Cursillistas

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Mothers Taught 02:46 Tools
the snake and the motor 09:26 Tools
moccasin tramp 03:56 Tools
Caves Carved In Golden Light 02:30 Tools
Aphra Bones 03:50 Tools
Fawns Into Does 01:28 Tools
Larks On A String 09:19 Tools
Drone (Groan) 02:21 Tools
St. Leonard 02:10 Tools
bag of feathers 03:10 Tools
Treestain 03:10 Tools
Dirt.Palm.Line 02:45 Tools
Great Salt Desert 23:37 Tools
Happened In The Sun / Moccasin Stamp 02:45 Tools
Show Them Love 07:52 Tools
crickets and sparklers 02:11 Tools
Burns Like White Suns 01:54 Tools
leaves 01:41 Tools
edit weapons 02:51 Tools
assembled from fragments of the author's memories of iowa city 01:24 Tools
Dust Bowl Reds 03:21 Tools
gleaners cry fox 01:39 Tools
Knotted Wrack 02:47 Tools
toy tone yr. death 04:35 Tools
incolsa wheels and the sea wolf 04:57 Tools
assembled from the wing feathers of several hundred black seagulls 01:31 Tools
Normady Shore 01:31 Tools
hands (haunt) feet 03:18 Tools
Crooked Isle 04:25 Tools
Trail of Tears 03:29 Tools
Incantations of Bona Dea (reprise) 00:54 Tools
i want to 03:30 Tools
Tennessee 02:47 Tools
the remarkable tangter smiths 01:13 Tools
Bed of Weeds 02:46 Tools
Crutches 03:19 Tools
see fall (door) 03:34 Tools
That Great Stone 03:37 Tools
Black Diamond Mines Now 08:32 Tools
from the mangled cardboard of refrigerator delivery boxes break my bones 06:06 Tools
Rewa Dokpa 10:03 Tools
Seven Storey Mountain 05:32 Tools
The Remarkable Tangier Smiths 10:03 Tools
Tivoli 01:49 Tools
Horse Trailer 01:49 Tools
New Seeds 01:49 Tools
Saudade 01:49 Tools
Seven Story Mountain 03:09 Tools
Indian Red 07:40 Tools
legion vs. lions 01:32 Tools
Try Tone Your Death 01:32 Tools
Cloak & Dagger 01:32 Tools
Airstream Trailer 02:10 Tools
Collection of Stones 03:10 Tools
tiger cage (teeth bite hard) 01:32 Tools
That's Not My Trip 03:16 Tools
Blue Star 03:10 Tools
Mt. Diablo Fairy Lantern 06:18 Tools
this notebook is a gift 06:18 Tools
Bumble Bumble 06:18 Tools
Wild Columbine 15:10 Tools
Break My Bones 06:06 Tools
Peace Pipers 07:04 Tools
Part I 15:02 Tools
aphum bones 07:20 Tools
Frontier Gothic 07:20 Tools
Part II 14:04 Tools
Assembled From The Mangled Cardboard Of Refrigerator Delivery Boxes 14:04 Tools
I Want To See Fall (Door) 14:04 Tools
Side A 14:04 Tools
ocean rose chest 01:55 Tools
Groan (Drone) 01:55 Tools
Tree Curse 05:34 Tools
Blood Waves 01:39 Tools
Side B 01:39 Tools
Bona Dea 01:39 Tools
Crow in the Garden 04:01 Tools
Lake Dig Rising (Muddy Water Spell) 04:01 Tools
Break My Bones (And Warm) 04:01 Tools
Howling Wind II 04:01 Tools
Send Your Sea 04:01 Tools
shallows 04:01 Tools
assembled from fragments of th 04:01 Tools
Welcoming The Saggitarius Child 20:03 Tools
when the gallows speak-grateful gallows-bear tomb reprise 20:03 Tools
assembled from the wing feathe 01:31 Tools
The Snakes and the Motor 01:31 Tools
Dirt. Palm Line 02:46 Tools
Toy Tone Yr Death 06:12 Tools
Crokked Isle 04:25 Tools
Tennessee (live at IPR) 03:07 Tools
Mothers Taught - Cursillistas 03:07 Tools
from the mangled cardboard of 03:07 Tools
Peace Pipers (A) 03:07 Tools
dirt. palm. line 03:07 Tools
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Cursillistas began as the Psych-Folk solo project of Portland, Maine's Matt Lajoie. A self-released CDR called "Rotary and Gems" was picked up by Time-Lag's Nemo Bidstrup in 2005. Since then, Cursillistas has released a number of handmade & self-released documents in addition to CDR, CD, and vinyl releases on Time-Lag, and a CD and LP on Digitalis Recordings. Lajoie started his own label, L'animaux Tryst, in 2006 and also plays in a handful of other groups (including Lightning strike Lightning, Bad Bus, Sacred Basil, Aldus Shores, and Planets Around The Sun). Of the name ‘Cursillistas’, Lajoie said in an interview with Digitalis: ”Well, the short story is that it was just a word I thought looked really nice. It's a word I would see all the time in the church bulletin in Van Buren, and didn't really know who these Cursillistas were or what they did, but it was always just a nice word to me. I like the palindrome "sillis" in the middle. I never really considered it would be difficult for a lot of people to pronounce.” His follow up to the CDR 'Rotary And Gems' was 'Thrush Chimes In The Field Haunt' released in a limited edition of 140 through Time-Lag in 2006. A 3"CDR and cassette entitled 'Les Biches' was released on L'animaux Tryst in 2006, which was later reissued by Time-Lag & L'animaux Tryst as a remastered LP & CD (with previously unreleased tracks) in 2009. The full-length 'Wasp Stings the Last Bitter Flavor' was released as a CD on Digitalis Industries in February 2008, with plans for a lathe-cut LP version of the album pending from 5MA Records. Cursillistas expanded to a duo in 2008, with Dawn Marna joining on electric guitar and vocals. The pair recorded the LP 'Joint Chiefs', released by Digitalis in a limited edition of 200 vinyl copies in 2009, and the 'Peace Pipers' full-length cassette that collected unreleased tracks from the 'Joint Chiefs' sessions and released by L'animaux Tryst. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.