Regina Hexaphone’s sophomore CD "Into Your Sleeping Heart" was released on September 11! Buy it at Triangle-area independent record stores or on line from CD Baby, iTunes or any of a number of other digital download services.
Nice words about IYSH... "The rustling sun-kissed beauty and easy charm of Regina Hexaphone’s folky pop echo the sweet, generous vibe of frontwoman Sara Bell. Just as a wayward smile from someone attractive can brighten your day, nothing feels quite as welcoming as Hexaphone’s soothing sonic embrace. A preview of their forthcoming album, Into Your Sleeping Heart, is impressive, indeed, from the nomadic surf-inflected pop of "Waiting for the Wind" to the Dresden-bound gypsy bounce of "The Fortyniner." Elsewhere, they work in a hazy, pillowy drift of receding detail, like a watercolor pulling away and over the horizon." --Chris Parker, Independent Weekly
About Regina Hexaphone... "Regina Hexaphone are fronted by Sara Bell (Angels of Epistemology, Dish, Shark Quest), who has been raising the level of musical discourse in the Triangle via her playing for the past 20 years or so. Jerry Kee plays drums; his Duck-Kee studio has probably been responsible for more local records in my collection than any other single studio. Chris Clemmons was in the Bettys with Jerry, and played with Sara in Dana & Karen Kletter’s band. Nathan Brown fronted Laramie UK. Margaret White was in the Comas & the Carbines, and nowadays is usually too busy touring with folks like Sparklehorse, Cat Power, and Portastatic to be able to make all the gigs. They are a bona-fide supergroup of folks who’re far too modest to ever think of themselves that way." --Ross Grady, the alt.music.chapel-hill guide to the triangle
About 2004’s "The Beautiful World"... "a rich, sonorous excursion
through gentle, loping melodies guided by Sara Bell’s dreamy vocals" (Chris Parker,
Independent Weekly); "a pastoral dream of evocative imagery and subtle
style" (Grayson Currin, Independent Weekly); "a band that even on the
worst of days would be able to convince you that it is a beautiful world indeed"
(Jenn Young, Daily Athenaeum, UWV); "beautiful and mesmerizing to listen
to" (Jeri Rowe, gotriad.com); "an intriguing cohesive collection of off-centre
indie-folk with interesting touches" (americana-uk.com); "lang uitgesponnen
nummers met een heerlijke cadans en hypnotiserend effect" (top 2004, altcountry.nl).
Bull City Syndicate makes its first club appearance in Durham, in over . . . 10 years!?!?!? Wow!
Well, don't miss it. We're excited to be on home turf, at The Broad Street Cafe, and we hope that all Durhamites will join us on Friday, (and all the rest of the Triangle is invited, too!)
Opening for BCS will be two great bands:
12 Cents Shy & Jamie MacFarlane Band, (featuring Will McFarlane!)
That is indeed true. We really need to make that happen. But next weekend I'll be in DC for my grandmother's 102nd, and you'll be in Virginia but just a different part...
