With a name like Arrington de Dionyso, you can only expect something extremely exotic, and the man always knows how to dish it up. If you've had your ear to the ground, you may have already heard about Arrington premiering his new Indonesian-influenced band, Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa, during the last month or so. The new group brings the same "hallucinogenic/ecstatic heavy grooves" as Dionyso's more famous band, Old Time Relijun, but with the "transcendent bliss of William Blake translated into Indonesian."
For most of us, it has been nearly impossible to hear this new band, unless you live in Portland or Olympia, but in November we will get to experience Arrington's Malaikat dan Singa when he releases their debut record, Malaikat dan Singa. The record was recorded with Karl Blau in four days at Olympia's Dub Narcotic Studio and will see release in November.
Dionyso recently told The Portland Mercury, "I'd like to think of the album as a stranger third kind of beast, because they are like Old Time Relijun songs in a sense, except I'm playing almost all of the instruments. A return to form you might say, the first version of OTR was established to work out my four-track tapes into a live setting."
Before the new record hits stores, Arrington will be setting off on a solo tour, "interchanging bass clarinet and throat-singing with homemade instruments and vocal modifiers," creating "a raga-influenced anthropological meditation; locating the tones between tones and the overtones within overtones." He'll be doing select dates with Calvin Johnson (K, Beat Happening) as he makes his way from Portland to New York.
Here are the dates:
08.21.09 - Rochester, WA - Helsing Junction Sleepover+
08.29.09 - Portland, OR - East End
08.30.09 - Boise, ID - Visual Arts Collective
09.02.09 - Denver, CO - Rhinoceropolis
09.03.09 - Kansas City, MO - Record Bar
09.04.09 - St. Paul, MN - The Turf Club
09.05.09 - Iowa City, IA - Public Space One
09.06.09 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagle's Nest
09.07.09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
09.08.09 - Detroit, MI - Magic Theatre Center
09.10.09 - Pittsburgh, PA - Morning Glory*
09.11.09 - New York City, NY - Market Hotel
09.12.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Danger Danger Gallery*
09.14.09 - Brooklyn, NY - Death By Audio^
09.15.09 - New York City, NY - Bowery Poetry Club*
09.18.09 – Providence, RI - AS220#
* Calvin Johnson
^ Desolation Wilderness, Calvin Johnson
+ Karl Blau, LAKE, Angelo Spencer
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