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Import Promotions Presents
CALLA
+ The Coldspoon Conspiracy
Tuesday 29th April 03
The Sugar Club
8 Lower Leeson Street
Tel: 00 353 (1) 6787188
Doors 8.30
Tickets €11
Import Promotions is very proud to present the imminent debut performance in Dublin, by acclaimed New York based band, CALLA.
Occupying both the garage and the temple, Calla are at once dissonant and
pristine, harmonious and rhythmic. They cling to the dirty residues of NYC
with an attention always affixed upward to cosmopolitan refinement. A fact
perhaps explained by the group's roots in Texas and their emigration to
Brooklyn.
Unlike most of their contemporaries, Aurelio Valle (guitar/vocals), Wayne
Magruder (drums/programming/percussion) and Sean Donovan
(keyboard/bass/programming) understand the way in which the dirtiness of
rock intersects the world of high art.
From their 1999 self-titled debut (Sub Rosa) to 2001's SCAVENGERS (Young
God), Calla drew upon this understanding. Not wishing to rest on their
existing answers, their third release and first for the Arena Rock
Recording Co and Ryko, TELEVISE pushes harshly against complacency with
stunning sophistication. The music allows avant gestures to collapse into
supple pop while catapulting their dark breathless aggression into a
furious swelling of feedback. This is the moment when the curtains are
opened and light floods the room.
Calla's shows are some of the most anticipated in New York. It is
impossible to watch them perform without becoming transfixed on the
intensity of its presentation. Angular guitars bend across thick bass
lines; weightless electronics become pulled into the harsh simplicity of
minimalist percussion; Aurelio's fragile voice rises boldly against the
torrents of expressive noise. It is for this reason that artists like Nick
Cave, godspeed you black emperor! and Sigur Ros have been eager to perform
with them.
Picked by Alternative Press as "the number one band to watch", lauded by
the New York Times, remixed by the brightest electronic experimentalists
on 2002's CUSTOM: THE REMIX PROJECT, Calla are unquestionably a band
whose work will be dissected and revaluated long after their beautiful static
energy burns away.
www.callamusic.com
Tickets for Calla priced €11 (inc. handling fee) will be available soon exclusively from Road Records, 16 B Fade Street, Dublin 2. [email protected]
CALLA
+ The Coldspoon Conspiracy
Tuesday 29th April 03
The Sugar Club
8 Lower Leeson Street
Tel: 00 353 (1) 6787188
Doors 8.30
Tickets €11
Import Promotions is very proud to present the imminent debut performance in Dublin, by acclaimed New York based band, CALLA.
Occupying both the garage and the temple, Calla are at once dissonant and
pristine, harmonious and rhythmic. They cling to the dirty residues of NYC
with an attention always affixed upward to cosmopolitan refinement. A fact
perhaps explained by the group's roots in Texas and their emigration to
Brooklyn.
Unlike most of their contemporaries, Aurelio Valle (guitar/vocals), Wayne
Magruder (drums/programming/percussion) and Sean Donovan
(keyboard/bass/programming) understand the way in which the dirtiness of
rock intersects the world of high art.
From their 1999 self-titled debut (Sub Rosa) to 2001's SCAVENGERS (Young
God), Calla drew upon this understanding. Not wishing to rest on their
existing answers, their third release and first for the Arena Rock
Recording Co and Ryko, TELEVISE pushes harshly against complacency with
stunning sophistication. The music allows avant gestures to collapse into
supple pop while catapulting their dark breathless aggression into a
furious swelling of feedback. This is the moment when the curtains are
opened and light floods the room.
Calla's shows are some of the most anticipated in New York. It is
impossible to watch them perform without becoming transfixed on the
intensity of its presentation. Angular guitars bend across thick bass
lines; weightless electronics become pulled into the harsh simplicity of
minimalist percussion; Aurelio's fragile voice rises boldly against the
torrents of expressive noise. It is for this reason that artists like Nick
Cave, godspeed you black emperor! and Sigur Ros have been eager to perform
with them.
Picked by Alternative Press as "the number one band to watch", lauded by
the New York Times, remixed by the brightest electronic experimentalists
on 2002's CUSTOM: THE REMIX PROJECT, Calla are unquestionably a band
whose work will be dissected and revaluated long after their beautiful static
energy burns away.
www.callamusic.com
Tickets for Calla priced €11 (inc. handling fee) will be available soon exclusively from Road Records, 16 B Fade Street, Dublin 2. [email protected]
