean this almost doesn't
even to meet classify as the house show because he's
built this big, beautiful amphitheater in his backyard that could
(07:45):
probably support like, wow, two hundred, yeah, one or two
hundred people, So oh wow, yeah, it was all very cool.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Wow beautiful sound too.
Speaker 11 (07:52):
Really is just the second year that happened, actually, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So this would be the first year that the harmonium
circuit itself has happened. But yeah, we did like a
couple house shows, or we did a house show or
something last year as well. But okay, yeah, yeah, all
about kind of just organizing people together and giving local
original artists a chance to you know, take the stage
and play.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Okay, okay, excellent, And you all were talking off air
too about so Josh, this was your not because when
you were here before, you had the upright bass.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I had the big the big dog, yeah, upright bas
the stand up, the big wooden instrument. But on that
track right there in that show, that was actually the
first time we had all played together where I was
on electric bass, okay and playing in front of people.
So it was a great change of feel, a change
of vibe, and I think we all just we all
(08:47):
had a great time.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
As you can hear you kill it with all the bases.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well I remember when you were here before,
like because I'm a bass player, but I've never played
an upright bass, so I just remember just kind of
watching like I was watching you the whole time because
I'm just fascinated by by watching you play. So I'm
super curious, like, why why move away from that for
at least for this? I mean, is this like a
permanent transition, do you think?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Or no?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It was just for ease of travel sometimes I'm lazy.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
That makes well.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Now, if you show up to the press rooms coming Wednesday,
both the big dog and the little tiny electric bass,
I'll have both.
Speaker 11 (09:26):
Thanks, got an acoustic electric bass for you to try to.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Oh yeah, oh wow, all right, I can't wait to
try that. Yeah, okay, those things are fun.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, okay, so you're gonna be you're gonna be traveling heavy.
Then you're gonna bring uh my, might just have the
full trio, right, bring all the basses. Was it strange though,
not playing the upright when when you're used to playing
it with congregation X.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
It's a bit of an adjustment, and you know, we
have to maybe be on our toes a little bit more. Yeah,
but that's not a bad thing. It was a good change.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, one, Yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah. You feel the difference in like the energy, because
I feel like on upright you tend to lay back
and hang out, but then like when you were on
the electric base, you were right out there. It was
super fun. I mean that that day, I remember we
were talking about this in the practice after we all
just felt really loose and just really chilled, like we
were just we were just vibing and it was so fun.
(10:27):
I mean, that was the kind of fun part about
those shows that just we were all so relaxed through it.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Yeah, except that it was really cold and.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
Like I had to fight through that with my vocals
because I was like shivering.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
So I'm actually really proud of how that came out.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah we oh really yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh yeah, how cold was it that day?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Like it was one of the first days where I
think it got down into like the what mid to
low fifties. Yeah, yeah, cold in the sixties, right right, Yeah,
it got it got down there really uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Oh really yeah, yeah, that's that's cold. And then so
did you, like, how long of a set did you
play because I assumed did you record everything or.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, we recorded the whole thing, whole kit and kaboodle.
I believe we played what an hour or so it
was roughly forty five to it roughly forty five to
an hour, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And then so the these songs that you recorded are
these on an album that you're you've released or is
coming out.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Or it's so we're actually this next show we're playing,
we're raising funds to go into the studio, and okay,
we have we've talked about, especially like with this show,
putting out live tracks, and this is uh, these are
these are some of the really really strong contenders for
that because yeah, we we were so locked in that night.
(11:47):
We just want to you know, have fun with these
tracks and like people enjoy them, relive that moment.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah, when you when you decided to record the
set that night, was that I mean, what were your
expectations did did you expect did you expect it all?
Because as a risk when you're recording live, did you
expect it all to come out as well as it
did or were you surprised at all?
Speaker 11 (12:06):
We're hoping, I mean, we always hope to have like
a little something we can put on the internet, yeah,
you know, as an advertisement or just.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
To share with people that we care about.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
And fans that we have, like yeah, you know, and
and sometimes sometimes we get recordings that are not so great.
This time it happened to work out really well, like
it was planned ahead of time. We had multiple angles,
although I don't know I had it from a different angle.
I don't know if I actually sent it to you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh oh yeah, we're getting all kinds of video of
it too, Like it was. There's definitely I would say
that fear of like, I don't know, it's it's definitely.
It feels like a commitment, like everything you know is
being committed to recording. But you're playing live, so the
second you start, that's out of your mind because you're
engaging with the crowd and you're having fun. And yeah,
(12:58):
I had the I had fun where like, I was
also the sound engineer that night, so I was kind
of placing the mics on everybody and making sure that like, oh, okay,
you know it's gonna sound It's gonna sound fine. And
then during our show, my good friend John Eric was
actually mixing us, and yeah, I mean the recording came out.
It came out phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It did.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, yeah, very easy to mix, very easy to just
sit down and work with.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So outstanding, outstanding. Well, we should play another track? What
should what should we play next?
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Show you were twenty four, let's just show.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You show you. Yeah, okay, dive into some relaxation.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Excellent, excellent if you're just joining us congregation excess here
with us live in studio. And this next track this
was recorded live. Where was this again?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Barrington in Barrington?
Speaker 9 (13:43):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
This is this is another great one. This is called
show you check this out?
Speaker 10 (13:53):
Okay, this is a love song.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
No see.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You won't you he.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
A you?
