November 8, 2025 • 59 mins
w/Congregation X
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
You're listening to macconnorton Unleashed on wmn H ninety five
point three.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Right now. It's the world radio premiere of the new
single from Eddie Singh and the thirty one Days. This
is our America. Well, I don't know if you're honoring
Why on earth we landed.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Here with the struggle in the heartland, in.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
A disconnected fear.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
We got politicians scream insanity, line Cole White truth right
through that seat. I thought we were all in this together.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Huddled around this liberty.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Is this my Marriagel, This is my Marriagel.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Shouldn't we stand tu together as one?
Speaker 6 (00:52):
This is my Mary, This is my Mary.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
If it is, then we ain't even close to done.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
We gotta take it to the city's We gotta take
it to the streets, because these province of division are
tearing down all our hopes and dreams.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I don't care if you're a Democrat.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
I don't care if you're out the States right, I
don't care if you're independent.
Speaker 8 (01:20):
I don't care if you're black old.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Why this is my Mary comes, This is my very comes,
home of the breed of breath. This is mine very Come,
This my ry comes huddle around, Miss Liberty.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
We have not forgotten who we are. We are bound
together near and for you and me.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
You and me, you and me, you and me, you
and me?
Speaker 8 (01:55):
Will we ride and Ica as our own?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
So what is the truth? What is the truth?
Speaker 9 (02:08):
What is a Meica?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Through and through?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Will you just.
Speaker 8 (02:14):
Open your eyes?
Speaker 9 (02:16):
Will you just letter in?
Speaker 8 (02:19):
Because I hear the blowing of the wind.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Maybe it was just a pink house. Maybe it was
just a pink coat.
Speaker 8 (02:30):
Maybe we should.
Speaker 10 (02:30):
Try to go, Maybe we should take it so, maybe
we should just have some fun.
Speaker 8 (02:37):
Maybe we were both.
Speaker 9 (02:38):
Born to run.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Maybe we should just take a chance. What else, Maybe
we should just get up and dance.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Is this my mea is my Homey come whole.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Of the brain and of the free?
Speaker 9 (02:57):
Is America?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Or Mary? Come around?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Miss Liberty?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Who sarmery because some men para Mary?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Because some men very eyes.
Speaker 11 (03:14):
Every voice every year, mister mery, because some Mary come
praying to us to guide us clean down, Very Armery
come every every eye.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Every voice, every year.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
It's army comes.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
So memy go praying.
Speaker 12 (03:44):
To the Lord to guide us clean.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You're listening to macconnorton Unleashed on WMN h ninety five
point three.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And now the world radio premiere. The new single from
the March is appropriately called November.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
November for Saint was the deep went made of change.
We rode away as far as Leidden go Canty. Don't
like thir daily Brunway. The engines are the same. We
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rode away as far as Letten go Canty because.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
We go both past and snow room.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Than there is no one here to say, but well ness, no,
there's no stuff now as Kipdy rays.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Redy No, let you.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
To pick up the peace, says everybody knowing you Abby chasers.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Fabulary fully be hi stepping chasing.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
It doesn't Alaska sol second morning, I ain got far
known Fabulary the funny. The Nansen fleet were both wast
inside what is behind us now? But we were not
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so key and on finds it out just thinking now
how we.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Go both best and slow room.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Then when there is no one here.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
To say, but when this so, there's no there's no stop.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Now asking fay raise m now, letting you pick up
the piece, says.
Speaker 9 (06:08):
Everybody knowed at.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Beach Chase ors Fabulary the funing be him night.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
The secondry saying the death in Alaska.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
The second knowledge, but I am got far as February
performing now left here to pick up the pieces, everybody
(06:53):
knowing you're out of marriage.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Chase l It's February. It's funny it be hidden, you say.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Last time, Very says Chasing Very novel faults.
Speaker 13 (07:35):
It was.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Changed and now the brand new single from Major Moment promises.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I don't know if I should say yet. I don't
want to make this worst.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
I don't know that for any.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Have a time on replay yet I can see how
much this.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Hurt sip way the mount of job.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I only heard now.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
I try to keep it on my telling person.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I'm trying.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
We don't know the days I can't stay to my.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
I can chacket je, let me.
Speaker 12 (08:46):
Go, This me me.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And that was sad and it was perfect. But in
all the way you.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Lie because somebody else.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And I hope that it once worth it as you
leave it all behind.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Didn't know it sound so.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Said, don't get you merchants much.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Trying to keep on my chastize my.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Chant che good this we made you change all but wants.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Me to stay the same, And I think you should go.
The dude can't.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
Play these games.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
You see don't transition.
Speaker 11 (10:09):
But I was on the cross of humid game, spine
without gout, fining of flame.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I tried to keep it, but it just pushed you.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Across so many ms men.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
All of the things I think now.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
To I can chasing chose the jobs.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
I mean, fu me that.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I didn't even want to talk over the end of it.
The ending is so cool to that. That is promises
the band is major moment. I love that track so much,
brand new from them. Welcome everybody. This is Matt Connorton
Unleashed and we are live from the studios of WM
and H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire.
Today is November eight two thy twenty five and I
(11:33):
am not alone.
Speaker 12 (11:41):
Jenn.
Speaker 14 (11:45):
Good morning, Suntime.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Good morning, Good morning. Jenny is here, of course at
the news table. You are present today. Yes, I did
not forget you, not today. We've got some great guests
we're going to introduce in just a moment, but we
do want to remind everybody so tonight it's a big night.
It is for you.
