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RAPID RIVER ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE PREVIEW Lotus Announces their “Copy Paste Repeat” Tour Look For “Escaping Sargasso Sea” and “Copy Paste Repeat: Lotus Remixed” In Stores Now or those waiting for a concert BY CLAIRE TONELSON experience with the dynamics of a rock band (read: no laptops), the dance inducing rhythms of club spontaneously on stage. Restraining music, and the sophistication of from flaunting their individual chops, modern electronica, an unlikely Lotus builds compositions on catchy Fmusical alternative has arrived in the melodies and heavy grooves. form of the band Lotus. The five-piece band has creatively Formed at a Mennonite college that fused electronic dance music with had banned on-campus dancing as late instrumental post-rock for eight years. as the 1980’s, Lotus brings their club- The result is an explosive live show that worthy beats and rocking instrumental has made crowds get down across the anthems to theaters throughout the US, Canada, and Japan. Armed with a country this fall. No glow-stick brace- massive light rig and one of the most lets, pretentious Can trivia, or expensive bonic Tonic’ for fans to create their own energetic shows on the circuit, Lotus distressed fashion required. remix and submit for review. The site will proves why they have become a go-to act In January 2008, Lotus embarks on feature the band’s favorite submissions. for late night festival slots. their “Copy Paste Repeat” tour, which Visit www.lotusvibes.com for details. celebrates the release of Copy Paste Copy Paste Repeat: Lotus Remixed Repeat: Lotus Remixed, an album the comes on the heels of the band’s most If you go band released this past November. The recent live album, Escaping Sargasso Sea, released May 2007, is a double-disc Lotus and Asheville, North Carolina recording offers 12 remixes by renowned favorites Telepath producers including DFA Records artist live album that draws from two previous Juan Maclean, DJ Harry, and Lotus’s own studio albums, Nomad and The Strength Thursday, January 24th at 9:00pm, Jesse Miller. Lotus’s post/electro/dancer- of Weak Ties, along with never before Doors open at 8:00 ock is deconstructed and reassembled into released material. From the post/math- Tickets $10 Advance, $12 day of show / club ready dance, dub, glitch-hop, and rock of “When H Binds to O” to the Ages 18+ Welcome. IDM tracks. slippery dance beats of “Wax,” this collec- Orange Peel, 101 Baltimore Avenue, ® The band’s website is currently offer- tion shows Lotus’s ability to deconstruct, in Asheville. For more information please Rapid River ing up the source files for the track ‘Bu- stretch, and rebuild their compositions visit www.theorangepeel.net presents a new column... Joe’s Folk Veteran Bill Staines Live at Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse! he much appreciated and highly Staines gained notoriety as a song- Brew Notes BY JAMES CASSARA successful Mountain Spirit Cof- writer in 1966 when Randy Burns and the feehouse series continues with Skydog band recorded his first original a show by Folk veteran and Red song, “That’s the Way It’s Going to Go in “Kookaburra.” Over the past two decades House Records artist Bill Staines. Time”. He released his debut album, Bag Staines’ songs have been featured in four The New Hampshire based song- of Rainbows, the same year. songbooks: If I Were a Word Then I’d Twriter will be celebrating the release of Staines initially attracted national Be a Song (Folk-Legacy, 1980), All God’s Old Dogs, his first CD of new material in attention with his yodeling. In 1975, he Critters Got a Place in the Choir (Puffin, over three years. won the prestigious National Yodel- 1989), River (Viking, 1993) and Music to It’s a collection of folk/country songs ing Championship at the Kerrville Folk Me (Hal Leonard, 1994). He is truly an that were inspired by years of touring Festival in Kerrville, Texas. His 1976 original and revered voice in the world of America’s highways; creating a simple, album Miles included the ballad, “Sweet traditional folk. spacious sound that is reminiscent of the Wyoming Home” which has since become Old Dogs features all-new originals artist’s earlier recordings. A performer and a signature song of sort. A self-taught, and covers by such notable songwriters as recording veteran whose career has now finger style, acoustic guitarist, Staines was Guy Clark, Norman Blake, John Stewart The brew tanks spanned four decades, Staines’ music has heavily influenced by the playing of Jackie and Elizabeth Cotten. As always Staines at French Broad Brewery. long reflected the central themes of the Washington and Tom Paxton. Staines uses lends his voice and guitar to stories that American landscape. a right handed Martin D-18 guitar that he echo across the mountains, rivers and Local Craft Beers and the His ability to write tunes that seem turns over and plays left handed. open prairies. like traditional folksongs has long made Staines’ song, “A Place in the Choir Best Places to Enjoy Them him a favorite source of new material. (All God’s Critters)” has become a - See Page 29 Staines’ original tunes, including “The children’s music classic. In 1993, he If you go Roseville Fair,” “River,” “Wild, Wild released an album of children’s songs, Heart,” “Yellowstone Winds” and “A Place The Happy Wanderer, that included “The Sunday, January 6th – 7:00 pm Unitarian NEXT MONTH: The French in the Choir (All God’s Critters),” have Hound Dog Song” and “I Can Feel the Broad Brewery and its exciting Universalist Church of Asheville, 1 Edwin neighbor, The Garage at Biltmore been covered by such artists as Nanci Sweet Winds Blowing (Bless My Soul)” Place, Asheville. — the beer, the music, and the folks Griffith, Jerry Jeff Walker, Grandpa Jones, as well as interpretations of “Home on For tickets and show information: (828) who love both. Fairport Convention, and Mason Williams. the Range,” “The Gypsy Rover” and 254-6001 January 2008 — RAPID RIVER ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — Vol. 11, No. 5 Lotus Announces their “Copy Paste Repeat” Tour Folk Veteran Bill Staines Live at Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse! 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January 2008 — RAPID RIVER ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — Vol. 11, No. 5 RAPID RIVER ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE COVER STORY So Much to Give Thanks For Asheville Lyric Opera and the Opera Company of North Carolina present With a new year coming, there is so much to give thanks for and not enough space to do it in. So I’ll be brief. A big thank you to all of our loyal readers the Lucia di Lammermoor past eleven years — without you there wouldn’t be a Rapid River Magazine. A he heroine of Donizetti’s tragic Basic Plot Summary BY DENNIS RAY special thanks to one of the best entertain- masterpiece — a young woman of Lucia di ment editors in the US (and she works who is driven to madness when for us — eat your heart out. Larry King), forced to marry a man she does Lammermoor political reasons. She Marcianne Miller, who has given Rapid not love — has inspired memo- insists that they keep River the best film and book sections of rable performances by some of Act I their love a secret; the any publication in western North Caro- Topera’s most luminous stars in Asheville Enrico decides that two exchange rings and lina.