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Free Electric State



Last Updated: 12/23/2009

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Status: Single
City: DURHAM
State: North Carolina
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/30/2009
July 10, 2009 - Friday 

Current mood:  adored
07.15 CASTANETS, FREE ELECTRIC STATE @ NIGHTLIGHT
Portland-based songwriter Raymond Raposa seems to be a born peripatetic: He left his California home at an early age and traveled the country by bus. He's since recorded alone in a Nevada hotel room, cut records in real studios with a litany of collaborators and wandered into and out of the loosely termed New Weird America cartel. Stylistically, the same holds for Raposa who carries an elemental, often elliptical folk-song format into strange lands like a duffel bag on his back—full-out drone trips, ham-fisted electronic jams, pure pulse-of-the-road ditties. Raposa's songs, performances and ideas are hit-and-miss, but he remains one of the most upredictable young minds on the hirsute side of Amerindie. Tour mate M.A. Turner and R. Clint Colburns' Cross aims for similarly spectral songcraft, psychedelic elements eroding a bedrock of blues-and-western writing. Durham's Free Electric State is the outlier here, in terms of both location and sound: The quartet favors mid-length rock anthems rigorously structured around charging rhythms and thick guitar tones, like a speaker cabinet of shoegazer records rattling loose in some dark dancehall. $6/ 9:30 p.m.
—Grayson Currin