White Magic leader Mira Billotte possesses an unforgettable
voice—a pastoral siren’s husky tone pitched somewhere between
those of Karen Dalton and Nico. She also plays piano and guitar,
creating a slowly rollicking brand of mystical folk that’ll send
trepidatious chills down your spine. Her songs possess beautiful
melodic contours, but they’re skewed and imbued with a sweet
dread. She and her band lure you into a dangerously seductive aural
web. (Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, 324-8000. 8 pm, $8 adv/$10 DOS,
21+.)
Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when... More by Dave Segal
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