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Live review: Glasser at the Troubadour

November 4, 2010 |  5:40 pm

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For having released a debut album that could ostensibly be played on loop into infinity, Glasser sure is a fan of the short set. At Cameron Mesirow's big victory-lap show Wednesday at the Troubadour following the release of "Ring," she recalibrated her refracted, electro-tribal compositions into a brief (45 minutes, give or take) clip of standalone singles that underscored two of her best traits -- her virtuoso attention to sonical detail and that voice.

Mesirow's plowed through a number of different band setups since her first spate of singles in 2009, ranging from a two-piece with an iPod to a double-digit cast of local indie heros from Foreign Born, Darker My Love and others. Her current ensemble is a lean, polymath electronic four-piece with an intriguing MIDI-guitar player who combines the live physicality of a Stratocaster while coaxing weird bell sounds, loops and ambient pricks from his instrument -- the trilling arpeggios of "Treasury of We" were especially gobsmacking to watch.

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Glasser builds an inviting 'Home' on a new single

August 23, 2010 |  3:59 pm

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OK, so we're late to the party on posting the new single from the local experimental pop singer-producer Glasser. But you don't need a timely reason to spend three and a half minutes with the loopy marimbas, lovesick Bollywood strings and the gob-smacking voice of Cameron Mesirow on "Home."

"Ring," her full-length for True Panther co-produced with Foreign Born's Ariel Rechtshaid, is out Sept. 28 and might be one of the marquee local releases of this year.  For good measure, take a look at the organ contraption she built with artist Tauba Auerbach under the aegis Auerglass and ask whether L.A. doesn't have its own Björk on its hands.

-- August Brown

Photo by Timothy Murray.


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