Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love - mp3 review
March 15th, 2007 r8e8rcomA friend sent this out a few weeks ago and I just installed it on my itunes. Its one of the coolest things I’ve come across in a while. You can download a simple, small and easy plug-in that will read the artist on your iTunes and show you a calendar of when ANY AND ALL of them are playing shows in your city.
http://www.iconcertcal.com/index.php
This is some mellow folky shit, but I think its pretty good. Lavender Diamond originally came to life in Bird Songs of the Bauharoque, a punk operetta inspired by the work of American painter/architect Paul Laffoley. Vocalist Becky Stark wrote and created the piece with a friend while living in Providence, RI, and starred as Lavender herself, a winsome part bird/part human who wants peace on earth. The indie stage show was such a hit at home that Stark and company went on to tour 56 cities across North America in 2003. Lavender Diamond issued The Cavalry of Light EP in 2005; a second release, a split 7″ with Queens of Sheeba for Cold Sweat, also appeared that year. A buzz around the blogosphere and indie mag elite began to take shape by early 2006, and performances at ArthurFest, South by Southwest, and the CMJ New Music Seminar only added fuel to the record label frenzy. In November 2006, while touring with the Decemberists, Lavender Diamond signed to Rough Trade in Europe and Matador in the U.S. These tracks are from the upcoming release, ‘Imagine Our Love’, due out on Matador sometime May.
http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/09%20Bring%20Me%20A%20Song.mp3
http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/10%20Here%20Comes%20One.mp3
http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/11%20Find%20A%20Way.mp3
wait, you guys are prolly all in Austin aren’t you? Fuckers. Well, if you’re in NYC come out to Ace of Spades and check out ‘Big Bang TV’ with me.
-mark
