{"id":895,"date":"2012-03-09T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2012-03-15T14:13:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T18:13:31","slug":"art-and-luck-at-the-record-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2012\/03\/09\/art-and-luck-at-the-record-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Luck at the Record Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

I headed to The Record Archive<\/a><\/strong> (33 1\/3 Rockwood St.<\/a>) for the Opening Reception<\/strong> of Heather Ingram<\/strong>'s Color Mania<\/strong> show. I also happened to want to pick up a couple CD's, so I did it all together.<\/p>\n

Ingram's art in this show is a blend of colors in a uniformly random drip-line pattern. The key is in the colors — I found one piece particularly appealing for that reason. I didn't make much more of a connection than purely aesthetic, however.<\/p>\n

About a year ago<\/a>, the Dryden <\/strong>screened Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields<\/a><\/strong>. I was kind of suckered in to the sound of The Magnetic Fields<\/a><\/strong>\"MySpace<\/a>, and when I saw a semi-positive review of the new album on the AV Club website<\/a>, I decided to go get Love at the Bottom of the Sea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But while there, I was walking around looking aimlessly — looking for that which I didn't know I was looking for. Then I passed the $1 Used CD bins and looked straight at the self-titled CD from Julia's Star<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Holy crap. I lost that CD about 10 years ago — I loaned it to someone and pretty much lost touch with them right afterward. I suspect that I was holding the actual copy that I lost. I had seen Julia's Star<\/strong> perform in 1999 at Milestone's and picked up their CD at some point (I have an old e-mail where I lament, \"I still don't find all that impressive…not my kind of music more than anything else\" so I don't know why I ever got it.) I recall that Matt Blanchard<\/a><\/strong> was in the band (playing a synthesizer as I recall) although I knew him better as a saxophonist in the ska band 5Head<\/strong>\"MySpace<\/a> and in the infectious experimental jazz band Jerseyband<\/a><\/strong>\"GarageBand<\/a>\"MySpace<\/a>. In fact, in the aforementioned e-mail, I had seen Julia's Star play on the same bill as 5Head.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, had I owned the CD all these years, I probably would have taken it for granted along with lots of other bands I've seen over the years. I mean I'm sure I would have liked<\/em> it, but since I had lost it, it always had that fond\u00a0je ne sais quoi<\/em> of having disappeared. Funny how listening now, I instantly recalled the songs and the crisp lead vocals of Julia Gray over a couple synthesizers, drums, and a DJ — reminiscent of other late-1990's bands like Portishead<\/a><\/strong>\"MySpace<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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