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COURTESY OF REGINA HEXAPHONE
Triangle indie-folksters Regina Hexaphone will be playing a CD-release
party Saturday night at Local 506 to celebrate the band's second LP.
Join Us For a Sneak Preview of
BANISHED
American Ethnic Cleansings
- DOCUMENTARY RILMBV MARCO WIIIIAMS
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, WHITES CLEANSED THEIR
TOWNS OF BLACK AMERICANS. TODAY, AFRICAN
American descendants demand justice.
A CONSTITUTION DAY EVENT
September 1 7, 2007 - 4:00-6:00 p.m
UNC School of Law Rotunda
"Banished" is about the racial cleansing of African
Americans from Southern towns in the 1 9th and 20th
centuries, and discusses the issue of reparations for
those events. The film will air on PBS later this year.
Following the sneak preview, UNC School of
Law Professor Adrienne Davis and Anita Earls, an
attorney with the UNC Center for Civil Rights, will
facilitate an audience discussion.
Co-sponsored by:
UNC-Chapel Hill
UNC School of Law
The Black Law Students Association
Carolina Assocaition of Black Journalists
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Diversions
REGINA HEXAPHONE: NEW AND OLD
Sara Bell has been playing in
bands in the Triangle since the
late ’Bos. Her current project,
Regina Hexaphone, will be hold
ing a release party Saturday
night at Local 506 with friends
The Monologue Bombs and Lud.
Bell, a self-described “late
night person” took time out on
her way homefrom band practice
to chat with Assistant Diversions
Editor Jamie Williams about the
new record, Into Your Sleeping
Heart, classic jukeboxes and the
importance of the track list.
Diversions: i know you
have the big CD release show com
ing up this weekend, so what kind
of things are you hoping for with
the show?
Sara Bell: well, i hope that
it’s fun. We were practicing tonight
and trying to decide whether we
should play the record straight
through. I’ve never done that before,
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that he saw the Meat Puppets right
around when he first moved to
Raleigh in ’BS and they did it
Dive: I knowyou’ve played in a
lot of bands. Is Regina Hexaphone
kind of the main thing now?
SB: Of all the things I’ve ever
done, I’d say that it’s the closest to my
heart because I write all the songs.
Dive: Are your band mates old
friends that you had played with a lot
before starting Regina Hexaphone?
SB: Jerry (Kee), our drummer,
has a studio in Mebane and he’s
recorded bands for years. He record
ed all those records that Chapel Hill
is sort of known for, like Superchunk
and Polvo and he did that beautiful
first Kingsbury Manx record.
He recorded my very first record,
so he’s an old friend.
Chris Clemmons from Raleigh,
he’s an old friend, and he’s redly
the reason we’re a band. He’d heard
some of my songs that I had record
ed myself and said he thought they
were really good.
Dive: Are there songs on this
record you’d just written through
the years, or are most of them rela
tively new?
SB: It’s probably half and half.
A few are pretty old. Maybe five
songs are new. But one of the things
about having a drummer who also
has a recording studio is you can
take a lot of time.
Dive: It could be weird with
older songs to go back through
them. That really puts you back in
the state of mind you were in when
you wrote them, doesn’t it?
SB: What you find out is that
they’ve changed. I think that means
that the song is good; if you don’t
get sick of playing it and if it still
seems relevant to where you are
now, it must be OK.
Dive: I guess since you’ve been
around, you’ve done the Local 506
thing before, are you excited about
playing there again?
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SB: It sounds great in there and
it’s the perfect size. Glenn Boothe,
you know he owns it and runs it.
Dive: i saw that you thanked
Glenn in the liner notes of the CD.
SB: Yeah, he’s been a real sup
porter of music of mine for a long
time.
Dive: I have to ask about
Regina Hexaphone. I love that
name. Where did that come from?
SB: Regina Hexaphone was the
name of the first jukebox machine.
A lot of people were really freaked
out about it because musicians
thought that there would be no use
for them anymore.
It’s just this handsome old
machine, but to me it sort of sym
bolized how new technology comes
in and sort of makes you think that
this thing that we knew and loved
will never be again, but in fact it
didn’t hurt anything. It sort of sym
bolized the new and the old.
Dive: The new record all
sounds very heartfelt and honest. I
love the focus on your vocals. I just
think it has a real intimate feel.
SB: I want my music to touch
people. For me a record is just that,
a record, a recording of a particular
moment in time.
Dive: I may be off, but it seems
very unified. Is there a single theme
you were working on?
SB: That’s cool because when
we started making the record I
thought the selection was all over
the place. But when we started put
ting them together I thought that
it really worked as a record, so it’s
really cool that you said that.
Dive: The track order is just as
important as anything else you can
have your . 15 songs but if they aren’t
arranged right it can really take away
from the quality of the record.
SB: You nailed it. We take that
very seriously. We fought about
it and everyone had their ideas.
I think that can make or break a
record. If one song is different then
it can change the whole record. It
takes a lot of time until you Know
something is right.
Dive: i guess since you did all
the writing, it would be a very per
sonal thing and you’d want it to be
as good as it could be.
SB: I’m very opinionated and
kind of a perfectionist. But I have a
reason to fight for these things.
Contact the Diversions Editor
at dive@unc.edu.