Speaker 10 (14:12):
Will you need.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Love it when you hold me?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
I really wanna show you. I'm gonna show you whatta thye.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
To be with that a thie. I won't treat you
as you feel so different from the wrast has.
Speaker 12 (14:49):
Nobody told you? I want to set you free? Take
you there, Come on, lay for dawn.
Speaker 10 (15:02):
I want to give you.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
See this day you have been listening.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
You've been spending your whole life.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Helping everybody fly.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Come over here with us ratched noise.
Speaker 9 (15:25):
I guess somebody chase.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Love to give you a bag?
Speaker 12 (15:35):
How won can you seek?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
See this? Make you smile? Give him the chase I
want to show I want you. I won't thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Sixty sixty.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Mister, you've been spending your whole life helping everybody fly.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Come over here with those fractionalis. I've guests some visit
chers I love to give you, fir, hope you understand messy.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
The bl you.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
You want to shure you wise life to be right over,
I'll give you sweet be than you us.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Show you won't thank you? Oh want you love it
when you hold me a really one show.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
That is show you. The band is Congregation X and
we have four of the members here with us in
studio and yeah that sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
When you were talking off air, did I hear the
term ukulele base or base ukulele?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (19:08):
So, uh.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, there you go, all the bases.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
So when I first joined this group, when it was
just Alexandria and Nevin, I was seeing them at an
open mic all the time and I thought they were amazing.
And at one point they invited me to sit in
with them and I was like, oh, yeah, let's do it.
And I had again, it's a little ukulele base where
(19:35):
it's like it's the whole thing is maybe two feet long,
and it's but it has when you plug it in,
it has a really full base tone. It's a bait.
It's a ukulele strung as a base. Okay, And I
sit in with them and there. I guess that was
apparently my audition, because next thing, you know, they're like, hey, yeah,
(19:55):
you should come over to the Danger room, which is
where we and do all of the things and video. Yeah,
the studio we practice in. And I was kind of
suddenly thinking, oh, I'm gonna be thrown in on like
bass or something like that, which okay, but I'm kind
of a keys guy. And then I get to the
Danger room and there's a piano. I'm like, all right, cool,
(20:16):
we're in. Let's go, let's have fun.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Think a little bit of an everything guy.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
Honestly, I need I actually went and saw you as
an individual artist and like scoped you out and was like,
we need him.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, so Alexandria. So I started with a congregation, IX
started with you and Nevin and then and then Perish.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Okay, well it's kind of It's kind of funny because
I started playing at open mics because of Jake, because
he was in my house all the time and it
was twenty twenty yeah, and he was like, you should
do this, and then Nevin and I met through that,
and then him and I started working together. Jake was
doing his own thing. I we worked with a different basis. First,
(20:57):
it just didn't work out, you know, not for anything bad,
bad reasons, but that's good.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It just texted me up off all the street. They
found me on the street corner I had my base.
They just called me on No, I'm back back maybe
six years ago.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Yeah, I met you through theater.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, so we were both kind of like involved with
the Northern Essex Community College theater program, which I'm so
thankful for. Shout out to Brian Beatrice. She's an excellent professor. Anyway,
through that program, I learned so much about you know,
just like and I met so many, so many great
people in Alexandria was one of them. And so Action,
(21:39):
a mutual friend from both of you know, from that
past of hours, reached out and asked me if i'd
be interested and uh and in checking out what they
have going Nevin and and Alexandria and uh and so
I walked in and sat in in the danger room
and kind of checked out see what they had going.
(21:59):
And you know Nevin, you know his he just always
plays the right thing. And Alexandria has the golden pipe.
So I was just I was sold right from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
There I am, and then and then so Jake, how
did you become a part of congregation X?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I just actually showed up one day.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, he actually he was always okay, okay.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
They had been wanting or asking me to potentially play
uh for a while, and and I was being lame
and holding off and like I got too much going on.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Sorry, Yeah, everything in divine timing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, you know, when you're also a frontman of a
like a hardcore band at the same time as somebody
else asking you to come play drums on something. He
kind of got a stick to be in a front
man at first.
Speaker 13 (22:48):
Yeah, I had my priorities with as the frontman initially,
and then we we had we had a moment in
time in my band where I front that we were
kind of taken a bit of a break.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Is that is is that the name?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (23:05):
Prom so good. Yeah you'll check it out, shameless plug
check out my band.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
It's very different from this music. Yeah, yeah, you love metal.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It nice. Nice.
