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1.	Damascus 07:57	buy track
2.	Carnival Dirge 05:32	buy track
3.	Elysium 09:09
4.	Goodbye to All This 04:10	buy track
5.	India 12:39	buy track

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Ballroom Dance is Dead was started in the fall of 2006 by New Orleans producer and bassist Grant W. Curry (Pleasure Club, PW Long) and Brooklyn-based guitarist/composer Lynn Wright (Bee and Flower,And The Wiremen) to explore the collision of Eno-inspired minimalism, trance, and the spirit of Sonny Sharrock. The first in a projected series of recordings with a revolving-door cast of drummers and horn players, this eponymous offering (released January 2008) is a collaboration with Drums & Tuba drummer Tony Nozero, featuring percussionist Mike Dillon (Critters Buggin’, Les Claypool).

From the dub-informed opener “Damascus” to the rockist version of Coltrane’s “India” that closes the album, Ballroom Dance is Dead anchor their take on movement-no-changes to Curry’s bass ostinatos, bringing to the fore the ever-shifting accents of Nozero’s drums and Wright’s patient build from subtle melodicism to a skronk worthy of his Downtown predecessors.

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released January 1, 2008

Grant Curry: Bass, recording, mixing
Lynn Wright: Guitars, effects
Tony Nozero: Drums
Mike Dillon: Percussion

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