Album Notes

“dadala is the music you might hear if everyone in your neighborhood opened their windows with their radios on at full blast but every element came through crystal clear, or perhaps like the soup that might occur if your cd collection melted into a puddle all at once. In short, dadala is taking the musical collage to a new environment. Unlike most cutups that view their source material with a jaundiced eye towards deconstruction and a certain detached irony, dadala allows the listener to experience simple enjoyment of every element of the original music simultaneously.”

dadala is a virtual ensemble arranged, mixed and produced by RDunlap, an outsider experimental recordist since 1985 who also contributes synthesizer recordings and material from his archives of recordings from over the years, solo and with others.

The tracks on this sampler were created from source material by a diverse collection of unconventional artists whose styles range from free jazz to avant-garde pop; from lo-fi acoustic indy post-rock to sophisticated digital sound processing:

Billy Shaw
Michael Chocholak
Johann Meier (Jopy)
The Dunlaps
the glad hand (Marcus of Bakers at Dawn)
Briarmon Smetrach (runagate)
rachMiel
Vedette
Men from San Diego
RDunlap