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  Splendid E-zine reviews: Amy Denio
Amy Denio’s Greatest Hits catalogs her impressive artistic career to date, including outstanding stints in such notable groups as the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, the Tone Dogs and the Pale Nudes.
Denio crusades through an experimental mindset with the help of such instruments as the alto sax, accordion, bass and her own tender voice.
Denio’s distinctive compositions are rich in variety as well as remarkably unique, clearly benefitting from her ability to manipulate a variety of sounds.
www.splendidezine.com /reviews/aug-16-99/amy.html   (179 words)

  
 tonevendor.com :. Amy Denio - Tattoo CD
This soundtrack by Amy Denio, one of the more ubiquitous talents on the downtown New York scene, will shock and surprise those fans of her previously released music.
While it's true that this may be due to the fact that it was composed for a choreographed work, it is nonetheless a Denio composition encompassing the construction noise outside her studio, her voice, accordion, guitar, bass, water slapping, dancers' footsteps, and field recordings (of found sound).
Denio plays the role of composer here just as soulfully as she performs her own work.
www.tonevendor.com /item/5010   (251 words)

  
 Unit Circle Rekkids: Amy Denio - Greatest Hits
Denio's lyrics occasionally reveal a feminist orientation ("Birthing Chair Blues"), and she is capable of mordant observations about politics and the human condition, somewhat in the style of Laurie Anderson.
Denio is adept and inventive as a singer and on each of her instruments; this is a testament to her core understanding of how to fully invest herself in the music at hand.
Amy explains, "To spoot is to encourage empathy and active listening in all walks of life." Amy Denio is not for everybody, but for those who enjoy jazz influenced work or are interested in pushing the boundaries of their musical library, this CD may be well worth your time.
www.unitcircle.com /rekkids/releases/tUC060   (2813 words)

  
 Unit Circle Rekkids: Amy Denio
Amy Denio first made a name for herself as a "serious" composer of contemporary classical music.
Then, for almost a decade, she was a member of the Seattle-based Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, an all-female ensemble named after a woman who posed as a man to be able to work in the male-dominated jazz world of the 1930's and '40's.
But just as the quartet was gaining a national reputation, Denio quit to pursue a solo career playing her own odd style of folk-rock, in which she plays saxophone, accordion, bass, and a bunch of other instruments.
www.unitcircle.com /rekkids/artists/AmyDenio   (276 words)

  
 CSIndy: Access Denio (November 18 - November 24, 1999)
Denio's 19 solo and group recordings range from lush rock tapestries with supernal voicings to multilingual ethnic rave-ups to texturally clamorous meanderings to free-thinking jazz compositions and everything in between.
In fact, Tudor's nearby log cabin is the birthplace of Denio's concept of "spoot," which also serves as the name of her publishing company and tiny record label.
The youth appeal of Denio's music was incidental, but her intention to explore the playful side of sound, singing and performance was not.
www.csindy.com /csindy/1999-11-18/ispy.html   (1094 words)

  
 Amy Denio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since then, she has performed with (among others) Francisco Lopez, Danny Barnes, the Tone Dogs, the aforementioned Billy Tiptons, Pale Nudes, Blowhole, the Danubians, Chris Cutler, Guy Klucevsek, Pauline Oliveros, Relâche, Curlew, Matt Cameron, Hoppy Kamiyama, Derek Bailey, and the Shaking Ray Levis.
During the 1980s, Denio had a day job at Muzak.
Amy Denio and Spoot Music, including some recordings
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amy_Denio   (164 words)

  
 The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music - Amy Denio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Amy's no longer a member of the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, but you can always count on her to be out there, pushing that musical edge.
I think Amy's greatest gift is her ability to fuse so many different styles, but I personally didn't find her as good as some of the originals that seemed to influence her.
Amy Denio--"fretted and fretless bass, electric and slide guitar, voices galore, alto sax, harmonica, alto recorder, bass mbira, popping bass calloused thumb joint and PZM mic, dishwasher, washing machine, low-fi Audion organ and the dreaded drum machine, all going in various directions at various speeds.
www.ectoguide.org /artists/denio.amy   (1258 words)

  
 The Danubians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The band is comprised of four members: Amy Denio, from the West Coast of the United States, and Pavel Fajt, Csaba Hajnóczy, and Gabi Kenderesi, all of Eastern Europe.
Seattle, Washington resident Amy Denio is well-known in the international avant garde as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.
Denio as a vocalist is notable for the versatility of her range and the uninhibited nature of her expression, characteristics that loosely link her with such other contemporary female singers as Iva Bittova and Diamanda Galas.
www.rattaymusic.de /releases/Cuneiform/Danubians.html   (458 words)

  
 Derek Bailey, Amy Denio & Dennis Palmer: The Gospel Record: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On The Gospel Record, he joins American composer/vocalist Amy Denio (Science Group, EC Nudes, Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet) and synth/sampler improviser Dennis Palmer for a short set of old-time gospel-- as in, the kind featured on Smithsonian anthologies or Coen brothers movies-- and in the process, exposes music ripe for the interpretive plucking.
Denio's vocals are clear as day, sounding very much like the star of modest country church, and the trio keeps the original harmonies intact.
During the refrain, Denio goes into the stratosphere with her vocals, singing in an unnaturally high register; she ends the song on a high note too, and the reverb from her vocal acts as the song's momentary fade-out.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/b/bailey_derek/gospel-record.shtml   (591 words)

