Translator got their start in Los Angeles as in 1979 but there wasn’t a convenient label for the music they made. Quickly finding themselves disillusioned with the L.A. music scene, the foursome moved to San Francisco. There, Translator built a fan base, made lots of friends, and landed a record deal with local indie label 415 Records.

Within weeks of signing, Translator found themselves part of the big-time music business: 415 had inked a distribution deal with Columbia. 1982’s Heartbeats and Triggers benefited (at least a little) from the promotional muscle of the major label. But the album and its emotionally-charged single, Everywhere That I’m Not had the goods to succeed with or without Columbia’s help. The song became popular on the burgeoning college radio circuit.

Each successive Translator album built upon and expanded their sound. The band toured widely, landing an opening spot on a Kinks tour, but sales figures didn’t follow the same trajectory. And there wasn’t much in terms of industry support for the band.

Near the end of the tour in support of their 4th album, the four band members came to the collective realization that Translator had reached the end of the road. They had decided that this would be the end and decided to go out with a bang, scheduling a hometown show to reward their ardent fan base with a show at The Farm in San Francisco on July 12th, 1986.

The band reunited in the 2000s and have recorded 2 new songs that are available as bonus tracks on the CD and digital albums. They are actively promoting this release through interviews and live dates.

1. Beyond Today
2. Necessary Spinning
3. Everywhere
4. Nothing Is Saving Me
5. Gravity
6. Standing In Line
7. Drum Solo/Puzzles/Favorite Drug
8. O Lazurus
9. New Song
10. These Old Days
11. Everywhere That I’m Not
12. Roll Over Beethoven
13. These Days To Come
14. With Your Dreams

This fantastic live flashback to a time in their lives where everything was coming to an end, but due to their music being adored by thousands of devoted fans all around the world they wanted to give everyone one last roll of their musical dice, opens on the grainy alt-rock of Beyond Today, some searing guitar work of Necessary Spinning and the psych-imbibed Everywhere and then we get the cranking Nothing Is Saving Me, the early-90’s jangle of Gravity and both the harmonica-driven jam of Standing In Line and after a drum solo, the rhythmic rocking sounds of Puzzles/Favorite Drug.

Along next is the melodic mid-tempo rocker O Lazurus, the rambunctious New Song and the crashing alt-pop hued These Old Days and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the low slung indie sound of Everywhere That I’m Not, an absolutely blistering Roll Over Beethoven, the set coming to a close with the brilliantly fluid These Days To Come and the R.E.M.-esque With Your Dreams.