ACCORDION TRIBE Tour
24 Jul @ Zeltival Karlsruhe (D)
25 Jul @ Kulturzeit Kassel (D)
26 Jul @ Würzburger Hafensommer (D)
27 Jul @ Sfinks Bochoet (B)
with Guy Klucevsek, Otto Lechner, Maria Kalaniemi, Bratko Bibic.
I will be substituting for Lars Hollmer on this tour
31 July AD w/Caroline Kraabel & John Edwards @ Gallery 1412, Seattle
An evening of improvised music.
1412 18th Avenue Seattle WA 98122
Caroline Kraabel - saxophones, voice
John Edwards - contrabass
Amy Denio - saxes, clarinet, voice
MONSTERS OF THE ACCORDION Tour
with Jason Webley, Mark Growden, AD & other fine accordioneers
15 Aug @ Safari Sam’s Los Angeles, California
16 Aug @ 12 Galaxies San Francisco, California
17 Aug @ 21 Grand Oakland, California, with Accordion Workshop
19 Aug @ Black Sheep Ashland, Oregon
20 Aug @ WOW Hall Eugene, Oregon
21 Aug @ Kennedy School Theater Portland, Oregon
22 Aug @ Caterina Winery Caterina Winery, Washington
TIPTONS SAX QUARTET NW TOUR
29 Aug Art House, Olympia WA
30 Aug Goodfoot Lounge, Portland OR
31 Aug Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle 5:30P
with Chris Stromquist on drums.
5 Sept AD Solo @ 1412 Gallery, Seattle WA
APHONIA Recordings Evening!
6 Sept Yellow Hat Band @ Burien Lantern Festival 7:45pm, Burien WA
4 October AD w/Correo Aereo @ Cafe Paloma 7pm
206.405.1920RSVP Recommended
15 October Johnny D's Davis Square, Boston MA 9pm
AD: sax & voice, electronics
Jessica Lurie: sax & voice, electronics
Ken Field: sax etc.
Phil Neighbors: drums
TIPTONS US TOUR
18 October @ Chattanooga
19 October @ Chattanooga - daytime workshop
VIDEOS
Made during my rejeuvenating & miraculous Paul Goode/Artist Trust Fellowship in Ireland.
Ballintubber Abbey (February 2008)
Some glimpses of my Paul Goode Fellowship in County Mayo, Ireland.
Saw 'there are so many songs to sing' written on a gravestone in the Ballintubber Abbey cemetery & was struck by that for days.
I wrote & recorded the song there in Carraholly, overlooking the cove & Croagh Patrick.
Tong Men & Hualien Area, Taiwan (June 2007)
Taipei, Taiwan (June, 2007)
Denio Visuals
Walk to Cuei Lake, Taipei County, Taiwan (June, 2007)
Check out Photos of my Paul Goode Fellowship in Ireland, and recent tour of Austria (Obstlerreich). Listen to live recordings of a double bill at the Vienna Akkordion Festival on 20 March 2008.
First, our quartet from Salzburg/Braunau/Seattle 'Die Resonanz Stanonczi played, then Hannes & I joined Alp Bora in his amazing Anatolian band Nim Sofyan.
Ya basta! Help Prevent a War with Iran Write your Senators with this easy tool. View Video produced by Council for Livable World.
Petition / 10 Reasons to Impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney
12/18/07 Jamie Leigh Jones was a 20-year-old woman working in Iraq for a subsidiary of Halliburton when she was drugged and brutally gang-raped by several co-workers.
The next day, Halliburton told her that if she left Iraq to get medical treatment, she could lose her job.
Jamie's story gets even more horrific: For the last two years, she's been asking the US government to hold the perpetrators accountable. But the men who raped her may never be brought to justice because Halliburton and other contractors in Iraq aren't subject to US or Iraqi laws. They can't be tried for a crime in any court.
We're calling on Congress to investigate Jamie's case, hold those involved accountable, and bring US contractors under the jurisdiction of US law so this can't happen again. If hundreds of thousands of us speak out against this outrageous story, we can force Congress to take action.
Sign the Petition
RONIN Il Galeone
Ronin is an Italian group based in Milano. I have been their guest accordionist
from time to time, and they asked me to sing Il Galone, an anarchist song from the
60´s, on their newest CD entitled ´Lemming´. The CD is produced by Ghost Records,
Italy.
Check out the stunningly beautiful animated video of Il Galeone, produced
by Ericailcane (sic), a very talented young filmmaker from Bologna.
Omelet, a wonderful short film by Cuneyt
Havlioglu & Serkan Kutan, filmed in Seattle. A movie about crossed paths unnoticed. They used my composition Ambaraba Ci Ci Co Co (performed by the
Austrian chamber group Die Knodel).
Listen to the Tiptons Sax Quartet on MySpace.