Speaker 14 (12:02):
Yes, yes, I have a couple of my pieces will
be on exhibit at the Mosaic Art Collective Tonight is
the opening for the All That Glitters Show. This show
invited look artists to submit works that were no larger
than twelve by twelve inches and all priced under four
hundred dollars. This opening will start at four pm tonight
(12:25):
and run until eight o'clock.
Speaker 15 (12:26):
There's going to be a.
Speaker 14 (12:27):
Gift wrapping station so you can actually purchase art from
the walls and have it wrapped and ready as a
gift for this holiday season. This is all about not
just glittery is but what does this season mean to you?
What does small works mean to you? What did that
mean to the artists who submitted. Come check out all
(12:47):
the amazing pieces that are going to be on exhibit
tonight at the Mosaic Art Collective here in the Queen
City at sixty six Hanover Street, Sweet two one. You
will not regret your visit Odaic Artcollective dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Jenny and I'll be there so I come down and
say hello and uh, let's see, I'm gonna get these
mics on here because we have returning to the show.
One of the members couldn't make it, but we've got
congregation exs here. Welcome everybody.
Speaker 16 (13:14):
Hey, thanks for having us excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
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 16 (13:29):
But yeah, I mean that was the first try. You
killed it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
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 12 (13:41):
Oh?
Speaker 16 (13:41):
Yeah, actually no, No, you knew.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And 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 12 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (14:00):
Great, But so we 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 recently
we played a show that we actually live recorded and
got some great tracks out of that that. Yeah, we'd
love to share.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh, excellent, excellent. So that's what These are the ones
that we're hearing today. That's what these are from. And
what did we say we wanted to start with was
that have you ever? Have you ever? Have you ever?
Speaker 17 (14:23):
And this?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And these?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I think I remember that one right, you played that
one live when you were here before we did actually, kay, okay,
so this is now. Where were these recorded?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
So?
Speaker 16 (14:32):
These were recorded at a house show at the Amp
in Barrington.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Okay, yep.
Speaker 16 (14:37):
It was a part of the Harmonium Circuit, which is
a really cool little house show circuit that we did
over the summer.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh interesting, Okay, after the song, I want to hear
more about that. That sounds really interesting.
Speaker 16 (14:47):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
But let's give this a spin. The band is Congregation
X and this is have you ever?
Speaker 15 (15:02):
Have you ever fought?
Speaker 18 (15:05):
What could this be?
Speaker 15 (15:09):
Standing over there?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
But I could feel your eyes on me.
Speaker 19 (15:15):
I can.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Some thing about it.
Speaker 15 (15:23):
You carry yourself in a way that I'm so drunk.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I assume you.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Brast that's too much, you said. I am to think
that I believe me the right kind of sad?
Speaker 20 (15:43):
Have you ever fought?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Can you see what I said, sufision? Can you feel
that you like dressing.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Rob?
Speaker 21 (15:57):
Why so you get that happen? Lest It's not just
bad y'all. Wasn't your mind future?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Every time I see your things say, that's.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Yourself almost in my friend.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Let you go on.
Speaker 22 (16:21):
To mess Come wait baby, if you let o that
(16:59):
you see Lou, I'm no, I'm gonna next to you.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Oh there, I have got your retention of rture in
my detention.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
I would like to spend some time with you. I
know that birth story.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Teacher not to.
Speaker 19 (17:31):
Work to first time krses as I've been listen to life.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Over. Let you go on to bed.
Speaker 23 (17:48):
I could teach you so next day to show your
other rod words seriously.
Speaker 15 (18:00):
That you wanted and not there and I don't fly.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Go I can through my mind.
Speaker 19 (18:20):
I'm wondering if you're the one?
Speaker 15 (18:24):
Are you believe enough to find out?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Do you get me like this to me?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Because you just.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Don't your.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
You're picking enough of the I'm picking up WoT WoT?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
If you're.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Clear my mind?
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Well, watch you too?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Have you love?
Speaker 9 (19:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Wait? Thank you?
Speaker 9 (19:23):
I have that show show you.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Listen, I just step so.
Speaker 24 (19:42):
Have you.
Speaker 15 (19:51):
Let's have you ever?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I love it? That is so good? Have you ever?
That was recorded live. The band is Congregation X and
we've four of the members here with us live in
studio and yeah, that is so good. Tell Paris you
started to talk before about the what is it called
the Harmonium Circuit.
Speaker 16 (20:09):
So the Harmonium Circuit. This was the first year of
it running, and it's just, uh, it's a collection of
house shows, a bunch of you know, over the summer
people have say outdoor amphitheaters behind their house or something
like that. We it's all about supporting local music.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's really cool when you say for
people who don't know, like, what is a house show?
Speaker 16 (20:31):
So a house show in this sense, like we went
to uh, 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
(20:55):
probably support like, wow, two hundred, yeah, one of the
hundred people.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So oh wow, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 12 (21:01):
Wow, beautiful sound too.
Speaker 15 (21:02):
Really the second year that happened, actually, isn't it.
Speaker 16 (21:06):
So this would be the first year that the Harmonium
Circuit itself has happened. But yeah, we did like a
couple of 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 2 (21:26):
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 base.
Speaker 18 (21:36):
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 base, okay, playing in front of people, So
it was a great change of feel, change of vibe,
and I think we all just we all had a
(21:58):
great time.
Speaker 15 (21:58):
As you can hear you kill it with all the bases.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well I remember when you were here before,
like because I'm a bass player and 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 17 (22:21):
Or no?
Speaker 12 (22:22):
It was just for ease of travel sometimes I'm lazy.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That makes well.
