Album Notes

No backing tracks, no drum machines, no instruments to hide behind. Duwende (Doo-WEN-day) is six voices, six singers, six human beings on a stage with nothing between them and the audience but a bank of monitors and some wireless microphones.

Ed, Ari, Geoff, Roo, Morgan and Abbey are no glee club or barbershop chorus. They wail, they scream, they sweat. They dispose of the fluff, stripping rock music down to its most essential elements and building it back up again, using nothing but lung power and soul. The result is thrilling, booty-shaking, refreshingly honest funk/pop unlike anything that's been seen or heard in quite some time.

Since 1998 Duwende has been playing clubs, colleges and events up and down the East Coast, building a loyal following along the way. Their music has received critical acclaim in print publications and online, from The Boston Globe to garageband.com. In 2002, they were selected out of 1200 bands as one of the "Top Six Indie Acts in the Northeast" by the editors of Billboard Magazine. Their EP, "Sounds Like This," was released in July 2003.