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Amy Denio

Music weaves the web that holds the world together

About Me


HER RECORD LABEL: Spoot Music
NEW VIDEO!
Denio sings 'Il Galone' with Ronin , a beautiful band from Italy!
RECORDED ON OTHER LABELS:
Unit Circle Records, Knitting Factory, New World Records, Cuneiform, Summersteps, FOT, Shaking Ray Levis, NoMansLand (Berlin), ReR Megacorp (London), RecRec (Zurich), Snowdonia (Italy), MORE Music (Italy), La Storia delle Notte (Italy), Ghost Records (Italy)
INSTRUMENTS: voice, accordion, alto saxophone, clarinet, guitar, bass, drums and percussion, found sounds, invented instruments, audio engineer
BAND FOUNDER/MEMBER:
Lao Tse & The Entropics (1985-1987)
Tone Dogs (1987-1991)
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (1987-present)
Sonic Renegades (w/Hans Reichel & Wadi Gysi - 1990-1992)
(ec) & Pale Nudes (1993-1998)
FoMoFlo (1996-1997)
Danubians (1999-2000)
Las Machas (2000-2002)
Quintetto alla Busara (2001-present)
Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti (guest 2004-present)
Maisie (2005-present)
Die Resonanz Stanonczi (2006)
and many other side projects
COLLABORATORS:
Francisco Lopez, Shaking Ray Levi Society, Ne Zhdali, Pat Graney Dance Company, David Dorfman Dance Company, Victoria Marks, Run/Remain Ensemble, UMO Ensemble, Lorenzo Pickle, Cheronne Wong, Aiko Kinoshita, Arturo, Jeff Bickford, filmmaker Thomas Edward, filmmaker Jamie Hook
COMMISSIONS:
Biennale di Venezia 1993, RAI3 Italian National Radio, Berkeley Symphony, Die Knodle, Relache Ensemble, New York Festival of Song, and others
CONCERTS & FESTIVALS:
Bombay, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taipei, Buenos Aires, Belo Horizonte, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and throughout North America - including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, Bumbershoot Festival, as well as prisons, squats, schools & universities, town halls, barns and churches on both sides of the Atlantic...
WEBSITE: http://www.amydenio.com
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My dear Roman friends Ardecore playing 'Madonna Dell'Urione'

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/18/2005
Band Website: amydenio.com
Band Members: Me, with the help of many others

TIPTONS Sax Quartet :
AD, Jessica Lurie, Sue Orfield, Tina Richerson, Faith Stankevich

DIE RESONANZ STANONCZI :
AD, Johannes Steiner, Robert Kainar, Norbert Asen

HELL'S BELLOWS :
AD, Eli Kaufman, Marchette DuBois, Scott Adams

...and frolicking friend in studio/occasional concert guest of:
MANDARA
Il PARTO delle NUVOLE PESANTI
KULTUR SHOCK
KMFDM
MAISIE
FRANCESCO FORNI
RONIN
FRANCESCO CALANDRINO
CORREO AEREO
LE VOCI DEL VICOLO
QUINTETTO ALLA BUSARA, TITUBANDA, and many other creative individuals.
Influences: My ears, my eyes, my feet & where they travel. My fingertips. Food.
Dreams, friends, and also many strangers.
Sounds Like: Jeff Buckley meets Yma Sumac in a club in Beograd, and the dj plays field recordings instead of Muzak.

Some examples:
Amy Denio:
No Bones (1986)

Amy Denio:
Never Too Old To Pop A Hole (1988)

Amy Denio:
Birthing Chair Blues (1991)

Amy Denio:
Tongues (1993)
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Amy Denio:
Greatest Hits (1999)

Amy Denio & Petunia:
To Lie Tenderly (2001)

Tiptons Sax Quartet:
Tsunami (2004)

Tiptons Sax Quartet:
Drive (2005)

Tone Dogs:
Ankety Low Day (1991)

Tone Dogs:
Early Middle Years (1992)

Record Label: Spoot Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Artist Trust Paul Goode Fellowship in Ireland

Here's an excerpt from my diary. February 11, 2008 Today dawned into another beautiful day, and I looked at Croagh Patrick (most holy mt. in Ireland) to the south - no fluffy cloud hat today!&nbs...
Posted by Amy Denio on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:00:00 PST

Try Harder To Be The Winner

The performers are 11 drummers & 15 singers, kids from the Camphor Tree School, a middle school in Shijr City, Taipei County, Taiwan.  They're all from the Amis Tribe, ages ranging from 12-15...
Posted by Amy Denio on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:52:00 PST

A week in South Taiwan

Things here are going pretty darned well, I love this amazing country.  Some people (well, let's say some westerners) really can't find a way to appreciate the loud, intimate, colourful, food-lov...
Posted by Amy Denio on Thu, 31 May 2007 06:44:00 PST

Kultur Shock videos added!

An incredible band featuring the incomparable Gino Banana a.k.a. Srdjan Jevdjevic.  The members are from Bosnia, Bulgaria, Japan & US, and are based in Seattle.  I had the honour to play...
Posted by Amy Denio on Sun, 20 May 2007 10:10:00 PST

First Week in Taiwan

ITALIANO (english below) Saluti da Taipei, vanno bene le cose... Guardate le foto nuove!  Sto qui al Dream Community per 5 settimane sta volta, e sto benone.  I ragazzi di Camphor Tree schoo...
Posted by Amy Denio on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:53:00 PST

What's happening here in Spootlandia...

I. Tiptons Sax QuartetWe had a hilarious & successful European tour in March, playing in 25 cities, and teaching music workshops in Slovenia, Austria and Germany.  We will return to Euro...
Posted by Amy Denio on Fri, 04 May 2007 12:13:00 PST

New Videos!

Go to the Video portion of this site! Check out the Tiptons live in Innsbruck in March 2007, and the exceptionally beautiful video ´Il Galeone´ - music performed by Ronin (sung by Denio in italiano st...
Posted by Amy Denio on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:11:00 PST

Capodanno a Napoli

  1 December, 2005 Adrenaline therapy started today, with an an email from the Italian circus producer Anna Antina La Valle. I met her last summer through my landlord Paul Magid (actor, writer, d...
Posted by Amy Denio on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:40:00 PST