Speaker 18 (22:26):
Now if you show up to the press room, it's
coming Wednesday, both the big Dog and the little tiny
electric bass, I.
Speaker 15 (22:36):
Both got an acoustic electric bass for you to try to.
Speaker 17 (22:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
Oh wow, all right, I can't wait to try that. Yeah, okay,
those things are fun.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Okay, okay, so you're gonna be you're gonna be traveling heavy.
Then you're gonna bring uh my chest, might just have
the full trio, right, bring all the basses dogs. Was
it strange though, not playing the upright when when you're
used to playing it with congregation?
Speaker 18 (23:03):
X was 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 things. It
was a good change.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah one, Yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 16 (23:14):
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. They 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 chilling, like we
were just we were just vibing and it was so fun.
(23:37):
I mean, that was the kind of fun part about
those shows that just we were all so relaxed through it.
Speaker 15 (23:42):
Yeah, except that it was really cold and like I
had to fight through that with my vocals because I
was like shivering.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (23:50):
So I'm actually really proud of how that came out.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, oh really, Oh yeah, how cold was it that day?
Speaker 16 (23:57):
Like it was one of the first days where I
think it got down into like the what mid to
low fifties? Yeah, yeah, in the sixties, right right, Yeah,
it got it got down there.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Really yeah yeah, 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 yeah.
Speaker 16 (24:20):
We recorded the whole thing, whole kit and kaboodle. I
believe we played what an hour or so? It was
roughly forty five to roughly forty five to an hour, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Okay, okay. And then so these songs that you recorded
are these on an album that you're you've released or
is coming out.
Speaker 16 (24:36):
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.
(24:58):
We just want to you know, have fun with these tracks,
like people enjoy them, relive that moment.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
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 15 (25:16):
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 to share with
people that we care about 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
(25:38):
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 16 (25:46):
Oh yeah, we're getting all kinds of video of it too, Like, yeah,
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, I had the I
(26:10):
had the 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, it did.
Speaker 25 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (26:28):
Yeah, very easy to mix, very easy to just sit
down and work.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
With, so outstanding, outstanding. Well, we should play another track?
What should what should we play next?
Speaker 16 (26:37):
Show you were twenty four?
Speaker 15 (26:39):
That's to show you.
Speaker 16 (26:40):
Show you Yeah, okay, dive into some relaxation.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
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 16 (26:52):
Barrington in Barrington?
Speaker 26 (26:54):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
This is this is another great one. This is called
show you check this out?
Speaker 15 (27:03):
Okay, this is a love song. H you won't you will.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You?
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Won't U.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Love it?
Speaker 7 (27:28):
When you hold me?
Speaker 15 (27:35):
I really wanna show you.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
I'm gonna show you what is thye.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
To be with that a thy.
Speaker 19 (27:51):
I wanna treat you.
Speaker 23 (27:56):
You feel so different from the rest. That's not the
blodyl dear. I want to set you freeze, take you care.
Speaker 15 (28:08):
Come on there for dam.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
I want to give you see you have been missing.
Speaker 23 (28:25):
You have been spending your whole life helping everybody fly.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Come over here with th stratch noises.
Speaker 20 (28:35):
I guess somebody chase.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Love to give you a bad.
Speaker 21 (28:45):
How fun here you see see this make you smile?
Speaker 20 (28:50):
Give him the chase.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
I want to show.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
I want you he w Thank you, sister.
Speaker 23 (30:31):
You love been spending your whole life helping everybody fly.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Come over here with those fractional ways.
Speaker 23 (30:42):
I've got some visits and love to give you a fa.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
I hope you understand.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Unlessy the bell you.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Want tossure you? It is life to me for your.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Over I give you sweet best thank you.
Speaker 24 (31:09):
And.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
I want to show.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
You won't cute?
Speaker 27 (31:25):
Oh want you.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Love it when you.
Speaker 27 (31:31):
Hold me.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
A real you want to show.
Speaker 28 (31:44):
Who thank you?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Oh that's nice, 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. Now.
When you were talking off air, I hear the term
ukulele base or base ukulele.
Speaker 12 (32:17):
Yes, so had four bases.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
There you go all the bases.
Speaker 16 (32:23):
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
(32:45):
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, a bait. It's
a ukulele strung as a bass. 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,
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you should come over to the Danger room, which is
where we do all of the things and video, the
studio we practice in. And I was kind of suddenly thinking, oh,
I'm going to 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, we're in.
(33:26):
Let's go, let's have fun.
Speaker 15 (33:27):
Think a little bit of an everything guy. Honestly, I
do need I actually went and saw you as an
individual artist and like scoped you out and was like,
we need him.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, so Alexandria. So it started with a congregation. IX
started with you and Nevin and then and then Perish.
Speaker 15 (33:46):
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.
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It just didn't work out, you know, not for anything, bad, bad, reasons,
but that's good.
Speaker 18 (34:13):
Yeah, 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.
Speaker 12 (34:20):
No, I'm back back maybe six years ago.
Speaker 15 (34:24):
Yeah, I met you through theater.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, so we were.
Speaker 18 (34:27):
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 Beard reaction was a
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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 checking out what they have going
Nevin and in 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. And you
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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 2 (35:20):
There I am. And then and then so Jake, how
did you become a part of congregation acts.
Speaker 16 (35:26):
I just actually showed up one day.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, he actually he was okay, Okay.
Speaker 29 (35:32):
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 15 (35:44):
Sorry, Yeah, everything in divine timing.
