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EGRET, CURSILLISTAS, LITTLE GOLD at the SWAN DIVE, Friday November 13

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EGRET (from Louisville)
CURSILLISTAS (from Portland, Maine; on Time-Lag and Digitalis)
LITTLE GOLD (from NYC)

at the SWAN DIVE
Friday, November 13th
921 Swan Street
9 PM, $5, 21-and-over

EGRET is a newer Louisville band composed of Greta Smith on vocals, autoharp, and guitar; Paul Rushford on lap steel and guitar; Chet Gray on cello, guitar, kazoo; and Chris Martin on drums, and percussion. They recently played the Swan Dive with eremy Jirvin & the Free=Ends, and are currently recording their first album.

CURSILLISTAS are a fantastic collective of mysterious origins, having released one excellent record on their own L’Animaux Tryst imprint, Les Biches (which was recently re-issued by Time-Lag). Norman Records had this to say about it: “[it’s] meandering space drone & cracked acid-fried freestyle folk. …The fourth track and is totally amazing, like one of those blinding Animal Collective harmony drenched space pop experiments. Then there’s some fun to be had with xylophones and bent shards of heavily manipulated guitar whilst vocals drift drowsily all over the shop like drunken clouds.” Their new 12″, entitled Joint Chiefs, will soon be released by Digitalis. This show will be their Louisville debut.

New York’s LITTLE GOLD presents mellow country rock born from years of playing basement punk shows. Christian DeRoeck spent a good chunk of the past decade leaning on the whammy bar in Meneguar, and was one of the two founding songwriters in Woods. Following the trio’s ecstatic appearance at the Swan Dive back in September (with DR Country and WAND), LITTLE GOLD mainman Christian will be performing solo on Friday the 13th.

Check out the Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161889294473.

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Galbraith/Neilson/Youngs, Belsayer Time LP (Time-Lag)

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Belsayer Time

This review also appeared in Swingset #8, yadda yadda, etc. etc.

“Idumea,” the first in this collection of haunting songs by Alastair Galbraith, Alex Neilson and Richard Youngs, begins with a steady drone and [Youngs’] Robert Wyatt-esque vocals singing an echo-y melody reminiscent of “House of the Rising Sun.” The trio’s new album, Belsayer Time, is their first together, and will not seem alien to fans of their individual and [other] group works. These three musicians are known best as the cream of the crop of their respective New Zealand and Scotland scenes: Alastair Galbraith has long been a member of A Handful of Dust with the Dead C.‘s guitarist/crank Bruce Russell. Neilson and Youngs were the musicians chosen to accompany Jandek at his first-ever live performance in Glasgow, and both have a long history of making excellent music. (Youngs’ first solo album,Advent, is a favorite in this house).

Together, the three mesh excellently on this album, simultaneously sounding fresh, yet familiar. The first side of Belsayer Time is perfect for a fall evening spent in the company of warm narcotics, while the second [side] begins with a free jam appropriate for all seasons and gets more abstract as the side progresses. Highly recommended for losers who want to drop a lot of money (like me).

Ltd. edition of 900, available from Time-Lag.