Tuesday, May 28, 2024

BCMC (Cooper Crain and Bill Mackay) at Acme Records and Music Emporium in Milwaukee on October 21, 2023

One of the contenders for the top of my AOTY list last year was the stunning debut of BCMC, a duo comprised of Chicago-based musicians Cooper Crain and Bill Mackay. In October I traveled to Iowa City to see them at the wonderful Trumpet Blossom (recording posted here) and then a few days later made my way back to Milwaukee to see them again at Acme Records.

   


  

The combination of Crain's Kosmiche-inspired keyboards and Mackay's understated guitar virtuosity is a real winner. I hope they team up again for a follow up to Foreign Smokes.

  

Buy their album here.

  

Recording information:

BCMC
2023-10-21
Milwaukee, WI at Acme Records


Cooper Crain: keyboards
Bill Mackay: guitar

Setlist:
01 Sunset Saturn
02 The Swarm
03 Unknown
04 Ripple in High Tide
05 Unknown

Total time = 54:01

microphones: Line Audio OM1 omni pair in A-B at stage lip
additional source: mono SBD
Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre6ii at 32/48
Software: Audacity, Fission, xAct

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