The Buddhahood
TOASTY! Live at The Park Ave Festival 2007
(Live double CD)
c2007 The Buddhahood llc
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Recorded Live At Park Ave Festival 2007
on August 4th and 5th 2007
by Nic Marinaccio, OhmCo Sound and Recording

The Buddhahood – Toasty – Live at Park Ave. Fest 2007
The Park Avenue Festival is an annual event that brings artisans, musicians and craftspeople together to enjoy the essence of creativity and artistry in Rochester, NY. For The Buddhahood, Park Avenue Festival holds a special meaning. It is a time when we can pull out all the stops and take advantage of the opportunity to play all day on our own terms. We opened each day marching through the streets, in a procession to the back reaches of Hogan’s Hideaway where the scene unfolds. Fellow musicians and friends become one and share in colossal drum jams. People laughing, bodies being painted with henna, children playing with chalk and bubbles, and the crowd undulating to the infectious grooves pouring out of our collective being are what The Park Ave Fest is all about for us. Although we’ve never been a sanctioned part of the festival, for the past ten years we’ve been there, thanks to Hogan’s Hideaway. Hogan’s provides us the venue for staging our own festival-within-the-festival, allowing us to decorate the back lot, erect a stage and provide the sounds and good vibes for four nonstop hours of music on each day of the event.

This year’s theme was the final piece of what took four years to come to fruition. Beginning with Fire in 2004, subsequent themes were Water, Earth, which coincided with the release of our second studio album, Muddy Roots, and finally Air and Spirit (2007). The Buddhahood has come full circle. We sought to reflect the wind and spirit that floats our sound through curling waves of perpetual motion. This album not only represents the eclectic nature of our music and the energy of our performance, but it captures a pivotal moment in the growth of The Buddhahood as a group and as a family.

Our primary songwriter, bandleader, musical father, and great friend, Tony, had been searching for a live recording of the group that, in his opinion, truly represented what The Buddhahood is. After years of recording shows and countless hours of listening and scrutinizing Tony was finally excited about a live recording. He began by reviewing and tracking the eight-plus hours of recorded material from the weekend, isolating tracks for mixing and mastering. He accomplished a great deal of this work before he was taken from this world. We as a group decided that the completion of this project was natural and necessary to honor Tony’s life and music.

We dedicate this to Tony, his wife Jan their son Calvin. Tony’s spirit lives on in this recording, and we hope you truly enjoy this gift… and there in lies the rub.
-The Buddhahood