DETROIT AMERICANA TRIOLAC LA BELLE
PERFORM AT THE ARK
with ORPHEUM BELL
Friday Dec 3rd 2010
The Ark
316 S. Main
Ann Arbor MI
8pm
Lac La Belle is an intriguing acoustic trio from Detroit, Michigan that juxtaposes the early decades of recorded rural American music with decaying Rustbelt aesthetic. A tradition is re-imagined- or maybe just resumed- in the ‘future-rustic’ swirl of mandolin, banjo, resonator guitar and double-bass. The instrumentation echos another era, but is employed for a music of now.Lac La Belle began with its members learning a repertoire of old-time country and folk, but they soon added original material. The songs were honed during two sizable tours in 2009 and this creative flurry culminated in the first eponymous recording, released in November of that year. Recorded by Jim Diamond (The White Stripes, Detroit Cobras, The Dirt Bombs etc), the entire record was cut live in the studio, using only a few microphones. Its spare production captures the timeless quality of Lac La Belle’s sound.