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Dark Dark Dark, Y La Bamba, & Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship
The Miners Foundry is proud to present three unique acts, "Dark Dark Dark" from Minneapolis, "Y La Bamba" from Portland and Why are We Building Such a Big Ship?" from New Orleans on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $12.00 and available at Briarpatch or at the door. The evening will feature intimate cabaret table seating and a no-host bar.
About the Bands
DARK DARK DARK is a chamber-folk sextet Hailing from New Orleans, New York, and Minneapolis. Lush and intoxicating, with piano, accordion, banjo, drums, stand-up bass, cello, horn, and the smoky vocals of Nona Marie Invie, DDD invoke beautifully orchestrated sea chanteys with that old-time Americana feel.
"Invie sings with a flexible, penetrating voice, shedding both light and shadow on the meaning of her lyrics." -- NPR
"Perhaps Dark Dark Dark's true accomplishment here is how they mix sounds and influences so effortlessly. They comprise a tight, intuitive unit, especially when the instruments swirl together into an otherworldly eddy of sound." -- Pitchfork
Y LA BAMBA comes out of Portland, Oregon. uz Elena, the lead singer of Y La Bamba, is an illusion in flesh and bone, a mirage that turns out to actually be there. A six-foot tall only daughter of Mexican immigrants to the USA, she looks like she peeled off of a National Geographic cover, spun through a tattoo parlour and hitched a 1000 mile ride on a mule. She seems 'of the earth' but writes songs that leave all our usual perceptions earthbound. Her lyrics, flowing as if from the pages Gabriel Garcia Marquez, are in fact shaped by classic struggles, with family, god and the experience of an extended and debilitating illness. An immersing splendor of folk, both traditional in the States sense but rooted in her family's heritage.
WHY ARE WE BUILDING SUCH A BIG SHIP? combines a folk-punk base with elements of traditional New Orleans music to create a sound that's half brass-band dirge and half indie-rock sea shanty. This is one of the most unique groups on the New Orleans scene, with nine members, handling instruments like accordion, upright bass, banjo, bass drum, trumpet, French horn, sax, piano and euphonium.
VIDEO LINKS
Dark Dark Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvTZwhOHYVA&feature=player_embedded
Y La Bamba
1 http://vimeo.com/15031004
2 http://vimeo.com/10834451
WAWBSABS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHdiHmSn9AU&feature=player_embedded
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