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No time to waste here: Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors have a lot going on. The band will release their first single on new label Domino on April 21. It's called "Byond Uquafina" and it will be released on CD and 12", backed by B-side "The Bride" and instrumental, a cappella, and Lucky Dragons remix versions of the title track. Info on their two full-length follow-ups to 2007's Rise Above (one for Domino and one for Dead Oceans) are still murky...probably because the band is keeping busy with other things. Like that song with David Byrne on the Dark Was the Night compilation.

That's not it. Main Projector David Longstreth has composed a piece of music that will be premiered by Bang on a Can April 2 at New York City's Kaufman Center. (A work by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo will also be played that night.)

And Projector Angel Deradoorian is readying her first solo EP, Mind Raft, under the name Deradoorian for a May 5 release on Lovepump United. (Track list below.) You can listen to some of her songs on MySpace.

Dirty Projectors will get together for a few U.S. shows in late February and will hit SXSW before a string of UK dates starting the end of March.

Deradoorian Mind Raft EP:

01 Weed Jam
02 High Road
03 You Carry the Deed
04 Holding Pattern
05 Moon

Dirty Projectors:

02-27 Bennington, VT - Bennington College Student Center *
02-28 Haverford, PA - Lunt Basement
03-06 Minneapolis, MN - Walker Art Center
03-07 Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College Gardner Lounge
03-18-22 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-24 Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms $
03-25 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb Ifor Bach $
03-27 Belfast, Ireland - Black Box $
03-28 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy $
03-29 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC2 $
03-31 Brighton, England - Komedia $
04-01 Manchester, England - Mint Lounge $
04-02 London, England - Scala $
04-03 Bristol, England - Arnolfini $
04-04 Coventry, England - Taylor Johns House $

* with Icy Demons
$ with Lucky Dragons, Polar Bear