AMY DENIO: TUTTO BENE
20 songs composed by Amy Denio on accordion.
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Tutto Bene features recordings from a variety of Denio’s solo & collaborative works:
The Danubians: A project funded by Arts Link & the Soros Foundation, based in Budapest, Hungary. Pavel Fajt (drums), Csaba Hajnoczy (guitar & bass), Gabi Kenderesi (voice and violin), and Amy Denio (accordion, sax, bass, voice) based in Budapest. www.cuneiformrecords.com
Amy Denio & Petunia: Live band for David Dorfman Dance’s piece ‘To Lie Tenderly’, performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music. David Dorfman (accordion), Jesse Manno (voice, hands); Tobias Ralph (hands), Hahn Rowe (hands), Amy Denio (accordion, voice)
(ec) Nudes: a trio with Chris Cutler (drums), Wädi Gysi (guitar), and Amy Denio (bass, sax, accordion, voice). www.rermegacorp.com
FoMoFlo: A Japanese-American project, with Hoppy Kamiyama (keyboards), Dennis Gunn (banjo), Tada Makio (drums), Amy Denio (sax, bass). www.myspace.com/godmountain
Die Knödel: an Austrian chamber octet for whom she composed a song cycle inspired by Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities.' Funded in part by fellowships from Seattle Arts Commission, and Artist Trust. http://www.dienz.at/en/knoedel/knoedel.html
Pale Nudes: a quartet with Wädi Gysi (guitar, voice), Mich Gerber (contra)bass, and on drums, variously: Eveline Müller, Will Dowd and Fredi Flückiger.
Quintetto alla Busara: created with Gianpaolo Rampini (el. guitar), Mauro Sacchetti (el. bass), Vjeko Crnobori (ac. guitar) Jane Hall (percussion), and Amy Denio (accordion, voice) in Trieste, Italia.
Amy Denio is a musician and record producer, and founder of her own record label & publishing company, Spoot Music. Her main instruments are voice, accordion, alto saxophone, clarinet, electric guitar, and bass. She’s produced 43 CDs, solo and in collaboration with people from afar.
She tours with the Tiptons Sax Quartet and her Austrian band Die Resonanz, and in Fall 2009 played 40 concerts between London & Istanbul with Balkan gypsy core band Kultur Shock. She also collaborates regularly with Latin duo Correo Aereo. She’s toured in & collaborated with musicians from East & West Europe, North America, Taiwan, Japan, India, Brazil, and Argentina.
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