Artist: Lavender Diamond
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Imagine Our Love (Dig)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
The sept enchant that is Lavender Diamond in the beginning came to life in Bird Songs of the Bauharoque, a touchwood light opera inspired by the ferment of American painter/architect Paul Laffoley. Vocalist Becky Stark wrote and created the piece with a friend piece living in Providence, RI, and asterisked as Lavender herself, a winsome part bird/part human world Health Organization wants heartsease on earth. The indie microscope stage point was such a hit at home that Stark and company went on to hitch 56 cities across North America in 2003. Her debut solo exploit, the self-generated Artefacts of the Winged album, was made available during this tour, and as Stark continued writing songs, she felt they merited to be interpreted more in earnest. A move to Los Angeles in 2004 provided Stark with the creative scene of action she had been searching for; befriending guitarist Jeff Rosenberg (Pinko & Brown, Tarentel, the Young People) and forming a country-pop act with him, things started to take shape for Stark. When she wasn't retention meddlesome with Rosenberg, she was acting classical arias and Tin Pan Alley originals with classical piano player Steve Gregoropoulos (W.A.C.O.), and making psychedelic doo dago corporeal with drummer Ron Rege, Jr., at one time of the Swirlies.
At the end of the day, Stark opted to gather such sounds as 1, and collected her coevals for Lavender Diamond in 2004. Matching the airy lightness of Linda Ronstadt and Carole King with Bacharach-like arrangements, Lavender Diamond issued The Cavalry of Light EP in 2005; a second base tone ending, a rent 7" with Queens of Sheeba for Cold Sweat, also appeared that year. A hum around the blogosphere and indie magazine elite began to exact shape by early 2006, and performances at ArthurFest, South by Southwest, and the CMJ New Music Seminar only added fuel to the record label fury. In November 2006, piece touring with the Decemberists, Lavender Diamond sign to Rough Trade in Europe and Matador in the U.S. The Cavalry of Light was slated for reissue in later January 2007, and the uncut Imagine Our Love followed in May.
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