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| CRITIC�S CHOICE NEW TIMES LOS ANGELES FEBRUARY 22-28, 2001 Wing span: Art of Flying take a ghostly, lost-on-' the-moor sound and transfer it to the desert. The married couple behind the group, David and Anne Costanza, have had plenty of time to work in the kinks: For 20 years they were members of the San Francisco art-improv band the Whiteouts before heading to Questa, New Mexico. There is a sly quality to the low-key magic of their homerecorded album, An Eye Full of Lamp, that nods to their connection with Camper Van Beethoven (the Costanzas are in another group, Dent, with two former CVB members). Their music moves from stonerish low rock to raw-boned country folk, Dylan-esque word paintings to Tom Waits-like demishanties, and, sometimes, when Anne sings,'there's even an unlikely hint of Kate Bush. For burned-out urbanites who occasionally downshift to dec,af and aren't afraid of vocals that veer into the off-key, Art of Flying's desert pastoral is worth slowing down for. Thurs., Feb. 22, at the Fold at the Silver Lake Lounge, 2906 Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake. - Sara Scribner |
| EUGENE WEEKLY FEBRUARY 22, 2001 POETIC FOLK Some new names roll into town this week. The 28th brings Art of Flying to Sam Bond's Garage. The band's CD One Eye Full of Lamp is atmospheric, voraciously eclectic, momentarily Floydian or Beeffieartesque and thoroughly brilliant. Poetry abounds in the gems of this collection. Check out "Mimicry": "I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven, rode the big bulls and birthed the sea, sewn wings and sails and ladders, oh little me." AOF's David and Anne Costanza have been making music together for 20 years. They used to be The Lords of Howling, and they continue to work with a couple of ex-Camper Van Beethoven-ers in Dent. Now based in New Mexico, where they still type on typewriters, magically enough, they will be bringing a full band through for what promises to be a scm'ttllating evening. |
| SEATTLE WEEKLY Thursday 3/1/01 ART OF FLYING, ROLLERBALL, BILL HORIST -New Mexico's Art of Flying are made up of couple David and Anna Costanza plus occasional sidepeople. Twenty- year indie-music veterans (they've been in previous outfits like Lords Of Howling and Dent, a collaboration with Victor Krummenacher and Jonathan Segal of Camper Van Beethoven semi-fame), they�ve got a knack for melody, as demonstrated on the new An Eye Full of Lamp. Rainbow. $6. Thu 3/1 at 10-M.M. |
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