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		"Oh, my Lord, have I paid dues?" says 27-year-old Cecilia Noël, the Peruvian-born leader of the Wild Clams. For eight years, the 14-piece Afro-Latin-urban-psychedelicfunk band toiled in New York and L.A. clubs. But it was the Clams' raucous SRO Monday-night gigs at Studio City's Baked Potato that caught the eye of Epic Records, and the result is a live EP, Slam. For Noël, who's married to Clams and Chicago drummer Tris Imboden, the attention has been a long time coming. She's been at it since the age of seven, when she won a singing part on a Peruvian TV show. Today, she brings to her music everything from her classical training in piano, violin and flute and a brief tutelage with Stan Getz to a stint as a go-go dancer. "The music is a very physical experience. It speaks to the spirit and the flesh." -Chris Rubin