Speaker 16 (35:47):
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, you
kind of got to stick to be in a front
man at first.
Speaker 29 (35:58):
Yeah, I had my priorities with as the front man initially,
and then we we had we had a moment in
time h in my band where I front that we
were kind of taking a bit of a break.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Is that is is that the name? Okay? Yeah, pro.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Good.
Speaker 29 (36:19):
Yeah, you'll check it out, shameless plug.
Speaker 16 (36:21):
Check out my band.
Speaker 15 (36:21):
It's very different from this music though. Yeah, yeah, you
love metal.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Nice nice.
Speaker 29 (36:27):
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 and I.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
Just's been coming back. He's been sitting ever since.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (36:42):
It was so cool because like 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 enn where it's like, oh,
you can tell he comes from a really high energy background. Yeah,
(37:04):
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.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
How yeah, I find that I I had.
Speaker 29 (37:31):
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.
Speaker 12 (37:48):
But but the the.
Speaker 29 (37:50):
Overall I guess consensus from the audience is that my
supposedly my drumming adds a pop aspect to you. The
more the more jazzy classical style of the band.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, spices it up a little bit yeah, excellent.
Speaker 18 (38:10):
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 and hopefully that something
that people want to listen to, right right exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (38:32):
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 12 (38:45):
Yeah, it works both ways, and it works. We're all
we're all kind of like that.
Speaker 18 (38:49):
We all have interests in a lot of these different
styles and instruments, and yeah, so it's it's a really
great exchange of our interests.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah we should. Uh what did
you want to play an X? Did you want to
play Evergreen?
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Oh?
Speaker 16 (39:03):
Yeah, let's hit Evergreen. Get to get into the trenches
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
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 Acts because it's a cool name.
Speaker 15 (39:16):
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 band
that was like, you know, had more like rotating artists,
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like whoever was in on the project was in the
on the project. And then we just so 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 what ever vibe we were going for
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whenever we wanted to, you know, and who 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 yea, yeah, yeah,
(40:22):
that's where it came from. It literally was just a
silly like fill in name because we didn't have a name,
and now that's our name, man.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.
Speaker 16 (40:33):
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 2 (40:50):
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 h.
Speaker 30 (41:11):
Street Signs, every Green Now Red Turning Good, Sis other Night,
split a Sivey hands.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
On the way here to find.
Speaker 16 (41:25):
You the blinds glassy.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I stand out there in the streets.
Speaker 16 (41:39):
Oh, I mean, grittie way.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
It's nothing that I could have seen.
Speaker 10 (41:48):
We got down into the river to wash ourselves clean,
and me, I swear to tea get.
Speaker 7 (41:57):
All way in me.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Oh ever, and I hold you b the.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Trouble that you've seen. Won't you be the cream?
Speaker 6 (42:06):
Won't you be over?
Speaker 3 (42:30):
But all we see. He is the cracks. You may.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
Find the glass in the aey when.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
I faster.
Speaker 10 (42:48):
Deciding where you fire.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
The one around you?
Speaker 26 (42:57):
Funny lay on the ground last week, then we didn't
tell the tree. We go down to the river to
wash yourselves clean, and has worn you to get hold.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
And mean me ho away my old you.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
But the trouble see, won't you be heather clean?
Speaker 6 (43:24):
Won't you behead there?
Speaker 26 (43:44):
Well?
Speaker 6 (43:47):
They hap.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Go down into the river to wash yourselves clean.
Speaker 16 (44:17):
The ice weren't too deep to get all queen, need
hope Heaven and I hold you for the trouble that
you've seen.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Won't you be over?
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Queen, won't you be over?
Speaker 6 (44:31):
We go down to the river to wash.
Speaker 10 (44:34):
Yourselves clean, and ice weren't too deep to get hold
of me. Need honk Heaven and mind hold you for
the trouble next you've seen?
Speaker 9 (44:46):
Won't you be ever dream?
Speaker 8 (44:48):
Won't you be ever?
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (45:17):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Oh 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 out it off live really well, it's really good.
Speaker 16 (45:39):
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 2 (45:51):
Yeah, like yeah, they rang through so.
Speaker 29 (45:53):
Beautifully with the with the electric bass in that cut
right there.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, I hadn't heard that cup before. 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, well I would hope so.
Speaker 16 (46:12):
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.
(46:36):
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. Oh yeah, right for an up and comer.
Speaker 18 (46:54):
Yeah, there's awesome drinks, awesome food, great service, the vibes. Right,
oh yeah, it's a great place.
Speaker 16 (46:59):
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
(47:22):
twenty twenty six like a bus.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Excellent, so excellent, very good, very good. Are so are
you going to be doing a studio album with the
with these songs? Are yep?
Speaker 16 (47:32):
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 2 (47:45):
Yeah, there you go, there you go outstanding. Where's the
best place too for people go online to keep up
with everything that you're doing.
Speaker 16 (47:52):
So you can find us on Facebook or on Instagram
at Congregation X. Okay, those are our two most easily
accessible and most active places that we're hanging out.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Okay, okay, outstanding. So in a moment, we're going to
play this track twenty four hours. That's the that's one
we haven't played yet, right, So we'll do that to
end 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
(48:25):
out this segment with this track twenty four hours. Anything
we should know about this one before we play it.
Speaker 15 (48:29):
The first song that was ever written by Congregation X.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Oh no kidding.
Speaker 15 (48:33):
It's actually the first song I've ever written in my life.
