.:. Amy Denio .:. Spoot Music .:.

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NEW RELEASE
Amy Denio: Tutto Bene (Canzoni sulla Fisa)
(April, 2010)

An accordion-inspired compendium.
20 compositions by Amy Denio, played and recorded
with scores of people on various continents.

It's a mixture of charm, versatility, originality, and humor - features that don't go hand in hand too often these days.
Goran Satler, Global Mix, KNTU, Austin, TX

The result is a really interesting, often surprising, and at times absolutely mesmerizing album...Not only is the instrumentation wildly varied throughout the disc, but her vocals encompass a range of styles, from traditional singing to spiritual chanting...This is an amazingly accessible album, one that could be enjoyed by anyone, not just those into the avant-garde sound that is normally her preferred mode of expression. Her exuberance and disdain for the dry and academic affectation that makes so many po-faced experimental artists so tedious has a lot to do with her ability to create music that is simultaneously unusual and highly listenable.
The One True Dead Angel blog

Tutto Bene (Canzoni sulla Fisa) is Italian for
All's Well (Songs for the Accordion).

Amy Denio: Birthing Chair Blues
c&p 1991 Knitting Factory/Spoot Music
More adventures in Spaciouser Spoot Studios, in KCMU-FM's Top Ten Summer 1992. (And blacklisted 6 months later, along with Coltrane...)

Tone Dogs: Ankety Low Day
c&p 1991 C/Z Records
Fred Chalenor had free recording studio time & invited me down to Newburg OR. We had fun preparing, and it was heaven in the studio. The Grammy Office left me a message asking for a copy (distribution was never that good), because ALD had been nominated as best new recording. I thought it was a joke phone message. Recorded under the magic hands of engineer Drew Canulette, with Matt Cameron, Fred Frith, Hans Reichel, Courtney von Drehle, and Bob Bain.
Also available in LP & cassette format.

Curlew with Amy Denio: A Beautiful Western Saddle
c&p 1993 Cuneiform Records
Denio's first vocal adventures with Curlew, featuring words written by poet Paul Haines. They premiered this body of work at New Music America 1990, and toured it on both US coasts. Tom Cora (cello), George Cartwright (sax), Davey Williams (el. guitar), Ann Rupel (bass), and Pippin Barnett (drums).
May Paul and Tom rest in peace!

(ec) Nudes: Vanishing Point
c&p 1994 ReR Megacorp
Improvisers Chris Cutler (drums, electronics, text), Wadi Gysi (guitars) and Denio (accordion, bass, sax, voice) came together to form a song band. Recorded in France & Ticino, mixed by the genius engineer Bob Drake.

Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: make it funky god
c&p 1995 Horn Hut
Amy Denio: alto sax; Jessica Lurie: alto & tenor sax, Marjorie de Muynck: soprano & tenor sax, Barbara Marino: baritone sax; Pam Barger: drums. Recorded by Bob Meador in Seattle.

FoMoFlo: Slug And Firearms
c&p 1996 God Mountain
A true international collaboration between Hoppy Kamiyama (keyboards, noise violin, voice), Denio (bass, alto sax, voice), and Mighty John Henry: Dennis Gunn (guitar, voice), Tada Makio (drums), and Honda Tatsuya(bass).

Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: Box
c&p 1996 New World Records
Amy Denio: alto sax; Jessica Lurie: alto & tenor sax, Maya Johnson: soprano & tenor sax, Barbara Marino: baritone sax; Pam Barger: drums. Denio's final recording with the original quartet.

Amy Denio: Greatest Hits
c&p 1999 Unit Circle Rekkids
19 luscious and beautiful selections from Denio's vast recording catalogue. Tone Dogs, BTMSQ, Curlew, Pale Nudes, (ec) Nudes, FoMoFlo, Die Knodel, and solo Denio. Beautiful.

The Science Group: a mere coincidence
c&p 1999 ReR Megacorp, London, UK
Yugoslavian composer Stevan Tickmayer: piano, keyboards, zither, violin, guitar, samples - set text by Chris Cutler (drums & electronics), with the help of Fred Frith (guitar), Bob Drake (bass and vocals), Claudio Puntin (clarinet, b. cl.), and Amy sang. Very very dense stuff!

The Danubians
c&p 2000 Cuneiform Records
Denio joined forces with Gabi Kenderesi (violin & voice) & Csaba Hajnoczy (guitar) of Kampec Dolores fame, and Czech drummer Pavel Fajt for this one. Lovely and noisy.

Amy Denio: Tattoo
c&p 2001 Unit Circle
A Denio soundtrack for Pat Graney's extraordinary dance, encompassing the construction noise outside her studio, her voice, accordion, guitar, bass, water slapping, dancers' footsteps, sounds of Ellen Fullman's amplified fishing wire skirts, and other field recordings.