Speaker 13 (23:17):
And then I just one day I was I was
asked if I wanted to sit in, and I showed
up and we played a couple of songs.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And I just it's been coming back. He's been sitting
ever since.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, it was so cool because like its flat we
were when when Jake first came in, I was it
was like our stuff was really chill and kind of
like down down in wavy, you know, we were we
had a really cool flow state. And then Jake comes
in and he's got this really cool high energy where
it's like, oh, you can tell he comes from a
(23:51):
really high energy background. Yeah, and he a lot of
the time, like he'll keep us from getting very like
a little almost too quiet because then like his energy
just picks everybody up and it gives It's a huge
part of what makes Congregation x is sound really unique
from other bands, Yeah, because it has this very like
(24:16):
how Yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:17):
Yeah, I find that I I had I I learned
how to drum based off of like early two thousands
butt rock and like pop rock music. Yeah, but my
metal influence still comes out these days with like changing
to cut time and some spots and going a little
bit quicker, hitting a little bit harder and whatnot. But
(24:38):
but the the overall I guess consensus from the audience
is that my supposedly my drumming adds a pop aspect
to the more the more jazzy classical style of the band. Yeah, yeah,
it yeah, spices it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah excellent.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I I think something that's been so fun about, just
like since the start of this band has been the
fact that our sound has been something that we've been
you know, having to work towards, having to meet in
the middle between all of these different styles to be
able to you know, create something that's cohesive hopefully that
something that people want to listen to, right right exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I mean Josh has made me so much of a
better pianist just by you know, me being able to
listen to him as a bassis playing and like when
he whenever he does sit down at the piano, he
always blows me away and there's always something I'm like,
I should learn that.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, it works both ways, and it works. We're all
we're all kind of like we all have interests in
a lot of these different styles instruments, and yeah, so
it's it's a really great exchange of our interests.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, well we should, Uh what
did you want to play next? Do you want to
play Evergreen?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, let's hit Evergreen? Get to get into the trenches
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
If you're just joining us Congregation acts. Oh by the way,
so before I play this, and I know I asked
you this last time you're here, But where does a
name come from? Congregation X?
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Because it's so Actually it's really funny that, like our
name story is kind of funny because it was really
just that Nevin kept putting us in the Google Google
calendar as Congregation X because we didn't have a name, okay,
And eventually we decided that that was actually the perfect
name because originally him and I wanted to start a
(26:25):
band that was like, you know, had more like rotating artists,
like whoever was in on the project was in the
on the project.
Speaker 10 (26:33):
And then we just so.
Speaker 11 (26:33):
Happened to organically, you know, find the everybody here that
is actually now like a fixture. But it happened very naturally,
you know, Like so we wanted it to be a
name that kind of suited whatever vibe we were going
for whenever we wanted to you know, like and who
(26:54):
like because sometimes we would have one artist working with
us and then we'd have another one, and like there
was a it was never the same in the beginning.
But now we have all five of us, and if
we have somebody sit in with us, they're just our guests.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's where it came from.
It literally was just a silly like fill in name
(27:18):
because we didn't have a name, and now.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
That's our name, man.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
There was one practice it was I think right before
we played the Stone Church where we all sit down
and we're like, so do we want to change the name,
And it felt like the one time that we had
to be like, all right, let's try and throw other
things out, and we all just sit there silently like
is there something Nah, No, we're Congregation acts.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah yeah, very cool. All right, so let's give this
a spin. This was recorded live, of course. This is
Congregation X and the track is Evergreen.
Speaker 14 (28:01):
Street Signs every Green Now it turning good, sis other night,
split a sirey, hands.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
On the way here to find you.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Be blinds glassy. I stand out in the street.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Room, I mean gritty ways. It's nothing that I could
have seen.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
We got down into.
Speaker 15 (28:40):
The river to wash ourselves clean and thee I swear
to tea get all in me ohever in mind.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Hold you by the trouble that you've seen?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Won't you be green?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Won't you be over?
Speaker 6 (29:17):
They do?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
But always see he's the cracks you may.
Speaker 15 (29:27):
Find the glass in the alan when I fast through
deciding where you fire the one around you? Funny laying
(29:48):
on the ground last week.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
And we didn't tell the trees.
Speaker 15 (29:56):
We go downtil the river to wash yourselves clean?
Speaker 5 (30:01):
And has worn't you to get old? And meet me away?
My old you? But the trouble you see, won't you
be heather cream? Won't you be.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
There?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
There? Day? Go down into the river to wash yourselves clean?
(31:06):
The ice weren't too deep to get all.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
We need hope, Heaven and I hold you for the
trouble that you've seen.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Won't you be.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Over, queen? Won't you be over? We got down to
the river to wash yourselves clean. Andy ice weren't too
deep to get hold.
Speaker 15 (31:29):
We need honk, Heaven and mind hold you for the
trouble that you've seen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Won't you be ever green?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Won't you be ever.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That is nice? That is evergreen? Recorded live? Of course.
The band is Congregation X, and we've got four of
the five members here in studio with us, and yeah,
another another gray track. You kind of you kind of
pull off. Uh it's kind of a live fade out
like you would hear on a studio track, but you
pulled it off live really well. It's really good.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That was a random idea that just kind of came
to us in the studio. We didn't know how to
how to end it, and then you, Josh just started
playing these awesome harmonics on the upright, and I was like, oh, yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 13 (32:40):
Yeah, like, yeah, they rang through so beautifully with the
with the electric bass in that cut right there.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, I hadn't heard that cup before.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Oh really it's so good though, Oh yeah, really good,
really good. So what is what does the future hold
for Congregation X? What are your next You kind of
told me a little bit off there, but yes, Wolpe.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So Josh had alluded to this a little bit at
the start of this. This coming Wednesday, we have our
last show for probably the next couple months in southern
New Hampshire and we'll be playing opening for Soul Color
and Friends at the press Room. And that's this Wednesday,
November twelfth, and yeah, doors at six, show at seven.
