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Romantica
Also Playing: KaiserCartel
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Sun Dec 12
8 pm
Romantica and KaiserCartel at Cedar Cultural Center
This week, Romantica is taking the “better late than never” approach and celebrating the vinyl release of its 2007 album, America. Judging by the stellar songwriting, Belfast transplant Ben Kyle absorbed American country and folk-rockers like Gram Parsons into the very marrow of his bones. Kyle has a gift for wistful roots-rock, and shows a pleasing range 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.” America’s lush sound belies its lo-fi origins: It was recorded in a home-built studio largely though a single mic.
Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Ave. S., Twin Cities, MN
This week, Romantica is taking the “better late than never” approach and celebrating the vinyl release of its 2007 album, America. Judging by the stellar songwriting, Belfast transplant Ben Kyle absorbed American country and folk-rockers like Gram Parsons into the very marrow of his bones. Kyle has a gift for wistful roots-rock, and shows a pleasing range 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.” America’s lush sound belies its lo-fi origins: It was recorded in a home-built studio largely though a single mic.
Updated 10/19/2011
