Where DAE’s Album “CUCKOO CROW” has
hit so far on the CMJ College Radio Charts!
CURRENTLY 62 NATIONALLY!!!!!!
Thank You Awesome DJs and Listeners!!! Please
request Cuckoo Crow at your local station!
no.1 WUSB Stoney Brook NY
no.1 WXBC Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
no.3 KUOI Moscow ID
no.5 KEOL LeGrand OR
no.5 KSAU Nacogdoches, TX
no.5 WSPN Saratoga Springs, NY
no.6 WHUS Storrs CT
no.7 WFNP New Paltz NY
no.7 WPPJ Pittsburgh, PA
no.8 WXOU Rochester, MI
no.10 KVCU Boulder, CO
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no.10 WUSC Columbia, SC29208
no.12 WVUM Coral Gables, FL
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no.18 WXDU Durham, NC
no.20 KLC Portland, OR
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no.22 WWVU Morgantown, WV
no.25 KBOO Portland OR
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no.25 KUMD Duluth, MN
no.25 WRFL Lexington KY
no.25 WRUW Cleveland, OH
no.27 WMUA Amherst MA
no.27 WNHU West Haven CT
no.27 WTCC Springfield, MA
no.27 WWUH West Hartford, CT
no.28 KCOU Columbia MO
no.28 WHFR Dearborne MI
no.29 WLFM Appleton WI
no.30 WECI Richmond IN
no.30 WQFS Greensboro, NC
PLUS These Fine Stations have
also been SpinningThe Record!!!
KWVA Eugene OR
RADIO UTD Richardson TX
CFUV VICTORIA
CHRW ONTARIO
CILU ONTARIO
CJAM Dearborn MI
CJSR Alberta CA
CJSW Calgary
CJUM Winnipeg
KAOS Olympia
KCWU Ellensburg, WA
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KHNS Haines AK
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KRUI Iowa City IA
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KSLU Saint Louis MO
KTSW San Marcos, TX
KUCR Riverside CA
KUOM Mineapolis MN
KWCW Walla Walla WA
KXUA Fayetteville, AR
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WFMU Hoboken NJ
WHRW Binghampton, NY
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WMBR Cambridge, MA
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WMPG Portland, ME
WNYU New York
WRAS Atlanta GA
WRDP Chicago, IL
WRRG River Grove IL
WSYC Shippensburg, PA
MAKE A TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION to DAE
DAE performed CUCKOO CROW at REDCAT Theater in LA
Shows took place:
November 29 & 30th and Dec 1 &2 2007
WATCH A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DAE’s Haruko Nishimura HERE:
Influences
Find us also at:
http://www.degenerateartensemble.com
http://www.tellous.net
http://www.last.fm/music/Degenerate+Art+Ensemble/Cucko+Crow
http://cdbaby.com/cd/degenerateae2
http://virb.com/1441443651977238
INFLUENCES:
Too many... oh god... boredoms,symphonic orchestras, KODO, Harry Partch, Yoo-Jin Chung, Sainkho Namtchylak, Kronos Quartet, Dumb Type, Fela Kuti, Tsu shi ma mi re, guillermo gomez-pena, Charles Mingus, Refused, Inkboat, Carl Stalling, RUINS, RC Succession,Aphex Twin, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Yubiwa Hotel, Thelonius Monk, Miranda July, Stravinsky, Wooster Group, Diamanda Galas, Animal Collective, Deerhoof, Henry Threadgill, Gamelan, John Zorn, Mike Patton, Ethiopiques, and lots of field recordings from everywhere.... well keep adding them here... this will take forever!!
Sounds Like
Think punk, classical, think jazz, think beautiful haunting melodies, think thashing passions, think horn sections, strings, wild drums, vocals that are sometimes soft and dark and sometimes terrifying, lots of gentle songs... a unified szitzopheric world... its just best to just listen. Allow some time to listen to the different albums and songs, as they walk very different territories.
A performance company that through hyper-experimental music and dance transforms traditional genres into multi-dimensional explosive and expressive works. This hard-edged, delicate and complex visual music and dance performance company has earned rave reviews throughout the US and Europe. A performance company that reflects our multi-faceted and multi-dimensional culture today.
DAE’s work ranges from full theatrical stage productions to intimate concerts, always invading all of the senses and the depths of the imagination.
DAE is known to morph and transform – a dance company, punk/jazz band, a 45 piece orchestra - the group never losing its ability to electrify an audience and create experiences that bring audiences to new territories of perception. At its core DAE’s key artists are constantly in a state of invention and re-invention – always guided by a strong unified creative vision.
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Degenerate Art Ensemble harnesses the forces of visionary choreography and rich, complex, visceral composed and improvised music – creating music driven dance theater and intensely visual music performance.
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All of DAE’s dance theater works, from small chamber versions, to full main-stage productions, are performed with rich live music – the musicians visually and theatrically integrated into the works. Many of DAE’s works are available in both chamber and main stage versions.
PRESS:
Organ Magazine (London)
“So, what is the Degenerate Art Ensemble? An orchestra? A live band? A dance troupe? An experimental theatre company? Forget even trying to pop the Degenerate Art Ensemble into any of those pigeonholes - yet they are all, and much more than the sum of those. It’s performance art that has broken out of the seclusion of the art house into that dirty real world of gigs... The Degenerate Art Ensemble have smeared together the styles called classical, experimental, world, jazz and rock music so completely that it seems pointless to ever untangle them again. Remember the time when there were such things as boundaries?”
Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin)
“This music and movement ensemble create work outside of all music and dance conventions... telling surreal stories filled with sweetness, power and humor. The unexpected is accomplished and a mysterious mythology emerges.”
Kultur Magazine (Prague)
“They entranced the audience... the secret of their performance is perfect drama, gradation and splendid visuals, indescribable costumes and a punk-symphonic-garage-big-band style. Dynamic upheavals were turning into relaxing passages and everything was falling into place like wheels in a post-modernist clock machine.”
Willamette Week (Portland)
“Prepare for some serious aesthetic bastinado... make way for a few conceptions about boundaries between theater, classical and rock music to melt... it leaves a huge chunk of the rule book tattered in the gutter.”
San Francisco Bay Guardian (San Francisco)
“(DAE’s dancer/choreographer) Haruko Nishimura gave a performance that sparkled with the looseness of an improvisation, all the while maintaining the control of a master.”
Nichibei Times (San Francisco)
“Low tones of bass and the creaking of DAE’s self made panthrastic harp zither created an exquisite and harmonious soundscape as the movement of Nishimura’s limbs stirred the audience into ecstasy. She captured internal emotions and sentiments awakening and arousing - her velvety smooth movement producing a supernatural and ghostly air.”
The Seattle Weekly (Seattle)
“Nishimura evoked Mothra, Marlene Dietrich, and a live-action cartoon character, captivating and surreal, proving that she’s one of Seattle’s most gifted performers.”
HERES A COUPLE OF MUSIC VIDEOS MADE ON CELL PHONES!!!
Hey, it's been awhile. I'm finishing school and moving to Portland in about a month. I should be visiting friends in Seattle here and there being that it isn't nearly as far as it is now, and am curious if you all are going to be playing around town? In any case, I just wanted to get back in touch and send my best wishes.
Sunster enjoys the sounds made from the speakers, he will drift into the waves and fall slowly through the floor, he will rise in the morning to the good news...
It's good to hear back from you. Your music is very beautiful, completely makes sense, and I definitely want to go to a show if you're ever in Cincinnati, or wherever I am in the future.