(33:25):
If you find us on Instagram at Congregation X all
the ticket links and things like that are going to
be there. We'll be debuting some new music there. We're
going to be selling merch and I mean, anybody who's
been to the press room knows that, like that's it's
hallowed ground for an up and comer.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yeah, there's awesome drinks, awesome food, great service, the vibees. Right,
oh yeah, it's a great place.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
But absolutely, But after that, I think I'd said this
before we started, we're kind of just going into a
bit of a hibernation. We're going to be working on
some new music and really hitting the songwriting hard hitting
hitting the studio too as well, really going in and
we're making new music exactly. We're getting ready to hit
(34:12):
twenty twenty six like a bus.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Excellent, so excellent, very good, very good. Are so are
you going to be doing a studio album with the
with these songs?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Are yep? Oh definitely, Oh yeah so the lie We
love the live versions because our energy is very live.
But yeah, we are going to be sitting down in
the studio very soon and uh, well congregating, I guess.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah, there you go, there you go outstanding. Where's the
best place too for people to go? Online to keep
up with everything that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
So you can find us on Facebook or on Instagram
at Congregation X. Ok those are our two most easily
accessible and most active places that we're hanging out.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Okay, okay, outstanding. Uh So, in a moment, we're going
to play this track twenty four hours. That's the that's
why we haven't played yet, right, So we'll do that
and the segment. By the way, if you are listening
live on Saturday, stick around. We've got Gnarley Darling. They're
going to play live in the second hour and then
the third hour, Volley is returning to the show. So
looking forward to seeing those guys. But we're gonna close
(35:15):
out this segment with this track twenty four hours. Anything
we should know about this one before we play it.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
The first song that was ever written by Congregation X.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Oh no kidding.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
It's actually the first song I've ever written in my life.
I wrote it on my thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Oh okay.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
Nevin stayed up super late and just like got it out.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah oh wow.
Speaker 10 (35:34):
And then these guys enhance the out of it.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Oh that's okay, we got we got the delay, I
got it, don't worry.
Speaker 10 (35:41):
Sorry, these guys enhanced it quite a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, quite a lot, quite a lot, quite a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Oh my god, Andrew Y that's okay out of all
of us too, my birthday.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It's the song that we've worked on the longest, and
like we had said, we're kind of figuring out our
sound as time goes by. So I think maybe of
all the songs that we play, this might be the
most representative of our sound as Congregation X.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Okay, Okay, very cool. I like that, Joshua, Yeah, absolutely, okay.
So we will end, Uh, we'll end the segment with this,
but again, thank you all all four of you, Parish, Jake, Alexandria,
josh really appreciate you coming in. Yeah, have you and
hello to Nevan if you're listening, and uh, we're gonna
hit this track. Okay, here it is. This is twenty
four hours Congregation X.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
Guys, fool of Motion, taking Honor in.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Heaven.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Everything's so sweet, I falling down.
Speaker 9 (37:08):
Again and again and also wat to finally complete.
Speaker 12 (37:20):
Seems about best.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Hi, twenty four hours just ain't.
Speaker 12 (37:40):
It's like time.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
I'm just against me.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Close.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
You'll see.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
I would these and moments passed by I can in
motivationally dry.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
All to the pas too. I don't thank you for
sure and me away a beautiful lesson.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Every day life is like the.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Ocean right away.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
Sometimes it feels so tired.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
The end of the day comes too fast. When times
it's a kid dreams, who gets haird on this las?
Week by week seems I got this time.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
The more us.
Speaker 12 (38:39):
Twenty four hours just ain't know.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
So thank you for all the love you got through
the time. Yeah, we've been through. Oh, I'm so grateful you.
Speaker 10 (39:17):
I'm proud of you have have to come.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
I fanni f I beloved your lessons, like me to
live my life in love so free.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
It seems a lot first time.
Speaker 8 (39:48):
Twenty four hours, It just doesn't seems to got last time.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Dat you be here twenty four hours? It just taken loa,
It just ain't
Uh, one of the members couldn't make it, but we've
got congregation exis here. Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, thanks for having user excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good good, Yeah, so we've got let's see parish Jake, Alexandria,
and Josh. I get it, Okay, nailed it. Bad with names.
I've been doing this so long, I met so many people.
I'm terrible with names.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But yeah, I mean that was the first try. You
killed it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So and Nevian is not here. Nevin's name is easy
to remember because that's a name you don't hear all
the time, you know what I mean. So, is he
the only Nevin all of you have ever met?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, actually no, no, high school.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You knew a Evan in high school? All right, all right,
very good. Well, so you've got some new music, some
studio tracks. I think the last time we had you
on the show, if I remember correctly, you didn't have
any studio tracks yet, right you You played live because
you didn't have any.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, and it was great.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
But so we uh, we came in and we did
like our whole five piece in here live and it
was it was a really big fun thing. But Resa,
we played a show that we actually live recorded and
got some great tracks out of that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
That.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, we'd love to share.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh, excellent, excellent. So that's what these are the ones
that we're hearing today. That's what yews are from. And
what did we say we want to start with was
that have you ever?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Have you ever?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Have you ever?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And this and these?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I think I remember that one right, you played that
one live when you were here before we did at Okay, okay,
so this is now where were these recorded?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So? These were recorded at a house show at the
Amp in Barrington. Okay, yep. It was a part of
the Harmonium Circuit, which is a really cool little house
show circuit that we did over the summer.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh interesting, Okay, after the song, I want to hear
more about that. That sounds really interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But let's give this a spin. The band is Congregation
X and this is have you ever?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Have you ever? What could this be?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Standing over there?
Speaker 7 (02:02):
But I can feel your eyes some me.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
I can't do it.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Some things about you. You carry yourself in a way
that I'm so drunk, I assume you my brains.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
That's too much, you said, I am my God to
think that.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
I believe me the right kind of said.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Have you ever thought can you see what I said?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's your fishing?