I wrote it on my thirtieth birthday. Oh okay, and
Nevin stayed up super late and just like got it out.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 15 (48:44):
And then these guys enhance the out of it.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Oh that's okay, we got we got the delay, I
got it, don't worry.
Speaker 15 (48:51):
Sorry, these guys enhanced it quite a lot.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah, quite a lot, quite a lot, quite a lot.
Speaker 16 (48:59):
Oh Andrey, that's okay, out of all of us too,
my birthday.
Speaker 18 (49:04):
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 2 (49:19):
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. Yea, and hello to
Nevan if you're listening, and we're going to hit this track. Okay,
here it is. This is twenty four hours Congregation X.
Speaker 19 (49:58):
Gustand flood emotion thinking on over and we're like that
have been not Everything's so sweet?
Speaker 26 (50:14):
I falling down.
Speaker 20 (50:18):
Again and again and also wat what what to finally complete?
Speaker 8 (50:30):
Seems to got best time?
Speaker 15 (50:39):
Twenty four hours est ain't.
Speaker 8 (50:51):
It's like time.
Speaker 15 (50:52):
I'm just against me.
Speaker 8 (50:55):
In the closed you see all of these and moments
passed by. I came in motivationally dry.
Speaker 12 (51:08):
All to the pas too.
Speaker 9 (51:10):
I'm gonna thank you for sure.
Speaker 20 (51:14):
And me away a beautiful lesson.
Speaker 17 (51:17):
Every day life is like the ocean right away.
Speaker 15 (51:24):
Sometimes it feels so tired.
Speaker 23 (51:28):
The end of the day comes too fast, when times
to kill dream here who gets hard to live a
life week by week?
Speaker 8 (51:41):
Seems I got this time.
Speaker 23 (51:45):
The more, du.
Speaker 15 (51:50):
Twenty four hours just ain't.
Speaker 19 (52:10):
So thank you for all due love, everything you gotta be.
Speaker 8 (52:15):
Through the times that yeah, we've been through.
Speaker 23 (52:20):
Oh I'm so great boyea m m, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 9 (52:28):
I have to come.
Speaker 15 (52:31):
I finally a foul way.
Speaker 9 (52:33):
I'll below your lessons like me.
Speaker 8 (52:39):
To live my life in love so free. It seems
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Speaker 17 (52:51):
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To the Lord to guide us clean.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You're listening to macconnorton Unleashed on WMN h ninety five
point three.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And now the world radio premiere. The new single from
the March is appropriately called November.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
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Speaker 9 (06:08):
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knowing you're out of marriage.
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Speaker 2 (07:38):
Changed and now the brand new single from Major Moment promises.
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Speaker 2 (11:12):
I didn't even want to talk over the end of it.
The ending is so cool to that. That is promises
the band is major moment. I love that track so much,
brand new from them. Welcome everybody. This is Matt Connorton
Unleashed and we are live from the studios of WM
and H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire.
Today is November eight two thy twenty five and I
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am not alone.
Speaker 12 (11:41):
Jenn.
Speaker 14 (11:45):
Good morning, Suntime.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Good morning, Good morning. Jenny is here, of course at
the news table. You are present today. Yes, I did
not forget you, not today. We've got some great guests
we're going to introduce in just a moment, but we
do want to remind everybody so tonight it's a big night.
It is for you.
Speaker 14 (12:02):
Yes, yes, I have a couple of my pieces will
be on exhibit at the Mosaic Art Collective Tonight is
the opening for the All That Glitters Show. This show
invited look artists to submit works that were no larger
than twelve by twelve inches and all priced under four
hundred dollars. This opening will start at four pm tonight
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and run until eight o'clock.
Speaker 15 (12:26):
There's going to be a.
Speaker 14 (12:27):
Gift wrapping station so you can actually purchase art from
the walls and have it wrapped and ready as a
gift for this holiday season. This is all about not
just glittery is but what does this season mean to you?
What does small works mean to you? What did that
mean to the artists who submitted. Come check out all
(12:47):
the amazing pieces that are going to be on exhibit
tonight at the Mosaic Art Collective here in the Queen
City at sixty six Hanover Street, Sweet two one. You
will not regret your visit Odaic Artcollective dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Jenny and I'll be there so I come down and
say hello and uh, let's see, I'm gonna get these
mics on here because we have returning to the show.
One of the members couldn't make it, but we've got
congregation exs here. Welcome everybody.
Speaker 16 (13:14):
Hey, thanks for having us excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
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 16 (13:29):
But yeah, I mean that was the first try. You
killed it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
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 12 (13:41):
Oh?
Speaker 16 (13:41):
Yeah, actually no, No, you knew.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And 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 12 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (14:00):
Great, But so we 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 recently
we played a show that we actually live recorded and
got some great tracks out of that that. Yeah, we'd
love to share.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh, excellent, excellent. So that's what These are the ones
that we're hearing today. That's what these are from. And
what did we say we wanted to start with was
that have you ever? Have you ever? Have you ever?
Speaker 17 (14:23):
And this?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And these?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I think I remember that one right, you played that
one live when you were here before we did actually, kay, okay,
so this is now. Where were these recorded?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
So?
Speaker 16 (14:32):
These were recorded at a house show at the Amp
in Barrington.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Okay, yep.
Speaker 16 (14:37):
It was a part of the Harmonium Circuit, which is
a really cool little house show circuit that we did
over the summer.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh interesting, Okay, after the song, I want to hear
more about that. That sounds really interesting.
Speaker 16 (14:47):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
But let's give this a spin. The band is Congregation
X and this is have you ever?
Speaker 15 (15:02):
Have you ever fought?
