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The circle around Ray Raposa of Castanets is a tight one indeed, as he and some of your favorite Brooklynite musician sorts have been sharing living spaces and swapping songs for some time now. That spirit of community lives on with Tendrils, a new DVD featuring some of Raposa's closest music-making compatriots tackling Raposa's formidable tunes in a variety of exciting locales.

Dave Longstreth and Angel Deradoorian of Dirty Projectors join Phosphorescent, Marla Hansen, and a whole slew of Ray-pals on the Mia Ferm-directed DVD, which arrives May 20 on Asthmatic Kitty. Oh, and as a little preview, the set will be available over there at Pitchfork.tv as part of our "One Week Only" programming the week of May 9. For, you know, one week. Only.

And, since one good turn deserves another, if you preorder Tendrils direct from Asthmatic Kitty, you can nab an exclusive new seven song Castanets EP for download. Among other treasures, the set includes Ray's covers of tunes from Jana Hunter and Deer Tick, plus remixes by Son Lux and Actuel.

Ray will join multi-instrumentalist Meg Noe and head to Europe next month for a fairly expansive tour under the Castanets banner.

Tendrils:

01 Dave Longstreth: "Rain Will Come"
02 G. Lucas Crane: "Remix on Post Apocalyptic Music"
03 Golden Ghost & Silver Spokes: "This Is the Early Game"
04 John Chavez: "Jump Cuts and Hip Hop"
05 Sayard Egan and Angel Deradoorian: "Strong Animal"
06 Jesse Ainslie: "Dirty Jokes & Billiards"
07 Marla Hansen: "Sway"
08 Matt Lorenz: "Lost Lyrics" (in Farsi, with Polish subtitles)
09 Jesse Ainslie: "Three Months Paid"
10 "Interlude at Miller's Pond I"
11 Tucker Dulin and Ben Piekut: "Night Is When You Can Not See"
12 "Interlude at Miller's Pond II"
13 Ray Raposa and G. Lucas Crane: "Noise Prelude to 'City of Refuge'"
14 Ben Piekut: "On Genre/Spaces"
15 Phosphorescent: "And the Swimming"

Bonus EP:

01 All the Best Wishes [Jana Hunter cover]
02 This Is the Early Game (Son Lux Remix)
03 In the Vines
04 Crying Shame [Deer Tick cover]
05 Crops of Crosses
06 A Song Is Not the Song of the World
07 Sounded Like a Train (Actuel Remix)

Castanets:

05-02 Haarlem, Netherlands - Patronaat
05-03 Offenbach, Germany - Hafen 2
05-04 Lille, France - La Malterie
05-05 London, England - Windmill Brixton
05-06 Hove, England - Greenhouse Effect
05-08 York, England - The Basement
05-10 Coventry, England - Taylor John's House
05-11 Nantes, France - Café Grimault
05-12 Rennes, France - 1929
05-13 Paris, France - Le Point Ephemere
05-15 Basel, Switzerland - Kaserne
05-16 Düdingen, Switzerland - Bad Bonn
05-17 Ravenna, Italy - Hana Bi
05-18 Trieste, Italy - Tetris
05-19 Zagreb, Croatia - Kset
05-20 Maribor, Slovenia - Pekarna
05-21 Prague, Czech Republic - Chateau l'Enfer Rouge
05-22 Berlin, Germany - Schokoladen
05-23 Hamburg, Germany - Übel und Gefährlich *
05-24 Bremen, Germany - Spedition
05-25 Cologne, Germany - Kulturbunker-Mulheim
05-26 Trier, Germany - Ex-Haus
05-27 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
05-28 Utrecht, Netherlands - Ekko

* with Stereo Total