Speaker 9 (02:43):
Can't you feel that you're like dressing.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
By w.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
So you get cause I'm just ball your mind you.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Every time I see your face.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
That myself on in my friend that you're going to me?
(03:42):
So delicas, come away, baby is. Let know that you
see the.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Way I now I'll go next to you.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
All that I have got children.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Let you up with trueing that to tend How would
like to spend some time with.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Eno birth stories? Teach that to you to your time
yours as I've been listen to love.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
O.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Let you go on your food to be mad, I
could teach your soul.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
May show your other d words slily.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
You wanted you and not but one? And I got
the fl go hook through my mind, wadering if you're
(05:14):
the one? Are you believe enough to find out?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Do you think me like this?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
To me? You just don't your you're picking up other
I'm picking up when.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
When if you're home, you'll clear my mind?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Well what you're doing? Have you wonder that?
Speaker 6 (06:04):
My thank you?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Have you?
Speaker 10 (06:42):
Have you ever?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I love it?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That is so good? Have you ever? That was recorded
live the band is Congregation X and we've got four
of the members here with us live in studio, and yeah,
that is so good. Parents. You started to talk before
about the what is it called the Harmonium Circuit.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
So the Harmonium Circuit. This was the first year of
it running, and it's just it's a collection of house shows,
a bunch of you know, over the summer people have
the outdoor amphitheaters behind their house or something like that.
We it's all about supporting local music.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's really cool when you say for
people who don't know, like what is a house show?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So a house show in this sense, like we went
to U We have a friend who is a very
big friend of the arts in Barrington who invited us
and many other musicians over to his house to play
a show he's built out. I mean this almost doesn't
even to meet classify as the house show because he's
built this big, beautiful amphitheater in his backyard that could
(07:45):
probably support like, wow, two hundred, yeah, one or two
hundred people, So oh wow, yeah, it was all very cool.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Wow beautiful sound too.
Speaker 11 (07:52):
Really is just the second year that happened, actually, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So this would be the first year that the harmonium
circuit itself has happened. But yeah, we did like a
couple house shows, or we did a house show or
something last year as well. But okay, yeah, yeah, all
about kind of just organizing people together and giving local
original artists a chance to you know, take the stage
and play.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Okay, okay, excellent, And you all were talking off air
too about so Josh, this was your not because when
you were here before, you had the upright bass.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I had the big the big dog, yeah, upright bas
the stand up, the big wooden instrument. But on that
track right there in that show, that was actually the
first time we had all played together where I was
on electric bass, okay and playing in front of people.
So it was a great change of feel, a change
of vibe, and I think we all just we all
(08:47):
had a great time.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
As you can hear you kill it with all the bases.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well I remember when you were here before,
like because I'm a bass player, but I've never played
an upright bass, so I just remember just kind of
watching like I was watching you the whole time because
I'm just fascinated by by watching you play. So I'm
super curious, like, why why move away from that for
at least for this? I mean, is this like a
permanent transition, do you think?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Or no?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It was just for ease of travel sometimes I'm lazy.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
That makes well.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Now, if you show up to the press rooms coming Wednesday,
both the big dog and the little tiny electric bass,
I'll have both.
Speaker 11 (09:26):
Thanks, got an acoustic electric bass for you to try to.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Oh yeah, oh wow, all right, I can't wait to
try that. Yeah, okay, those things are fun.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, okay, so you're gonna be you're gonna be traveling heavy.
Then you're gonna bring uh my, might just have the
full trio, right, bring all the basses. Was it strange though,
not playing the upright when when you're used to playing
it with congregation X.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
It's a bit of an adjustment, and you know, we
have to maybe be on our toes a little bit more. Yeah,
but that's not a bad thing. It was a good change.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, one, Yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah. You feel the difference in like the energy, because
I feel like on upright you tend to lay back
and hang out, but then like when you were on
the electric base, you were right out there. It was
super fun. I mean that that day, I remember we
were talking about this in the practice after we all
just felt really loose and just really chilled, like we
were just we were just vibing and it was so fun.
(10:27):
I mean, that was the kind of fun part about
those shows that just we were all so relaxed through it.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
Yeah, except that it was really cold and.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
Like I had to fight through that with my vocals
because I was like shivering.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
So I'm actually really proud of how that came out.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah we oh really yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh yeah, how cold was it that day?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Like it was one of the first days where I
think it got down into like the what mid to
low fifties. Yeah, yeah, cold in the sixties, right right, Yeah,
it got it got down there really uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Oh really yeah, yeah, that's that's cold. And then so
did you, like, how long of a set did you
play because I assumed did you record everything or.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, we recorded the whole thing, whole kit and kaboodle.
I believe we played what an hour or so it
was roughly forty five to it roughly forty five to
an hour, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And then so the these songs that you recorded are
these on an album that you're you've released or is
coming out.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Or it's so we're actually this next show we're playing,
we're raising funds to go into the studio, and okay,
we have we've talked about, especially like with this show,
putting out live tracks, and this is uh, these are
these are some of the really really strong contenders for
that because yeah, we we were so locked in that night.
(11:47):
We just want to you know, have fun with these
tracks and like people enjoy them, relive that moment.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah, when you when you decided to record the
set that night, was that I mean, what were your
expectations did did you expect did you expect it all?