Speaker 18 (15:05):
What could this be?
Speaker 15 (15:09):
Standing over there?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
But I could feel your eyes on me.
Speaker 19 (15:15):
I can.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Some thing about it.
Speaker 15 (15:23):
You carry yourself in a way that I'm so drunk.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I assume you.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Brast that's too much, you said. I am to think
that I believe me the right kind of sad?
Speaker 20 (15:43):
Have you ever fought?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Can you see what I said, sufision? Can you feel
that you like dressing.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Rob?
Speaker 21 (15:57):
Why so you get that happen? Lest It's not just
bad y'all. Wasn't your mind future?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Every time I see your things say, that's.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Yourself almost in my friend.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Let you go on.
Speaker 22 (16:21):
To mess Come wait baby, if you let o that
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you see Lou, I'm no, I'm gonna next to you.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Oh there, I have got your retention of rture in
my detention.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
I would like to spend some time with you. I
know that birth story.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Teacher not to.
Speaker 19 (17:31):
Work to first time krses as I've been listen to life.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Over. Let you go on to bed.
Speaker 23 (17:48):
I could teach you so next day to show your
other rod words seriously.
Speaker 15 (18:00):
That you wanted and not there and I don't fly.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Go I can through my mind.
Speaker 19 (18:20):
I'm wondering if you're the one?
Speaker 15 (18:24):
Are you believe enough to find out?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Do you get me like this to me?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Because you just.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Don't your.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
You're picking enough of the I'm picking up WoT WoT?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
If you're.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Clear my mind?
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Well, watch you too?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Have you love?
Speaker 9 (19:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Wait? Thank you?
Speaker 9 (19:23):
I have that show show you.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Listen, I just step so.
Speaker 24 (19:42):
Have you.
Speaker 15 (19:51):
Let's have you ever?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I love it? That is so good? Have you ever?
That was recorded live. The band is Congregation X and
we've four of the members here with us live in
studio and yeah, that is so good. Tell Paris you
started to talk before about the what is it called
the Harmonium Circuit.
Speaker 16 (20:09):
So the Harmonium Circuit. This was the first year of
it running, and it's just, uh, it's a collection of
house shows, a bunch of you know, over the summer
people have say outdoor amphitheaters behind their house or something
like that. We it's all about supporting local music.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's really cool when you say for
people who don't know, like, what is a house show?
Speaker 16 (20:31):
So a house show in this sense, like we went
to uh, 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
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probably support like, wow, two hundred, yeah, one of the
hundred people.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So oh wow, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 12 (21:01):
Wow, beautiful sound too.
Speaker 15 (21:02):
Really the second year that happened, actually, isn't it.
Speaker 16 (21:06):
So this would be the first year that the Harmonium
Circuit itself has happened. But yeah, we did like a
couple of 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 2 (21:26):
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 base.
Speaker 18 (21:36):
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 base, okay, playing in front of people, So
it was a great change of feel, change of vibe,
and I think we all just we all had a
(21:58):
great time.
Speaker 15 (21:58):
As you can hear you kill it with all the bases.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well I remember when you were here before,
like because I'm a bass player and 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 17 (22:21):
Or no?
Speaker 12 (22:22):
It was just for ease of travel sometimes I'm lazy.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That makes well.
Speaker 18 (22:26):
Now if you show up to the press room, it's
coming Wednesday, both the big Dog and the little tiny
electric bass, I.
Speaker 15 (22:36):
Both got an acoustic electric bass for you to try to.
Speaker 17 (22:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
Oh wow, all right, I can't wait to try that. Yeah, okay,
those things are fun.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Okay, okay, so you're gonna be you're gonna be traveling heavy.
Then you're gonna bring uh my chest, might just have
the full trio, right, bring all the basses dogs. Was
it strange though, not playing the upright when when you're
used to playing it with congregation?
Speaker 18 (23:03):
X was 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 things. It
was a good change.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah one, Yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 16 (23:14):
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. They 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 chilling, like we
were just we were just vibing and it was so fun.
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I mean, that was the kind of fun part about
those shows that just we were all so relaxed through it.
Speaker 15 (23:42):
Yeah, except that it was really cold and like I
had to fight through that with my vocals because I
was like shivering.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (23:50):
So I'm actually really proud of how that came out.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, oh really, Oh yeah, how cold was it that day?
Speaker 16 (23:57):
Like it was one of the first days where I
think it got down into like the what mid to
low fifties? Yeah, yeah, in the sixties, right right, Yeah,
it got it got down there.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Really yeah yeah, 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 yeah.
Speaker 16 (24:20):
We recorded the whole thing, whole kit and kaboodle. I
believe we played what an hour or so? It was
roughly forty five to roughly forty five to an hour, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Okay, okay. And then so these songs that you recorded
are these on an album that you're you've released or
is coming out.
Speaker 16 (24:36):
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.
(24:58):
We just want to you know, have fun with these tracks,
like people enjoy them, relive that moment.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
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 15 (25:16):
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 to share with
people that we care about 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
(25:38):
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 16 (25:46):
Oh yeah, we're getting all kinds of video of it too, Like, yeah,
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, I had the I
(26:10):
had the 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, it did.
Speaker 25 (26:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (26:28):
Yeah, very easy to mix, very easy to just sit
down and work.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
With, so outstanding, outstanding. Well, we should play another track?
What should what should we play next?
Speaker 16 (26:37):
Show you were twenty four?
Speaker 15 (26:39):
That's to show you.