3 of the songs are from our concert at Triple Door this past spring.
Check out the video clips from our recent European tour!
Denio through CDBaby
Tone Dogs, Denio soundtracks, solo cassettes & pop CDs, Tiptons & more!
RECENT COMMISSIONS SubRosa
by Choreographer Cheronne Wong, inspired by espionage, surveillance, and deciphering codes.
The Conet Project is a big inspiration for all the elements of this piece. It was in Tacoma
News Tribune's Top 10 events of 2007, under the category 'Under The Radar.' (ha! appropriate category!)
Tacoma News Tribune review International Examiner Feature Seattle Times review
AND Youtube promo video
Loud Omission
I composed a soundtrack for Ecuadoran choreographer Carla Barragan in January, 2007,
featuring pictures drawn by her sister Paula Barragan
It premiered in Quito, Ecuador 3/07. It toured the NW in 10/07.
The music features voice, percussion, clarinet, and saxophone, and
sounds. Nos Vemos a la Salida on YouTube Candidato Presidencial
Naruwan
A group of kids from the Camphor Tree School in Shijr City, Taipei County have been playing samba for a few years. I spent
February, May & June 2007 in Taiwan, working on a commission by Gordon Tsai, founder of the Dream Community.
I arranged Taiwanese traditional & popular music with various samba beats, got Jonathan Gregory & Xiao Mei to teach them the songs & to sing while drumming,
and I produced a recording of 9 songs. Recording engineer: Guan Yuu
Read my Taiwan Blog at Patty Herlevi's site.
You can see some of my Taiwan photos,
if you become my friend on myspace.
Listen to Elders Drinking Song
NEW CD RECORDINGS Die Resonanz Stanonczi
I spent a few weeks in Salzburg in late November, 2007 (Thanksgiving at the spa below Hitler's summer home - now everyone's naked and relaxed in the area!)
and we recorded 'Edelbrand', forthcoming on Nomansland Records (Berlin). My dear friend Gerd Busse there has
also released the first Resonanz CD, Tiptons: Tsunami, and Pollo d'Oro with Tiptons & Ne Zhdali, an incredible adventure in Tallinn in 1988.
We began in April, 2006, and get together every six months. We look forward to touring in March/April 2008.
It's really quite a magical formation. Featuring award-winning accordionist Johannes Steiner,
brother drummer Robert Kainer, myself, and with clarinettist Norbert Asen often participating.
Listen to Die Resonanz
MAISIE: Festa in Casa / Balera Metropolitana (Snowdonia/Spoot)
Cinzia la Fauci & Alberto Scotti run the Messina-based indy label Snowdonia, which has tons of releases. They also play in
Maisie, and invited me to collaborate. Festa in Casa is a result of collaboration through the mail - they sent me tracks,
I wrote silly words & sang. Balera Metropolitana is the 2nd CD, full of pop wonders, with the collaboration of dozens of musicians throughout Italy. Some
real popular gems! I spent a week in April at Seahorse Studios in Arco Felice (Napoli) to lay down various tracks on Balera.
This fabulous double CD will come out on our labels, and we're looking for distribution worldwide. Please inquire!
KMFDM: Superstar
My housemate Jim Knodle (trumpet) & I (alto sax) are the horn section for 'Superpower' on KMFDM's new CD, Tohuvabohu.
This is my 3rd time recording with them, it's a blast.
*Denio News*
Recent Events & Forthcoming CDs Amy Denio & Francesco Calandrino: Venerdi' Santo (Spoot/dito produ(a)zioni)
Friends for a few years, Denio went to Alcamo Sicily to visit Francesco Calandrino in April, and this
incredible recording is a document of their time together. Raw, beautiful, instrumental passages & field recordings.
Recorded on Good Friday, Easter Weekend (Venerdi' Santo). We made our own processione siciliana. CD will be available in
November.
FRANCISCO LOPEZ
My dear pal Francisco Lopez wrote to say 'the long-awaited projects with the "absolute noise ensemble" just came out on
a double-CD release put out by Blossoming Noise.
This includes both excerpts from the
live shows of the ensemble (at Sonar Festival, Observatori Festival, Abaixadors Deu, MACBA, and Craig Pumping Station -
Montreal, between 2000 and 2002), and the big guitar project (from 1992 to 2003). I played some guitar, can't wait to hear
the results!
*Capodanno a Napoli!
New Year's Eve gig in Naples, Italy!
My Quintetto alla Busara accompanied Les Farfadais, a French circus in Piazza del Plebiscito, the
biggest piazza in Napoli, with no rehearsal & inclement weather.
They made us wear white flannel zip-up pyjamas and winsome blue hats made of
carpet fragments. Soaking wet instruments. International TV Broadcast. Delirio totale.