Amy Denio & Eyvind Kang: TASOGARE (Twilight)
c&p 2001 Public Eyesore
Beautiful accordion tones and voice, Eyvind Kang on viola; soundtrack for Yoko Murao's dance piece, premiered a few weeks before 9/11...

Tiptons Sax Quartet: Tsunami
c&p 2004 Zipa! / Spoot Music
Amy Denio: alto sax, voice; Jessica Lurie: alto & tenor sax, voice; Sue Orfield: tenor sax, voice; Tobi Stone: baritone sax, voice; Elizabeth Pupo Walker: percussion & electronics. Recorded & mixed in 3 days chez Aleph Studios, Seattle with Randal Dunn. Mastered by Mell Dettmer at Sinister Kitchen.
Classics and originals, one of the loveliest collections of our songs.

Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti: Il Parto
c 2005 Storie di note, Italy
Il Parto (the birth, nativity) delle nuvole pesanti (of the heavy clouds).
Remember Denio's song Salvatore? The very same Salvatore de Siena plays percussion and left-handed guitar in this band from Calabria, Italy. After 12 years they met again, and Denio was invited to lay down some tracks on this recording, and tour with them for 7 weeks the summer of 2006. On 'Il Parto' she sang, played tenor sax and clarinet. Italian folk pop, delightful. Check out 'L'imperatore.'

Derek Bailey/Amy Denio/Dennis Palmer: The Gospel Record
c&p 2005 Levi Recordings
When the Shaking Ray Levis were but youngsters in the deepest Tennessee, they were allowed to watch Saturday morning TV only if they saw a particular religious program with music, hosted by a fabulous Chattanoogan preacher, his radical bouffant-hairstyled wife beaming at his side. The program featured the Stamps, the quartet famous for backing Elvis.
Years later, the Levis found a copy of the hymnal with all those fire-and-brimstone Old Testament-y festaments, and asked Denio to sing 'em. Derek Bailey added his guitar genius, and Dennis Palmer wove everything together with his finest finesse. One of the stranger things you might ever hear.

Lesli Dalaba: Timelines
c&p 2005 Tzadik Records
With Lesli Dalaba, Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins, Carla Kihlstedt, and Amy Denio. A gorgeous and evocative sonic journey.

Tiptons Sax Quartet: Drive
c&p 2005 Zipa! / Spoot Music
Amy Denio: alto sax, voice; Jessica Lurie: alto & tenor sax, voice; Tina Richerson: tenor sax, voice; Tobi Stone: baritone sax, voice; Elizabeth Pupo Walker: percussion & electronics. Recorded & mixed in 3 days during Hurricane Katrina, with Artis the Spoonman joining in on 'Gemini Rising,' a fantastic second-line song from New Orleans.
Luckily, we were in cozy in Seattle hunkered down in Jupiter Studios. Mastered by Mell Dettmer at Sinister Kitchen.

Tiptons Sax Quartet: Laws of Motion
c&p 2008 Zipa! / Spoot Music
Amy Denio: alto sax, clarinet, voice; Jessica Lurie: alto & tenor sax, voice; Sue Orfield: tenor sax, voice; Tina Richerson: baritone sax, voice; Chris Stromquist: drums.
Recorded in one day at Terrarrium Studios in Minneapolis, while Tiptons were touring the midwest in April, 2008. Mastered by Beck Henderer-Pena in NYC.
We've been going for 20 years!
Tiptons Sax Quartet website

Kultur Shock: Integration
c&p 2009 More Shock Music; Seattle, Washington
Kultur Shock is a Bosnian Gypsy-core band based in Seattle. Integration is our newest offering, with the fabulous line-up of Gino Jevdjevic (vocals, percussion), Val Kiossovski (guitar, vocals), Paris Hurley (violin, vocals), Guy Davis (bass, vocals), Chris Stromquist (drums, vocals), and myself (alto sax, clarinet, 12-string guitar, and vocals). I played & toured in Kultur Shock from 1999-2004, (recording F.U.C.C. the INS and Kultura Diktatura with them, and I'm really happy now, back with my brothers - and sister.
We'll be touring Europe from 16 October - 8 December, 2009 - hope to see you! We're playing 40 concerts. The tour info is on my News Page.
Here are a couple of Kultur Shock video links: The Rose (produced by our friend Krk Nordenstrom. I played clarinet, 12-string guitar & sang, and moved one of the shadow puppets, great fun!, and Balcchanalia: Kultur Shock Balkan Tour Summer 2009, I played sax on the song, and shot & edited this film while on tour in the Balkan countries in July, 2009.