Because as a risk when you're recording live, did you
expect it all to come out as well as it
did or were you surprised at all?
Speaker 11 (12:06):
We're hoping, I mean, we always hope to have like
a little something we can put on the internet, yeah,
you know, as an advertisement or just.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
To share with people that we care about.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
And fans that we have, like yeah, you know, and
and sometimes sometimes we get recordings that are not so great.
This time it happened to work out really well, like
it was planned ahead of time. We had multiple angles,
although I don't know I had it from a different angle.
I don't know if I actually sent it to you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh oh yeah, we're getting all kinds of video of
it too, Like it was. There's definitely I would say
that fear of like, I don't know, it's it's definitely.
It feels like a commitment, like everything you know is
being committed to recording. But you're playing live, so the
second you start, that's out of your mind because you're
engaging with the crowd and you're having fun. And yeah,
(12:58):
I had the I had fun where like, I was
also the sound engineer that night, so I was kind
of placing the mics on everybody and making sure that like, oh, okay,
you know it's gonna sound It's gonna sound fine. And
then during our show, my good friend John Eric was
actually mixing us, and yeah, I mean the recording came out.
It came out phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It did.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, yeah, very easy to mix, very easy to just
sit down and work with.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So outstanding, outstanding. Well, we should play another track? What
should what should we play next?
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Show you were twenty four, let's just show.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You show you. Yeah, okay, dive into some relaxation.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Excellent, excellent if you're just joining us congregation excess here
with us live in studio. And this next track this
was recorded live. Where was this again?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Barrington in Barrington?
Speaker 9 (13:43):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
This is this is another great one. This is called
show you check this out?
Speaker 10 (13:53):
Okay, this is a love song.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
No see.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You won't you he.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
A you?
Speaker 10 (14:12):
Will you need.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Love it when you hold me?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
I really wanna show you. I'm gonna show you whatta thye.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
To be with that a thie. I won't treat you
as you feel so different from the wrast has.
Speaker 12 (14:49):
Nobody told you? I want to set you free? Take
you there, Come on, lay for dawn.
Speaker 10 (15:02):
I want to give you.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
See this day you have been listening.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
You've been spending your whole life.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Helping everybody fly.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Come over here with us ratched noise.
Speaker 9 (15:25):
I guess somebody chase.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Love to give you a bag?
Speaker 12 (15:35):
How won can you seek?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
See this? Make you smile? Give him the chase I
want to show I want you. I won't thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Sixty sixty.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Mister, you've been spending your whole life helping everybody fly.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Come over here with those fractionalis. I've guests some visit
chers I love to give you, fir, hope you understand messy.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
The bl you.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
You want to shure you wise life to be right over,
I'll give you sweet be than you us.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Show you won't thank you? Oh want you love it
when you hold me a really one show.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
That is show you. The band is Congregation X and
we have four of the members here with us in
studio and yeah that sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
When you were talking off air, did I hear the
term ukulele base or base ukulele?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (19:08):
So, uh.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, there you go, all the bases.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
So when I first joined this group, when it was
just Alexandria and Nevin, I was seeing them at an
open mic all the time and I thought they were amazing.
And at one point they invited me to sit in
with them and I was like, oh, yeah, let's do it.
And I had again, it's a little ukulele base where
(19:35):
it's like it's the whole thing is maybe two feet long,
and it's but it has when you plug it in,
it has a really full base tone. It's a bait.
It's a ukulele strung as a base. Okay, And I
sit in with them and there. I guess that was
apparently my audition, because next thing, you know, they're like, hey, yeah,
(19:55):
you should come over to the Danger room, which is
where we and do all of the things and video. Yeah,
the studio we practice in. And I was kind of
suddenly thinking, oh, I'm gonna be thrown in on like
bass or something like that, which okay, but I'm kind
of a keys guy. And then I get to the
Danger room and there's a piano. I'm like, all right, cool,
(20:16):
we're in. Let's go, let's have fun.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Think a little bit of an everything guy.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
Honestly, I need I actually went and saw you as
an individual artist and like scoped you out and was like,
we need him.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, so Alexandria. So I started with a congregation, IX
started with you and Nevin and then and then Perish.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Okay, well it's kind of It's kind of funny because
I started playing at open mics because of Jake, because
he was in my house all the time and it
was twenty twenty yeah, and he was like, you should
do this, and then Nevin and I met through that,
and then him and I started working together. Jake was
doing his own thing. I we worked with a different basis. First,
(20:57):
it just didn't work out, you know, not for anything bad,
bad reasons, but that's good.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It just texted me up off all the street. They
found me on the street corner I had my base.
They just called me on No, I'm back back maybe
six years ago.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Yeah, I met you through theater.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, so we were both kind of like involved with
the Northern Essex Community College theater program, which I'm so
thankful for. Shout out to Brian Beatrice. She's an excellent professor. Anyway,
through that program, I learned so much about you know,
just like and I met so many, so many great
people in Alexandria was one of them. And so Action,
(21:39):
a mutual friend from both of you know, from that
past of hours, reached out and asked me if i'd
be interested and uh and in checking out what they
have going Nevin and and Alexandria and uh and so
I walked in and sat in in the danger room
and kind of checked out see what they had going.
(21:59):
And you know Nevin, you know his he just always
plays the right thing. And Alexandria has the golden pipe.
