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Spanish Dancer, Providence, USA

Somehow and somewhere in the netherworld between what is Purple Rain and Mellow Gold floats Spanish Dancer's debut full-length Burned Up, Bred High. Fresh off the heels of last years fuzzy bassed out future groover internet turned 12" vinyl single "Hustler," Burned Up, Bred High finds Providence's post-pop, post-whatever draft pick gallivanting through a songbook of freestyle, shoegazer, jangly pychedelia, and another planet's modern radio.

Channeling JT and Mr. Alan Vega or both or neither, young Spanish is on his own access spinning to the BPM of some lost drum swinging both hooks and it's hard not to get all caught up in 'em.

On some winter night in the early 80's, Spanish's mum had to ditch her Purple Rain tickets anyway because she couldn't find anyone to baby-sit. Maybe that's where it started. Although the Italians won on calling him Anthony Ferreira over Juan Ferreira, they still called him Spanish and the Dominican side called him Gringo for the next couple years. Maybe THAT'S where it started. They stopped calling him Spanish after '89 anyway and the moniker didn't become relevant again until some 10 or 15 years later.

At one point between moving back and forth between Providence, Rhode Island and Miami, Florida he discovered punk and his uncle bought him a ratty 50 dollar Cruise VMI guitar to mess around with. Some years went by and a small farm of pedals and synthesizer's grew in his bedroom at which point A Trillion Barnacle Lapse was started, a band started by Spanish and a crew of Providence area kids involved with what was already becoming the local weirdo scene Prov would become notorious for. A Trillion Barnacle Lapse nabbed a bit of notoriety between some three LPs and seven-inches from Pitchfork, SPIN, and other big whigs before getting there high school diplomas.

Well eventually that band got all busted up from the inside and everyone jumped ship including Spanish himself to form short lived Honeyhander who buzzed a bit but for far less records (one) and also exploded in his face within about two years. While Honeyhander was in the studio recording follow-up for said one record, Spanish spent a lot of time in the control room while everyone else feuded and was getting on some other sh*t altogether. That's what eventually became the groundwork for "Hustler," which would go on to become his first single as solo dude. Unlike the noisy dark new wave stomp of the two previous acts the Spanish Dancer material was sorta snarky, self-aware, and maybe more importantly fun while still retaining all the complex spastic freakout moments of both prior bands. Aside from the previously touched up genres of New Wave, Shoegazer, and post-Hardcore, Spanish now was incorporating more lost movements like Freestyle and Space Disco. Luminal Records finally dropped the single legit onto 12-inch vinyl and it may have been toured on two maybe three times while the forthcoming full length was being prepared. During this time Spanish shared stages with Mahjongg, BARR, Glass Candy, The Show Is The Rainbow, and Marnie Stern and probably got influenced by everyone involved all the while. He ducked in and out of various Providence studios during that year resulting in Burned Up, Bred High.

During the off time Spanish spends his time turning the wheels of sound behind the scenes at Providence's arts venue collective AS220, a crew of some 50+ screen printers, musicians, performance artists, film makers, and DJ's who orchestrate the ultra-eccentric area's most vital events.

Spanish Dancer's live show, now four headbanger's total, will continue to bring it's wall of lush destruction to areas across the rest of the universe in 2009.

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