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COURESY PHOTO THE MOON SEVEN TIMES Is carreatly as a 15-day, 27-sliew stal-tsar. It win sake a step la Osaka taalfkt far twa skews. Band embarks on fervid mini-tour to promote its latest endeavor By Ann Stack Senior Reporter If the band’s name is any indication, the Moon Seven Times is out to capture some souls. Lead singer Lynn Canfield, whose breathy, haunting voice is reminiscent of the Cranberries’ Delores O’Riordan, picked the name from “Tie Golden Bow,” a book about religions. “We had exhausted all of our creative options,” she said. “We resorted to going through books and putting our finger down anywhere. I opened it to a chapter on North Africa; a ritual of obtaining souls. The last step said, ‘Up your turban to the moon seven times.’” ine Moon j>even limes, trom Champaign, 111., will perform a free acous tic set tonight at Omaha’s Borders Books, 132nd and Maple streets, at 7. They’ll also perform electric at McFoster’s Natural Kind Cafe, 38th and Harney streets, at 8:30. There’s a $3 cover charge. The band is currently doing mini-tours in support of its 1996 album, “Sunburnt.” Bassist Don Gerard’s wife is expecting twins at the end of the month, and guitarist Todd Fletcher is still in college, at the University of Illinois. Canfield’s husband, drummer Brendan Gamble, and guitarist Henry Frayne round out the band. The Moon Seven Times is a band that sounds as though it would be comfortable in a quiet coffee house or in a noisy bar. “Sunburnt” is a neat mix of sweet acoustic tunes featuring Canfield’s crafty lyrics and ft We’re familiar enough with each other musically that we can predict what the others will do.” Lynn Canfield singer soaring melodies and harder-edged guitar based songs. Fletcher is the newest member of the band, which has been together, appropriately enough, for seven years. He didn’t contrib ute to “Sunburnt” — the band had extra ax help from Wilco guitarist Jay Bennet. Though she cites Wilco as a collective band influence, along with singer/ songwriters Tom Waits and Anna Domino, The Moon Seven Times sounds nothing like Wilco — or any of the other bands they’re being marketed with, like Blue Mountain. There are no plans to release another al bum anytime soon, Canfield said, because it took the band three years to put out “Sun burnt,” a pace she described as “intolerable.” “I’d like to be able to do one a year; we’ve got enough material for that, but it doesn’t quite work out that way,” she said. New works discovered under Picasso painting \ WASHINGTON (AP)—Under a dark blue \ painting of mourners on a beach, a researcher \ at the National Gallery of Art has found that \ Pablo Picasso painted -— and then painted over \ — two vivid pictures of a bullfight, l A sign of the great artist’s prolific creativ I ity, his changing artistic mood — or simply his need for something to paint cm—the aban doned work was first noticed when bits of bright I red and yellow appeared through small cracks in the somber blue. Infrared cameras eventually solved the mys tery. They are now being used to examine other Picassos hanging in a show at the gallery called “Picasso—The Early Years, 1892-1906.” “About half the paintings in the show have something underneath to investigate,” said Anne Hoenigswald, the conservator who de tected the hidden work. “It may not be a whole / composition, but worth looking at with an in- / frared camera. I| it couia oe a uietimejoD. Picasso painted the mourners, called “Trag edy,” on a big wooden panel in Barcelona in 1903. It belongs to his “blue period” brought on by the suicide of his best friend. Hoenigswald first detected traces of the un derlying work when she examined the paint ing in 1983 — bits of red and yellow appear ing through small cracks, visible only to the trained eye. Photos taken from the side, with what ex perts call a “raking light,” showed something else: thickly painted areas where there was no apparent need for them. Infrared and X-ray photos, using light not visible to the naked eye, then revealed yet more underneath: horses and a series of arches. They resembled two other bullfight paintings Picasso did in 1901 and 1902, with red and yellow tones like those seen through the cracks. Then the gallery acquired a new infrared camera, capable of penetrating more deeply. More photos, taken in 1994 and 1995 on a dif Please see PICASSO on 9 l'*- — +*""" Matt Haney/DN Little Charlie and the Nightcats howl tonight Courtesy photo LITTLE CHARLIE AND THE M6HTC/HS will Mag their swlag te the zee Bai 136 i. 14th SL, tealght la a 9 p.w. shew. The 21-aa4-ever ceacert has a $6 caver charge. From Staff Reports One of America’s hardest-working bands—in terms of touring and sheer longevity—will make a stop in Lin coln tonight. Little Charlie and the Nightcats— a band that’s done more than 200 shows a year in the 20 years it’s been together—is bringing its grab bag of Chicago blues, West Coast swing and Tex-Mex rockabilly jump to the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. Little Charlie and the Nightcats, from San Francisco, are comprised of singer/producer and guitarist “Little” Charlie Baty, singer/songwriter and harmonica player Rick Estrin, drum mer Dobie Strange and upright acous tic bassist Ramie James Weber. Their eclectic cross-pollination came together better than ever on the band’s sixth release, “Straight Up!” The album was recorded (and self-pro duced) with the full band, as well as^ some guest musicians, to get a “live” feel. Joining the ‘cats on the album were Jimmy Pough on keyboards, John Firman on saxophoie and Rusty Zinn on guitar. Tonight’s concert starts at 9 and has a $6 cover charge.