So I was just I was sold right from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
There I am, and then and then so Jake, how
did you become a part of congregation X?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I just actually showed up one day.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, he actually he was always okay, okay.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
They had been wanting or asking me to potentially play
uh for a while, and and I was being lame
and holding off and like I got too much going on.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Sorry, Yeah, everything in divine timing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, you know, when you're also a frontman of a
like a hardcore band at the same time as somebody
else asking you to come play drums on something. He
kind of got a stick to be in a front
man at first.
Speaker 13 (22:48):
Yeah, I had my priorities with as the frontman initially,
and then we we had we had a moment in
time in my band where I front that we were
kind of taken a bit of a break.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Is that is is that the name?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (23:05):
Prom so good. Yeah you'll check it out, shameless plug
check out my band.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
It's very different from this music. Yeah, yeah, you love metal.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It nice. Nice.
Speaker 13 (23:17):
And then I just one day I was I was
asked if I wanted to sit in, and I showed
up and we played a couple of songs.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And I just it's been coming back. He's been sitting
ever since.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, it was so cool because like its flat we
were when when Jake first came in, I was it
was like our stuff was really chill and kind of
like down down in wavy, you know, we were we
had a really cool flow state. And then Jake comes
in and he's got this really cool high energy where
it's like, oh, you can tell he comes from a
(23:51):
really high energy background. Yeah, and he a lot of
the time, like he'll keep us from getting very like
a little almost too quiet because then like his energy
just picks everybody up and it gives It's a huge
part of what makes Congregation x is sound really unique
from other bands, Yeah, because it has this very like
(24:16):
how Yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:17):
Yeah, I find that I I had I I learned
how to drum based off of like early two thousands
butt rock and like pop rock music. Yeah, but my
metal influence still comes out these days with like changing
to cut time and some spots and going a little
bit quicker, hitting a little bit harder and whatnot. But
(24:38):
but the the overall I guess consensus from the audience
is that my supposedly my drumming adds a pop aspect
to the more the more jazzy classical style of the band. Yeah, yeah,
it yeah, spices it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah excellent.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I I think something that's been so fun about, just
like since the start of this band has been the
fact that our sound has been something that we've been
you know, having to work towards, having to meet in
the middle between all of these different styles to be
able to you know, create something that's cohesive hopefully that
something that people want to listen to, right right exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I mean Josh has made me so much of a
better pianist just by you know, me being able to
listen to him as a bassis playing and like when
he whenever he does sit down at the piano, he
always blows me away and there's always something I'm like,
I should learn that.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, it works both ways, and it works. We're all
we're all kind of like we all have interests in
a lot of these different styles instruments, and yeah, so
it's it's a really great exchange of our interests.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, well we should, Uh what
did you want to play next? Do you want to
play Evergreen?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, let's hit Evergreen? Get to get into the trenches
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
If you're just joining us Congregation acts. Oh by the way,
so before I play this, and I know I asked
you this last time you're here, But where does a
name come from? Congregation X?
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Because it's so Actually it's really funny that, like our
name story is kind of funny because it was really
just that Nevin kept putting us in the Google Google
calendar as Congregation X because we didn't have a name, okay,
And eventually we decided that that was actually the perfect
name because originally him and I wanted to start a
(26:25):
band that was like, you know, had more like rotating artists,
like whoever was in on the project was in the
on the project.
Speaker 10 (26:33):
And then we just so.
Speaker 11 (26:33):
Happened to organically, you know, find the everybody here that
is actually now like a fixture. But it happened very naturally,
you know, Like so we wanted it to be a
name that kind of suited whatever vibe we were going
for whenever we wanted to you know, like and who
(26:54):
like because sometimes we would have one artist working with
us and then we'd have another one, and like there
was a it was never the same in the beginning.
But now we have all five of us, and if
we have somebody sit in with us, they're just our guests.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's where it came from.
It literally was just a silly like fill in name
(27:18):
because we didn't have a name, and now.
Speaker 10 (27:21):
That's our name, man.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
There was one practice it was I think right before
we played the Stone Church where we all sit down
and we're like, so do we want to change the name,
And it felt like the one time that we had
to be like, all right, let's try and throw other
things out, and we all just sit there silently like
is there something Nah, No, we're Congregation acts.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah yeah, very cool. All right, so let's give this
a spin. This was recorded live, of course. This is
Congregation X and the track is Evergreen.
Speaker 14 (28:01):
Street Signs every Green Now it turning good, sis other night,
split a sirey, hands.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
On the way here to find you.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Be blinds glassy. I stand out in the street.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Room, I mean gritty ways. It's nothing that I could
have seen.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
We got down into.
Speaker 15 (28:40):
The river to wash ourselves clean and thee I swear
to tea get all in me ohever in mind.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Hold you by the trouble that you've seen?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Won't you be green?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Won't you be over?
Speaker 6 (29:17):
They do?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
But always see he's the cracks you may.
Speaker 15 (29:27):
Find the glass in the alan when I fast through
deciding where you fire the one around you? Funny laying
(29:48):
on the ground last week.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
And we didn't tell the trees.
Speaker 15 (29:56):
We go downtil the river to wash yourselves clean?
Speaker 5 (30:01):
And has worn't you to get old? And meet me away?
My old you? But the trouble you see, won't you
be heather cream? Won't you be.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
There?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
There? Day? Go down into the river to wash yourselves clean?