  
 Operate By Association > --- > Guests_bios > Denio Amy
Seattle resident Amy Denio is a composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, international collaborator, and founder of her own label, Spoot Music.
Denio has been operating her own Spaciouser Spoot Studios since 1981, and has enjoyed working and playing with musicians and artists from throughout East and West Europe, Japan, India, and North America.
Though mainly self-taught, Denio was sponsored by Jazz India in 1997 to study Hindusthani devotional singing in Bombay with Dhanashree Pandit Rai.
www.constantvzw.com /vj6/Guests_bios.php?id=9   (288 words)

  
 MISCMEDIA.COM: Amy Denio's Playful Noise
Amy Denio simply calls it "Spoot," referring to one particular effect in her repertoire of sounds.
While Denio's never had any industry-official "hits," she's been recording since 1987 for assorted indie labels on two continents, under a vast assortment of band names.
Despite the vast array of instrumentations, dates, and personnel (some tracks are Denio multi-track solos, on one she's only a backup vocalist), the whole thing fits together beautifully.
www.miscmedia.com /denio.html   (589 words)

  
 emplive.org - Archives - EMP Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Internationally acclaimed vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and jazz artist Amy Denio has produced an impressive catalogue of music during her long and distinguished career.
Denio's music is an eclectic and unique synthesis of elements of jazz, folk, European traditional music, pop, funk and avant rock.
Her sound is so distinctive, varied, and difficult to categorize that Denio had to invent an entirely new word, "Spoot," in order to describe it.
www.emplive.org /archives/index.asp?section=intv&id=179&pg=1   (498 words)

  
 Operate By Association > --- > Concerts_Performances > Lopez Francisco and Amy Denio Performance
Self-taught, committed, feminist and always on the move, it is now twenty years since this multi-instrumentalist from Seattle started carting her “spoot music” around enthusiastically to the four corners of the world.
During this concert —where the public will be encouraged not to stay silent -, the musician will offer her works for voices and electronics as well as her compositions for voices and accordions in which she uses extensive vocal techniques to play with harmonics.
Amy Denio and Frederico Lopez or the coming together of two different conceptions of the active public.
www.constantvzw.com /vj6/Concerts_Performances.php?id=46   (160 words)

  
 Straight.com Vancouver | Offbeat | Amy Denio keeps it loose
The performance, it appears, is a joint venture between Denio and local clarinetist François Houle, the sole member of the sextet she’s met, and at that only briefly.
And although these musicians are all skilled free improvisers, as Denio is, this time around they’re going to be focusing on her songs.
Balkan music has long been an inspiration for Denio, and Balkan art will soon factor into her work: the next Tiptons project is a suite of tunes inspired by band member Jessica Lurie’s Croatian husband, illustrator Danijel Zezelj.
www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=14527   (754 words)

  
 .:. Amy Denio .:. Spoot Music .:.
Denio's 4-track excursions continue, this time documenting songs in her concert repertoire while she was with the Knitting Factory.
A Denio soundtrack for dance, encompassing the construction noise outside her studio, her voice, accordion, guitar, bass, water slapping, dancers' footsteps, and field recordings (of found sound).
Amy Denio: Your Condition (Naked In The Afternoon - A Tribute to Jandek) Summersteps, Moscow PA Amy Denio & Jeroen Visser : Seafaring
home.earthlink.net /~amydenio/body/Recording.htm   (1622 words)

  
 Public Eyesore Records - Catalog - pit89
Like on that stunning recent William Hooker CD Complexity #2, it sounds like he's not in the band at all until the 37-minute mark, when all of a sudden there he is wailing through massive distortion like a one-man Mahavishnu Orchestra, sounding like he'd been there along, and he probably had been.
On this Amy Denio CDR, I can't pick him out for sure until around the 20-minute mark, but he may actually be one of those very rare musicians who knows that even if you're just sitting still and silently listening for 20 (or 37) minutes without playing your instrument, you're certainly still expressing yourself.
After all, Denio wrote this thing, described as "music for Yoko Murao's dance piece." She plays accordion and lays down an awesome Oliveros-worthy wall of sublimely funereal drone that barely changes throughout.
www.publiceyesore.com /catalog.php?pg=3&pit=89   (326 words)

  
 Amy Denio: Free Reed Festival: 2002 / RootsWorld
Amy Denio: Free Reed Festival: 2002 / RootsWorld
Amy Denio, US Multi-instrumentalist, pacifist, singer, card-carrying member of the ACLU, improvisor and composer Amy Denio presents a series of recordings made at The Cistern in Port Townsend, WA on May 2, 2002.
You can visit Amy Denio's web site to find out more about her recordings, her concerts and other things of interest.
www.rootsworld.com /freereed/2002/denio.shtml   (308 words)