Speaker 16 (26:40):
Show you Yeah, okay, dive into some relaxation.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
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 16 (26:52):
Barrington in Barrington?
Speaker 26 (26:54):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
This is this is another great one. This is called
show you check this out?
Speaker 15 (27:03):
Okay, this is a love song. H you won't you will.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You?
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Won't U.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Love it?
Speaker 7 (27:28):
When you hold me?
Speaker 15 (27:35):
I really wanna show you.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
I'm gonna show you what is thye.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
To be with that a thy.
Speaker 19 (27:51):
I wanna treat you.
Speaker 23 (27:56):
You feel so different from the rest. That's not the
blodyl dear. I want to set you freeze, take you care.
Speaker 15 (28:08):
Come on there for dam.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
I want to give you see you have been missing.
Speaker 23 (28:25):
You have been spending your whole life helping everybody fly.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Come over here with th stratch noises.
Speaker 20 (28:35):
I guess somebody chase.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Love to give you a bad.
Speaker 21 (28:45):
How fun here you see see this make you smile?
Speaker 20 (28:50):
Give him the chase.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
I want to show.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
I want you he w Thank you, sister.
Speaker 23 (30:31):
You love been spending your whole life helping everybody fly.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Come over here with those fractional ways.
Speaker 23 (30:42):
I've got some visits and love to give you a fa.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
I hope you understand.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Unlessy the bell you.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Want tossure you? It is life to me for your.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Over I give you sweet best thank you.
Speaker 24 (31:09):
And.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
I want to show.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
You won't cute?
Speaker 27 (31:25):
Oh want you.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Love it when you.
Speaker 27 (31:31):
Hold me.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
A real you want to show.
Speaker 28 (31:44):
Who thank you?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Oh that's nice, 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. Now.
When you were talking off air, I hear the term
ukulele base or base ukulele.
Speaker 12 (32:17):
Yes, so had four bases.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
There you go all the bases.
Speaker 16 (32:23):
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
(32:45):
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, a bait. It's
a ukulele strung as a bass. 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,
(33:06):
you should come over to the Danger room, which is
where we do all of the things and video, the
studio we practice in. And I was kind of suddenly thinking, oh,
I'm going to 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, we're in.
(33:26):
Let's go, let's have fun.
Speaker 15 (33:27):
Think a little bit of an everything guy. Honestly, I
do need I actually went and saw you as an
individual artist and like scoped you out and was like,
we need him.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, so Alexandria. So it started with a congregation. IX
started with you and Nevin and then and then Perish.
Speaker 15 (33:46):
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.
(34:07):
It just didn't work out, you know, not for anything, bad, bad, reasons,
but that's good.
Speaker 18 (34:13):
Yeah, 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.
Speaker 12 (34:20):
No, I'm back back maybe six years ago.
Speaker 15 (34:24):
Yeah, I met you through theater.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, so we were.
Speaker 18 (34:27):
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 Beard reaction was a
(34:49):
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 checking out what they have going
Nevin and in 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. And you
(35:10):
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 2 (35:20):
There I am. And then and then so Jake, how
did you become a part of congregation acts.
Speaker 16 (35:26):
I just actually showed up one day.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, he actually he was okay, Okay.
Speaker 29 (35:32):
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 15 (35:44):
Sorry, Yeah, everything in divine timing.
Speaker 16 (35:47):
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, you
kind of got to stick to be in a front
man at first.
Speaker 29 (35:58):
Yeah, I had my priorities with as the front man initially,
and then we we had we had a moment in
time h in my band where I front that we
were kind of taking a bit of a break.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Is that is is that the name? Okay? Yeah, pro.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Good.
Speaker 29 (36:19):
Yeah, you'll check it out, shameless plug.
Speaker 16 (36:21):
Check out my band.
Speaker 15 (36:21):
It's very different from this music though. Yeah, yeah, you
love metal.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Nice nice.
Speaker 29 (36:27):
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 and I.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
Just's been coming back. He's been sitting ever since.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (36:42):
It was so cool because like 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 enn where it's like, oh,
you can tell he comes from a really high energy background. Yeah,
(37:04):
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.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
How yeah, I find that I I had.
Speaker 29 (37:31):
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.
Speaker 12 (37:48):
But but the the.
Speaker 29 (37:50):
Overall I guess consensus from the audience is that my
supposedly my drumming adds a pop aspect to you. The
more the more jazzy classical style of the band.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, spices it up a little bit yeah, excellent.
Speaker 18 (38:10):
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 and hopefully that something
that people want to listen to, right right exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (38:32):
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 12 (38:45):
Yeah, it works both ways, and it works. We're all
we're all kind of like that.
Speaker 18 (38:49):
We all have interests in a lot of these different
styles and instruments, and yeah, so it's it's a really
great exchange of our interests.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah we should. Uh what did
you want to play an X? Did you want to
play Evergreen?
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Oh?
Speaker 16 (39:03):
Yeah, let's hit Evergreen. Get to get into the trenches
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
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 Acts because it's a cool name.
Speaker 15 (39:16):
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 band
that was like, you know, had more like rotating artists,
(39:40):
like whoever was in on the project was in the
on the project. And then we just so 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 what ever vibe we were going for
(40:01):
whenever we wanted to, you know, and who 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 yea, yeah, yeah,
(40:22):
that's where it came from. It literally was just a
silly like fill in name because we didn't have a name,
and now that's our name, man.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.
Speaker 16 (40:33):
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 2 (40:50):
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 h.
Speaker 30 (41:11):
Street Signs, every Green Now Red Turning Good, Sis other Night,
split a Sivey hands.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
On the way here to find.
