Thursday, April 2nd at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock:
2225 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
21+
NO COVER
RSVP: Info@eeniemeenie.com

Wander through corridors hung with the robust, bizarre hand-painted backdrops created for the project, enjoy live performances by Gooseberries subjects, enjoy a Red Stripe, and sip absinthe cocktails generously provided by Le Tourment Vert. If Oscar Wilde and George Sand were alive, they’d surely attend.

Doors at 7:30

8:15 – One Trick Pony
9:15 – Le Switch
10:15 – Golden Gram
11:15 – Afternoons

This limited edition collection of prints, plus a DVD with interviews and time lapse footage, will be available in select stores and through Eenie Meenie Records on April 4th. However, advanced copies of Gooseberries will be available at the event.

Hope to see you there!

Aaron Kyle sings as if he’s never five minutes from his last whiskey, or five minutes from his next, occasionally lurching into a down-deep growl you wouldn’t think could come from an angular white dude in a collared shirt and old browline spectacles.

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But it’s that voice, and the woeful tales it conveys, that have endeared L.A. fans to the distinctly vintage soul-pop of Le Switch. “We’re not the fashion police,” Kyle says. “I think if you write a good song, people are going to respond, no matter whether it’s gonna end up in Vice magazine. Besides, I’d trade soul for cool any day.”

There’s plenty of that on “We Are Le Switch,” the debut album due this month on Autumn Tone Records (a local imprint run by Justin Gage, the man behind the Americana-leaning blog An Aquarium Drunkard).

Le Switch’s sound, which nods to the likes of Leon Russell, Dr. John and Randy Newman, first began to take shape when Kyle fell in with drummer Joe Napolitano in 2005. Maria DeLuca (trumpet, viola, vocals) joined next, and by the time keyboardist Josh Charney and bassist Christopher Harrison had come on board, Kyle was eager to “make the Leon Russell or Harry Nilsson album we wanted to make,” he says. “Everybody in this band listens to a huge assortment of ’60s and ’70s music — there’s not a lot of new music I can drive with.”