(31:06):
The ice weren't too deep to get all.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
We need hope, Heaven and I hold you for the
trouble that you've seen.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Won't you be.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Over, queen? Won't you be over? We got down to
the river to wash yourselves clean. Andy ice weren't too
deep to get hold.
Speaker 15 (31:29):
We need honk, Heaven and mind hold you for the
trouble that you've seen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Won't you be ever green?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Won't you be ever.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That is nice? That is evergreen? Recorded live? Of course.
The band is Congregation X, and we've got four of
the five members here in studio with us, and yeah,
another another gray track. You kind of you kind of
pull off. Uh it's kind of a live fade out
like you would hear on a studio track, but you
pulled it off live really well. It's really good.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That was a random idea that just kind of came
to us in the studio. We didn't know how to
how to end it, and then you, Josh just started
playing these awesome harmonics on the upright, and I was like, oh, yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 13 (32:40):
Yeah, like, yeah, they rang through so beautifully with the
with the electric bass in that cut right there.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, I hadn't heard that cup before.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Oh really it's so good though, Oh yeah, really good,
really good. So what is what does the future hold
for Congregation X? What are your next You kind of
told me a little bit off there, but yes, Wolpe.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So Josh had alluded to this a little bit at
the start of this. This coming Wednesday, we have our
last show for probably the next couple months in southern
New Hampshire and we'll be playing opening for Soul Color
and Friends at the press Room. And that's this Wednesday,
November twelfth, and yeah, doors at six, show at seven.
(33:25):
If you find us on Instagram at Congregation X all
the ticket links and things like that are going to
be there. We'll be debuting some new music there. We're
going to be selling merch and I mean, anybody who's
been to the press room knows that, like that's it's
hallowed ground for an up and comer.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yeah, there's awesome drinks, awesome food, great service, the vibees. Right,
oh yeah, it's a great place.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
But absolutely, But after that, I think I'd said this
before we started, we're kind of just going into a
bit of a hibernation. We're going to be working on
some new music and really hitting the songwriting hard hitting
hitting the studio too as well, really going in and
we're making new music exactly. We're getting ready to hit
(34:12):
twenty twenty six like a bus.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Excellent, so excellent, very good, very good. Are so are
you going to be doing a studio album with the
with these songs?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Are yep? Oh definitely, Oh yeah so the lie We
love the live versions because our energy is very live.
But yeah, we are going to be sitting down in
the studio very soon and uh, well congregating, I guess.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah, there you go, there you go outstanding. Where's the
best place too for people to go? Online to keep
up with everything that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
So you can find us on Facebook or on Instagram
at Congregation X. Ok those are our two most easily
accessible and most active places that we're hanging out.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Okay, okay, outstanding. Uh So, in a moment, we're going
to play this track twenty four hours. That's the that's
why we haven't played yet, right, So we'll do that
and the segment. By the way, if you are listening
live on Saturday, stick around. We've got Gnarley Darling. They're
going to play live in the second hour and then
the third hour, Volley is returning to the show. So
looking forward to seeing those guys. But we're gonna close
(35:15):
out this segment with this track twenty four hours. Anything
we should know about this one before we play it.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
The first song that was ever written by Congregation X.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Oh no kidding.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
It's actually the first song I've ever written in my life.
I wrote it on my thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Oh okay.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
Nevin stayed up super late and just like got it out.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah oh wow.
Speaker 10 (35:34):
And then these guys enhance the out of it.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Oh that's okay, we got we got the delay, I
got it, don't worry.
Speaker 10 (35:41):
Sorry, these guys enhanced it quite a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, quite a lot, quite a lot, quite a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Oh my god, Andrew Y that's okay out of all
of us too, my birthday.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
It's the song that we've worked on the longest, and
like we had said, we're kind of figuring out our
sound as time goes by. So I think maybe of
all the songs that we play, this might be the
most representative of our sound as Congregation X.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Okay, Okay, very cool. I like that, Joshua, Yeah, absolutely, okay.
So we will end, Uh, we'll end the segment with this,
but again, thank you all all four of you, Parish, Jake, Alexandria,
josh really appreciate you coming in. Yeah, have you and
hello to Nevan if you're listening, and uh, we're gonna
hit this track. Okay, here it is. This is twenty
four hours Congregation X.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
Guys, fool of Motion, taking Honor in.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Heaven.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Everything's so sweet, I falling down.
Speaker 9 (37:08):
Again and again and also wat to finally complete.
Speaker 12 (37:20):
Seems about best.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Hi, twenty four hours just ain't.
Speaker 12 (37:40):
It's like time.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
I'm just against me.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Close.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
You'll see.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
I would these and moments passed by I can in
motivationally dry.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
All to the pas too. I don't thank you for
sure and me away a beautiful lesson.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Every day life is like the.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Ocean right away.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
Sometimes it feels so tired.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
The end of the day comes too fast. When times
it's a kid dreams, who gets haird on this las?
Week by week seems I got this time.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
The more us.
Speaker 12 (38:39):
Twenty four hours just ain't know.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
So thank you for all the love you got through
the time. Yeah, we've been through. Oh, I'm so grateful you.
Speaker 10 (39:17):
I'm proud of you have have to come.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
I fanni f I beloved your lessons, like me to
live my life in love so free.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
It seems a lot first time.
Speaker 8 (39:48):
Twenty four hours, It just doesn't seems to got last time.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Dat you be here twenty four hours? It just taken loa,
It just ain't
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