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"Yuzo Nieto, [Mike Neff] and a rotating cast of bandmates shred the conventions of music as well as your expectations of a live band. When performing, Nieto's aim is to engage as many senses as possible, including painting and performance art; during one show, ice cubes with odds and ends inside them were passed around the crowd. The music is improvised at each show, which means no set is ever the same. Within Pink Hawks' rich pageantry of sound, you can hear echoes of Sun Ra's melodically off-the-rails piano playing, Jimi Hendrix's irreverent warping of blues to otherworldly realms and the languid, sonically adventurous atmospheres of Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out. As much artistic revolutionaries as musicians, Pink Hawks bring the struggle for a more interesting world home to roost." ~ by Tom Murphy, Westword's Critic's Choice Sep 2007 __________________________ __________________________________________________________ a fifth degree multi-plex of engaged sensory masturbation with compulsory psycheletro-lounge/roots-junk combined with a groene and a xandar performative expression between thought and emotion. sometimes, a picture flashing session occurs. song made up as it goes! direct audience engagement. happy ears on. dancin shoes worn thick like ingrown toenails.

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Member Since: 22/08/2006
Band Members: ____________Yuzo Nieto - honcho of flight and communication________________
________________Mike Neff - coordinator of stringed imagry__________________
________________Neil McCormick - cat bowed uprightinyoface__________________
______________________Jon Olsson - curator of beat_________________________
_________________________Cole Rudy - virtuosic accostic____________________

Performance Artists: Simone Groene-Sackett, Sander Lindeke, Adam Gildar, Avi Sherbill, Bert Cole-Sackett

Musicians: Heather Davis - metronomic master of ceremony and impaler of symbol , Ian Thacker - rotator/mathamatician, Joe Ramirez - bass fire, Will Duncan - hitter of heads and crashes, Bobby Lewis iii - tambodrum&bass soprano sax, Miles Thacker - perc on a suitcase, Doo Crowder - on the floor facing amp, Flesh in dSun* - long distance flower, Rob Geisen - word mechanic

Recording engineer: Danny Shyman

Videographers: Sara Sterns, Cory Drayton
Influences: Watch this!

Directed by Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) in association with Warp Records and Warp Films. Music by Flying Lotus. Co Directed/ Animation by Devin Flynn. Co Directed/ Edited by Eric Fensler. More info at dancefloordale.com
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My Blog

New Directions and Afro Beat Frontiers

In case you missed us last Sat March 14th 2009, we played an epic set for Bad Weather California's tour kick-off. Our newest muse seems to be leading us into a blending of Afro Beat a la Fela Kuti wit...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:17:00 GMT

Catch The Pink Hawks

Catch The Pink HawksGene Davis, DDN Staff WriterThursday, January 1, 2009 The Pink Hawks make jam bands look lazy for falling back on any kind of song structure.The experimental band has no songs rehe...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:35:00 GMT

Westword article by Jon Solomon about PH at Rhinoceropolis 2/2/8

"We'll be playing fort-building music tonight," said Yuzo Nieto, the Pink Hawks keyboardist and saxophonist, before the band launched into a half-hour-long exploratory set. Every show the Hawks play i...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:40:00 GMT

songs new dropped on the spot for you

check em out. actually everything we have ever done has been made just for you as you listened. that is if youve been to any of our live shows. but if not imagine you are at one and we are making i...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:16:00 GMT

Barrington Levy and PEE-Hawks

Barrington Levywith Pee-Hawks and OdAm fEl mUdThe Oriental TheaterFriday, Dec 14, 20078:00pm all agesHailing from Jamaica, international reggae star Barrington Levy hassat at the top of dancehall char...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:17:00 GMT

Westword’s Critic’s Choice Review by Tom Murphy

With a name like Pink Hawks, you'd be forgiven for thinking the band was some kind of acoustic-punk duo. But Pee Pee's sax man, Yuzo Nieto, and a rotating cast of bandmates shred the conventions of mu...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:38:00 GMT