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 Los-Angeles-based folk-pop quartet Lavender Diamond
is known for its light-hearted, often winsome sound, its simple, romantic
lyrics, and the charismatic, whimsical stage presence, and ethereal vocals of
frontwoman Becky Stark. With a brand new album “Imagine Our Love” out on
Matador on May 8, don’t miss this chance to catch live at The Cedar one of the
rising lights of the psyche-folk movement. Entrance, fronted by Guy Blakeslee, will open with their powerfully-moving garage blues-based meditations on death, with influences including Tibetan Book of the Dead, Sufi mystic Uwais El-Qarni, James Baldwin, Charley Patton and Sandy Bull! CITY PAGES A-LIST PICK!
Lavender
Diamond formed in September of 2004. Becky had been playing Lavender Diamond
all by herself in the role she created for a travelling operetta. She found
herself in Los Angeles with too many songs to sing, so she started playing
country songs with Jeff, classical arias and tin pan alley tunes with Steve,
and voice and drum psychedelic doo-wop/ electronic music with Ron. She proposed
they all unite and form one band together. And Lavender Diamond as we know it
was born. "Becky Stark--singer, songwriter, and frontwoman of the quartet Lavender Diamond--answers Nick Lowe's classic query "What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding" with an extraordinary folk-pop epic that's destined for many album-of-the-year lists. Imagine Our Love (Matador) initially smells of terminal preciousness, but Stark's ethereal, classically trained soprano soars through song after song of gorgeous diaphanous melodies and uplifting lyrics, forged from the Blake-ian alchemy of innocence and experience. Dark reality lurks in these songs, but Stark repeatedly brushes it aside with brightness and hope via philosophical lyrics reminiscent of John Lennon and Kate Bush, and music that variously taps '70s piano-driven ballads, Brian Wilson pop gems, doo-wop, psychedelic-pop-experimentation, and a certain post-punk vibe. Every bit as progressively retro as Amy Winehouse." (Rick Mason, City Pages A-List pick 5/27/07)
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