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The Decemberists

Presented by Mesa Arts Center at Mesa Arts Center Theaters

August 11, 2011

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Life as a musician means continual evolution. Over the course of a career, any band worth paying attention to will pursue a sound, a direction, until it triggers a different idea and they're chasing some other distant dream. With their sixth album, The King Is Dead, The Decemberists illustrate the power that comes from this kind of creative call-and-response.


Inspired by a move to a more rural area outside the band's base of Portland, Oregon, Meloy took a few songs that had been left off of Hazards and started working on the kind of project he had long been thinking about?a set of more stripped-down, country-based songs. The mostly-acoustic arrangements on The King Is Dead showcase the ways in which The Decemberists (Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query, and John Moen) sound just as glorious in simple, concise compositions as they do on the elaborate structures that have defined their work for years.

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    Mesa Arts Center Theaters

    1 East Main Street
    Mesa, AZ 85211

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    August 11, 2011

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    Thursday 7:30pm

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