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I can never decide whether or not Radiant Darling's songs are sad or not. If so, it is a living sadness, vibrant, flushed with heart-stuff and anger and hopefulness. Recorded in dining rooms and mixed in bedrooms, Cryptomnesia is a collection of half-heard stories ghost myhts and magical realism. The songs hang on a delicate thread wove through scratch jazz, Americana, trip-hop, eastern Indian modalities and chamber pop. When songwriter Ami Saraiya whispers sweetly over Ben Gray's careful brushwork it is a casual loveliness. When she chokes and howls atop a frantic Gray backbeat it is a perfect fury. The band began to take shape in the winter of 2002 when Saraiya met and began collaborating with guitarist and programmer Scott Blackburn. They soon added percussionist Ben Gray and later bringing upright/electric bassist Marc Piane into the mix. The group has performed through-out Chicago, playing the Metro, Fitzgerald's, the Empty Bottle, Martyrs, The Subterranean, the Beat Kitchen and more. The current line up has been stripped down to Ami on guitar/vocals and Ben Gray on drums but is as quietly fiery as ever. Radiant Darling's full length debut Cryptomnesia, released on Tense Forms on November 1st, 2005, features the lush artwork of Nathan Poetzscher. It is a remarkable document of submerged memories of events forgotten, of country lullabies and circus organs, elephants and bird calls, furiousness and remorse. | |
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Uncommon Ground Past Show Dates | ||
| 2006-03-07 (916 days) | Ami Saraiya and Radiant Darling | |
| 2003-01-09 (2069 days) | Ami Saraiya and Radiant Darling | |
| Standing on the Ruins of the Stage | ||
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