"08/07/08" was captured live on August 7th, 2008, in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was a shared moment that somehow still feels like it happened yesterday. Andrew Weathers, provides the best description of how this recording came to be:

"I came into underground music in the early aughts, a brief window when online tools were fostering connection without flooding the field with slop of various kinds. Still, what I was doing sat in between noise and ambient music and finding a place was challenging. One of those early connections for me was with Northern Valentine, the shifting constellation of friends and musicians orbiting around Robert Brown.

We played shows all around the Eastern seaboard together around 2008 - 2010. During that period, Robert visited me in Greensboro. After we played a show at the upstairs apartment that I had on Friendly Avenue, I took him to see the sights - including a parking garage under the county courthouse where I'd parked to go to court for a speeding ticket a few weeks before. In the early hours of the morning, we set up in the empty parking garage, found a working outlet, and made sound for nearly an hour. I was playing an amplified bicycle wheel and a pile of percussive objects, Robert brought his electric guitar. We expanded out, explored resonance, and drifted between the public and private.

Looking back at this recording 17 years later, I'm living a different life but I'm still the same man. We've both continued deepening our practices, but I've found myself on the East coast less often. Visiting the former self in this recording and, in the process, catching up with Robert has been gratifying. As always, connection is the point and music is the document."

Andrew Weathers - amplified bicycle wheel / percussion Robert Brown - guitar

Recorded by Robert Brown @ Guilford County Courthouse (Greensboro)

Mastered by Andrew Weathers

Album artwork by Robert Brown

2025 Baresongs Music (BR-33)