event Romantica
Also Playing: Caroline Smith
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Sun Dec 20
7:30 pm
Romantica and Caroline Smith at Cedar Cultural Center
Belfast transplant Ben Kyle absorbed American country and folk-rockers like Gram Parsons into the very marrow of his bones, judging by the stellar songwriting on Minneapolis band Romantica’s most recent disc, 2007's America. Kyle's wistful roots-rock ranges from the breezy “Queen Of Hearts,” inspired by the late Jeff Buckley, to “Ixcatan,” a haunting rumination on violence, crime, love, death, and bullfighting. A lot of America deals with the Kyle family’s emigration—on “The National Side,” which features some splendid Calexico-esque Spanish horns, Kyle notes that his mother used to play hockey for Ireland’s national team, and he ruminates on a Belfast bombing in “Fiona.” Romantica's next album is due in early 2010, but here it'll celebrate the release of a quickie interim 10-song EP, the whimsically titled Control Alt Country Delete, recorded in a single day in March at SXSW in Texas.
Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Ave. S., Twin Cities, MN
Belfast transplant Ben Kyle absorbed American country and folk-rockers like Gram Parsons into the very marrow of his bones, judging by the stellar songwriting on Minneapolis band Romantica’s most recent disc, 2007's America. Kyle's wistful roots-rock ranges from the breezy “Queen Of Hearts,” inspired by the late Jeff Buckley, to “Ixcatan,” a haunting rumination on violence, crime, love, death, and bullfighting. A lot of America deals with the Kyle family’s emigration—on “The National Side,” which features some splendid Calexico-esque Spanish horns, Kyle notes that his mother used to play hockey for Ireland’s national team, and he ruminates on a Belfast bombing in “Fiona.” Romantica's next album is due in early 2010, but here it'll celebrate the release of a quickie interim 10-song EP, the whimsically titled Control Alt Country Delete, recorded in a single day in March at SXSW in Texas.
Updated 10/19/2011