Nonostante la pioggia, nessuna
prova generale, e le cose techniche andando ai pezzi, e' andato molto
bene! Prodotto di ArtScena. Capodanno a Napoli Blog
*Politricks*
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BREAKING NEWS:
Tell all your governmental representatives to support H.333 Impeach Cheney.
This legislation was introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and on 7 November 2007 was forwarded to the House Judiciary Committee (which is a good thing!)
Kucinich is urging Judiciary Chairman John Conyers to start hearings immediately because Cheney is desperately manipulating the National Intelligence Estimate
on Iran to justify a U.S. attack, just as he did with the pre-war NIE on Iraq. But Judiciary Democrats are deeply divided.
MOVE IMPEACHMENT FORWARD:
1. Email all of the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee:
http://www.democrats.com/topelosiandjudiciary
and call them:
http://www.democrats.com/house-judiciary-democrats
MoveOn: Tell The Truth About Iraq
Sign Rep. Conyer's citizens' petition to demand answers from Bush, regarding the Downing Street Memo.
Join more than 500,000 people!
Urge Congress to End the War in Iraq
Encourge your congressperson to end the War in Iraq within six months by co-sponsoring these bills:
H.J.Res. 73, To ReDeploy U.S. Forces in Iraq, sponsored by Rep. John Murtha.
H.R. 4232, The End the War in Iraq Act, sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern.
H.CON.RES. 197, No Permanent Bases in Iraq, sponsored by Rep. Barbara Lee.
The new Kucinich/Paul bipartisan bill that would allow the Iraqi parliament to vote on whether to end the occupation.
And urge them to sign the discharge petition for H.J.Res. 55, to allow a real debate on the war in the House.
2005 Hottest Year On Record
2005 proved to be one of the two hottest years in recorded history. The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just released
new findings: 19 of the hottest 20 years on record have occurred since
1980. As atmospheric and ocean temperatures rise, we are facing
increased ice melt and sea level rise, as well as more severe weather
events. The good news is that we have solutions available today that
can help curb global warming. The Climate Stewardship Act (HR 759)
would reduce overall U.S. carbon emissions—one of the leading causes of
global warming. Please urge your representative to protect future
generations by cosponsoring this important bill today.
WashPIRG: Toxic Chemicals in Children's Products
Some toy manufacturers are falsely labeling their products
"phthalate-free." Six of the eight labeled toys tested contained
phthalates, which are a class of chemicals linked with a range of
harmful health effects. Please take a moment to tell the Federal Trade
Commission that parents and consumers need to know the truth about
toxic chemicals in children's products.
LANGUAGE WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: 'I don't really understand. How is the new (Medicare) plan
going to fix the problem?' PRESIDENT BUSH: (Verbatim response)
'Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big
cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example,
is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage
increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the
formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those
different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with
personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more
likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does
that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a
series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are
calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the
increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the
benefits will rise based upon inflation, supposed to wage increases.
There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put
into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the
promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it will help
on the red.'
Band on the run in New Orleans
Police have cracked down on funeral processions, a time-honored cultural tradition in the historic black neighborhood of Treme. But musicians vow to play on.
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spoke harshly of the
Bush Administration.
Manchester Guardian, March 13, 2006
Some Troops Headed Back to Iraq Are Mentally Ill Besides bringing antibiotics and painkillers, military personnel nationwide are heading back to Iraq with a cache of antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications.
San Diego Union Tribune, March 19, 2006 ...and this was 18 months ago...
Lawyers Against the War charge George Bush of aiding, abetting and counselling the commission of torture
*Otherart*
Check out this beautiful/intense blog by Mazen Kerbaj, a trumpet player & cartoonist from Beirut.
My friend Ricardo Arias was evacuated from Beirut last summer, having played several concerts & taught a workshop with his rubber balloon. The world
is increasingly strange, and full of dark beauty.
And more chilling still, listen to Mazen Kerbaj's recording of trumpet improvisation with bombs, the night of July 15/16, 2006.
Choir Foley. An ad for Honda, but the sound is incredible.
Create your own audio itinerary Sound Transit. I tried from Iran to Sarajevo, and the results were beautiful.
Instructions for Urban Scoring Kit, Sicilian-style. "ragusa is a very beautiful baroque town in the south of sicily.
tourists come to visit the architectural splendors such as the
cathedral of st george - the duomo, but often find it difficult to find
the way, since the old town is full of narrow winding streets.
the front door of the house where our recording sessions were held is
often open to have some cool breeze, tourists passing stick their nose
inside and ask where they can find the duomo.
one august morning we decided to help them and put up some signs, in
the wrong direction of course, leading pass the courtyard where we held
our illegal concert using traditional instruments, voice, loop station,
various kinds of feedback, and tapes with field recordings and non
definable recordings
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