White Magic

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• Mira Billotte
• Kate Bush
• Douglas Shaw
• Gang Gang Dance

New York’s White Magic isn’t prolific, but the band sure is ambitious. Over the last five years, the duo of Mira Billotte and Douglas Shaw (plus a revolving cast of extras) has been researching different ways to fuse moody acid folk, Kate Bush-inspired art pop, gothic country and the trance-inducing exotica of their pals Gang Gang Dance. Sometimes they succeed; other times they don’t. Yet the results are always worth investigating, especially in a live setting. Your typical White Magic set might open with delicately picked acoustic guitars floating about Billotte’s deep, mournful wail and end in a psychedelic wash of quasi-Eastern melodies, looped grooves and shimmering piano. Then again, what’s typical for a band that’s touring the United States for the first time since 2007?
Mon., March 23, 8 p.m., 2009