Music Existence Because of Music, We Exist
Earlier this week, DARKSIDE made six complete concert recordings available to subscribers of the online music archive nugs.net.
This includes video footage for the band’s 2013 Boiler Room performance and Psychic Live DVD, as well as previously unreleased audio recordings of performances in Phoenix, Turin, Los Angeles, and Istanbul. Find a complete list below.
Boiler Room, Brooklyn, NY – The End Rooftop – Oct 1st, 2013 (Video)
Psychic Live, Stereolux, Nantes – March 14, 2014 (Video)
Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ – Jan 28th, 2014 (Audio)
Teatro Carignano, Turin, Italy – Mar 17th, 2014 (Audio)
FYF Fest, Los Angeles, CA – Aug 24th, 2014 (Audio)
KüçükÇiftlik Park, Istanbul, Turkey – Feb 9th, 2014 (Audio)
This fall, DARKSIDE will perform their first show in 8 years at Primavera Sound Los Angeles.
DARKSIDE are an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011. The group consists of Chilean electronic musician & vocalist Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington. Jaar and Harrington first met while studying in Providence through their common friend and saxophonist Will Epstein. In the summer of 2011, they toured Europe and Australia in support of Jaar’s breakthrough debut album Space Is Only Noise.
Upon returning to Providence, they continued to write together, releasing their self-titled EP in 2012 and their critically acclaimed debut album Psychic on Matador Records in October 2013.
In the years that followed the Psychic tour in 2014, the musicians moved on parallel and occasionally intersecting paths. Jaar would release five albums under his name and two collections of club music as Against All Logic. Harrington worked as a producer and composer, releasing two albums with his Dave Harrington Group. During that time he also played some 300 shows in NYC and Brooklyn, becoming deeply entrenched with a wide-ranging community of improvisers and collaborators, performing and recording with Yuka Honda, Brian Chase, Ilhan Ersahin, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Joe Russo, Innov Gnawa, Angel Deradoorian, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Nels Cline, and more.
In the summer of 2018, Harrington and Jaar rented a small house on Lenni-Lenape territory, which is present-day Flemington, New Jersey. The group spent a week there, making a song a day. While it would take another year and a half to complete their second album, six songs from the band’s new record Spiral were written and recorded during this initial session.
“From the beginning, DARKSIDE has been our jam band. Something we did on days off. When we reconvened, it was because we really couldn’t wait to jam together again,” says Jaar. Harrington echoes this, “It felt like it was time again,” he said. “We do things in this band that we would never do on our own. DARKSIDE is the third being in the room that just kind of occurs when we make music together.”
