First of all
why not send your unsuspecting relatives
some fabulous Denio music?
Or, better yet ~
bring them along to one of the following concerts, and we can hang out!
Sat 3 Dec @ Nectar Lounge (Seattle) 9pm Correo Aereo + Amy Denio & Picoso
...AD, Madeleine Sosin & Abel Rocha ~ otherwise known as Ama Trio ~
play gorgeously rhythmic soul music, a new bent to the gypsy latin sound.
Picoso is a sextet playing original salsa, son & latin.
Thurs 8 Dec @ Chapel Performance Space (Seattle) 8pm
Hell's Bellows! (Seattle) and James Hoskins (Colorado)
A fabulous accordion quartet founded in 2006, Hell's Bellows! is comprised of
AD, Marchette DuBois, Eli Kaufman and Scott Adams, who all contribute luscious, playful pieces to the group.
They will play a short set, as will cellist James Hoskins, and they'll collaborate in a third set.
Venue is one of the most gorgeous acoustic spaces in Seattle.
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle
Tix: 5-15 sliding scale
Tiptons Sax Quartet
US West Coast Fall 2011 Tour
The Tiptons are touring the West Coast in December 2011,
enjoying the fabulous company of new drummer John Ewing (Reptet) on board, and
playing our usual world-traversing repertoire of music for sax quartet, drums and voice.
Check out our newest beautiful recording, Strange Flower on our label, Zipa! / Spoot Music.
Fri 09 Dec: Bellingham WA 7-10pm Blue Horse Gallery
301 West Holly St # 101, Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 671-2305
Sat 10 Dec: Seattle WA 8pm Chapel Performance Space (Good Shepherd Center)
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th floor (corner of 50th St. in Wallingford)
$5-15 Sliding Scale
Sun 11 Dec: Applegate, OR Applegate River Lodge
15100 Highway 238
Applegate, OR 97530
Phone:541-846-6690
Mon 12 Dec: Arcata CA 8pm Arcata Playhouse
1251 9th Street, Arcata CA (707)-822-1575
Weds 14 Dec: San Francisco CA 8pm
Beth Custer & BC Records
3227 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Reservations: bethcuster@bethcuster.com
Thurs 15 Dec: Berkeley CA 7:30pm Subterranean Arthouse
2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley CA
Fri 16 Dec: Ashland OR 8pm Caldera Tap House
31 Water St Ashland, OR 97520-1859
(541) 482-4677
Sun 18 Dec: Portland OR 7pm Alberta Rose Theater
with the Quadraphonnes
3000 Northeast Alberta Street
Portland, OR 97211
(503) 719-6055
$12 in advance / $15 at the door
2012!
2 Jan - 6 Feb: Los Angeles, CA
Residency in LA to complete the commission for a live music score
for 'Who's Hungry - Santa Monica', a live toy theater performance
based on oral histories of 5 food-insecure people from Santa Monica
(amazing stories!)
Premiere: 27/28 Feb - 3/4 March, 2012
at Highways Performance Gallery in Santa Monica, CA
in collaboration with Dan Froot and Dan Hurlin,
wonderful musicians Daniel Corral and Mike Flanagan
(and 4 puppeteers to boot!)
My commission is funded in part by grants
from Meet The Composer and MetLife.
Sun. 8 Jan: Los Angeles, CA
Center for the Arts - Eagle Rock
Open Gate Series (hosted by Alex Cline)
possible band name: The Curiosities
AD (sax, clarinet, vox, etc) w/Emily Hay (flute & objects/electronics); Lucio Menegon: (guitar);
Brad Dutz (rhythms)
2225 Colorado Blvd., LA, CA 90041
(323) 226.1617
Sun 12 Feb, 2012: Seattle afternoon
Accordio-Rama @ Town Hall
Denio solo set!
Many other excellent acts!
http://www.reverbnation.com/show/5927809
Feb/Mar 2012 - Tiptons Sax Quartet Tour
18 Feb: New York City @ 92nd St. Y - Tribeca
21 Feb - 18 Mar - Europe
In July/August and again in September/October 2011, Kultur Shock toured The Balkans and Europe.
We poured our hearts out in Umbertide, Rome, Castelfranco, Motovun, Sarajevo, Mostar, Osijek, Zajecar, Rijeka, Zrenjanin, and at the Spirit of Bourgas Festival in Bulgaria, then in Paris, Toulouse, Niort, Cluses, Lyon,
Luzern, Frankfurt, Berlin, Koln, Ljubljana, Augsburg, Basel and near Udine, Italy.
You can check out my photos on Flickr.
Previous to that, we had a fabulous Spring tour of Seattle, New York City, the Balkans and Europe.
The first couple of days, 2 reporters followed us around from Banja Luka Beograd, and then posted
Kultur Shock Plays The Balkans
in the New York Times.
Photos from that tour can be found on flickr.com; I'm known as deniaural.
NEW VIDEOS!
Martin Jarmick shot & edited Tamni Vilajet.
Check out the hilarious Ministry of Kultur video!!! (Music edited by Gino and myself, video by Krk Nordenstrom.)
Our newest release Ministry of Kultur has been recorded and mastered, and is available for listening or download on Band Camp!
We wrote the material in Seattle, and also on the road last summer in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in Tuzla, Bosnia - thanks to everyone for their help!
I rejoined this wild band back in January, 2009, to record on 'Integration' and since
July, 2009 we've tucked in over 100 concerts in New York, Chicago & Milwaukee, Europe, the Balkans, and Russia, encountering extraordinary people everywhere between London (UK) & Istanbul (TU), Copenhagen (DK) & Athens (GR), Nantes (F) and Perm (RU),
mostly going by van. Many thanks to our stalwart soundmen & drivers, Saso Kotnik and Oggi Kiossovski, and the beautiful Ljubljana team (Minka, Nika, Anamarija) for their creative designs & vending talents!
Srdjan 'Gino' Jevdjevic: vocals, percussion
Val Kiossovski: guitar, vocals
Paris Hurley: violin, vocals
Amy Denio: guitar, sax, clarinet, vocals
Guy Davis: bass, banjo, vocals
Chris Stromquist: drums, vocals
Here's 'God Is Busy, May I Help You?' from our EXIT Festival concert in Novi Sad, Serbia (11 July, 2010):
Here's Balcchanalia, from our concert in Sofia, Bulgaria (1 December, 2009)
Another must-see: Country Mohammed, an incredible animated film created by
a team of very talented artists from Sarajevo, presented by MTV Adria.
*Hell's Bellows!*
Hell's Bellows! is an accordion quartet playing original compositions, featuring AD, Marchette DuBois, Scott Adams, Eli Kaufman
*Current Exhibits & Projects*
SONIC BENCH at Seattle Center
My colleague Kaffee Matthews encouraged me to seek funding & create a Seattle version of a Sonic Bench, and thus in February, 2008 I embarked on a
long journey to create an interactive musical public bench.
I asked Kim David Hall (engineer, fabricator), to collaborate with me, and it turned out beautifully, made of shapely stainless steel, and including brass tines and drums as the
sound-making elements.
It was installed for one year at the Seattle Center until 1 December, 2010, and after a period of cleaning and rebuilding, is now installed in front of the Parks Department Building at Ober Park,
on Vashon Island, WA. Thanks to support from 4Culture and the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs.
