Daniel F: daxophone, electric bass, singing, loops, pencilina, washboard, clackers and whackers, wizard of fuzz, dad's old classical guitar (painted red with black spongemarks for a reason no one can fathom), etc etc.
also featuring:
Constantine Anastasakis on drums (Northampton MA)
Influences
Hans Reichel, Mark Stewart, Batman
Sounds Like
Care to hear some worldy woods? Come hither! I withdraw them from my quiver.
Dandelion Fiction is the name of this diction. It all started on a stairwell in the summer of 2005, and now I'm old. Löwenzahn mostly consists of me, a bass guitar, and the instruments i build. the daxophone, for example.
I've built hundreds of these things. Lately I've been toying with some new ideas for instruments that allow me to play while standing up. Occasionally I build a new one. Once every year I get very excited about wood again. I waste the rest of the yearn burning for a turn. Breathing in lead smoke and singeing my fingertips on the soldering iron—i could just be singing! i would! i would! i would!
BUT FAILING! FAILING CONSTANTLY. "Es irrt der Mensch, solang er strebt*"(the 'Lord', Faust, Goethe, line 317). "Man errs so long as he strives". But who would trust Goethe's 'Lord" with any kind of authority or dominion over a thoroughly secularized universe! How far have we come from an ethical binary, so that righteousness is defined only by senseless and untethered striving? Why striving? Are you sure you wanna fuck with D. Fict?
Dandelion is also about narrative and sing alongs. Once, some girl in the audience said, "you can't strum a BASS!" ———watch me, bitch. I want to offer something besides first person love stories, but fail! Anyway—no breakup songs/albums ever—I promise. isn't it possible that sentiment is a learned behavior? and that the millions of love songs we should have digested over the years are rotting in the colon? Maybe the master cleanse is just a hoax, anyway. Macrobiotics want you to stop drinking water. I was playing with myself back when everyone was doing mixer feedback.
oh, i'm in the southern most country in africa welcoming in the warm weather. back home, back home. and yes, there's a waterbed and a xylophone staircase, silly.
Don't give me your jibber-jabber mail, Dandelion Fiction--I mean--oops! did I let the cat out of the bag, or were you too busy with your Mekko to notice?
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens 1020-1022 South Street, Philadelphia Saturday, June 21st 3-6PM $5
Fire Museum brings you Summer Solstice Reverie at the Magic Gardens, three hours of continuous music taking place on 4 staging areas with 23 different sets in total. This afternoon of sound, vision and movement features (in no particular order):
Ashley Deekus, Charles Duquesne (Public Record, etc), Toshi Makihara, Lisa Spero (Radio Eris, etc), Daniel Fishkin (Dandelion Fiction), Eric Carbonara, George Korein, Katt Hernandez, Steven Parker, Michael Parker, Serpents of Wisdom, Grass Hair, Jack Wright and Alban Bailey, Ryan Frazier, Emit Es, Brother Buckroar, John Barrios, Megan Cauley & Mike Mc Dermott (Gemini Wolf), Tom Madeja, Tony Cenicola, Adoration, Charles Cohen & Tyler (Color is Luxury), Weyes Bluhd, Latralmagog and Lenny Siedman's Tabla Choir.
There will also be dance performances by members of Amnesiac Dance Company & magic lantern projections by Brooke Sietinsons.
New sound combinations will emerge as you wander through the gardens during the performances. Inside, electronic music performances will accompany the magic latern projections - culminating in a performance of tabla tarang by a three person "tabla choir".
The Fishkin Nilsson cover is fantastic! My buddy Will has the popeye record and the other day we were drinking vodka and listening to "Swee' Pea's Lullaby" and maybe there were some tears.
