Union Hall
702 Union St
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Castanets
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Wednesday Nov 26, 2008 (8pm)
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$10
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Castanets are one of the chattiest percussion instruments, but the music Raymond Raposa records under that name is strictly soporific. Evoking woozy sea shanties and immersive home-recordings, his records travel to the same broke-down palaces as morose singer/songwriters like Leonard Cohen and Sibylle Baier. On the recently released In the Vines (Asthmatic Kitty), Raposa enriches this palette with lush, private orchestrations that resemble paintings for their careful dabs of reverb and perspective-enhancing overdubs. The croaking vocals may not be for everyone, though Castanets' music creeps up on you when you least expect it.