  
 Pauline in Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I thought some of you might be interested in news about the European tour Pauline recently completed with the accordion quartet, "Accordion Tribe II: The Four Accordions of the Apocalypse".
The group's members are Guy Klucvsek, Amy Denio, Alan Bern, and Pauline Oliveros.
Amy Denio also sang several songs with accordion accompaniment.
www.deeplistening.org /pipermail/deep-l/1998-April/000912.html   (177 words)

  
 .absolute. a decentralized symbiotic entity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
While 'belle confusion 00' uses Denio's voice as the basic sound material, López and Denio have built a haunted grey drone from the complex harmonics of a human voice that never utters anything except its own somatic textures.
Their collaboration begins with a mirage-like sound of undefinable yet delicate fluctuations, then a silence followed by a slow tectonic rumble of similar sounds to the first interlude but much less friendly, and then another silence.
Amy Denio and Francisco López are devoted sound explorers with extended roots in (and deep commitment to) the underground experimental community.
www.absolutesound.net /reviews.html   (3412 words)

  
 I.N._20   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Amy Denio: Yeh, it was thru this fellow named Bob Tudor, who is a GREAT improvisor....
Amy Denio: I'll be going to Europe for a couple months with the Billy Tipton group and then the "Pale Nudes".
Amy Denio is an absolutely "spontaneous" person (and musician), fun to talk to, fun to listen to and full of energy.
home.comcast.net /~rotcod/z20.htm   (7955 words)

  
 VH1.com : Amy Denio : Biography
Seattle-based composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (proficient at accordion, saxophone, clarinet, bass, and guitar) Amy Denio has issued several albums as a solo artist, as well as a member of several other outfits.
Denio studied music at both Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass, and Colorado College during the early '80s, before forming her own label, Spoot Music, in 1986, and issuing a cassette-only debut, No Bones.
Denio has received numerous accolades for her cutting edge music, including being named one of "Rock's 10 Smartest, strongest women" by Elizabeth Vincentelli in Request Magazine.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/denio_amy/bio.jhtml   (260 words)

  
 The Stranger | Seattle | Music | The Score | Classical & Jazz
Les Voix Vulgaires--their moniker alludes to the once trendy Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares--is a trio of three masterfully hilarious singers: Amy Denio, Detonator Beth, and King Leah.
Denio, the best known of the three, has a multi-octave voice that can veer from glowering rumbles to siren squeaks in a trice.
The voices of Amy Denio, Detonator Beth, and King Leah are indeed vulgar, warping astonishing vocal techniques into demented performance art.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=12818   (308 words)

  
 Amy Denio - Greatest Hits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Amy and I were working on a dance piece and at the same time sequenceing several CD's for More music in Italy.
The second collection was a "best of" collection that has finally seen the light of day.
Amy is a true musical talent that deserves so much more attention that she has received.
www.gravelvoice.com /sessions/denio.html   (83 words)

  
 Amy Denio / Free Reed Festival 2001
It was recorded live in New York in December, 2000, performed by Amy Denio & Petunia.
Amy Denio accordion, voice; David Dorfman accordion; Jesse Manno hand claps, voice; Hahn Rowe hand claps; Tobias Ralph percussion.
Denio has been operating her own Spaciouser Spoot Studios since 1981, and has enjoyed working & playing with musicians & artists from Japan, India, England, The Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Spain, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Estonia, and throughout North America.
www.rootsworld.com /freereed/2001/denio.html   (413 words)

  
 33 rpm (Amy Denio)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
"Still Trying" is recuperation, a slow pretty jazz ballad, at least until Amy starts trying out as many different goofily melodramatic deliveries of the phrase "to light the fire" as she can (then Cora enters with a free-jazz gypsy cello over agile drums).
They clearly liked the job, and I can only assume they left because they needed a universe that could provide an Amy Denio to sing their songs.
It's a fine reason, and a lucky one, since the commercial prospects of their and her project, MERE COINCIDENCE (available from CDNow and other big-shot realtors), would hardly have justified the funding of its creation over here.
www.geocities.com /voxpoptart/denio.htm   (1547 words)

  
 Eugene Chadbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Amy Denio - Birthing Chair Blues KFW 111
Amy Denio's familiarity with improv, electronics, rock, funk, and the pop idiom is illustrated on this CD.
Of her solo album, "Birthing Chair Blues", Michael Bloom of Boston Rock wrote: "The Diva of the Tone Dogs demonstrates her manifold talents...Her singing pushes the envelope of language or phonetics, and dips into avant-garde vocal technique without ever sounding too arty or uninviting."
www.frankpahl.com /BirthingChairBlues.htm   (77 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tattoo (Pat Graney Dance Company, Soundtrack Series No. 1): Music: Amy Denio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This CD presents Amy Denio's soundtrack to "Tattoo" by the Pat Graney Dance Company.
Multi-talented avant-garde composer Amy Denio quilts together a dizzying array of sampled sounds: bird calls, construction sites, water slapping, accordion, spoken words, dancers' footsteps and other found sound for this suite created for the Pat Graney Dance Company of New York in 2000.
Instead of painting herself into a corner with conventionality, Denio sculpts and collages the commonplace into intriguing new sounds.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004ZDP3?v=glance   (543 words)

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