Speaker 16 (41:25):
You the blinds glassy.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I stand out there in the streets.
Speaker 16 (41:39):
Oh, I mean, grittie way.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
It's nothing that I could have seen.
Speaker 10 (41:48):
We got down into the river to wash ourselves clean,
and me, I swear to tea get.
Speaker 7 (41:57):
All way in me.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Oh ever, and I hold you b the.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Trouble that you've seen. Won't you be the cream?
Speaker 6 (42:06):
Won't you be over?
Speaker 3 (42:30):
But all we see. He is the cracks. You may.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
Find the glass in the aey when.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
I faster.
Speaker 10 (42:48):
Deciding where you fire.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
The one around you?
Speaker 26 (42:57):
Funny lay on the ground last week, then we didn't
tell the tree. We go down to the river to
wash yourselves clean, and has worn you to get hold.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
And mean me ho away my old you.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
But the trouble see, won't you be heather clean?
Speaker 6 (43:24):
Won't you behead there?
Speaker 26 (43:44):
Well?
Speaker 6 (43:47):
They hap.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Go down into the river to wash yourselves clean.
Speaker 16 (44:17):
The ice weren't too deep to get all queen, need
hope Heaven and I hold you for the trouble that
you've seen.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Won't you be over?
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Queen, won't you be over?
Speaker 6 (44:31):
We go down to the river to wash.
Speaker 10 (44:34):
Yourselves clean, and ice weren't too deep to get hold
of me. Need honk Heaven and mind hold you for
the trouble next you've seen?
Speaker 9 (44:46):
Won't you be ever dream?
Speaker 8 (44:48):
Won't you be ever?
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (45:17):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Oh 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 out it off live really well, it's really good.
Speaker 16 (45:39):
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 2 (45:51):
Yeah, like yeah, they rang through so.
Speaker 29 (45:53):
Beautifully with the with the electric bass in that cut
right there.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, I hadn't heard that cup before. 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, well I would hope so.
Speaker 16 (46:12):
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.
(46:36):
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. Oh yeah, right for an up and comer.
Speaker 18 (46:54):
Yeah, there's awesome drinks, awesome food, great service, the vibes. Right,
oh yeah, it's a great place.
Speaker 16 (46:59):
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
(47:22):
twenty twenty six like a bus.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Excellent, so excellent, very good, very good. Are so are
you going to be doing a studio album with the
with these songs? Are yep?
Speaker 16 (47:32):
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 2 (47:45):
Yeah, there you go, there you go outstanding. Where's the
best place too for people go online to keep up
with everything that you're doing.
Speaker 16 (47:52):
So you can find us on Facebook or on Instagram
at Congregation X. Okay, those are our two most easily
accessible and most active places that we're hanging out.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Okay, okay, outstanding. So in a moment, we're going to
play this track twenty four hours. That's the that's one
we haven't played yet, right, So we'll do that to
end 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
(48:25):
out this segment with this track twenty four hours. Anything
we should know about this one before we play it.
Speaker 15 (48:29):
The first song that was ever written by Congregation X.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Oh no kidding.
Speaker 15 (48:33):
It's actually the first song I've ever written in my life.
I wrote it on my thirtieth birthday. Oh okay, and
Nevin stayed up super late and just like got it out.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 15 (48:44):
And then these guys enhance the out of it.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Oh that's okay, we got we got the delay, I
got it, don't worry.
Speaker 15 (48:51):
Sorry, these guys enhanced it quite a lot.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah, quite a lot, quite a lot, quite a lot.
Speaker 16 (48:59):
Oh Andrey, that's okay, out of all of us too,
my birthday.
Speaker 18 (49:04):
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 2 (49:19):
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. Yea, and hello to
Nevan if you're listening, and we're going to hit this track. Okay,
here it is. This is twenty four hours Congregation X.
Speaker 19 (49:58):
Gustand flood emotion thinking on over and we're like that
have been not Everything's so sweet?
Speaker 26 (50:14):
I falling down.
Speaker 20 (50:18):
Again and again and also wat what what to finally complete?
Speaker 8 (50:30):
Seems to got best time?
Speaker 15 (50:39):
Twenty four hours est ain't.
Speaker 8 (50:51):
It's like time.
Speaker 15 (50:52):
I'm just against me.
Speaker 8 (50:55):
In the closed you see all of these and moments
passed by. I came in motivationally dry.
Speaker 12 (51:08):
All to the pas too.
Speaker 9 (51:10):
I'm gonna thank you for sure.
Speaker 20 (51:14):
And me away a beautiful lesson.
Speaker 17 (51:17):
Every day life is like the ocean right away.
Speaker 15 (51:24):
Sometimes it feels so tired.
Speaker 23 (51:28):
The end of the day comes too fast, when times
to kill dream here who gets hard to live a
life week by week?
Speaker 8 (51:41):
Seems I got this time.
Speaker 23 (51:45):
The more, du.
Speaker 15 (51:50):
Twenty four hours just ain't.
Speaker 19 (52:10):
So thank you for all due love, everything you gotta be.
Speaker 8 (52:15):
Through the times that yeah, we've been through.
Speaker 23 (52:20):
Oh I'm so great boyea m m, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 9 (52:28):
I have to come.
Speaker 15 (52:31):
I finally a foul way.
Speaker 9 (52:33):
I'll below your lessons like me.
Speaker 8 (52:39):
To live my life in love so free. It seems
a lot.
Speaker 17 (52:51):
Best time, dude, twenty four hours, It just ain't seems
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